The ‘China effect’: how the resources boom galvanised Australia
Galloping Chinese demand for our resources transformed the Australian economy in the first 10 years of the new millennium, but the GFC and end-of-decade political turmoil put the country on edge.
When Colleen Ryan flew into Shanghai to be TheAustralian Financial Review’s China correspondent, “there was a certain pride in being an Australian in China”.
“Australians were very popular,” Ryan recalls. “There was this feeling they ‘got’ China.”
Andrew ClarkSenior writerAndrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au
