Jack Revell

ALT For Jinghua Qian, no amount of economic benefit migrants provide will ever be sufficient for politicians determined to divide the population by race. The 39-year-old said they didn't much think about the loss of Chinese citizenship when they arrived in Australia as a child in 1996. "I am Australian, that's just reality, it's not an aspiration," they said. "At the same time, I know in the eyes of Angus Taylor & his ilk, I'll always be a migrant no matter how long I've been here. I'll only ever be conditionally Australian. "Because this is not really about citizenship—it's about race. There's nothing I can give up—not my nationality, not my language or culture—that will make me an Australian without caveat, without an asterisk." They note the renouncing of citizenship is not simply about identity but has many practical implications. "When my granddad died, I couldn't just book the first affordable flight to go to his funeral, I had to go to the visa office with his death certificate