Part 2: No right to study, no right to work
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In episode two of Temporary we continue Zaki’s story. Labelled an ‘illegal maritime arrival’, how did he negotiate hunger, the Sydney property market and a visa that wouldn’t let him work or study in Australia to become an award-winning student? Part 1: How Australia put 30,000 people in limbo A legal limbo without end: the people who came by boat but never found home in Australia
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