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Your Story, Our StoryVideoOur seven-part series charting WA’s migration

Most Australian families have come from somewhere else. A nation of migrants, we are bonded by our belief in a fair go and the right to wear thongs! Here we tell your history, through their stories.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart Three: From Sicilian struggle to Spud King

Before Tony Galati could be one of Western Australia’s most well-known businessmen, he had to learn what it was like to have nothing. As the son of immigrants, it wasn’t an easy journey to the top.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryPremiumPart Seven: Disguised as a boy to survive the Taliban

Victoria Park lawyer Rahila Haidari knows all too well the power of male privilege — because she lived a life disguised as a boy while growing up in Afghanistan.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, our storyCommentsPremiumPart Two: From POW camp to ‘one of the lucky ones’

From a four-year-old prisoner of war to world-renowned physicist, ever since the forced removal from his Palestinian home life has been far from easy for Erich Weigold. But with tragedy comes triumph.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart Six: How a refugee camp helped forge an AFLW star

Perth AFLW star Akec Makur Chuot is part of the last living legacy of her father, one of three daughters born after he was murdered in South Sudan. And her journey to WA was far from straightforward.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart Four: From ten pound Pom to true blue Aussie

As Jim climbed towards the steel doors of the mammoth ship, he was unwittingly travelling towards a lifelong identity as a ten pound Pom.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart One: ‘Without the first story, there is no story’

For Aboriginal people, Australia’s migrant history is profoundly complicated, characterised by displacement, massacre and for Walter McGuire, the revelation his mum was stolen generation.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart Five: How Mai Nguyen found her identity in WA

It was a miracle she wasn’t raped, it was a miracle she didn’t drown, it was a miracle she wasn’t shot – and it was a miracle she made it to Western Australia from war-torn Vietnam.

Lily Hoffmann

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