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It started with an open letter to the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. Melbourne businessman Anthony Voyage (born Andonis Voyatzis) wanted to trade with China but he could find no contacts to open up links, so he sent the letter in the hope that someone on the other end would respond. Someone did and the rest is history.
In the 1950s there were very few people in Australia, let alone the rest of the world, who would trade with mainland China, the People’s Republic of China. China was largely a closed book after the victory of the communists under Mao Zedong in 1948 and the confinement of the defeated Nationalist Chinese forces to the island nation of Taiwan.