Published - June 4th, 2005 - The Fremantle Rooster

Context : Chinese Diplomat Chen Yonglin sought political asylum in Australia after abandoning his post at the Chinese
consulate-general in Sydney on May 26. Mr Chen and his family are in hiding, saying they fear for
their lives after he claimed China operates a large spy network in Australia. His asylum application
was rejected and he was advised to apply for a protection visa, which is now being considered.
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Amanda Vanstone
and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer are under quite heavy scrutiny over the debacle.

see: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15615311-2,00.html for more detail.

The other reference (to the left) is to a very famous photograph of Conrad Schuman taken during
the cold war. On August 15, 1961, at the age of 19, he was guarding the Berlin Wall,
then in its third day of construction. The Wall was at that stage no more than a low barbed-wire fence.
Seizing the opportunity, he jumped over the barbed wire, and was then taken away from the border at high
speed in a police car. His escape was captured on film by photographer Peter Leibing, and the image
(shown below) became one of the most famous images of the Cold War.

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