As we come together to celebrate the New Year please remember to stay COVIDSafe.
That means meeting and greeting outside when possible, wearing a mask, keeping homes well ventilated with windows and doors open and getting tested if you have any symptoms.
For up to date information go to coronavirus.vic.gov.au/
Authorised by the Victorian Government
Congratulations to Australia Day 2022 Honours Recipients with Chinese Heritage
MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION (澳大利亞員佐勳章):
Mrs Cathy Chye Yah CHONG (歐彩霞)
Kensington Gardens SA 5068
For significant service to multiculturalism in South Australia, and to the community.
Professor Alfred King-yin LAM (林敬賢教授)
Reedy Creek QLD 4227
For significant service to tertiary education, to research, and to pathology.
Professor Hua Kun LIU (劉化鶤教授)
Wollongong NSW 2500
For significant service to the scientific research sector, and to tertiary education.
HONORARY MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION (澳大利亞員佐勳章):
Professor Xinhua WU (吴鑫华教授)
Lysterfield VIC 3156
For significant service to manufacturing science, to tertiary education, and to engineering.
MEDAL (OAM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION (澳大利亞勳位獎章):
Mrs Yu Lan (Leila) CHIN (陳月蘭)
NT
For service to the Chinese community of Darwin.
Ms Lina Lei (雷丽娜)
Templestowe VIC 3106
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020.
Qian Yang (楊倩)
Ringwood VIC 3134
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020.
(Source: https://www.gg.gov.au/australia-day-2022-honours-list, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Australia_Day_Honours, https://www.sbs.com.au/chinese/cantonese/zh-hant/at-least-six-chinese-australians-are-awarded-order-of-australia-in-2022-australia-day)
Today (26 January) and every day – we respect, acknowledge and celebrate First Nations Peoples as the Traditional custodians of the country we are lucky enough to call home.
If you are aged 18 and over and you had your second dose 3 or more months ago, you are due for your third dose now. A COVID-19 third dose helps prevent waning immunity (loss of protection) against COVID-19. Third doses are important to give you and your family maximum protection against COVID-19 and to help reduce the spread of the virus.
There will be a walk-up vaccination blitz “Booster Blitz” starting this Friday 21 January – 24 January 2022 – at most major hubs. There will be additional workforce, vaccinators and cubical for vaccination.
Visit coronavirus.vic.gov.au/vaccination-centres for locations, hours and access information before walking up. Bookings can also be made online at portal.cvms.vic.gov.au or by calling 1800 675 398.
Booster doses can be booked with local GPs, pharmacists and state run vaccination centre – using the Vaccine Clinic Finder https://covid-vaccine.healthdirect.gov.au/booking/.
You can now book the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 5 to 11 year olds at your local GP or pharmacy:
https://covid-vaccine.healthdirect.gov.au/booking
Getting kids vaccinated will help:
– keep schools open, so kids can have more face-to-face learning and playtime with their friends
– reduce the spread of COVID-19
– protect them from getting sick from COVID-19.
Appointments are available at Victorian GPs, pharmacies, Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Organisations and family-friendly vaccination centres from January 2022.
👉 Find out more about vaccination for kids: https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/vaccination-information-children-and-teenagers
If it has been four or more months since you had your second COVID-19 vaccination, and you are aged 18 or over, you are now eligible to get your third dose (booster).
A COVID-19 third dose is strongly recommended to help keep you and your loved ones protected from COVID-19.
Eligible people will receive the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. You can safely get either of these vaccines as your third dose, regardless of which COVID-19 vaccine you received for your initial doses.
Book your third dose through a GP or pharmacy using the vaccine clinic finder: https://covid-vaccine.healthdirect.gov.au/booking/
You can also book at a Victorian vaccination centre: https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/vaccination-centres
For more information on third doses, visit: https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/boosters
Congratulations to CASS (Chinese Australian Services Society) in Sydney on Commencing Construction of Another Aged Care Facility in Asquith in Hornsby Shire, NSW.
祝贺悉尼华人服务社（CASS）启动建造第二间高龄颐养院
Victorian Government Encourages Drivers of Commercial Passenger Vehicles to Get Vaccinated
维州政府敦促商用乘用车司机接种疫苗
Caged community
(by Kingsley Liu)
The Lowy Institute’s latest report, “Lines Blurred: Chinese Community Organisations in Australia”, does more to fence in the Chinese community than it does to liberate them from suspicion and institutional bias for which there is no end in sight.
We are hoping you can help us on a survey that is part of an Australian Research Council grant on adults’ learning across working life.
As you are aware, with the changing requirements of occupations and workplace practices it is important that Australian workers are able to further develop the capacities to sustain their employability. To assist understand how that can occur we are conducting research focusing on adults’ learning across working life funded by the ARC, including the transitions that they encounter and how they negotiate them, including access to education provisions and community support. Indeed, the earlier phases of the research project emphasise three related key factors – the individual, educational provisions and community.
Having completed a phase of life history interviews, including some refugee migrants, and now almost completing a phase of following working age Australians over a 15 month period we are now conducting a survey to provide quantitative accounts. We note that we are getting very limited responses from people who are migrants from non-English-speaking background. Hence, we are very keen for these individuals to be captured in the survey data.
Hence, we are hoping you can assist us with advice or actions to secure responses from such individuals to ensure that the voices of all kinds of Australian workers is captured in a survey we are conducting. The survey can be accessed in three ways: i) electronic link; ii) QR code link and iii) hard copy version.
It will take about 15 minutes to complete the survey. I have pasted the link here so you can view:
https://prodsurvey.rcs.griffith.edu.au/Worklife-survey
