Episodes

  • Coming together in celebration

    Coming together in celebration
    Aug 10 2022
    Earlier this year, people gathered to mark Refugee Week at an old school building nestled in the bush at Fryerstown in Victoria. The event was a celebration of refugees and the community they are a part of. There was music, an abundance of food, and several familiar faces from this series.
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    24 mins
  • Ten years after fleeing Afghanistan Hussnia is still grateful for the simple things

    Ten years after fleeing Afghanistan Hussnia is still grateful for the simple things
    Aug 2 2022
    Hussnia and her family fled Afghanistan more than ten years ago as refugees. Even after many years living in regional Victoria, nothing is taken for granted in her household.
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    25 mins
  • Ku Htee’s journey from a Thai refugee camp to community leader in Bendigo

    Ku Htee’s journey from a Thai refugee camp to community leader in Bendigo
    Jul 27 2022
    Before arriving in Australia Ku Htee had never been outside of the Thai refugee camp she had grown up in. She had never been in a car, and she barely spoke any English.
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    27 mins
  • Baby whisperer: Joy's midwifery skills in demand from Kenya to Horsham

    Baby whisperer: Joy's midwifery skills in demand from Kenya to Horsham
    Jul 20 2022
    Originally from Kenya, Joy moved to Australia as a skilled worker. The people of Horsham welcomed her and her family, but Joy had to work extra hard to prove her skills as a midwife.
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    29 mins
  • Nita created her own sense of community in Australia with Gamelan

    Nita created her own sense of community in Australia with Gamelan
    Jul 13 2022
    When Nita first moved to Australia from Indonesia with her husband Aaron, she found it hard to connect to a community. She was used to a culture where you had people surrounding you all the time. It took time and a move to the regional city of Bendigo to work out how to find a community here in Australia.
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    26 mins
  • Teen Rebel: Rebecca's path from South Sudan to Bendigo

    Teen Rebel: Rebecca's path from South Sudan to Bendigo
    Jul 5 2022
    Running away from home at the age of 16 to join the rebel army sounds like a plot from young adult fiction, but that decision was the start of Rebecca Wour's journey to find home in Australia.
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    31 mins
  • Full circle: Duang’s journey from Northern Thailand to Central Victoria

    Full circle: Duang’s journey from Northern Thailand to Central Victoria
    Jun 28 2022
    When she was five years old, Duang sold home grown vegetables at the local market in her small town in Thailand to help her family survive. Seventy years later, after a full and varied life, Duang is once again selling food at her local farmers markets here in Australia.
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    27 mins
  • Lhamo's journey across the Himalayas by night, to a new life in Australia

    Lhamo's journey across the Himalayas by night, to a new life in Australia
    Jun 21 2022
    Lhamo was heavily pregnant with her daughter Tenzin Nagi when she escaped across the Himalayas, moving only at night with her husband and other refugees. 28 years later they live in regional Victoria, with Tenzin grown up and working as a nurse. She helps her mother share their journey in this episode of New Home.
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    27 mins