Oursteps: Migrants Share Bittersweet Memories

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Have white bread and jam for breakfast for a whole week? Cut your hair by yourself? These are some of the tricks some Chinese migrants had to adopt to control spending when they first moved to Australia. In this week's Hot Topic on Oursteps, established migrants share their bittersweet memories of money saving measures they have used. Listen and find out why they had to do it in the past and what they think about it now.



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