After Lesley’s fifth child Jack was born profoundly deaf, she and her family become unexpected advocates for CALD communities as Jack charts a remarkable journey through the WA school system.
Lesley Klem
Food, Faith and Love in WA is a nine-piece video series that has captured the stories of an incredible and diverse group of West Australians surrounding three of the most basic human values. This series was created for the Office of Multicultural Interests for Harmony Week 2017.
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"When I write, I write to heal, to bring awareness to our nation’s history, to find unity."
As a port city, Kochi is connected to the ocean. Clean Up Day highlights how important it is to look after nature.
An eight year old girl resists dressing up in the Indian dress her mother has bought her for Multicultural Day. Thirty years later, she reflects on why.
"Motherhood wasn’t something I enjoyed or embraced. I guess, you know, many Sri Lankan women do, so I thought it was something wrong with me. So that was a catalyst for me...at 25 I didn’t know it was okay that I’m different...I could not relate, I did not belong, I did not make any connection to the Tamil of me, and as I said the women in particular.