Interview: 200 years of Chinese migration to Australia

Family portrait of storekeeper Al Coy, his wife and baby at St. George, Queensland. They were part of the migrants from the Guangzhou province who arrived in north Queensland in the wake of the Palmer River gold rush of the 1870s.

Source: National Library of Australia

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This year (2018) commemorates 200 years of Chinese migration to Australia. Mr David Chen, the President of the Australian Chinese Workers Association, has been preparing for the publication of the Report on the Development of Chinese Community in Australia 2018. Winmas Yu asks Mr Chen to offer a brief glimpse of the Report.

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