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EPISODE · Aug 11, 2022 · 35 MIN

When Mack Okine migrated from Ghana, 1970s Townsville wasn't how he had imagined Australia

from My First Year in Australia

Mack Okine was born in Ghana and raised on cocoa farm. As a young man he studied chemical engineering, but on a whim applied for a dentistry scholarship to Australia. Expecting a city that looked like those he'd seen in the movies, Mack was instead greeted by Townsville in the seventies.

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