Wing Kuang
@wingkuang.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, audio producer, NAATI interpreter for Cantonese. 📻: Little Red Podcast, NüVoices, Initium Reports, All The Best, SBS News, etc. 📰: The Saturday Paper, Al Jazeera English, Guardian Australia, etc. 📧: wingkuang.journalist@gmail.com
Dear editors, our time as freelancers is equally important as yours and your in-house. If you aren’t giving double pay, then either edit my story and pay me (and you can schedule it whenever you want), or tell me directly that you aren’t taking it so that I can sell it somewhere.
Do you know which Australian book is the most popular among Chinese diaspora to gift families overseas “to learn about Australia”? If I were head of DFAT who read this piece, I would order an audit on where we’ve wasted the millions of $$$ on soft power sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/livin...
Living in Australia, Reading in Chinese | Sydney Review of Books
After English, Mandarin and Cantonese are two of the most widely spoken languages in Australia. Late last year, Wing Kuang spoke with two booksellers in Sydney and Melbourne to pull back the curtain o...
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If they teach me how to negotiate with Australian managers to stop paying me as a fresh graduate that would be great
New: Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner calls for an inquiry into transnational repression, following Guardian’s report of a Chinese student allegedly being jailed for six years for joining protests in Sydney: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Student’s alleged jailing in China over Australian pro-democracy protests sparks calls for inquiry
Human rights commissioner says student’s jailing highlights the ‘growing risks of transnational repression’ in Australia
theguardian.com
New from me: a Chinese student at University of Sydney went missing and allegedly has been sentenced to six years in China, for participating in protests in Australia, including solidarity protests for China’s ethnic minority groups: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Student allegedly jailed in China for six years after taking part in pro-democracy protests in Australia
Exclusive: The Australian government has been urged to take stronger action to protect overseas students from political repression
theguardian.com
New from me for ABC News on a rare shared interest between Australia and China: a pint of good craft beer. …and what we can learn about the actual economic situation in China right now, as well as how young Chinese people respond to it. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
How craft beer is changing China, one schooner at a time
On a midsummer night last year, I took a sip of lager at a craft beer pub in my hometown in China's south. But this was not just a beer. It was a cultural symbol that shows just how much China's gen Z...
abc.net.au
This is a substantial story from @wingkuang.bsky.social - one the Murdoch mullahs of angertainment will flock to for a distraction that ticks many of their culture wars. A crackdown on the Darian Gap has pushed many people fleeing China to turn to Australia. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to say how many Chinese nationals are arriving by boat, saying it may damage bilateral relations
Exclusive: Indonesia reports growing number of attempts by Chinese nationals to organise boat journeys, as Australian authorities refuse to reveal details
theguardian.com
Exclusive from me: Australia refuses to reveal how many Chinese nationals have reached Australia by boat since 2024 citing damage to bilateral relations, but public records in Indonesia show many Chinese have tried to arrive by boat — but failed: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to say how many Chinese nationals are arriving by boat, saying it may damage bilateral relations
Exclusive: Indonesia reports growing number of attempts by Chinese nationals to organise boat journeys, as Australian authorities refuse to reveal details
theguardian.com
Scoop by me: Taiwanese Indigenous dance at Women's Asian Cup briefly cancelled, politician claims www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Taiwanese Indigenous dance at Women's Asian Cup briefly cancelled, politician claims
A Taiwanese Indigenous dance performance was reinstated before the Taiwan-China football quarter final on Saturday, after diplomats intervened.
sbs.com.au
We have a very timely episode for you at the Little Red Podcast: State Capture or Mind Capture? China's Spy Strategy on 3 Continents omny.fm/shows/the-li...
State Capture or Mind Capture? China's Spy Strategy on 3 Continents - The Little Red Podcast
Britain is the latest country to be plunged into yet another espionage scandal after an MP’s husband was arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Beijing’s long been known for its ‘thousand grains o...
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putting politics aside, it’s very impressive that Ted O’Brien speaks such fluent Mandarin.
A very cute piece I did for @SBSNews this Lunar New Year - on first-Gen migrants heading back to Asia for LNY and experiencing culture shock 'I want to taste everything': Why millions of people make this annual pilgrimage www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'I want to taste everything': Why millions of people make this annual pilgrimage
As many Asians living in Australia return to their ancestral homes for Lunar New Year, what awaits them can be surprising.
sbs.com.au
New from me, and omg look at this great lead image from SBS graphic design team: How to set boundaries and manage family expectations during Lunar New Year www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
How to set boundaries and manage family expectations during Lunar New Year
From dinner-table arguments to loneliness, experts weigh in on some of the challenges families can face during the Lunar New Year.
sbs.com.au
NEW from me: Lawmakers around the world are trying to stamp out image-based abuse, but ubiquitous and evolving technologies make regulation difficult. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'Are we holding creepy men to account?': The loopholes in image-based abuse laws
Lawmakers around the world are trying to stamp out image-based abuse, but ubiquitous and evolving technologies make regulation difficult.
sbs.com.au
In 2025 I ran for two jobs that said they were for early career/fresh grads. One said I was overqualified and not fresh grad enough (which is fair, and good on them for keeping the criterion). The other one hired a journo with 10yr+ experience. WTF.
New from me: how a group of angry Chinese farmers spent a year and finally succeeded in getting Beijing to implement tariffs on Australian beef: www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Why has China introduced new tariffs on Australian beef?
An expert says the impact of China's new tariff is "hard to assess", but Australian exporters may have found their way out.
sbs.com.au
Great detail in this story: no police looked into the racist poster until someone working in public health (and hence understand the bureaucratic system) took it to police multicultural liaison officer, and they did probe into it and actually found the suspects: www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Veronica’s shop was targeted by racist hate. This is how her community responded
CCTV footage shows two men placing a placard in front of the pharmacy that read: “No Asian slum-city in St Marys.”
smh.com.au
New from me on the latest discussion on gun law reform following the Bondi terror attack: 'Different blind spots': Where are the gaps in Australia's gun laws? www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'Different blind spots': Where are the gaps in Australia's gun laws?
The Bondi Beach massacre has renewed focus on Australia's gun laws, nearly three decades after the Port Arthur reforms.
sbs.com.au
Approaching 30 as a Chinese means in your group chat where every else is above 30, you don’t share reels about Xmas, but tips from Fengshui guys on what to watch out for in 2026
Give this piece a read pls. And thanks to the author for speaking up! www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
Confronting university harassment: ‘You’re dumb, but you’re a pretty girl’
Sitting in my mandatory coding workshop, I felt a spray on the back of my neck. As the thick smell of men’s deodorant spread and sank into my clothes, I saw my tutor slip the can back into his bag bef...
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Finally!!!! I passed the certification test for Chinese to English!!! That means I can now produce court-qualified translation for Chinese and English!! Are you looking for a journo who can do investigation AND certified translation? Now you know who you can talk to 👀
a kermit the frog is dancing in a living room .
ALT: a kermit the frog is dancing in a living room .
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I’ve been monitoring online discussions from Hong Kong about why HKers consider blaming bamboo scaffolding is a gov spin, and I think many AUS media have got it WRONG. They think it’s a spin NOT because they see bamboo scaffolding as a tradition that distinguishes HK from China.
I actually have a list called “the managers and editors who I will work for free for a year, if one day they decide to launch their own companies/outlets”, for how they have stood up for me in the past
Thanks Guardian for letting me try court reporting this year…and look like more on the way next year… www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Lanlan Yang pleads not guilty to all charges over crash of $1.5m Rolls Royce SUV in Sydney’s east
Lanlan Yang’s case has attracted attention from Chinese Australian community and on social media due to her lavish wealth and speculation about her background
theguardian.com
So basically some of them earn their income from migrants, and some of them are migrants too www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Engineer. Teacher. Postie: The neo-Nazis who rallied in Sydney
Those who gathered on Saturday include a personal trainer, an English-as-a-second-language teacher and a former bar manager who is facing DV charges.
smh.com.au
Would be interesting to know how this development will affect the energy policy, or whether the current energy direction covers this
Richard Chirgwin@rchirgwin.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis is not good news ... www.afr.com/policy/forei...
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Brittany Trang@brittanytrang.com · 9mo agoA Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
As someone who likes cold weather, I really hope that by 33 I can move to either Canberra or Hobart
