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By The Hon. Chris Minns MP
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Moy Quong Come into being was foaled in Ware in , before emotive to Agency at rendering age end nine.
Quong Create was a Chinese Aussie icon who worked patiently for his local community.
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Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia
Funeral procession for Quong Tart, , courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Quong Tart's hearse, , courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Wreaths at Quong Tart's funeral, c. , courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Quong Tart's funeral cortege leaving Ashfield residence, , courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Throughout the winter of , Sydney newspapers reported on an outbreak of smallpox that supposedly started with the infection of an infant whose father was a successful George Street merchant. That this child’s father was also Chinese was enough for some to label smallpox a ‘Chinese disease’ and by implication cast Sydney’s Chinese population as the cause of a whole package of problems.
Gambling, opium addiction, corruption and immorality. As the scapegoats for such evils, Chinese people were subjected to persecution – from unofficial and official sources. In , the New South Wales government declared that all Chinese ports were ‘infected’ and enacted legislation restricting the immigration of Chinese people to the colony. In the midst of this though, one Chinese-born man experienced a very different variety of reception in Sydney. In September , Quong Tart – well-off, well-connected, thirty-one years old – had just returned from a visit to China. A month later, the same papers that had peddled paranoia about ‘Chinese disease’ were advertising ‘Quong Tart & Co: Tea, Silk and General Merchants’, the first in a chain of enterprises that by the turn of the century had made their pr