A fierce advocate for multicultural communities over the past 35 years, Maria Dimopolous still remembers as a child watching her mother struggle to defend her with broken English.
In primary school, she and her brother were accused of bringing a head lice outbreak to school, even though they didn't have any lice.
"To watch [my mother] in her broken English trying to defend us and then for us to then experience what it felt like to have a parent that was powerless, that's really hard stuff," she said.
