An Australian town

[Woodson]

Read this in Xinhui's Chinese website. Could somebody please provide the name of this Australian town because every November the town's non-Chinese residents visit the cemeteries of the Chinese buried there. The url is:

news.xinhuanet.com/video/2007-10/31/content_6983397.htm

Here is the article itself

在澳大利亚维多利亚州西南部，有一个名叫阿拉雷特的小镇。这个小镇上几乎没有中国居民，却一直将华人视为祖先。每年11月份，小镇居民都会自发地以中国传统方式为埋葬在这里的中国先祖上香。扫墓的人群一边摇着画有中国年画的小手鼓和拨浪鼓，一边把手中的响炮扔到地上，就是为了唤醒沉睡在地下的祖先的亡灵，让他们知道扫墓的队伍来纪念他们了。为什么他们把华人视为祖先？

[twoupman]

The name of the gold mining town is Ararat in the State of Victoria. This town was actually founded by Chinese coolies who discovered alluvial gold beside a stream at a rest stop while walking on their way from the South Australia border toward Ballarat/Bendigo gold fields.

[Woodson]

Thanks Twoupman.

[helen]

THE CHINESE ASCENDANCY IN MELBOURNE.

An ex-police officer who is travelling the colony says that the Chinese have killed the market-gardening industry in the vicinity of Melbourne. They have such control of the market that they can get produce at what prices they like to fix, and the Europeans have to take them. The European cabinetmakers have been beaten in their own trade, as they could not possibly compete with the prices of the cheap Chinese cabinetmakers. The laundry business is also in the hands of the Chinese. They employ from 250 to 270 European girls, of from 12 years upwards. The girls have to work 14 hours a day in the Chinese laundries. The Chinese opium dens are also a curse. Some of the finest Australian women have become the victims of these opium dens, and have been brought down through their means to the lowest state of degradation. These evils have not been confined to the city of Melbourne itself. Away out into the country — as far as Gippsland—the Chinaman extends his ramifications. In Gippsland ' John ' has horn 300 to 400 acres in cultivation. The Chinamen work their farms at merely nominal pay for their labour,the men are imported by the ' boss ' Chinaman, and work for five years for the scantiest of food and olothing in order to repay their passage. After that they get, in addition, wages at the rate of 2s a week) Bay Of Plenty Times, Volume XXI, Issue 3322, 1 November 1895, Page 7