Osmond Chiu,a fellow at independent progressive thinktank Per Capita,authored the survey in collaboration with the Asian Australian Alliance and Being Asian Australian.
"There definitely has been an increase,"he said,noting that compared to similar data from the United States,there have been a higher proportion of racist incidents against Asian-Australians than Asian-Americans.
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The survey,which started on April 2 and will be completed this month,has so far documented 386 racist incidents,including abuse,physical intimidation and spitting.
The survey also revealed that roughly 90 per cent of racist incidents were not being reported to police and the vast majority were perpetrated by strangers in public places.
Mr Chiu called on the federal government to improve what he said was a disjointed incident reporting process,potentially through the Human Rights Commission.
Labor Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles backed the call as a way to help develop a strong anti-racism strategy.