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