Columns by Michael Backman
Michael Backman "raises extraordinarily important questions about the national interest"
Senator Susan Knowles, speech to the Australian Senate, April 1999
► Michael Backman writes a regular column on Asian business, politics and culture for The Age
newspaper, the principal daily broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city.
► Click here for his latest Age column, published on July 30, 2008.
► He also writes guest commentaries for other newspapers and journals worldwide.