On the sands of Bondi Beach, one of Sydney's wealthiest suburbs, surfers and seaside walkers jostle for space, while joggers clog the nearby promenade and fitness buffs huddle around public exercise equipment.
To the west, where COVID-19 infections are greatest, stores sit shuttered on empty streets as some of Australia's most migrant-heavy neighbourhoods endure heightened lockdowns, enforced by high-visibility policing backed up by the military.
"You see photos and videos coming out of the east, people on the beach, whereas here the streets are absolutely empty," he said. "Even the refugee communities who came here 40 years ago, how do we think these people will feel in a situation like this?" said Elfa Moraitakis, CEO of SydWest Multicultural Services, which provides aged care and settlement services for refugees. "Of course they feel targeted."
Tim Soutphommasane, a former federal race discrimination commissioner, called western Sydney "the heartland of multicultural Australia". "These workers have gone from earning a wage to, for many of them, lining up for welfare for the first time in their lives," said BWS Executive Director David Borger.
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