Chinese-Australian family home in Melbourne targeted with racist graffiti

CCTV footage shows a vandal fleeing the home of a Chinese-Australian family after spraying offensive graffiti and breaking a window.

Vandals have targeted a Chinese-Australian family’s home for two nights in a row, leaving their garage covered in racist graffiti and smashing a window with a large rock.

On Monday the Melbourne family woke up to find “COVID-19 China die” spray-painted on the home’s garage door and then on Tuesday night, someone smashed one of their windows about 2.30am, according to the ABC.

The second attack was partially captured on camera, with footage showing someone running from the property in Knoxfield, a suburb in Melbourne’s east, and climbing over a fence.

The racist message that appeared on the garage door.

Resident Jackson, who did not want his surname published, told ABC he had reported the incidents to the police.

“I’m just scared. I’m busy buying CCTV systems, repairing glass and buying lamps,” Jackson said.

“I’m afraid these people will come back tonight.”

It’s the latest incident in Australia that appears to be racially-motivated following the coronavirus outbreak.

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Footage of a person jumping over a fence after an apparent act of vandalism at a Chinese-Australian's home in Melbourne. Source: ABC

Earlier this month, a respected Geelong doctor had racist abuse hurled at him while he was waiting for a takeaway meal, the Geelong Advertiser reported.

There were reports that parents at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne refused to let doctors and nurses of “Asian appearance” treat their children or are sitting away from other patients.

Two female international students were verbally abused and physically assaulted in a Melbourne CBD street by two women, with one being kicked to the ground.

In Sydney, two women were racially abused and spat on by another young woman calling them “Asian dogs” who “brought corona here” in shocking video uploaded to social media.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was asked about the racism on Tuesday and said: “stop it, that’s my message”.

“Now is a time to support each other and I would remind everyone that it was Chinese Australians in particular that provided one of the greatest defences we had in those early weeks,” he told reporters.

“They were the ones who first went into self-isolation, they were the ones who were returning from family visits up into China and they were coming home, and it was through their care, it was through their commitment, their patience that actually Australia was protected in their first wave.

“I deplore that sort of behaviour against any Australian regardless of their ethnicity or their religion or whatever it happens to be. And I think that is the view of all Australians. So we have to call that sort of thing out. It’s not on.”