According to census data - Chinese born residents
make up 4.7% of Sydney's 4.8 million people.

Greater Sydney is home to over 40% of the Nation's
Muslim population which has risen from just over 340,000
in 2006 to over 604,000 people in 2016.

Census data also reveals the growth in capital cities was
twice that of other areas - which is partly the result of
overseas migrants wanting to be in major urban areas.

It is interesting though that census data gives the Asian
population as being merely 10% of Australia's population.

Australia is considered part of the Western World.
Whereas Asia is considered part of the Eastern World.
The Western World influences in Australia are so deeply
ingrained that Australia will never truly be an Asian
country.

It's best for Australia to keep strong ties with Western
Nations while maintaining better trade relations
with Asian nations.

Most Australians would prefer to remain an independent
sovereign nation than be part of Asia. Australia is a
separate continent to Asia. Our Indigenous People are
not Asian. And the culture of the people who came here
earlier and settled was not Asian. So no, we are not an
Asian country.

Foxy,

On page 8, r66ald wrote "In my opinion I see >5 out of 10 are Asian background" when I asked him what percentage of Sydney's population is Asian.

His assessment is in line with mine that Asians account for more than half of the city's population. And r66aid is Asian so why would he lie?

I don't know where these low figures you and others keep citing come from but they definitely do not reflect the demographic reality that one can easily observe by travelling around Sydney.

If you do not believe me then just come and have a look around Sydney for yourself.

Maybe that is the reason Berejiklian is popular, because she is Asian herself and the greater part of the city's population feel an Asian affinity with her.

To me it's representative of the Asianization process that has been shaping an Australianese identity over the past 40 years of the Great Asianization Period (1980-2020) in Australian history.

Just accept it Foxy that you now have an Asian identity. I have and it doesn't bother me.

Dear r66ald,

I Googled the Rhodes are in NSW and asked about the
purity of its water. There's an interesting link at
homely.com.au - and it says that "comments about
polluted water in Rhodes - yes Rhodes was built on
commercial factories and it's been well documented
the toxic level of the water. This is well on the
improve - but its now at the same pollution level
as water in Darling Harbour..."

If I were you I would not drink the tap water.
As I stated earlier - boiling water and keeping it
aside for drinking does not take much effort and is
by far a safer option.

Foxy,

If you have been watching the news you might have seen the debacle with land at Camelia, which is more or less a stone's throw from Rhodes on the other side of Olympic Park.

The land is so contaminated that it is worth MINUS $5 million; the NSW government under Berejiklian bought it for $53 million netting a $15 million profit for its owners, a couple of ardent Liberal supporters. (Looks like another Eastern Creek/ Western Sydney Airport land sale situation with Liberal governments giving taxpayers money to their friends for land that isn't worth anywhere near the sale price.)

I would hate to guess what is in the soil under the high rise apartments at Rhodes. Keep in mind that these apartments were developed specifically to cater for the influx of East Asian migrants being brought in by Berejiklian under her people driven economic plan.

I think it is a matter of profits over lives.

If I was a resident of Rhodes I would be selling up and relocating before the doctor has to tell me that I need to start cancer treatment.

PS Did you see where r66ald also reckons that Asians make up more than half of Sydney's population? I guess this is where I get to say "I'm right, and you're wrong."

Mr O,

Thank You for the information. It does sound
horrific and I think that I also would be
moving out of the area.

As for being right or wrong?

I am merely quoting the stats given by the 2016
census. It is your business what you chose to
believe or accept.

Foxy,

I am a sociologist and I try to be objective about what I observe of people and their society.

I see a city in which over half the population is now Asian and I think this has now been backed up by the comment from r66aid.

You need to question the statistical data you are citing.

I could put together two questionnaires for a survey on the same topic and structure each to come up with two different sets of results. I've always been critical of the ABS census because they only look for answers that support government planning objectives. It's about politics, not about social science.