Thursday, 22 February 2024

Lunar New Year

Richard WELCH (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (09:46): Gōng xǐ fā cái. Today I rise to speak on the wonderful Lunar New Year celebrations happening across my electorate. 2024 is the Year of the Dragon, so happy Year of the Dragon to everyone. People born in the Year of the Dragon are said to be especially lucky and tend to be great leaders, so let us hope that is true. I was pleased to attend Lunar New Year celebrations across Box Hill and Glen Waverley this weekend where John Pesutto and I handed out the traditional red packets. It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces and happy people excited about the Lunar New Year. In particular I would like to say thank you to Bihong Wang and Richard Shi from the Asian Business Association of Whitehorse for organising such a great festival in Box Hill. There were double the attendees of last year, so nearly a hundred thousand people came. We had a great festival at the Lunar New Year in Glen Waverley as well. Happy Year of the Dragon.