{"id":10511,"date":"2021-03-03T03:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10511"},"modified":"2021-03-03T03:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:24:23","slug":"anti-chinese-racism-a-national-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/anti-chinese-racism-a-national-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Chinese Racism A National Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has expressed her serious concerns about a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/interactives.lowyinstitute.org\/features\/chinese-communities\">Lowy Institute survey<\/a>\u00a0which found that 1 in 5 surveyed Chinese-Australians have been threatened or attacked during the past 12 months.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt \u2018Covid racism\u2019 is at play here. But we should not disregard the impact of political rhetoric and the consequences of heated debate over Australia-China relations.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen Government MPs see nothing wrong with interrogating Chinese-Australians about their allegiances in Senate committee hearings, you can be sure there are deep-seated problems with our political debate.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s completely unacceptable that thousands of Chinese-Australians are being subjected to threats or attacks.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need the government to commit to anti-racism, not just through policy and funded programs, but also through stamping out racist rhetoric among its own MPs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has expressed her serious concerns about a\u00a0Lowy Institute survey\u00a0which found that 1 in 5 surveyed Chinese-Australians have been threatened or attacked during the past 12 months. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt \u2018Covid racism\u2019 is at play here. But we should not disregard the impact of political rhetoric &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/anti-chinese-racism-a-national-concern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti-Chinese Racism A National Concern&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}