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Dear Friends
Happy Chinese New Year and best wishes all.
On the subject of "Chinese New Year", many of you had rightly voiced your disapproval with Sydney City Council last year that Sydney's Chinese New Year festivities should in future be re-badged as the Lunar New Year.
While we respect the rights of other communities to brand their new year in whatever terms of their preferences, I trust we will all continue to fight vociferously and remind Sydney City Council that our community does not want Chinese New Year to be known as anything else.
Sydney has celebrated Chinese New Year for over 150 years and we are entitled to continue to celebrate Chinese New Year as we've always known it, in the years to come. Other communities are entitled naturally to brand their own new year celebrations under whatever descriptions they wish to. It is a timely reminder that Chinese New Year is an internationally accepted description of our new year. This is the case in so many different parts of the world where people of Chinese ancestry are found.
Long live Chinese New Year. |
