As simple not too simple not too hard pls pls Chinese has helped Australia in many different ways. For example, Mei Quong Tart (1850-1903), merchant and philanthropist, was born at Hsinning (Sun-ning), Canton Province, China, son of Quong Tart. At 9 he went to NSW with an uncle for the Braidwood goldfields. His guardians, the Simpson family taught him English and converted him to Christianity. They encouraged him to acquire shares in gold claims, he became wealthy at 18. At Braidwood and Araluen he was famous in sporting, cultural and religious affairs and organised a series of popular Chinese horse-races at Jembaicumbene. In 1871 he was accepted on 11 July, joined a lodge of Oddfellows and in 1885 became a Freemason; in 1877 he had been chosen to the board of the public school at Bell's Creek.Quong visited his family in China in 1881 amd when he return to Sydney he opened a tea and silk store, followed by a tea shop which was to provide customers with samples of China tea, but proved so successful that he began a chain of them. He also had ideas about Sydney social politics. His tea rooms were the site of the first meetings of Sydney's suffragettes, and he devised new and improved employment policies for staff, such as sick leave with pay. He also campaigned against the opium trade, and in 1883 went on an investigation to the Chinese camps in Southern New South Wales. The report reveals widespread opium addiction, and on 24th April 1884, Quong Tart presented a petition to the colonial secretary requesting the ban of opium imports. In June that year Quong Tart also tried to win support for a ban of opium in Melbourne and Ballarat, Victoria. In 1887, he presented a second petition to parliament, and produced a pamphlet titled 'A Plea for the Abolition of the Importation of Opium.

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