A Chinese New Year event organiser has called herself a ‘b**ch’ in front of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Mr Turnbull and wife Lucy were at the Chinatown Chinese New Year Festival run by the Melbourne Dai Loong Association on Saturday, the Herald Sun reported.
The Prime Minister looked confused when Dai Loong Association president Eng Lim attempted to make a joke about the year of the dog.
A Chinese New Year event organiser Eng. Lim called herself a ‘b***’ in front of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
The Prime Minister looked confused when Dai Loong Association president Eng Lim attempted to make a joke about the year of the dog.
From the stage Ms Lim said she wished she was born in the year of the dog so she could be a ‘b****.
‘Take me for a walk, I’m a b****,’ she said.
Only moments earlier Mr Turnbull said because of the 1.2 million Australians with a Chinese background, Australia was the ‘most successful multicultural society in the world.’
‘We have been immensely enriched by that cultural diversity and it is part of our fabric and part of our success,’ he said.
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull (pictured in front of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Dai Loong Association president Eng Lim) were treated to a joke about the year of the dog
Mr Turnbull said he and his wife Lucy had a warm relationship with Chinese leaders
Mr Turnbull said he and Lucy had a warm relationship with Chinese leaders.
‘It’s very important seeing eye-to-eye,’ he said.
Three weeks of celebrations kicked off on Friday night with an eight-metre-high dog lantern unleashed on the Sydney Opera House while traditional lion dancers performed for spectators.
The prime minister said Australia’s 1.2 million residents with Chinese heritage had enriched the nation’s cultural diversity
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Sydney benefits from the more than half a million residents of Chinese ancestry that inhabit the city.
‘Lunar New Year is a unifying celebration of our multiculturalism,’ Ms Berejiklian said in a statement.
The next three weeks of festivities will see more than 80 events planned around the city, including the largest dragon boat race in the Southern Hemisphere.
China Town, the festival’s cultural heart will have events, including dancing, short films and night markets running until March 4.