Program: Growing up Asian in Australia

What is it like to grow up Asian in Australia? 

What are the stereotypes, myths and assumptions that Australian-Asians encounter?

A decade ago Black Ink published an anthology about this, called Growing up Asian in Australia, edited by Alice Pung. 

How do non-Asian Australians relate? Do they differentiate between different groups or are there common interactions? 

Speakers

Alice Pung - author, writer and journalist

Benjamin Law - author, writer and ABC Radio National Stop Everything broadcaster

Tim Soutphommasane - commentator, author, writer and former Race Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission

Chair: Dr Rebecca Strating - acting Executive Director, La Trobe; Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, La Trobe University