Michael Apperley - Somali workers

Running time
1 min 7 sec
Date made
Place made
Australia
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs

Transcript

We had a few working for us and we were, you know, I think it's part of the Australian sort of psyche to naturally want to interact with the folks that we were, you know, over there with. We would try and pick up a bit of their language, we'd try and speak to them, you know, in their native language as best we could, which we probably butchered.

But the other thing was that we, you know, we had a good rapport with some of the locals that were working in and around our compound. And, you know, they were very, very appreciative of what was being done for them. Indeed, on many occasions a lot of them would ask how they could, you know, migrate to Australia. I think that was because of the, they saw the way we sort of treated each other and that type of thing.

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