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Chinese-Australians ‘under-represented in public service’ Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian The Australian government is missing out on valuable sources of advice on the increasingly complex relationship with China because Chinese-Australians are under-represented in the public service, a new policy paper says. For decades governments have recognised that “Australia’s Asia literacy is meagre”, according to the Lowy Institute paper. But the paper argues that where China literacy does exist in the Australian public service, “it is often underutilised or undervalued”. The report’s author, Yun Jiang, a former public servant, said with China-related issues becoming more prominent in Australia’s foreign and domestic policies, Australia needed China-literate policymakers in the public service “more than ever”.

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