Aussie media is full of crap about Cabramatta. Bloomberg keeps it real! Sorn Tang, who runs a hardware shop in Cabramatta that she inherited from her father, a refugee from Cambodia, will back Rudd in the election although she no longer views herself as wedded to Labor. “My daughter feels the same,” said Tang, 43. “The new generation is more educated and don’t want to be seen as working class.” Tang aims to move to Manly, a Sydney beachside suburb with a median weekly household income of A$2,084, more than twice that of Cabramatta. “It’s much nicer there than here.” Resentment among legal immigrant families against illegal entrants to the nation from boats run by smugglers has left the area ripe for opposition leader Tony Abbott’s tougher stance against asylum seekers. With a surge in the share of non-Australian born residents in Western Sydney -- in the community of Cabramatta, 71 percent of the population was born overseas -- the issue resounds in the region. bloomberg/news/2013-07-04/western-sydney-transforms-from-heartland-to-heartburn-for-labor.html
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 10:57:51 +0000
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