If your child is born in HK, (s)he will not be Australian at birth, but you can always get Australian citizenship for him later.

Otherwise the only way to get him a permanent resident status is for him to live in HK for 7 years.



Unrelated question to see if anyone can make sense of this:

One of my uncles was born in China but claimed to be born in HK, after his parents escaped from the Communists. He was issued with a Certificate of Identity saying he was born in HK, as he has no birth certificate. He moved to Malaysia when he was 22, obtained Malaysian citizenship (losing the CI) and then moved back to HK. His ID card only says *AM, and *AMZ on the pre-smart ID. I thought * was only for 11-17 year olds, so how come an adult can have one star?