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Rowan Callick is a double Walkley Award winner and a Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year. He has worked and lived in Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong and Beijing.

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This photo taken on June 11, 2021 shows people with a flag of the Chinese Communist Party preparing to pose for a photo as they visit the museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. - As the ruling body celebrates its 100th birthday on July 1, current members describe an increasingly cult-like atmosphere under leader Xi Jinping, propagandising successes such as its control of the coronavirus, and viewed as the only viable saviour for China. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-politics-party-anniversary-members,FOCUS by Dan Martin

The long march of China’s communist rule

When the 13 apostles of embryonic Chinese communism met for the first time in a Shanghai school room, they scarcely dared hope they’d one day be the world’s most powerful party.

Rowan Callick

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People are getting out of the habit of going into the city for special occasions. And who would risk coming from other states when the Victorian government stands ever ready to close Melbourne down “on health advice”? Picture: NCA NewsWire / Sarah Matray

Bleak City gets bleaker — can it ever recover?

Once the second most liveable city in the world, Melbourne’s vital signs are ebbing away. It’s like the The Land That Time Forgot.

Rowan Callick

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One learns not to take everything at face value in China. Picture: AFP

How China’s national rules and spirit have been ravaged

You can leave China, but it doesn’t leave you. After three eventful postings in China, one learns not to take everything at face value.

Rowan Callick

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HONG KONG, HONG KONG - June 30: Members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) attend a flag raising ceremony at the Shek Kong Barracks on June 30, 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Hong Kong will mark 21 years since its return to Chinese sovereignty from British rule on Sunday as thousands of people are expected to turn up for an annual rally to demand full democracy and vent their frustration over the soaring accommodation costs in the world's most expensive city for expatriates. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Don’t blame us, it’s Beijing forcing a new world order

What’s happening with China goes way beyond loose lips or protocol. It’s not an ‘Australian issue’. It’s affecting the whole world.

Rowan Callick

Books

19/04/2001. Peter Ryan worked behind Japanese lines in Papua New Guinea during World War Two, and has written a book of his memoirs titled 'Fear drive my feet'.

Disciplined battler with a spark of mischief

John Tidey brings us into the company of an extraordinary Australian in Ryan’s Luck: A Life of Peter Ryan MM.

Rowan Callick

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22/09/2020: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

BRI termination is just the icing on Xi’s cake

The now-nullified Belt and Road Initiative deal achieved its core goal merely by being signed by Dan Andrews in 2018.

Rowan Callick

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Undated. Flags of the Commonwealth - Papua New Guinea. flag PNG

They deserve all our help in their hour of need

COVID-19 is savagely testing PNG. They are our closest neighbours. And they are largely defenceless in the face of this virus.

Rowan Callick

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PNG Prime Minister-designate Michael Somare (L) and Australian PM Gough Whitlam get together during the flag-raising ceremony at Independence Hall in Port Moresby, 15/09/1975 as Papua New Guinea obtained indpendence from Australia. Pic Willmott.

Drums fall silent as nation loses chief

Michael Somare became the face of PNG to the world from the time the first daring troublemakers began to dream of independence in the 1960s.

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27/05/2010 WIRE: (FILES) In a file picture taken on May 27, 2010 New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Somare addresses the Climate and Forest Conference in Oslo. Veteran Papua New Guinea leader Sir Michael Somare declared September 1, 2011 he is still the Pacific nation's prime minister despite his family announcing his retirement while he was ill. AFP PHOTO / FILES / Hakon Mosvold Larsen

Wounded giant made time for chat

Michael Somare was one of those people who naturally capture the attention of everyone in a room.

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TV anchor a pawn in Beijing’s cruel game

Of the thousands of Australians stuck overseas, Cheng Lei should be top of the list to be brought home.

Rowan Callick

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