Good morning. A Chinese academic visiting Australia on a research trip had his accommodation raided by Asio and the federal police, and was offered $2,000 in cash by a man purporting to be from “the federal government” for information on his networks and contacts in China. The academic left the country early after being surveilled across the country and said the episode was “heavy-handed and counter-productive.”
Meanwhile, mourning begins in Morocco after more than 2,000 people were killed in an earthquake, and a NSW man is told his tiny house will be demolished – even if it would leave him homeless. And India’s G20 summit is over, ending with a win for Russia.
