Edmond Chiu
Edmond Chiu A.M. is an Emeritus Professor of The University of Melbourne. He arrived in Australia from Hong Kong in 1952 and experienced the bureaucratic discrimination of the White Australian Policy. Since 2010 he has been a Volunteer Researcher with the Museum of Chinese Australian History (The Chinese Museum) in Melbourne, undertaking research into Chinese Australians who served in two World Wars. He co-authored the book, For Honour and Country- Victorian Chinese Australians in World War Two (Museum of Chinese Australian History, 2021)
Recent articles by Edmond Chiu
24 April 2023
Commemorating ANZAC Day a Chinese Australian perspective
ANZAC Day, 25th April, is perhaps one of the most important national days in the Australian Calendar. Initially it commemorated the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fought in World War One. In Australia now, on this day, it honours Australian men and women who served in all overseas conflicts and in peacekeeping.
23 March 2023
Will there be a reprise of the White Australia Policy?
With the publication of the series, RED ALERT in the two leading newspapers in Australia, predicting that China will invade Australia in three years, the constant push from the ASPI, and the increasingly strident rhetoric from the China hawks in both major political parties, will the Australian security apparatus be encouraged to re-establish a Chinese Section to place under surveillance the over 1 million Australians with Chinese ancestry?