Never before have there been more people of Chinese origin in Australia, or the nations' economies so tightly linked. Yet for many Australians a fear of China is proving difficult to overcome.
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By the time she was about 10 years old, Erin Chew had had enough of looking Asian.
Born in Australia of Malaysian Chinese parents, hers was a time when non-European or non-Indigenous faces stood out around the public housing estates of Mount Druitt, in Sydney's outer west.
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