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Australia’s ‘Chinaman’ place names spark racism debate, calls for change
“They were literally turning themselves into caricatures of Chinese people, which appeared far too often in pre-federation Australian newspapers.” One infamous cartoon from the period predating the federation of Australia in 1901 was The Mongolian Octopus …