Ballarat's former intercultural ambassador Rose Boquida talks about changes in discrimination and rental crisis that migrants currently face in Ballarat.
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00:00 As new migrants, people have these problems. People discriminating you.
00:06 I was in that place where people not really accepting me being an Asian.
00:12 And I felt that really bad.
00:15 Right now, comparing those days and now, there's a big difference.
00:19 There's a lot more skilled workers.
00:22 In those days, a lot of us coming in as wives of Australian people.
00:30 Because in those days, we don't have people hiring for skilled workers like nurses,
00:35 like these people, welders and all that. We don't have that in those days.
00:39 Only few, very few.
00:41 Now, we got all that.
00:43 I mean, a lot of Filipinos being hired as a skilled worker and even semi-skilled worker.
00:49 And then, these last few years, there's an influx of Filipinos coming in here.
00:55 And that's why we got some problems also with the new migrants.
00:59 When you're a new migrant, when you apply for rental property, you need to have reference.
01:06 You need to have proper jobs. You need all that.
01:10 But then, if you're a student, you're just new in here, they will look at your history and all.
01:15 You don't have that. You don't have reference.
01:18 Where are you going to get that? Nothing.
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