First, please pay attention to your residence, Chinese embassy/consulates in Australia has different consular districts, if you live in Australian Capital Territory (Canberra District), South Australia, North Territory, you should go to China embassy in Canberra to apply for China visa. Now, the China consulate in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane has used the Chinese visa application service center(CVASC), if you live in the consular jurisdiction of one of the consulates, you need to submit visa application to CVASC