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Asylum seeker becomes tireless volunteer

A tireless volunteer who braved his own challenges as an asylum seeker has been highly commended in the volunteer category of Greater Dandenong Australia Day Awards. Mohammed Akram Yusofi came to Australia by boat in 2012 and like many others, faced the freshly-elected Coalition Government’s…

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