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The Morrison government should step up its action on climate change and avoid framing Australia’s policies in the South Pacific in anti-China terms, according to a new paper out today.
Michael Wesley, a deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Melbourne, explores how Australia should react to the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) activities in the region in a policy brief for the China Matters thinktank.
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Well hello there, it’s Wednesday, which means we’re nearly halfway done, guys. Well done!
It’s Matilda Boseley here, by the way, bringing you all the most important updates this hump day.
In general terms, it has been very successful and very safe.
We expect that there will be transmission in quarantine … The important thing is that it doesn’t transmit outside of quarantine and if it does, that it’s picked up quickly.
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