Australia has just told the residents of its largest trading partner that it no longer believes they are safe at home | ANALYSIS
Thursday's decision to offer up to 10,000 Hong Kong students and workers already in Australia safe haven from draconian new national security legislation imposed by Beijing is the right thing to do. But it will come at a cost.
The speed at which the Chinese government has moved to impose its authority on Asia's once-liberal finance hub has shocked many of the city's 7.5 million residents.This is the most diplomatically heated migration decision by an Australian Prime Minister since Bob Hawke offered 27,000 Chinese students refuge after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
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