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Tony Walker

Tony Walker

Tony Walker is a vice-chancellor's fellow at La Trobe University and a columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He is a dual Walkley Award winner for commentary, and recipient of the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism. He is a former foreign correspondent for Fairfax and the Financial Times in China, the Middle East and North America. Publications include Arafat:The Biography and The Peter Thomson Five.
Tony Walker is a vice-chancellor's fellow at La Trobe University and a columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He is a dual Walkley Award winner for commentary, and recipient of the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism. He is a former foreign correspondent for Fairfax and the Financial Times in China, the Middle East and North America. Publications include Arafat:The Biography and The Peter Thomson Five.
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Australia’s then opposition leader Gough Whitlam’s visited China in 1971 to discuss trade but the trip also laid the foundation for diplomatic recognition should Whitlam become prime minister in the 1972 election.

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As Singapore moves closer to passing its Fica bill, Australia’s own law doesn’t offer much guidance, as it does not cover social media. What it does reveal though, is that foreign interference is a grey zone that’s hard to investigate and prosecute.

Beijing’s war games in the Taiwan Strait has heightened the risk, however remote, of a military confrontation. But Australian “warriors” responding to the trumpet call of war should consider other facts on the ground.

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Australia would have nothing to lose by encouraging China to explore opportunities provided by the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, says Tony Walker.

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There are many reasons to criticise China, but a Camp David pile-on is the last thing Scott Morrison needs given the tenuous state of Sino-Australian relations.

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