My husband and I always dreamed of going to live in another country. But then I fell pregnant, and then our three children came along one after the other.Then my sister-in-law started talking to migration agents about getting a skilled visa to Australia, and one agent...
Our son was only 2 years old when he was diagnosed with leukaemia. It started off with him hitting his head. And then the bump didn’t resolve properly. I had just got my license as a registered nurse so I knew that something was wrong. But I was too scared to...
I didn’t really see my parents or even get to talk to them very much as a young child. They had gone to Australia for a better life – my father left just after I was born, and when I was 2, my mum left me with my grandma. As a result, I grew up with a Chinese...
I was born just when the post-apartheid era started in South Africa. As a young kid, I remember everything being really exciting and colourful, with a lot of acceptance for difference. But when I was 7 we moved from that to the very conservative eastern suburbs of...
In my mum’s time, it would have been tricky for a girl to spend a lot of time being active outside the house, but times were changing in Nepal. As a child, I was always really into sports, especially table tennis and badminton. My brother played cricket, and one day...
It was always a big dream of my ex-husband’s to leave Russia and migrate to Australia. For eight years, he was desperately trying to get a skilled migrant visa. But it was difficult for him to get the points we needed to apply. First, we had to wait for him to get...
