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State Capture or Mind Capture? China's Spy Strategy on 3 Continents - The Little Red Podcast Britain is the latest country to be plunged into yet another espionage scandal after an MP’s husband was arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Beijing’s long been known for its ‘thousand grains o...

We have a very timely episode for you at the Little Red Podcast:

State Capture or Mind Capture? China's Spy Strategy on 3 Continents

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I’m an Australian now!!!

putting politics aside, it’s very impressive that Ted O’Brien speaks such fluent Mandarin.

'I want to taste everything': Why millions of people make this annual pilgrimage As many Asians living in Australia return to their ancestral homes for Lunar New Year, what awaits them can be surprising.

A very cute piece I did for @SBSNews this Lunar New Year - on first-Gen migrants heading back to Asia for LNY and experiencing culture shock

'I want to taste everything': Why millions of people make this annual pilgrimage
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How to set boundaries and manage family expectations during Lunar New Year From dinner-table arguments to loneliness, experts weigh in on some of the challenges families can face during the Lunar New Year.

New from me, and omg look at this great lead image from SBS graphic design team:

How to set boundaries and manage family expectations during Lunar New Year

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'Are we holding creepy men to account?': The loopholes in image-based abuse laws Lawmakers around the world are trying to stamp out image-based abuse, but ubiquitous and evolving technologies make regulation difficult.

NEW from me:

Lawmakers around the world are trying to stamp out image-based abuse, but ubiquitous and evolving technologies make regulation difficult.

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Like idk, Ofc hiring managers want cheap but good labour, but if AI is replacing early career jobs, and so managers only want 10yr+ experienced people, where should people like us (5-9yrs) to go? Should we just disappear?

In 2025 I ran for two jobs that said they were for early career/fresh grads. One said I was overqualified and not fresh grad enough (which is fair, and good on them for keeping the criterion).

The other one hired a journo with 10yr+ experience. WTF.

Why has China introduced new tariffs on Australian beef? An expert says the impact of China's new tariff is "hard to assess", but Australian exporters may have found their way out.

New from me: how a group of angry Chinese farmers spent a year and finally succeeded in getting Beijing to implement tariffs on Australian beef:
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Veronica’s shop was targeted by racist hate. This is how her community responded CCTV footage shows two men placing a placard in front of the pharmacy that read: “No Asian slum-city in St Marys.”

Great detail in this story: no police looked into the racist poster until someone working in public health (and hence understand the bureaucratic system) took it to police multicultural liaison officer, and they did probe into it and actually found the suspects:

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'Different blind spots': Where are the gaps in Australia's gun laws? The Bondi Beach massacre has renewed focus on Australia's gun laws, nearly three decades after the Port Arthur reforms.

New from me on the latest discussion on gun law reform following the Bondi terror attack:

'Different blind spots': Where are the gaps in Australia's gun laws?
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Approaching 30 as a Chinese means in your group chat where every else is above 30, you don’t share reels about Xmas, but tips from Fengshui guys on what to watch out for in 2026

Confronting university harassment: ‘You’re dumb, but you’re a pretty girl’ Sitting in my mandatory coding workshop, I felt a spray on the back of my neck. As the thick smell of men’s deodorant spread and sank into my clothes, I saw my tutor slip the can back into his bag bef...

Give this piece a read pls. And thanks to the author for speaking up!

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a kermit the frog is dancing in a living room . ALT: a kermit the frog is dancing in a living room .

Finally!!!! I passed the certification test for Chinese to English!!! That means I can now produce court-qualified translation for Chinese and English!!

Are you looking for a journo who can do investigation AND certified translation? Now you know who you can talk to 👀

Please please please report this story just like how you will do with Robodebt; with disaster recovery; with your typical approach to government negligence. Otherwise you are doing what chinesr state media is doing right now: phrasing it as a culture war btw HK and China.

The whole China-HK distinction is just part of the implication of the event, but that’s NOT what people are concerning. They are questioning about if there’s negligence. Get the facts right before you publish analysis to suggest there’s a culture war.

Because it explains why so many chinese mainlanders, esp those who observed/took part in White Paper protests in 2022, are triggered by this incident, because White Paper also started with a fire in Urumqi where gov locked up the building for Covid-zero.

But it’s because so far besides the arrests, theres no gov response to if theres negligence on residents’ complaint around safety issues 12 months ago. They are concerning if bamboo scaffolding is used to cover up alleged government negligence.

This is important to distinguish…

I’ve been monitoring online discussions from Hong Kong about why HKers consider blaming bamboo scaffolding is a gov spin, and I think many AUS media have got it WRONG.

They think it’s a spin NOT because they see bamboo scaffolding as a tradition that distinguishes HK from China.

I actually have a list called “the managers and editors who I will work for free for a year, if one day they decide to launch their own companies/outlets”, for how they have stood up for me in the past

Lanlan Yang pleads not guilty to all charges over crash of $1.5m Rolls Royce SUV in Sydney’s east Lanlan Yang’s case has attracted attention from Chinese Australian community and on social media due to her lavish wealth and speculation about her background

Thanks Guardian for letting me try court reporting this year…and look like more on the way next year…

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Engineer. Teacher. Postie: The neo-Nazis who rallied in Sydney Those who gathered on Saturday include a personal trainer, an English-as-a-second-language teacher and a former bar manager who is facing DV charges.

So basically some of them earn their income from migrants, and some of them are migrants too

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Would be interesting to know how this development will affect the energy policy, or whether the current energy direction covers this

That’s why I’m moving only at 33…I think that’s when I would prefer spending a year in a place just by myself hahahahaha

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

As someone who likes cold weather, I really hope that by 33 I can move to either Canberra or Hobart

‘Mind-boggling’: Whistleblower reveals how global bikie boss won Nauru security deal A former soldier recruited to support an Albanese government deportation plan wants an inquiry after finding a gang had infiltrated the border security operation.

1/ wtf is going on at Home Affairs? I’ve lost count of the number of offshore detention-related scandals
2/ check out how hard the whistleblower tried to alert authorities, only to be ignored
3/ both Labor and Lib govts have actively turned a blind eye to this corruption. Prob the NACC too.

*Two months before 2025 ends

Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney This weekend the mapping platform turns 20 – and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story

Two more months before 2025, and this feature is still the best of 2025 I’ve read so far. Theres just some magic about this piece that makes me ponder a lot as a writer:

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Probs. China’s history curriculum is written in a very Marxist way - you have to learn the causes and outcomes, contributing factors etc. And that idea of individuals only playing small parts in the development of history. So you’d end up learning both when it comes to Ancient Rome