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Competition winner tells of life growing up mixed-race in Australia

SBS Emerging Writers Competition winner Alana Hicks

SBS Emerging Writers Competition winner Alana Hicks Source: SBS

After migrating from Port Moresby to Sydney with her mother in the early 1990s, 38-year-old Alana felt compelled to tell her story.


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By Nakari Thorpe

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After migrating from Port Moresby to Sydney with her mother in the early 1990s, 38-year-old Alana felt compelled to tell her story.



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