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Summary
Pat Hesse arrived in Australia from Sri Lanka in 1947 at the height of the rule of the White Australia Policy. His first accommodation in an attic in Melbourne required that he left before dawn and arrived home after dark. He spent his days in a park making up jokes, and in spite of the apparent discrimination he always felt at home in Australia. With his disarming sense of humour, he believed he "could always laugh my way through life" and he did. An SBS Independent production, in English)
