Image: Kevin Puertollano during the book launch, 'Re-imagining Australia: Voices of Indigenous Australians of Filipino Descent' by Deborah Wall and Christine Choo, October 2016, Manila ( photo supplied by Nisa Rigets, The Australian Embassy, Philippines)
From Broome to Marinduque, in search for family
Kevin Puertollano travelled from Broome, Western Australia to the Philippines to meet their kin in Marinduque province. He is one of Indigenous Australians with Filipino descent whose ancestors were part of a group known as the 'Manila Men', the first migrant Filipinos to northern Australia in the late 1800's working in the pearling industry.
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