Fruit loops jump on Chinese housing “invasion”

Doing us all no favours, a small and boisterous movement is afoot to drive Chinese out of Australian property, from The Australian:

It has been just two weeks since Nick Folkes and a group of activists headed to Sydney’s north shore, disrupting a string of suburban auctions to protest what they say is the selling-out of Australia to foreigners.

But Folkes and his comrades at the Party for Freedom, named in honour of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, are already planning their next event: an all-day “extravaganza” targeting Hurstville, in Sydney’s south.

“The government is creating a society where the average person will never be able to buy a home, and they’re facilitating a Chinese invasion,” Folkes says.

“I see this as a genocide, it’s cultural, economic and identity genocide.”

Alas this was inevitable. The language here is regrettable and the point of view wrong. Australia is at risk of none of the above, except the pricing out of its own youth in the property market. Chinese make up only 4.3% of the Australian population.

This is a gift to the real estate lobby that aims to corral all resistance to illegal Chinese property buyers as driven purely by racism.