John Garnaut
John Garnaut is Fairfax Media's Asia Pacific editor. Most recently he was China correspondent. John graduated in law and arts from Monash University and worked for three years as a commercial lawyer at Melbourne firm Hall & Wilcox before joining the Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet in 2002. He became the Economics Correspondent in the Canberra press gallery and in 2007 was posted to Beijing.
China is building large covert spy networks inside Australia's leading universities, prompting Australia to strengthen its counter-intelligence capabilities.
Chinese intelligence officials have confirmed to Fairfax Media that they are building informant networks to monitor Australia's ethnic Chinese community to protect Beijing's ''core interests''.
Much of the monitoring work takes place in higher education institutions (including Melbourne University and Sydney University), where more than 90,000 students from mainland China are potentially exposed to ideas and activities not readily available at home.
''I was interrogated four times in China,'' said a senior lecturer at a high-ranking Australian university. He said he was questioned by China's main spy agency over comments he made at a seminar about democracy at the University of NSW.
Linh cữu thầy giáo Đinh Đăng Định đã được gia đình và bạn bè đưa về nhà thờ Dòng Chúa Cứu Thế Sài Gòn vào lúc 18h30 tối ngày 5/4/2014.