Dear Belly,

You are just so wrong. Australia does have a Chinese future. In fact Australia's politicians will make sure of it because large-scale migration of cashed-up Chinese is the backbone of ScuMo's economic policy. And of course the Chinese who are bringing in the money to keep the economy afloat will demand a say in things so expect to see an ever-increasing number of Chinese politicians entering parliament at all levels.

What Australia does have is a surfeit of Chinese men's trousers with annoying fly zippers, all of them are too short (as far as I've been involved).

To use the fly effectively the pants must be pulled down unless one is endowed with a longer than normal hose pipe.

I still have a couple of pairs of Australian made work trousers with button fly and they do not suffer from the problem of an inadequate opening.

Mr Opinion give me the numbers, how many Chinese are in our parliaments, state federal and local government
Back on thread subject, we will have different memories from different days as our ages are not all the same
But I saw us go from the FX and FJ Holden to more brands of cars than I can count
From the radio being our home entertainment to all those TV channels we now have

Dear Belly,

I'm talking about the future so sorry can't give you numbers yet.

Come and take a look around Sydney and I think you will also predict that Australia is changing from an Anglo Australian nation into a Sino Australian nation. We have a Chinese future, one that your descendents will be part of. All that your grandchildren and great-grandchildren need to learn is how to exclaim three simple words 'Yes Master Lai!'

I recently used the bus almost daily for some years to and from the city centre of Adelaide. It struck me that the people who used buses were quite different from people who never did and always used their own individual cars instead: of course, older people, students, schoolkids and women are much more likely NOT to have vehicles, and therefore have to rely on public transport more than average.

Therefore they're much more visible on buses and trains than men, Anglos and 'working' hipsters.

Joe

Well Mr Opinion my first ever trip to Melbourne was about 15 years ago,
Found it felt more like Australia than Sydney loved that market
Sydney has changed, so very much, in my life time, walk in to that huge shopping building in Parramatta, you will not spot a Aussie as you think of them
However just as it has been in America, some future poster writing about this subject, may well look and see those people in his or her times are as Aussie as any
If I could pick my neighbors you bet Chinese and Asians would be welcome here
Why was Melbourne more Australian?
Nothing to do with race people spoke to each other on the trams!
said g'day as they passed sat down in the pub to say hello, cab drivers mostly from the sub content market stallholders from the middle east but with an Aussie drawl