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A decade on the Karen refugees embraces life in Australia

ကရင္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား ဆယ္စုႏွစ္တစ္ခုေက်ာ္လာၿပီး ၾသစေၾတလ် ဘ၀ကိုလက္ခံလာ။

ကရင္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား တနဂၤေႏြဘုရားရွစ္ခိုးေက်ာင္းမွာ ၀တ္ျပဳေနစဥ္။ Source: SBS

It's been ten years since the first group of Karen and Karenni refugees from Myanmar settled in Mount Gambier.


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By Rhiannon Elston

Presented by Terrell Oung

Source: SBS


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It's been ten years since the first group of Karen and Karenni refugees from Myanmar settled in Mount Gambier.


In just ten years, this community has grown from just a handful of families to around 400 people, and according the latest census results, Karen has overtaken Italian as the most spoken foreign language in the region.


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