Journalists and publishers remain under threat all over the world,especially in our region. Australia,which is no beacon for media freedom,needs to step up.
The visit by Chinese Premier Li Quang is an opportunity to make clear Australia’s discomfort with how quickly freedoms are vanishing in Hong Kong.
Julian Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson says his case needs to be recognised for what it is:persecution for robustly publishing what the powerful do not want the public to see.
Events at the start of the year now seem,to some,like long-lost memories. But for one Australian family,January 2020 will never be forgotten.
While the world focuses on the demonstrations in Hong Kong and the crackdown in Kashmir,West Papua is barely mentioned.