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Australia and Southeast Asia: Australia needs a new plan 

  • Honorary Professorial Fellow Richard Robison,

Reform of Australia’s relations with Southeast Asia requires fundamental change in the political interests driving the Southeast Asian agenda within Australia.

Dire straits: Chinese students in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Dr Jun Ohashi,

Universities need to take immediate steps to disseminate ideas and values that transcend national borders and national interests.

Pandemic racism and sexism in Australia: responses from Asian migrant women

  • Dr Sylvia Ang, Associate Professor Jay Song & Dr Qiuping Pan,

Studies that address the intersection of pandemic-related racism and sexism are lacking and the experiences of Asian women have been neglected.

International students and the Chinese public service: A more inward-looking post-COVID China?

  • Assistant Professor Dan (Diane) Hu,

Australia assumes that Chinese students educated in Australia will be a ‘soft power’ asset. But what if Australia-educated students aren’t getting the influential jobs?

How Indian students told to ‘go home’ by Australia at the start of the pandemic used WhatsApp for advocacy

  • Dr Surjeet Dogra Dhanji & Dr Mousumi Mukherjee,

National border closures and the pandemic. How Indian students ‘stranded’ in India coped with their plight.