Chinese Australians are being assaulted, robbed, spat on, refused service and verbally abused by some Queenslanders amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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It comes after members of the community have made hundreds of meals for the state's health workers and donated personal protective equipment to its medical staff.
Even the donation of equipment attracted attacks.
Police have laid 22 charges for racially-motivated offences following 16 complaints to police.
Wilful damage, public nuisance, robberies, assaults, verbal abuse and graffiti with abusive language are among the offences that have been committed.
"These are racially motivated offences," Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said.
Victims of racist attacks are not always coming forward to report what has happened to them, she said, adding they should do so.
Commissioner Carroll and Police Minister Mark Ryan have demanded an end to the offensive behaviour.
Some of those attacks have come from far-right political extremists, Multicultural Affairs Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said.
"There are some very extreme, extreme right-wing activists who are using this current situation to attack members of our community," he said.
"It is completely unacceptable."
Incidents of racism against Chinese Australians had worsened, Michael Ma, secretary-general of Queensland Chinese United Council said.
Mr Ma attributed some of that behaviour to the way COVID-19 has been presented by officials around the world.
"Naming a virus after a race or a nation is unhelpful and unwise because it gives rise to stigmatisation and also encourages people who have biases to exercise their prejudice," he said.
"Perhaps some of the comments made by some of our public personnel has not helped, not necessarily from this country, but from other countries."
He said the broader community was suffering because of the virus, but only a united approach would get people through it.
Racism against Chinese Australians caught the attention of Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who this week said the behaviour was just wrong.
"It was the Chinese Australian community that actually protected Australia so early on in this virus outbreak around the world," he told SBS on Tuesday.
"Sure the virus started in Wuhan, in China, that's what happened, that's just a fact.
"But that doesn't mean that this was, it has any nationalistic, or or any other sort of characteristics to it.
"That's just where it started."
Australian Associated Press
