PM pledges to raise the plight of jailed Australian – again

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Mr Albanese wrote back, pointing out the previous two occasions on which he had raised their father’s plight and assuring he would do so again next week when he becomes the first Australian prime minister to visit China since Malcolm Turnbull in 2016. “We’ll co-operate where we can, we will disagree where we must, and we’ll engage in our national interest and I will always make representations on behalf of Australians,” he said. Dr Yang, who previously worked for China’s Ministry of State Security, was detained at Guangzhou Airport in January 2019 after arriving from New York. He had been...