Miriam Hill is a freelance writer based in Brisbane, Australia whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and other publications. Previously she was a business reporter and New York correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Australia has cracked down on press freedoms in recent raids. What does it mean when a country that calls itself a democracy attacks one of its defining principles?
Signs of xenophobia are raising the old ghost of “White Australia,” the shared belief in the nation as an outpost of white civilization in the middle of the Pacific.
