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Starting a new life in Australia isn't easy.

Sometimes I feel like, oh, I'm going to quit.

Work in Progress is a podcast to help skilled migrants rebuild their careers in a new country.

You'll hear inspiring real-life stories, expert advice, and valuable tips to help you find a job and advance your career.

Work in Progress.

Mr. Pisarski, first of all congratulations on being appointed a member of the Order of Australia.

I think

Having been part of a team of people that promoted a scheme called the National Rental Affordability Scheme.

Being part of a team promoting the national housing availability scheme was crucial.

Thanks to this, the social building sector in Australia has gained a powerful momentum to develop, creating a network of organisations that provide the most help to those who need it the most.

And especially today with the housing crisis in Australia, this is so important.

Yes, indeed.

I spent, well, 40 years advocating for better housing.

Part of that within... I spent 40 years advocating for better housing.

Part of that within...

Przez zbyt długi czas mierzyliśmy się z ogromnym niedofinansowaniem w tej sferze i teraz musimy to nadrobić.

Na ile Pana pochodzenie i rodzinne korzenie wpłynęły na system wartości, którym kieruje się Pan w życiu, szczególnie w kwestiach sprawiedliwości społecznej?

Well my father was only 16 when he was captured at the end of the Warsaw Uprising.

My father was only 16 years old when he was imprisoned after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising.

He lived five years under Nazi occupation and it was this experience that made him have such a strong sense of justice in us.

We came to Australia in 1959.

For the first time in 1976 with my father and my English mother.

There was not yet the Museum of the Uprising and Poland was still, if I can put it that way, a Soviet square.

I came back there in 2013, exactly in the anniversary of the outbreak of the uprising.

The visit to the museum was shocking.

It is probably the most moving place I have ever been.

It gives an extraordinary imagination of what these people went through.

I think that the rest of the world still does not fully realize the magnitude of this tragedy.

very instructive in terms of what happened and what people went through.

Something that the rest of the world still doesn't properly recognize, I don't think.

Who want to make a real difference in their communities today?

Well, I think you just have to remember that sense of powerful justice that comes from

Being part of a country like Poland, Poland has a terrible history of being a part of a nation like Poland.

Poland has a terrible history of being a part of a nation like Poland.

Poland has a terrible history of being a part of a nation like Poland.

Poland has a terrible history of being a part of a nation like Poland.

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Starting a new life in Australia isn't easy.

Sometimes I feel like, oh, I'm going to quit.

Work in Progress is a podcast to help skilled migrants rebuild their careers in a new country.

You'll hear inspiring real-life stories, expert advice, and valuable tips to help you find a job and advance your career.

Work in Progress.