thank you, zeinab. have written about a huge range of topics — the american civil war, australia, of course, the first world war, joan of arc, napoleon... how do you go about choosing a subject for a book? well, it's generally some weird connection with australia that begins me, in that i heard that there was a family on saint helena who knew napoleon, and then they got so close to napoleon that they fell out of favour and were sent where the british sent everyone unsatisfactory in the 19th century, to australia. and so i love those connections between the old world because i was raised in an australia that considered itself to be out of the world, the sort of, the last thing before the penguins of antarctica. so you start with your home country and then link to the rest of the world. all right. you are very drawn to moral dilemmas and in fact in your youth you trained to become a priest, and then you say a loss of faith made you change your mind. however, has religion, morality — how has it influenced

thank you, zeinab. there are 1.2 million australians of chinese heritage. and i'm one of them.community activities through various ways. we contribute to the nation's wealth. we happened to similar values and aspirations as the rest of australia when it comes to having a fair go, getting ahead in education, and equal opportunities in work and play for the sake of our adopted nation. yet, despite australia's egalitarian outlook, in some quarters of my local community, in the media, in politics, there is a sinister, underlying feeling that we are never going to be good enough to be fed into, trueblue aussies. my question to the panel is, what does it take, once and for all, for australian chinese to demonstrate or even make australians appreciate our contribution? i'll come to you, mark. the likes of steve, members of the chinese community, good enough to be australian? steve, your community has been the great success story in western sydney, where i've lived for so long and happily represented and raise my family, in that the great lever for opportunity in fairfield, bankstown,

i'm zeinab badawi.t is 60 years since beijing put down the tibetan revolt, which killed tens of thousands of people. that was also when the dalai lama began his long exile from his homeland. while still the tibetan people's spiritual leader, he relinquished political control eight years ago. our guest today is the de fa cto our guest today is the de facto president in exile, lobsang sangay, who says the situation is now critical and that tibet is a huge prison under china's unfettered rule. so what are the tibetan people's ambitions now? and what is their strategy for achieving it from the increasingly assertive and authoritarian chinese leadership? theme music plays lobsang sangay welcome to hardtalk. how do the tibetan people remember that revolt 60 years ago? thousands tibetan of gathered in the capital city to protect the dalai lama from the chinese army and then it resulted in a bloodshed. as per chinese military archives, 80,000 tibetan were killed between march and september 69 and the dalai lama

welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. dangerous is the superpower rivalry in technology and information? well currently, there is much focus on the tensions between the us and china over the chinese tech giant huawei. soon, sg networks will be of critical part of oui’ networks will be of critical part of our world in transportation, power supply, our world in transportation, power supply, payment systems and so much more. washington says the chinese can't be trusted because they may use that technology infrastructure for spying. beijing says this is nonsense. my guess is the us top official on cyber information and security, ambassador robert strayer. he is ona security, ambassador robert strayer. he is on a mission to dissuade europeans from doing business with huawei but is washington losing the cyber war? ambassador robert strayer, welcome to hardtalk. labour thank you for having me. what are your fears exactly about using chinese telecommunications technology? well, we are very excited about the promise of 56 technolo

hello and welcome to sydney, australia, for this edition of lowball questions with me, zeinab badawi. about living with those who have a different race, language and customs. multiculturalism has become the defining feature of our modern, mobile, globalised world. is this progress or a source of tensions? well, now i'm here right by the historic harbour bridge and the iconic sydney opera house. absolutely gorgeous, aren't they? and i've got my panel here and also our terrific audience. and if you wa nt to our terrific audience. and if you want tojoin our terrific audience. and if you want to join the conversation, don't forget you can, it is too. we have got a veteran senator for the ruling conservative liberal party, the daughter of italian immigrants. she has