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George Hua knows what racism looks like when Australians vent about China and the Chinese. He woke one Saturday during the last federal election to find that a billboard with his face on it had been covered with a cross and two words in black, capital letters: “NO CHINA.”
That was before the pandemic. And it was before last year’s slide in Australia’s relations with China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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So there is a logical question for Hua to consider about the community today, almost two years after he ran as the Liberal candidate for Hotham, the safe Labor seat in the southern suburbs of Melbourne.