Asian Australians say discrimination is being exacerbated by vitriolic campaigning in the country's general election
Worsening conditions for Asian Australians
Li says that anti-Asian racism has changed from what he describes as “schoolyard-type racism” that he faced at school. “Now, it’s much more dangerous because it’s not about what you like, which is just at the surface. It’s about what you believe, what your values are, where your allegiances lie and can you be trusted.”
Campaign posters displayed outside an early polling station in the Box Hill suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on Friday, May 13, 2022.In Melbourne, Loh says she didn’t dare leave her office for several hours recently when a rally by the United Australia Party took place nearby. The fringe, right-wing group has madethat an airport in Western Australia, built by Chinese-owned Sino Iron to fly workers in and out of the remote site, could be used in a Chinese military invasion.
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