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The issue of race and racism has been front and center in the United States for a few years now — with the public conversation intensifying ever since a series of high-profile killings of young black men by the police in 2014.

But how do race relations play out here in Australia?

That question will continue to shape this country. Census data released this week shows that one in two Australians are now either born overseas or have a parent who was born overseas, and that Australia’s Indigenous population has grown as well.

Isabella Kwai explored a sliver of this demographic shift in her story today, on a group of young Asian-Australians from Sydney’s western suburbs.