In today’s look at Identity, we’re going to explore how a ship laden with opera-singing sailors saved the culture of one of Australia’s strongest communities.
It was 1960s Australia, and the Cantonese-Chinese community was looking for a way to divert its mainly male population from the evils of gambling and they found it through song.
The White Australia policy was leaving these men bored and lonely.
But, as world-renowned musician and composer Wang Zheng-Ting explains to Adam Connors, their salvation came in the stories and music of their original home.
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