Join this extraordinary Australian as he discusses his own experiences and shares his insights on the challenges facing refugees in Australia today.
From a small South Sudan village to the Australia Day stage has been an extraordinary one. At seven years old, Deng Adut was conscripted to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and forced to undertake brutal military training. He suffered years of famine, disease and deadly fighting. Eventually Adut escaped to a refugee camp in Kenya and settled as a refugee in Australia.‘In 1987 … I was among many young children forcibly removed from their homes and families and marched to Ethiopia,’ Deng Adut told the crowd at this year’s Australia Day Address in Sydney. ‘I walked thousands of kilometres without shoes or underwear.’
Today, Adut has his own legal practice in Sydney, where he helps marginalised people – especially those in the Sudanese community – to navigate the justice system. He’s joined in two hour-long conversation with co-writer Ben Mckelvey.
Where: M.A.D.E, Museum of Australian Democracy, Ballarat
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M.A.D.E, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka
102 Stawell Street South, Eureka Victoria 3350
Tel 1800 287 113
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Presented in partnership with The Wheeler Centre