Name/Title
China Media Australia Exotic Seas: A Recent History of UsContext
These short cameo stories span a broad range of our recent history and related endeavors. Read any topic of interest, in any order, when time or the inclination allows. Subjects range from the Sydney University Freedom Rides and The Push of the swinging 60s to adventure and war corresponding for Fleet Street papers, and on to what is happening now in the South China Sea, based on 100 voyages in those waters. Powerful China, the United States, Russia and Europe are in focus, as is Australia's evolving relations with neighbouring Asian countries, and with Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia in the Pacific. Accounts include dinner aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, an invitation to the coronation of the Sultan of Selangor, and in Australia new insights into Whitlam's dismissal and the Nugan Hand Bank affair. But the underlying theme is China and the Chinese, with whom Australia and Australian Chinese alike will have a different relationship in the years ahead. This book argues that knowing more about our mutual past is one way to ensure a peaceful future. It also suggests professional journalism must re-take their profession in both old and new media formats to effectively counter "fake news" and equally, contrived news. Much-needed legal reforms are discussed.Dimensions
Width
15.5 cmDepth
3.3 cmLength
23.5 cmBook Details
Author
Bruce MaxwellPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Queensland, AustraliaDate Published
2024Place Printed
* Untyped Place Printed
Selangor, MalaysiaDate Printed
2024Publication Language
EnglishCall No.
951.05 MAXISBN
9781763515208