2017 will soon be over, which reminds the editor of a song, < my 1997 >. In a song, Ai Jing looks forward to the return of 1997 of Hong Kong. Twenty years have passed in a twinkling of an eye. Every year may be a very historic year, perhaps a dull year, when we look back, we can only feel the rush of time.
The difference this year is that the editor will use Hong Huang`s strength to take stock of all the big and small things in the 2017 Australian Chinese circle.
01. Governance
The biggest thing this year is the legalization of same-sex marriage in Australia. Among the Chinese, the older opponents are the majority, and the younger ones are less opposed. All sorts of strange things happen during the mail voting, and people are gradually finding that people who support same-sex marriage and those who oppose gay marriage are dirty. So, being a decent person has nothing to do with being gay or not. The final result of the vote was a disappointment to those who opposed it. Australia has officially become the 27th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. This once again attests to the difference between the Australian Chinese community and the mainstream society in Australia. According to a Chinese website in Australia, 54% of those opposed.
Australian Parliament passes same-sex Marriage Act
A few days ago, the results of the Bennelong regional by-election illustrate the same problem from the side. Many believe that as many as 20 percent of the Chinese in the region will have a certain impact on the election, and some media have even said that this is the first time that the Chinese will have a major impact on Australian politics. In particular, after the Prime Minister made the remark that the Australian people stood up, many people thought it would cause a backlash among Chinese Australians. The election results then proved that such fears were completely unnecessary. The Tan Po government is still alive.
In fact, when you walk in Melbourne or Sydney CBD, you will have the illusion that there are too many Chinese in Australia and that Chinese people have too much influence on Australia, but in fact, there are only 5% of Chinese in Australia. It is obviously unrealistic to think of a huge impact on Australian politics with such a large population.
The attitude of former Prime Minister Albert in the same-sex marriage vote will take him further away from Australian politics
In discussing politics, it has to be mentioned that Victoria passed the euthanasia Act this year, becoming the first state in Australia to legalize euthanasia. In general, gay marriage and euthanasia are the hallmarks of great social change, meaning more tolerance and rationality, and a widening gap between Australia and China.
02. Crime case
On Halloween, the editor summed up an article on the murder of Chinese Australians-taking stock of the murders in the Australian Chinese circle over the past 10 years. The reason is that, in the editor`s view, the reality is far more terrifying than Halloween.
Shocked by the case of Xie Lianbin, after seven years of trial, in February this year, Xie Lianbin was sentenced to five life imprisonment. Xie Lianbin, a doctor in China, emigrated to Australia in 1999 in search of a happy life. He brutally killed five members of the Lin family in 1999. It is puzzling that his wife still thinks Xie Lianbin is innocent. The only survivor of the Lin family showed up for the first time since the verdict revealed Xie Lianbin`s motive for killing-sexual assault.
Xie Lianbin`s wife still thinks his husband is innocent.
In another case, Leng Mengmei was brutally killed and dumped, causing huge repercussions in the Chinese community and eventually finding her uncle, who was eventually sentenced to 46 years in prison before the end of the year. The motive is still sex-related.
In addition, the September beauty salon breast augmentation death case also surprised everyone, the original beauty surgery is so dangerous. What is even more surprising is that the main doctor is a Chinese tourist, not qualified to practice medicine in Australia. The case is still on trial and there is no sentence yet.
The boss of a beauty salon who died from breast augmentation
0.3. Migrants
2017 is undoubtedly the biggest change in visa policy in recent years. As early as April, the federal government abolished 457 work visas and replaced them with a new one because 457 was too long for the current situation. A few days later, Australia`s prime minister announced a naturalization reform plan to raise naturalization standards, including waiting time, English tests, and so on. By October, however, Labour had denied it.
In early December, the federal government extended the ban on visa forgery from 12 months to 10 years, once again denied by the Greens and Labour Party.
Just a few days ago, the federal government proposed a plan to cut the benefits of new immigrants. The waiting time for some benefits has been extended from 2 years to 3 years.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is a leading figure in Immigration Policy Reform
As can be seen from the general trend, the government has been trying to tighten immigration plans, but has been repeatedly rejected by Labour and the Greens. The question is, why is the federal government doing this? This is a lot of voices from the people, if contrary to public opinion, then Tembo can only step down. So attempts to tighten immigration reform have not stopped. So what about next year`s immigration policy? According to the editor, the Australian government has been at a stage of serious opposition between the left and the right over the past few years, and although visa reform has not been smooth, it will always take a small step forward. Just before Christmas, the former immigration department was officially renamed "Department of Home Affairs", apparently paving the way for future visa reform.
In addition, there are more and more students studying in Australia, which means more and more people want to emigrate, so eventually, it will be more and more difficult to emigrate to Australia.
When it comes to visas, one of the most inconceivable things the Chinese have to do this year is that while the Chinese are still talking about the migrant population in Beijing, the Australian government has paid 70 million Australian dollars to the 2000 refugees who smuggled into Australia. Why? The law firm believes that the Australian government has violated the human rights of the refugees. To put it simply, the Australian Government does not provide adequate clothing, food, accommodation and safety protection.
This is the legendary refugee center.
04. Rumors
As for Australia`s visa-free, Chinese green card rumors are already rotten. Although you can see it occasionally, there aren`t many people who fall for it. However, a few days ago an article or deceiving a lot of people.
Australia`s 67-year-old dark secret has been exposed! It turns out that we`ve been living in "radiation pollution".
The fact-based science fiction story has seen more than one hundred thousand views.
Although WeChat has never deleted the Australian visa-free rumor, the news is still classified as "false information." There is no doubt that this is the most destructive rumor of the year. Many people laugh at the intelligence of the cheater when they receive the winning email, but the obvious rumor has caught a lot of people on the hook.
05. e-commerce
Australian e-commerce has always been ridiculed. Amazon, the world`s leading leader, has been seen as a savior in Australia. In anticipation of N years, Australia`s Amazon officially opened in November, but let everyone down. Some are more expensive than others. The funniest thing is that Amazon is selling the most e-books, games, and so on, according to data from Amazon, Australia, a month after it opened. What does the Dandenong warehouse, which claims to have spent N billion dollars, use? To store e-books?
Could you take a look at the news headlines before Amazon opens?
06. Wide band
NBN began to promote to the country in the middle of this year, many places can apply. But it was accompanied by a lot of complaints. By the end of the year, telecom companies have begun to pay for their fake ads (Telstra,Oputus,TPG). In December, wholesale prices for NBN will also be large, meaning that NBN`s retail prices are likely to fall. So to sign broadband users, no more precautions and so on.
After writing for a long time, this year seems to have missed a lot of things. Let`s talk about the missing ones next year.
