How on earth do you know that the Chinese I spoke to in the Sydney YHA this week were locals? Do you think that they faked the airline tags on their suitcases, and lied about where they came from? Do you think that local resident Chinese spent $5 billion on tourism?

Your opinions carry little credibility when they fly on the face of actual data.

In fact, I wonder how many Australians of historic Chinese descent, recent Chinese immigrants or Chinese tourists you have ever met, let alone seriously talked with.

Or are you like the guy who harassed an elderly Chinese woman I knew in a shopping mall 'we don't want your kind here'. She happened to be visiting from NZ, but her family had been there for three generations, like many people I know in Australia.

PS Mr Opinion, perhaps you could answer my question about Trooper Camillus Sue, 8th Light Horse Regiment, who gave his life for Australia.

Dear Mr Opinion,

NO IT IS NOT!

Which is just as well, because if there was a way to post photos here then you'd post a lot of irrelevant photos and claim that they support your argument.

Face it, your argument has been refuted. You know it's been refuted because you can't answer the questions I put to you, But you keep reposting your argument because you're a racist who wants to fool other people into opposing Chinese immigration.

Dear Cossomby,

You are the tourist in Sydney. Get it? You are the outsider.

Dear Aidan,

Of course you don't want me to upload images of typical scenes around Sydney simply because you know that they will prove that what I am saying is correct. Typical engineer!

Mr O. Actually Sydney is my home town. My family have been there since 1793, I was born and grew up there - over the years i've lived in the eastern suburbs, far western suburbs and inner west. I've also lived briefly in Melbourne, Canberra and Broken Hill, bouncing back to Sydney each time. Although I now live elsewhere, I visit regularly. I stayed at the YHA because it was convenient for my work in Sydney last week (and YHA hostels have learnt to cater for all us oldies who were members in our youth, with motel style rooms - they are a fantastic bargain).

This gives me a real advantage: I see Sydney both from the perspective of long family and personal experience, but also from an external view, both from other cities and the outback.

So when I say that the Chinese I saw last week at the YHA were tourists - I know what I'm talking about. (Oh, I've been to China twice, and I do some work in the tourist industry. Guess what's the biggest tourist attraction in the UK for Chinese?)

Given the above, I think I just might have the edge in this debate. Normally I wouldn't go on about it, but sometimes you have to stand up for facts against predjudice.

This will be my last post on the subject, I have to get to work.

But, I will continue watching for Mr Opinion's response on Trooper Sue.