The brief called for the Australian Public Service to recruit more Chinese-Australians and draw on their expertise.
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Opinion: The Western story of the inevitability of liberal democracy and universal human rights is dead, writes Nicholas Stuart.
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Before the upcoming election, then-prime minister Bob Hawke took 20 backbenchers to dinner to tell them the government could still win, The Canberra Times' political correspondent Tony Wright reported on its front page on this day 30 years ago. READ MORE
