Sam Lim (Tangney, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Over the last two weeks we have been celebrating the Year of the Horse across Perth and Tangney. I handed out lucky candies to students at the Chung Wah Chinese School in Rossmoyne and thanked the teachers and principal for all their great efforts. I also joined the Herald Avenue Senior Citizen Club and my Korean friends in their homes, and I celebrated Tet New Year with my daughter-in-law and her family. There have been dinners with constituents at Tangney restaurants and celebrations at fairs, galas and cultural performances across the whole of Perth. The Perth Chinese New Year Fair, organised by the Chung Wah Association, deserves a special mention for all the volunteers who bring tradition to life for the whole community in Perth.

When I migrated to Australia, about 20 years ago, new year celebrations were much quieter and smaller, but this year, the Fire Horse new year, everyone came on board to run fast and furious in one unified direction—the direction of prosperity and multiculturalism. This togetherness really warms my heart. The enthusiasm for new year celebrations grows every year. Watching our community celebrate openly, warmly and with so much love and happiness really shows that Australia is a very successful multicultural nation.