Writer
Chek Ling
Chek Ling arrived in Melbourne in 1962, on a Colombo Plan scholarship, to study electrical engineering. He never left. He has been an activist in the Chinese community since 1984. In 1988 he was spokesperson for the Queensland Chinese Forum to denounce the State Liberal Party. He is the author of Plantings in a New Land, an oral history of the Chinese in Queensland, published in 2001 under the auspices of Centenary of Federation Queensland.
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Will Chinese Australians take the moral high ground, again?
In 1888 Lowe Kong Meng, Cheong Cheok Hong and Louis Ah Moy took the moral high ground in The Chinese Question booklet. They were ignored, of course. It was the time. Continue reading »
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The bell tolls: Brisbane’s night of broken glass
It happened 133 years ago. Yet the Chinese Question remains, having now mutated to the China Question. Meanwhile the burden upon the Chinese as scapegoats, at the altar of racial purity in the first instance, cultural cohesion a century later and of late national sovereignty continues unabated. Continue reading »
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Labor deaf to Chinese ethnic stirrings in Stretton Electorate in Queensland
There are murmurs that the Chinese in Stretton have had enough. Continue reading »
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What is to be done with the Chinese in Oz.
“Men, or rather monsters, on horseback, armed with bludgeons and whips, with a fiend-like fury, securing the unfortunate creatures by taking hold of their tails and pulling their heads so that they came with their backs to the horse and their heads upon the saddle, and then cutting, or rather sawing, them off and leaving Continue reading »
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What is to be done about the Chinese in Oz?
During the last Federal elections, our political leaders went on WeChat, to impress the PRC émigrés. They seemed not to care about the feelings of the huayi Aussies who have mostly come here since 1951. Continue reading »
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What is to be done about the Chinese in Oz. (Part 1 of 3)
The Chinese Question refuses to go away. It’s testing the inheritors of White Australia. Continue reading »
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CHEK LING. The mutating ‘China question’
What a shemozzle! The cash cow has turned into a contagious apparition! Continue reading »
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CHEK LING. Unleashing the White Australia virus
It is such a shame that the PM and our Foreign Minister felt the need to goad China. Continue reading »
