Remarks, Box Hill 2019 Chinese New Year Opening Ceremony
2 February 2019
Box Hill, Victoria
This is the year of the pig, which means it’s the year of prosperity and wealth, and this is something that I know the Chinese community understands here well in Australia, coming to Australia more than 160 years ago to find both prosperity and wealth here in Australia.
There are 1.2 million Australians of Chinese heritage here in Australia. There are some 200,000 more Chinese students studying here in Australia and almost 560,000 or thereabouts who have been born in China and come to Australia.
You have worked hard for what you have achieved here in Australia. You’re working hard here in Australia and I want to thank you on behalf of all Australians for making Australia stronger, for making our economy stronger, and for making Australia a more prosperous and wealthy nation.
Australia brings stories from all over the world and our timeless indigenous stories to make Australia what it is today, and the Chinese Australian story is a very strong one and a key part of who we are as a modern nation. And it is important that we celebrate here, as a local community, this wonderful Chinese heritage here in Australia. May it forever prosper.
So to all of you, to the organising committees, to the sponsors, to the leadership of the local Chinese community here in Box Hill and the city of Whitehorse I say thank you very much on behalf of Jenny and I for your welcome here today and the wonderful presentation that you have put on. I trust you will enjoy today, I trust you will have a very prosperous, a very happy new year with you and your family.
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