The Asianisation of Our Cities By James Reed

     “Education Boom Changing the Face of Cities’ Centres,” The Australian, August 28, 2017, p. 6, tells us something which those of us outside of the green leafy suburbs are well aware of: that new buildings are going up, rapidly to house Asian students, who are all going to stay to become Australia’s professional class. Just take a Captain Cook at the faces in medical school at most universities.

     Here, read it cut from: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/international-students/education-boom-changing-the-face-of-cities-centres/news-story/4f1554c1687aacc99382a085895980bf:

“The $20 billion international education industry has transformed the face of the southern state capitals and created an unofficial race to attract Asian students.
Analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics figures confirms that Melbourne’s CBD is facing the biggest cultural transformation in decades as higher education and cheap student accommodation attract mainly Chinese students in record numbers.
The soaring demand is also flowing into Adelaide’s CBD, where almost 30 per cent — or 4249 people — claim Chinese ancestry, only slightly behind central Sydney in total numbers.
The ABS breakdown supplied to The Australian also shows that central Brisbane and central Perth are lagging behind the other capitals in attracting the Chinese education dollar.
The figures show Melbourne’s CBD has 38 per cent of its population — almost 18,000 people — reporting Chinese ancestry.
The effect of this higher education-driven residency boom has been to transform central Melbourne, effectively super-sizing the old Little Bourke Street-based Chinatown, with a heavy concentration of Chinese students in the CBD and beyond.
There are markedly more people in central Melbourne citing Chinese ancestry (38 per cent), with three times the number of responses for Chinese as there was for English.
The international education industry is worth more than $20bn to Australia and in the City of Melbourne alone — which is larger than the CBD — there are 35,000 international students, with 175,000 in Victoria last year.
Australia China Business Council president John Brumby said the booming Chinese middle class was attracted to Australia for tourism and education, based in part on the clean air, orderly cities and desire by wealthy parents to provide the best for their children.”

     Yes, but too bad for Australian children. I keep saying that this is the product of not fighting immigration decades ago. But, the pace of dispossession is speeding up, so we are likely to see our demise sooner than expected. Probably not by Christmas, if that will be celebrated this year.

     However, there is hope. Maybe some sort of global catastrophe, such as economic collapse or a Carrington EMP event, will switch off the black magic that mind controls most people, and ring in reality again. Until then, all that can be done is make the Cassandra-like cry in the wilderness.  I have been writing about this for seemingly an eternity and with each day, the news always gets worse.