Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's the Year of the Fire Horse, so Happy Lunar New Year to everyone. Across the Northern Territory, community organisations are bringing people together to celebrate. I thank Mr Thien Le and the Australia Vietnamese Community NT Chapter committee for welcoming me to their celebration and for their continued contribution to the multicultural life of Darwin and the Northern Territory. I also acknowledge Anna Dam and the Australian Vietnamese Family Association for hosting a special performance by Hue Royal Court Music, which is recognised as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, with artists who travelled all the way from Vietnam.

The NT Timor Chinese Association also held their celebration, where I spoke about my recent visit to Timor-Leste with the Prime Minister. Australia and Timor-Leste are continuing to build a stronger partnership through parceria foun ba era foun, which means a new partnership for a new era. Yesterday, the Lankan Dance Academy held their Kandyan dancing graduation, a ceremony reflecting years of training, cultural rituals and traditional performance. Congratulations to dance master Sadeepa Sandurawan for continuing this tradition in Darwin. And I look forward to next Saturday when the Chung Wah Society's award-winning lion dance troupe will perform in multicultural Darwin.

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