Lisa Visentin
Lisa Visentin is a journalist and the North Asia correspondent for The Herald, known for her in-depth reporting on significant issues affecting Australia and the region. She has recently covered the implications of a landmark South Korean inquiry into the adoption program, highlighting the distress faced by Australian adoptees and the systemic fraud involved in their adoptions.
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Lisa Visentin is the North Asia correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
China’s obsession with US kill line exposes its own anxieties
Australia· 2026-01-26
Lisa Visentin is the North Asia correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Australia needs more young people to take Chinese studiesAustralia· 2025-12-01
As this masthead’s China correspondent, Lisa Visentin noted, Xi said his country was a 'great nation that will never be intimidated by any bullies'.
Was it a message to Donald Trump and the US?Australia· 2025-09-04
Lisa Visentin has caught the anguish of the Australians adopted from South Korea confronted with harrowing new questions about their identities.
Australia needs a parliamentary inquiry, not an in-house investigationAustralia· 2025-04-11