Ise Mise it was much the same for me but my birth was in the postwar baby boom
Foxy, you remind me women are more mature at that age than men well done by the way'
Mentioned my view we are different people at different ages the person I now am was born around 36 years into my life
The 17 year old had left home and returned several times,to work
But the links remained strong every Friday night catching the Coma Mail steam train home side of mutton under my arm for a battling family
Siblings walked three miles [eachway] to meet me at midnight love those memories
If you could tap your younger self on the shoulder what age would you do it at and what advice would you give
Mine would be to my lardhead self at age 12 tell me to get involved in education not wagging it to work on farms, and too to say stay in one job and bank rather than waste
That lardhead had he taken my advice may well have been run over by a bus ten minutes later so we are who we are

Dear individual,

Yes it had its beginning in the early 1970s with the end of the White Australia policy. But the really big migrations of Chinese into Australia happened when John Howard and Tony Abbott were sucking up to the Chinese Communist Party with the free trade agreement.

The first Chinese Consulate in Australia was
established in 1909 and diplomatic relations were
established in 1941.

When were you guys born?

I also believe that Chinese were hear even earlier.

Anyway, what's all this fuss? What percentage of
the population do they make today?

Are they really such a threat? Or are you just
buying into what's in the media and what some
political strategists tell you?

Chinese came here first to mine for gold, we greeted them with hate and racism, for being more productive in that than we had been
Still coming long after that it was in fact a hero of my party, and this country, who increased the flow
He opened the door to students studying here after CHINA massacred its people in that square
Bob Hawke, well done great man!
Saying they are in big numbers over looks the fact they just are not
Hanson like, racial hatred as a tool of politics, first Asians then Muslims now Chinese, only highlights some of us are racists
Right now, serving in our military services are the children of all three mentioned groups,

Mr Opinion,
You have a lot of history to read up on if you think Howard brought in the Chinese !
These miners of the 1870's were extremely hard working & their descendants morphed into Australian society without a single glitch.
You're literally being offensive comparing the modern illegal immigrants to those early Chinese !

Dear Foxy,

Australia has a Chinese future. Take a visit to Sydney and have a look around: I reckon every second person is Chinese. If you tell me how to upload photos to OLO I will show you typical scenes from Sydney. And if you don't believe those then come and have a look for yourself.