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約翰·梅納杜 (John Menadue) 在媒體、公共服務和航空公司擁有高級職業生涯。
1985 年，他因公共服務而被授予澳大利亞軍官勳章 (AO)。 1997年，他獲得日本帝國勳章——國一藤瑞鳳勳章，這是授予非國家元首或政府首腦的外國人的最高榮譽。 該獎項旨在表彰對澳大利亞與日本關係的貢獻，特別是在兩國之間建立工作假期計劃。 2003 年，約翰因“通過公共服務領導力為澳大利亞社會做出的貢獻”而被授予百年勳章。
2009 年，約翰獲得阿德萊德大學傑出校友獎，以表彰他作為公務員、外交官、批判性思想家、董事會董事、顧問和公共評論員對澳大利亞社會做出的重大終身貢獻。
約翰·梅納杜 (John Menadue) 1935 年出生於南澳大利亞。1956 年畢業於阿德萊德大學，獲得經濟學學士學位。
1960 年至 1967 年間，他擔任反對黨領袖高夫·惠特拉姆 (Gough Whitlam) 的私人秘書。 隨後，他進入私營部門工作了七年，擔任悉尼新聞有限公司總經理、《澳大利亞人報》出版商。
約翰·梅納杜 (John Menadue) 於 1974 年至 1976 年間擔任總理和內閣部部長，密切參與了 1975 年 11 月 11 日的解職事件。他曾為總理高夫·惠特拉姆 (Gough Whitlam) 和馬爾科姆·弗雷澤 (Malcolm Fraser) 工作。
1977年至1980年，他擔任澳大利亞駐日本大使。
約翰於 1980 年返回澳大利亞，擔任移民和民族事務部部長，與馬爾科姆·弗雷澤 (Malcolm Fraser) 和伊恩·麥克菲 (Ian Macphee) 一起積極參與在澳大利亞安置大量印支難民的工作。
1983年12月，他被任命為貿易部部長。
1986 年至 1989 年間，約翰擔任澳洲航空首席執行官。
後來，約翰於 1994 年 12 月至 1996 年 10 月擔任 Telstra 董事，並於 1991 年至 1998 年擔任澳大利亞日本基金會主席。
他擔任新南威爾士州衛生委員會主席，該委員會於 2000 年 3 月向新南威爾士州衛生部長報告新南威爾士州衛生服務的變化。 他還主持了南澳世代健康審查，該審查於 2003 年 5 月向南澳公共服務部部長報告。
約翰多年來一直主持籌款活動，並在馬修旅館為無家可歸者提供誌願服務。
作為悉尼尋求庇護者中心的讚助人，他積極倡導難民。
約翰於 2013 年 1 月在 johnmenadue.com 推出了他頗具影響力的公共政策期刊《Pearls and Irritations》。目前訂閱者已超過 22,000 名。
約翰與辛西婭的第一次婚姻育有四個孩子和一個養女。 1986 年，他與蘇西結婚，蘇西育有兩個孩子。他們共有 15 個孫子和 5 個曾孫。
1999年10月，約翰出版了他的自傳《一路走來學到的東西》。
John Menadue
https://johnmenadue.com/precis/?
John Menadue has had a senior professional career in the media, public service and airlines.
He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1985 for public service. In 1997, he received the Japanese Imperial Award, The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure (Kun-itto Zuiho-sho), the highest honour awarded to foreigners who are not head of state or head of government. The award was for services to the Australia-Japan relationship, particularly the establishment of the working holiday program between the two countries. In 2003, John was awarded the Centenary Medal ‘for service to Australian society through public service leadership’.
In 2009, John received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Adelaide in recognition of his significant and lifelong contribution to Australian society as a Public Servant, Diplomat, Critical Thinker, Board Director, Advisor and Public Commentator.
John Menadue was born in South Australia in 1935. He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1956 as a Bachelor of Economics.
From 1960 to 1967 he was Private Secretary to Gough Whitlam, Leader of the Opposition. He then moved into the private sector for seven years as General Manager, News Limited, Sydney, publisher of ‘The Australian’.
John Menadue was head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1974 to 1976 and closely involved in the dismissal events of November 11, 1975. He worked for Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser.
From 1977-1980 he was Australian Ambassador to Japan.
John returned to Australia in 1980 to take up the position of Head, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs where he was active with Malcolm Fraser and Ian Macphee in the settlement of large numbers of Indo Chinese refugees in Australia.
He was appointed Head of the Department of Trade in December 1983.
From 1986-1989 John was Chief Executive Officer of Qantas.
Later John was a Director of Telstra from December 1994 to October 1996 and Chairman of the Australia Japan Foundation from 1991 to 1998.
He chaired the NSW Health Council which reported to the NSW Minister for Health in March 2000 on changes to health services in NSW. He also chaired the SA Generational Health Review which reported to the SA Minister for Human Services in May 2003.
John chaired fundraising and volunteered for many years at the Matthew Hostel for homeless men.
As a Patron of the Asylum Seekers’ Centre in Sydney, he is active in refugee advocacy.
John launched his influential public policy journal Pearls and Irritations at johnmenadue.com in January 2013. There are now more than 22,000 subscribers.
John has four children and a foster daughter from his first marriage to Cynthia. He married Susie, who has two children, in 1986. Together they have fifteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
In October 1999, John published his autobiography ‘Things you learn along the way’.
Articles about China
https://johnmenadue.com/category/foreign-affairs/china/page/2/?
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Have we passed ‘Peak China’?
Saul Eslake, the renowned and independent economist, has updated his China chart pack which was last prepared in January 2023. The chart pack gives a bird’s eye view of the economic challenges China needs to address. By using the term ‘Peak China’, he does not mean that China will collapse, but that its future economic
By Saul Eslake Mar 26, 2024 -
Why are Liberals trashing relations with WA’s biggest export customer?
Andrew Hastie and Tony Abbott are trying to install a candidate in WA who has written a fictional book to scare people about a Chinese invasion of Australia.
By Robert Barwick Mar 25, 2024 -
BYD says plug-in electrics will exceed 50 pct of new car sales in China in next 3 months
The CEO of BYD, the Chinese giant challenging Tesla as the world’s biggest electric vehicle maker, says sales of New Energy Vehicles (NEVs), including battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), will make up more than half of all new cars sold in China within the next three months.
By Daniel Bleakley Mar 25, 2024 -
Que sera sera: “Australia will be Australia; China will be China.”
Penny Wong has a new mantra for Australia China relations.
By Jocelyn Chey Mar 22, 2024 -
Chinese universities want more Australian students: we should send them
Australia is trailing its neighbours in the race to acquire China knowledge and capability, which can only come from in-country experience, writes Louise Edwards.
By Louise Edwards Mar 22, 2024 -
If TikTok is banned in the US or Australia, how might the company – or China – respond?
TikTok’s owner is once again navigating troubled waters in the United States, where the US House of Representatives has issued an ultimatum: divest or face shutdown within six months.
By Marina Yue Zhang and Wanning Sun Mar 22, 2024 -
Do China’s leaders fully grasp foreigners’ concerns about the country?
Beijing has been slow to address the visa and e-payment woes of foreign travellers, and some officials remain complacent about the exodus of foreign investment.
By Wang Xiangwei Mar 16, 2024 -
Tea for two: Preparing for talks with China’s Foreign Minister
We shall never get anywhere with the Australia-China relationship if we are not pragmatic, as Bismarck famously said. While we must avoid over-ambitious goals, forthcoming official talks with China’s top foreign affairs official Wang Yi will present a unique opportunity to test the government’s relationship reset.
By Jocelyn Chey Mar 14, 2024 -
Six peculiar ‘Peak China’ myths we all should question
In recent years, there has been a notable shift among certain Western politicians, media outlets and think tanks regarding their perspective on China’s developmental trajectory. The once popular theory of an imminent collapse of China, famously asserted by Gordon G. Chang over two decades ago, has finally begun to lose traction.
By Wang Wen Mar 14, 2024 -
Scholar or ideologue?
The Economist, a leading British weekly, enjoys wide global readership. It recently covered the thoughts and written work of two scholars, both Chinese, one now government-based, in Beijing and the other based in an academic institution in the US. Only the former, was branded as an “ideologue” however. Paraphrasing Professor Julius Sumner Miller: Why is
By Richard Cullen Mar 12, 2024 -
Why does the West abound with misreaders of China’s economy?
As 2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, whether this mythical creature should be named “Dragon” or “Loong” in English has puzzled many and stirred heated discussions.
By Liu Chang Mar 11, 2024 -
China and America in the Middle East
An interesting essay that takes a critical but well-informed look at the development of China’s Middle East policy-settings recently appeared in the journal Foreign Policy. You can read the article – written by Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Washington-based Stimson Centre.
By Richard Cullen Mar 11, 2024 -
The CPC is brainwashing its members to not attack other countries says AI
Recently there was an interesting piece in the South China Morning Post on “Communist Party orders cells to study Xi Jinping Thought and learn speeches” See China’s Communist Party orders cells to make Xi Jinping Thought a priority, cadres must study president’s speeches, South China Morning Post.
By John Menadue Mar 9, 2024 -
Is ASIO’s paranoia hypocritical?
Some of my best friends are Chinese. This is entirely unsurprising given my frequent visits to the PRC, the Chinese students I have supervised and the colleagues I have collaborated with over the years. I used to think such relationships were unambiguously a good thing and the possible basis for a better understanding between our
By Mark Beeson Mar 6, 2024 -
Lessons on genocide from Xinjiang and Gaza
Days before the International Court of Justice’s initial ruling late last month that found there was a plausible risk of genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza, the United Nations Human Rights Council conducted its “universal periodic review” of China’s human rights record.
By Nader Hashemi and James A. Millward Mar 1, 2024 -
Is China repeating Australia’s mistake on Indigenous Affairs?
The South China Morning Post recently published an illuminating article on China’s policy towards ethnic minorities, with a particular focus on Inner Mongolia that has strived hardest to assimilate its Mongols with the rest of the Chinese population to promote a single national identity. But does China’s policy reflect the assimilation policies towards First Nations
By Percy Allan Feb 27, 2024 -
Europe, U.S. are losing charm for Chinese tourists
Mr. Liu Dafeng has been a fan of overseas travel. He lives in China’s Shenzhen city, southeastern Guangdong province. After weeks of preparation and paperwork, his plan of a long-awaited trip to Britain was shattered after his visa application was denied.
By Liu Chang Feb 24, 2024 -
The odds of China using nuclear war to resolve the Taiwan issue
Recently the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a thinktank in Washington, DC, did a survey asking U.S. and Taiwan Experts if China might use nuclear weapons in a conflict with or over Taiwan. The results were astonishing to most who read the study. Almost half of U.S. experts reported they thought China would. Only
By John F. Copper Feb 20, 2024 -
Does China want Trump to win in 2024?
Agathe Demarais is a senior policy fellow on geoeconomics at the European Council on Foreign Relations and a Foreign Policy columnist. She recently argued in that journal (with a clear anti-Trump tilt)-that “China is Rooting for Trump”
By Richard Cullen Feb 18, 2024 -
Being back home in China for Lunar New Year feels different
An undutiful daughter’s atonement trip after four years.
By Minyue Ding Feb 16, 2024 -
Why do Chinese EVs meet so much resistance?
There was a time when the world looked to China to reduce its emissions. China was, they quite rightly pointed out, one of the globe’s worst polluters.
By Jerry Grey Feb 15, 2024 -
When celebrated dissidents find the grass isn’t greener on the other side
Ai Weiwei joins a long line of dissenters such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Liu Xiaobo who became disenchanted by the West.
By Alex Lo Feb 12, 2024 -
Welcome the year of the Dragon!
The Year of the Dragon is bound to be big. Among the twelve zodiac animals that mark the traditional cycle of calendar years, the dragon is the only mythical beast and the most powerful. It stands in marked contrast to the rabbit that will hand over its psychic reign on 10 February. Soothsayers may well
By Jocelyn Chey Feb 10, 2024 -
The materialisation of Chinese Christianity
As the Lunar New Year approaches, many Chinese families clean the front door of their home and hang poetry around it. This is a rich and age-old Chinese tradition, both cultural and religious.
By Michel Chambon Feb 10, 2024 -
China extends full diplomatic recognition to Taliban in blow to US
The diplomatic recognition of the Taliban government in Afghanistan on January 31, 2024 by China must be bracketed with two other far-reaching regional policy moves by Beijing in the post-cold war era —the Shanghai Five in 1996 — later renamed as Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in 2001— and the Belt and Road Initiative announced by President
By M. K. Bhadrakumar Feb 10, 2024 -
China’s worrying economic policy drift
The Rhodium Group, an independent research organisation with a focus on China, says the nation’s economic policymaking process has stalled with it refusing to announce meaningful actions to overcome its pressing property and share market crashes let alone forge a clear path for the future. The full paper can be accessed here.
By Percy Allan Feb 9, 2024 -
Why Yang Hengjun should be released – he’s Walter Mitty not James Bond!
The standard media news bite is that Yang Hengjun is a Chinese born Australian pro-democracy writer who was unlawfully detained and now jailed for life in China. But the full story is murkier than that.
By Percy Allan Feb 8, 2024 -
Is there a problem with Australia’s approach to human rights in the PRC?
Human rights in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are under increased threat. The PRC government ignores international representations. This begs the question: should Australia even attempt to intervene? What do we risk by doing so? The easy course would be to do the minimum and restrict our representations to cases where Australian citizens and
By Jocelyn Chey Feb 7, 2024 -
Hold the outrage
We need to be careful with the outrage over the sentencing of Yang Hengjun in China.
By Daryl Guppy Feb 7, 2024 -
A looming China-US collision – can détente come to the rescue?
The call issued by Bob Carr and Gareth Evans for a ‘comprehensive détente between the US and China is timely and constructive. But as with all things to do with peace and war, the issues are complex and the way forward strewn with difficulties.
By Joseph Camilleri Feb 6, 2024
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Driving the dragon: China’s adaptive policymaking
China’s economic policymaking over the past few decades is a fascinating example of adaptive planning and strategic foresight. From pivoting away from reliance on globalisation to emphasising domestic infrastructure and poverty alleviation, tilting towards the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and now focusing on “high-quality development” (simultaneously upscaling advanced manufacturing while deflating the property bubble),
By Kari McKern Apr 29, 2024 -
Showing care for the Global South
China displays more understanding than Western powers on needs of less-developed nations.
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Americans don’t understand: China is not afraid of the US
China knows that, if it has to, it can stand alone and that it can defend itself. It knows, too, that most nations of the world, other than America (which is, despite itself, somewhat conflicted), want to do business with it; to connect with its growing confidence and with its strengthening brand of non-threatening, non-coercive,
By Howard Debenham Apr 26, 2024 -
Think-tanked
As a China-watching think tank winds up after Morrison-era cuts, a respected analyst reviews government funding for security-related research and education.
By Hamish McDonald Apr 26, 2024 -
ASPI chief takes exception to being singled out by China
The director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, claims that China’s alleged targeting of the agency “should be of concern to all Australians”.
By Sam Varghese Apr 25, 2024 -
China was never an imperialist state
During its long history, Chinese dynasties were as often the victims of outside aggression as they were invaders of foreign land.
By Alex Lo Apr 23, 2024 -
What does China’s electric vehicle rise mean for the global market?
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi recently unveiled its first electric vehicle (EV), the SU7, igniting a spark of excitement. At the launch event, Xiaomi’s founder and CEO Lei Jun, whose vision includes creating “a dream car on a par with Porsche and Tesla,” said that from design to batteries, intelligent driving to cockpit controls, the SU7
By Jiang Jiang and REN Ke Apr 20, 2024 -
No substitute for US exceptionalism: Manifest destiny made manifest
Manifest Destiny, now more commonly called American Exceptionalism is a traditional and widespread view in the US. American views of its relationship with the world vary from isolationism to leadership, but the underlying base is always that the US is something special. While some may be more subtle than others, how many Americans could accept
By Cavan Hogue Apr 19, 2024 -
Knowledge and understanding deficit: The dire state of China Studies
Disgraceful gaps have emerged in our knowledge and understanding of Asian countries. This capability is essential to successful navigation of the future, as Peter Varghese and Joseph Lo Bianco have noted.
By Jocelyn Chey Apr 18, 2024 -
Shielding the dollar by bashing China
Ian Bremner argues convincingly that the American Dollar remains embedded as the global reserve currency since: “you can’t replace something with nothing”. Nevertheless, intensifying US misuse and abuse of the dollar’s standing has expanded the worldwide search for one or more “alternative somethings”. Now an intriguing argument has been advanced that a central reason Western
By Richard Cullen Apr 16, 2024 -
Western misinformation and the so-called Xinjiang genocide
The UN Human Rights Report of August 31, 2022 says what’s happening in Xinjiang constitutes “crimes against humanity”. In plain English, this is saying it is not genocide under the UN Genocide Convention. It confirms an earlier Amnesty International report in 2021 to the same effect. Both are clear implicit rejections of unsubstantiated genocide claims.
By Gim Teh Apr 15, 2024 -
Janet Yellen came – China was polite
Janet Yellen came, she pontificated and postulated, ate some nice Chinese food, drank a beer with Nicholas Burns, a man that Chinese people loathe and hold little respect for; then she left. This tells the world all about her trip, what she ate and drank was more important than what she said and did.
By Jerry Grey Apr 13, 2024 -
China’s property market is at risk of an overcorrection, not oversupply
There is no risk of China’s property sector woes spreading into a financial crisis but there is a policy-induced housing crisis and restrictions must be further eased. The property market must be stabilised to restore public confidence and spur private consumption, so economic growth can reaccelerate.
By Weijian Shan Apr 12, 2024 -
The United States leaves a mess in Ukraine, moves on to China
The US State Department’s No 2 now admits the AUKUS joint submarine project between three of the Five Eyes is tied to Taiwan and mainland China.
By Alex Lo Apr 10, 2024 -
China’s economic success in face of growing U.S., EU protectionism
The Western press is filled with stories of foreboding about the Chinese economy. We are told regularly that China’s fast growth is over, that China’s data are manipulated, that a Chinese financial crisis looms, and that China will suffer the same stagnation as Japan during the past quarter century. This is U.S. propaganda, not reality.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs Apr 9, 2024 -
Chinese imperialism?
I read Professor Percy Allen’s interesting article (P&I, 28/03/24) and was astounded by the claim based on a list of “invasion” he was given that China was historically an imperial nation and thus dangerous.
By Teow Loon Ti Apr 8, 2024 -
What China gets right in PNG and Australia gets wrong
This former leader of PNG’s state energy supplier says we should take a leaf from the China playbook by using a “tied aid” model.
By Carolyn Blacklock Apr 8, 2024 -
China’s quiet energy revolution: the switch from nuclear to renewable energy
There is now a policy dispute about the roles of nuclear and renewable energy in future Australian low emission energy systems. The experience of China over more than a decade provides compelling evidence on how this debate will be resolved. In December 2011 China’s National Energy Administration announced that China would make nuclear energy the
By Derek Woolner and David Glynne Jones Apr 6, 2024 -
What’s next for China-Australia relations?
CGTN Radio host Liu Kun interviews Ambassador Tony Kevin, Ambassador Geoff Raby and Dr. Zhao Hai on Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent trip to Australia and broader China-Australia relations.
By Liu Kun Apr 2, 2024
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Australia’s Hong Kong travel advisory disregards its own national security legislation
On March 19, the Hong Kong legislature passed the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance and reached a historic milestone in the implementation of “one country, two systems”. Legislation to implement Article 23, which requires Hong Kong to legislate on its own to prohibit seven national security offences, has been outstanding since 1997, and the inadequacy of
By Regina Ip Apr 2, 2024 -
Rabindranath Tagore: A man for a new Asian future
Archishman Raju is a scientist based in Bengaluru, India. He is associated with the Gandhi Global Family and the Inter civilisational Dialogue Project who are commemorating 100 years of Tagore’s trip to China in several cities in India.
By Archishman Raju Apr 2, 2024 -
China warns foreign hackers are infiltrating ‘hundreds’ of business and government networks
Top spy agency urges Chinese citizens to step up cybersecurity as attacks by overseas agencies have been ‘rampant’ in recent years. The message comes as Beijing broadens scope of anti-espionage law to cover online attacks and prepares to expand penalties for data violations.
By Hayley Wong Mar 29, 2024 -
Paul Keating’s meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and the evolution of bilateral relations with China
Paul Keating’s report on his meeting with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi brought back memories of an hour long one on one conversation I had with Jiang Zemin, who in 1987 brought a trade mission to Sydney. He was the Mayor of Shanghai at the time.
By Tom Sinkovits Mar 28, 2024 -
Is China an Imperialist nation?
I was recently sent a complete list of China’s invasions of other countries in the last 2,245 years to demonstrated that China is historically an imperial nation and hence dangerous.
By Percy Allan Mar 28, 2024 -
US-China electric vehicle dispute shows old trade rules imperil climate action
“The climate crisis is too urgent for the U.S. or any country to allow outdated trade rules… to distract us from enacting bold climate policies,” argued one campaigner.
By Jessica Corbett Mar 28, 2024 -
The United States, China, and the Future of the Global Order
“Happy to have engaged in a provocative yet always civil dialogue with the famous China expert Orville Schell at the Asia Society in New York on Thursday, 21st March. Hope you will enjoy it too.”
By Kishore Mahbubani Mar 27, 2024 -
Lunacy: Australia pays the US billions to “keep those Chinese at bay”
When Canberra told us we had to join the US in its cruel attempt to prevent a Vietnamese peasant army from overthrowing a US-armed Saigon government, some of us thought the politicians were plain stupid.
By Gregory Clark Mar 27, 2024 -
China steals a march on a distracted world
For China these days it doesn’t get much easier to pursue it geostrategic objectives. With the US distracted on two fronts in Europe and the Middle East, and Russia mired in its intractable invasion of Ukraine, among the great powers, China is largely free to advance its interests on an increasingly global scale. Sabre rattling
By Geoff Raby Mar 26, 2024 -
America’s latest move to block China’s economic rise
US lawmakers have introduced a bill that would bar US mutual funds from investing in indexes that track Chinese stocks (Bloomberg). According to Bloomberg “The legislation targets mutual funds that invest in indexes tracking primarily Chinese stocks, rather than those investing in indexes that only include some Chinese companies, according to Sherman’s office. However, the
By Percy Allan Mar 26, 2024
