Seventy per cent of Chinese Australians believe the local media portray them as objects of suspicion and a risk to national security, according to a new report.
Henry Luo was walking through a park in Sydney with his elderly father and two toddlers when a stranger approached him, kicked a fence and screamed at him about Chinese people hoovering properties in Australia.
The 40-year-old, who grew up in Shenzhen but now runs an electronics wholesaler in Sydney after moving to Australia in 2009, was completely taken aback as 50 per cent of people in his Sydney suburb of Burwood have Chinese ancestry, according to the 2021 Census. “Bad stories about China get good clicks in Australia,” Mr Luo, a rank-and-file member of NSW Labor, said.
One respondent said: “Just because I feel unhappy with our mainstream media on China doesn’t mean that I side with China.“I do so as an Australian who is concerned that our cherished values, such as a fair go, are being undermined.”Australia-China Relations Institute at UTS, said the survey showed many Chinese Australians felt a low level of social acceptance in Australia.
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