Whilst researching for a news assignment, I attended an event organized by the activist group, Solidarity. There, I had the privilege of meeting a Syrian refugee who had resettled in Australia. Miream Salameh fled Syria more than five years ago at the start of the Syrian revolution. “It’s a revolution, not a war”, she explained, […]
Should Australia make learning Chinese compulsory for her young?
I interviewed a Chinese language teacher last week as research on bilingualism. The Melbourne-based private school she teaches in piloted a new language program to teach their students Chinese. The program is surprisingly intense, with students having a Chinese lesson every school day. More radically, part of the curriculum that is traditionally taught in English, […]
Grace Zhiwei Tan 