In 2012, Australia s federal government led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard released a White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century. This included a list of ambitious but worthwhile targets for Asia-engagement by 2025, none of which now appears attainable except for reaching national income of about A$73,000 per person.
But this is not causing the concern that ordinarily it might, since it was also in 2012 that a ripple started in east Asia that has turned into a tsunami of tension and change in the region – over-riding the strategic planning not only of Australia but of every other significant state.
For it was then, that Xi Jinping – viewed widely as a predictable, moderate, consensus-and-continuity candidate – was appointed general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Australia’s Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, said little
in the statement
from her department, which was a good thing, as it might
have been dangerously useful. The finding of a UK court on
whether Julian Assange would be extradited to the United
States was made “on the grounds of his mental health and
consequent suicide risk.” She does not care to mention the
actual details of the case, the fact that the decision
by District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, while blocking the
extradition, was nastily focused against
journalism.
Payne insists on objective distance from
the proceedings. “Australia is not a party to the case and
Premium Content THE 2011 floods in Ipswich were not a first for Blair MP Shayne Neumann. As a boy living with his family in Trumper St, East Ipswich in 1974, he experienced the devastation inflicted on a city unprepared for such an environmental disaster. With his own house under more than two metres of water in 74, Mr Neumann s family fled to North Booval, only to be forced to evacuate a second time when the Bremer River rose there. He still remembers the vital contribution made by then-councillor Des Freeman and his wife Colleen in helping flood victims. The ability of the community to help its own is a theme that still resonates.
Regional Victorian drivers could soon be getting around in more modern cars, thanks to an announcement by the Andrews Government to get rid of older vehicles.
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The ABC Religious Affairs Compass program documentary in 2011 on the King James Bible of 1611 titled When God spoke English. The making of the King James Bible bought to light a number of fascinating aspects of its translation and final preparation.
One of these final checks was that it was read aloud, as it would be read aloud in church each Sunday. Sometimes words were substituted to ensure the sound of the language flowed. This remains a hallmark of the King James Bible of 1611, which has facilitated its poetic quality and ease of memorisation, which generation after generation has engaged in.