Tim Fischer: different values from a different time

By Tony Wright
Updated December 14 2017 - 5:23pm, first published 5:11pm
Left to right: Bounkhong Souksamrane, 6, Bounna Souksamrane, 10; Boukham Souksamrane, 9, Boumay Souksamrane, 14, and Bounsang Souksamrane, 11, smile on their arrival at the hostel today.
Eighty-two refugees from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam arrived at the Migrant Hostel, at Villawood today, and were greeted by relatives and friends.
Somvang Saysana is 20. For four months she lived in a single room, only a little bigger than a bathroom, with three other people.
They slept, cooked, ate and bathed in that room. Together, they dreamed of freedom.
Their "home" was a refugee camp in Thailand where they had fled from their war-torn homeland, Laos. February 13, 1977. (Photo by Grant Peterson/Fairfax Media).
Left to right: Bounkhong Souksamrane, 6, Bounna Souksamrane, 10; Boukham Souksamrane, 9, Boumay Souksamrane, 14, and Bounsang Souksamrane, 11, smile on their arrival at the hostel today. Eighty-two refugees from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam arrived at the Migrant Hostel, at Villawood today, and were greeted by relatives and friends. Somvang Saysana is 20. For four months she lived in a single room, only a little bigger than a bathroom, with three other people. They slept, cooked, ate and bathed in that room. Together, they dreamed of freedom. Their "home" was a refugee camp in Thailand where they had fled from their war-torn homeland, Laos. February 13, 1977. (Photo by Grant Peterson/Fairfax Media).

Tim Fischer called the other day. He'd sold Peppers, the NSW property his family had farmed for 70 years at the wonderfully named Boree Creek.

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