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I spent a great part of my childhood in Papua New Guinea . When our family went out there , P.N.G. was a trust territory of Australia . P.N.G. became independent in 1975 , but because we arrived in 1972 , we had the right to Australian citizenship ( along with being British). My parents did not see the need to have Aussie nationality . We were not immigrants , we were expats . I did all my primary school in New Guinea , with the Australian syllabus . When I was sent to boarding school in the U.K. , they put me in the class above my age .
All the white people around me in P.N.G. were Australian . I feel close to them , but different . I'm a Pom after all .
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