The recent racism toward Chinese Australians arising from the COVID-19 pandemic recalls the shape and scale of racism last seen during the “Hanson debate” of the late 1990s – so-named for the anti-Asian immigration and anti-multicultural positions Pauline Hanson advanced in Australian politics and society. Further linking these two moments are the responses to racism coming from Chinese Australian individuals and community organizations. In each period, the different backgrounds of various Chinese Australian communities and their representative organizations influenced their modes of responding to racism. Over the years, however, the prominence of a small number of “community leaders” and organizations responding to racism has increasingly eclipsed grassroots responses to racism. I argue that this shift represents a “professionalization” of Chinese Australian responses to racism; partly explaining the form that present responses take, while also problematizing the relationship between the “community representatives” and the “communities being represented.”

最近因新冠病毒引起的对澳大利亚华人的种族主义-19 大流行让人想起上次在 1990 年代后期的“汉森辩论”中看到的种族主义的形式和规模——以保琳·汉森在澳大利亚政治和社会中所提出的反亚裔移民和反多元文化立场而得名。将这两个时刻进一步联系起来的是澳大利亚华人个人和社区组织对种族主义的反应。在每个时期，澳大利亚华人社区及其代表组织的不同背景影响了他们应对种族主义的方式。然而，多年来，少数应对种族主义的“社区领袖”和组织的声望日益盖过了基层对种族主义的反应。我认为这种转变代表了澳大利亚华人对种族主义反应的“专业化”；