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Hamza G. was assessed by four continents and found lacking.

Australia disagreed.

He is a telecommunications engineer by profession and a migrant by trajectory — having been told, by various institutions across several decades and time zones, that his qualifications were insufficient, his accent was suspicious, his passport was the wrong one, and his experience, however extensive, was not quite local enough.

He helped build the networks anyway.
The systems, when asked, said "no comment." ...more

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Published on May 24, 2026 05:33 • Tags: australia, career, damascus, debut-author, expat, identity, immigration, memoir, pakistan, pakistani-australian, penrith, syria, telecommunications, wireless-networks, yeah-nah

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