Refugee Contributions to Australia
In addition to the tens of thousands who fled poverty and persecution in Europe after the war - Jews, Italian, , Greeks, English, Irish, Lebanese, Maltese ...., here are a few relatively recent refugees who have contributed a great deal to our lucky country
1. Czech-born Frank Lowy, Australia's most successful shopping-center magnate who also established one of the country's most-quoted international policy think tanks, the Lowy Institute, was 13 and living in Hungary when the Nazis invaded.
2. The Honourable" James Spigelman, lieutenant governor of New South Wales and chief justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, was a Polish-born refugee.
3. Khoa Do, a Vietnamese-born writer and actor named 2005's "Young Australian of the year" for his "leadership, compassion, and will to inspire and inform Australians on issues that affect our community," arrived in Australia aboard a leaky 25-foot boat in 1980, "crammed in like sardines.”
4. Huy Truong, one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs, and the founder and director of more than one multimillion-dollar business, including dot-com company Wishlist, arrived from Vietnam aged 7 with just the clothes on his back.
5. Tan Le, 1998 "Young Australian of the Year" and once voted one of Australia’s 30 most successful women under 30, arrived from Vietnam as a refugee in 1982.
6. Majak Daw, the first Sudanese Australian to be drafted into the wildly popular Australian Football League, fled the Sudanese civil war to Egypt, before finally making it to Australia.
There are thousands of stories like these, but nothing published here. No just the negative vile hatred of the few who live a sad existence in their own little worlds
I am really impressed. Of the 11 Million immigrants who have come here since 1947, you can name 6 who have really made it. With a little bit of work, I could probably add another 100 or so. I am proud of these immigrants, but a lot more people have won Lotto in NSW since it was introduced in 1994. Try to find out how many Lebanese Muslems are on the long time unemployment list with Centrelink. They will not even release the information under FOI. I am not expressing hatred, only fact.