The Wire

Education has been the booming link between Australia and Asia in the last decade. This year well over 100,000 Asian student will study in Australia, our eigth highest export earner. We asked a few of these kids over at Adelaide Uni how they are enjoying Australia. The reason we did that was because Australia does often seem to wonder what Asia ‘thinks’ about ‘us’. Alison Broinowski is a diplomat turned scholar based at ANU and she has been spearheading the Asian Accounts of Australia project. The project team have trawled through Japanese and Chinese archives, finding accounts of Australia that have never made it into English. Many prominent scholars and thinkers, of Australian and Asian origin, then came together to discuss the findings and this culminated in a book called ‘Double Vision – Asian Accounts of Australia’. Alsion Broinowski, editor of Double Vision, spoke to Jay Lamey about the book. She said the very idea of an ‘us’ and ‘them’ is hardly relevent anymore and that in the future Australia and Asia will continue to synergise. For anyone interested in this topic the book is highly recommended and to hear more now, click on the Real Audio link above.

Double Vision – Asian Accounts of Australia