#vaccine #COVID-19
CCCAV疫苗推广的第二支视频正式推出
本项目由维州澳华社区委员会发起,并受到维多利亚州卫生部资助。本项目的目标是更好地提升华人社区疫苗接种率。

#vaccine #COVID-19
CCCAV疫苗推广的第二支视频正式推出
本项目由维州澳华社区委员会发起,并受到维多利亚州卫生部资助。本项目的目标是更好地提升华人社区疫苗接种率。

A recent survey conducted by the Chinese Community Council of Australia (Victoria Chapter) reveals high COVID-19 vaccination rate in the Chinese community in Victoria. Some key findings are as follows.

一个可以去远方看看的世界
A world you can travel far away
一个可以和朋友吃早茶的世界
A world you can go have a brunch with friends
一个可以和家人团聚的世界
A world families can reunite
希望我的宝贝成长在这样的世界
Wish my baby will grow up in such a world
注射接种疫苗
一起让世界复原
Get the jab
Help restore the world
#COVID-19 #vaccine
CCCAV疫苗推广的第一支视频正式推出
本项目由维州澳华社区委员会发起,并受到维多利亚州卫生部资助。本项目的目标是更好地提升华人社区疫苗接种率。

COVID-19 Vaccination Survey in Chinese Community at Victoria
本项目由维州澳华社区委员会发起,并受到维多利亚州卫生部资助。本项目的目标是更好地提升华人社区疫苗接种率。
**问卷回答无对错之分,您可以选择匿名提交问卷。填写问卷耗时约1分钟。
现居住于维多利亚州的华人才可以填写本调查问卷。
您的协助对于我们提升疫苗接种率无比重要。衷心感谢您的配合。
This project is initiated by Chinese Community Council of Australia Victoria Chapter. It is also funded by the Victoria Department of Health. The aim of current project is to further improve the vaccination rate in Chinese community in Victoria.
** There is no right or wrong answer for any question. You can also choose to submit your responses anonymously. It will only take less than 1 minute to complete.
Only Chinese currently living in Victoria are eligible to respond to this survey.
Your help is extremely important to the project and we sincerely appreciate your contribution.


Speech by Marion Lau OAM at Chinese Community COVID-19 Vaccination Information Session
3 June 2021
This meeting is taking place on the land of diverse groups of traditional custodians across Victoria. I would like to pay my sincere respect to the elders past, present and emerging, and share the recognition of their continuous connection to the land, waters and culture, which I appreciate the custodians have never ceded.
I would also like to acknowledge President Jimmy Li, Professor Benjamin Cowie and Dr Steven Lu, who would be hosting and actively participating in the Q&A session, also a special thanks to my dear friend Aurora from the Health Department who has done very well and will help to answer questions that may or may not be pre-noted.
I want to offer my acknowledgement to all present members of CCCAV, their friends and their volunteer networks, and all other distinguished guests from other multicultural communities. It is very pleasing to see that we are not only servicing and providing support to the Chinese community. We are also extending support to other multicultural communities, because we are all one, we are all Australians, as I said before, regardless of the colour of our skins and where we came from. We are now here, and we are all Australians, we are all one.
I would like to acknowledge and commend CCCAV members and volunteers for all the hard work they put in to support and assist community members from the Chinese and multicultural background during this COVID period. There has been a lot of anxiety, anxiousness, anger, and fear in regard to the pandemic. But our volunteers, through CCCAV, have helped by providing their support. It is much appreciated.
There are so many mixed messages and much misinformation out there. It is most confusing to a lot of people including me. Someone like me cannot understand half the messages that have been produced by the department and the experts. I think we are very confused. Organizing information sessions like this will provide people with correct information and have their questions answered by experts Professor Cowie and Dr Lu. So, I am very pleased that CCCAV is active in doing this and I encourage you to do this more. You have my full support.
Just one last message from me, for those of you who have not had the opportunity to have the vaccination, please go and have it. It’s not only saving you but it’s saving other people’s lives as well, your friends, your relatives, your friend’s friends, everyone. So please, if you haven’t had your vaccination, please go and get it done. I am able to find a GP near me and have personally booked my vaccination appointment in a couple of days, so please have yours done. With those few words from me, have an informative and reassuring session and I know that it will be reassuring with experts like Professor Cowie and Dr Lu here to give you the correct information. And again, there is information in English and other languages.
Have a nice evening and session and I look forward to listening to your questions and answers. Thank you very much.
(Speech text transcribed by Nan Wang, Yan Ma and Jimmy Li)

Covid-19 Vaccination Community Information Session (维州华人社区新冠疫苗信息说明会)
Time: Thursday 3rd June 2021 (6:30-8:00 p.m.)
Venue: Online (Zoom link TBA)
RSVP via https://chinese-community-covid-vaccine-info-session.eventbrite.com.au
(or to cccav.committee@gmail.com) by 31 May.
6:30PM – 7:30PM (Main session in English, Professor Benjamin Cowie will deliver 15 mins presentation, and 45 mins Q&A);
7:30PM – 8:00PM (Community discussion in Chinese, Mandarin-speaking)
Please email (cccav.committee@gmail.com) , your questions in advance for them to be answered at the session.
This Covid-19 vaccine information session is specifically organised by the Department of Health and the CCCAV for the Chinese Community in Victoria. All welcome.
Presenter: Professor Benjamin Cowie Senior Medical Advisor, Executive Director – Engagement and Partnerships, COVID-19 Immunisation Program, Department of Health. “Professor Benjamin Cowie is an infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and the Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis at the Doherty Institute. In addition, Ben is a medical epidemiologist with Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance, Victorian Department of Health. He serves on a range of communicable disease, clinical and public health committees at state, national and international levels. From January 2021, Ben has been seconded full time to the Victorian Department of Health to support the implementation of the COVID-19 Immunisation Program as Executive Director, Engagement and Partnerships.”

The long-anticipated Chinese-Australian Youth Leadership Program has been successfully launched on 11 March 2021 in Melbourne.
The Chinese-Australian Youth Leadership Program, funded by the Victorian Government and organised by CCCAV in conjunction with Leadership Victoria, has a focus on community leadership, empowerment and advocacy for positive change for young people who demonstrate a keen interest in community engagement and the potential to emerge as community leaders. The first cohort of ten participants of the program was selected from a large number of applicants via a rigorous selection process.
About 50 people attended the launch event under the Covid safe rules. The program participants and other attendees at the event were privileged to hear the inspiring speeches by the distinguished speakers.
Mr Chin Tan, Race Discrimination Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights Commission and Former President of CCCAV (2017), encouraged young Chinese Australians to find meaning in their own culture, identity and background and contribute not only to the Chinese Community, but also to the wider Australian Community.
Mr Meng Heang Tak MP, representing Victorian Multicultural Minister the Hon. Ros Spence MP, congratulated and encouraged the young leaders selected for the program to strive to reach their full potential, thanked those who worked together to deliver this program.
The Hon. Robin Scott MP emphasised that every person in our society should have the opportunity to become a leader regardless their backgrounds, and noted that leadership is not about the position you hold; to lead is not about self but means to have the obligation to do better and influence people around you to change our community for the better.
Mr Hong Lim, former Victorian Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Asia Engagement, made a passionate plea to urge young Chinese Australians to become community leaders and be a strong voice for the community.
Ms Sally Hines, Leadership Victoria CEO, said that Leadership Victoria is delighted to partner with CCCAV to deliver this Youth Leadership Program and highlighted that the participants should be leaders to inspire, connect, transform and contribute to making a positive social, economic and the environmental impact on our society.
In his welcome speech CCCAV President Mr Jimmy Li thanked the Victorian Government for its financial support for this program, Leadership Victorian for its constructive partnership and Program Director Mr Gen Li and other volunteers for their tireless work on this program – the first of this sort of program for the Chinese-Victorian community.

The The University of Queensland is seeking participants in a National Women’s Health Survey. If interested, please contact katrina.moss@uq.edu.au.