1:00 AM AEDT | ELLESHA DOBBS was not planning to go to away for schoolies week. She follows God and is not a big drinker. The end of year party held little appeal until, about a month ago, she realised it was a rite of passage.

1:00 AM AEDT | MORE than 50 years ago my father, like millions of others, left Communist China seeking a better life. He found it in Australia, working first at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market and later in Tasmania, where he ran a Chinese restaurant for more than 30 years.