Constraints On Reporting

Indonesia's political landscape after Soehario, Malaysia afterMahathir and Singapore afterLee Kuan Yew will raise whole newsetsof political sensitivities which could challenge and even threaten the positions and perspectives of Australian journalists trying to report the region. As this article points out, it is because of the inevitability of fundamental political changes in the region thatAustralia needs its own journalists in Asia, viewingregional developments from anAustralian perspective