Australia
Alan Zheng is a Sydney-based writer with experience in print journalism and news production.
His work has appeared in the ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, Justinian, the Gazette of Law and Journalism and the Overland Journal.
In 2019, he edited University of Sydney student newspaper, Honi Soit.
When Karen showed up at Qingdao International Airport on Saturday afternoon for a flight to Australia, she found the airport in disarray. It was supposed to be a routine flight to Sydney to start a new year of university. Instead Karen, an international student from China's Shandong province, was barred from checking in.
Religious Discrimination Bill ... Context, history and place in anti-discrimination law ... Unintended and intended consequences ... Equality and liberty ... The shield and the sword ... Race and religion ... Bogging down the courts ... Conceptually incoherent legislation ... External affairs power ... Alan Zheng reports
No jurisdiction ... Lawyer disciplinary actions thrown out by NCAT ... Complaints improperly made ... Procedural mishaps involving the Legal Services Commissioner, the Law Society and the Bar Association ... Mounting costs awarded ... Lawyers continue to trade without birchings ... Remedial patch-up underway ... Alan Zheng reports
Opinion By Alan Zheng Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size In Stephen Soderbergh's 2011 film Contagion, a mysterious virus originating in Macau ripples through the United States. What follows is a bubbling concoction of state anxiety, pandemic imagery and looming societal collapse.
But I have also witnessed student media falter against an all-too-familiar threat. Hard-hitting stories have ended their lives as unpublished drafts, shelved after being spiked or strongarmed. In the background, the defamation law system continues to whir, pitting the resource-poor institutions of student journalism against the legal machinery of the privileged.
International students working at the Epic Tea outlet on campus have told Honi Soit they are being paid between $12 to $14 per hour, and are working without payslips, superannuation and written contracts. Employees indicated they were being paid an hourly rate of $12 during a training period which lasted as long as a week...
Geopolitical schisms are coming to the University of Sydney after a mural established by Hong Kong students on the poster boards of Eastern Avenue was dismantled by Chinese students yesterday afternoon, according to video footage obtained by Honi. It comes three weeks after pro-Hong Kong and pro-Beijing students clashed in the Great Court of the...
Content warning: Homophobia and Heterosexism Honi Soit has obtained documents under Freedom of Information legislation which indicate Campus Security received a complaint alleging homophobic treatment late last year, but failed to investigate it. The complainant sent a message to the University of Sydney Facebook page alleging that Campus Security confronted two men in the accessible cubicle of...
An inter-collegiate event promoted by students from St Andrew's College and attended by students of St Paul's and Wesley College of Sydney University is being publicly boycotted by Sancta Sophia College and condemned by a greyhound rescue organisation. In a message to all students this morning, the Principal of Sancta Sophia College, Fiona Hastings, condemned...
Content warning: racism and violence. A Chinese international postgraduate student was attacked on campus today by a 30 to 40-year-old man wearing a grey hoodie-jacket. The student was likely one of several Asian students targeted by the man. The student was spat on, and punched multiple times, including being jabbed in the eye with a...
