Yellow Peril or Model Minority? Asian racialisation in Australia

Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-min + Q&A with Aaron Teo Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner. This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about. Event Schedule: 6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open 7pm Lecture Starts 7.45pm Q&A 8pm Talk Concludes 8.30pm Event Closes. *Please arrive close to 6.30pm A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go. Your Topic: What does it mean to belong in multicultural Australia? Why are people of Asian backgrounds racialised and often viewed as perpetual outsiders regardless of citizenship, history, or contribution? How does anti-Asian racism operate through public discourse, media representation, politics, and everyday interactions? Aaron explores how Asian Australians are often positioned through positive and negative stereotypes as concurrent forms of anti-Asian racism, which continues to shape everyday life, public debate, and ideas of national identity despite Asian communities being part of Australia for generations. The session will unpack common myths about multiculturalism and highlight how race continues to influence belonging, identity, and social inclusion. Your Speaker: Dr Aaron Teo is a Singaporean Chinese first generation migrant settler living on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands. He is a Critical Sociologist of Education working at the University of Southern Queenslands School of Education. Aaron was part of the Australian Human Rights Commissions (AHRC) Racism@Uni study Advisory Committee, and is currently on the AHRC Anti-Racism Education Reference Group and the Australian Association for Research in Educations (AARE) Research Development Advisory Committee. He is Editor for the journal, Critical Studies in Education, Convenor for the AARE Social Justice Special Interest Group, and Queensland Convenor for the Asian Australian Alliance. Aaron has won multiple national awards for education research, and is the 2026 Bonn International Fellow, and State Library of Queensland 2024 John Oxley Honorary Fellow.