Your afternoon Briefing: Foreign Minister blasts China, Goodes doco sparks outcry

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Hello readers. Foreign Minister Marise Payne has blasted China over its detention of a Chinese-Australian writer, and the Adam Goodes documentary has sparked an outcry.

--FILE--Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun attends a lecture at Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China, 18 November 2010. China has detained a Chinese-Australian writer who had flown in from New York last week, the Australian government said, adding it was trying to find out why he was being held. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Chinese authorities on Wednesday had informed the Australian embassy in Beijing that they had detained Yang Hengjun. "The department is seeking to clarify the nature of this detention and to obtain consular access to him ... as a matter of priority," the department said in a statement issued late on Wednesday. (Imaginechina via AP Images)

Payne blasts China over writer’s detention

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has hit out at China’s decision to criminally charge Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun.

 

‘Confronting’: Goodes doco sparks outcry

Magpies president Eddie McGuire speaks out as the controversial end to Adam Goodes’s career is captured in a new documentary.

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26/06/19 Carlton United Breweries (CUB) CEO Peter Filipovic at their brewhouse in Abbotsford. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Aussie brewer sold for $16bn

Asahi has reached a deal with Anheuser-Busch InBev to acquire Carlton United Breweries for $16 billion.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the CPO in Melbourne on July 19, 2019. Picture: Adam Taylor

Don’t take friendship for granted: Ardern

Jacinda Ardern issues Scott Morrison a warning, vowing to keep raising the thorny issue of Kiwi deportations despite Australia’s hard line.