A Vietnamese refugee will be at the helm of Australia’s peak welfare body.
“There’s a saying, ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’,” Hang Vo told AAP.
“But you can be what you can’t see, it’s just harder.”
In what CEO Cassandra Goldie described as an overdue moment, the Australian Council of Social Service appointed Vo as its incoming president.
But she says her lived experience as a woman, from a working-class family and as a refugee is essential to her work in social services.
Vo was seven when she arrived in Australia in the 1970s as part of the Vietnamese “boat people” generation….