Chinese-Australians mock Sydney’s ‘death-themed’ Lunar New Year lanterns as a ‘laughing stock’

• City council makes inauspicious start to the Year of the Water Tiger with a cultural faux pas, by using colours linked to death, illness and funerals in its decorations
• Chinese-Australian artist Susan Chen defends the work as ‘entirely appropriate’ and says it is an attempt to be ‘inclusive of new narratives’