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From Philippines to Canola Fields: A Family's New Life in Rural Australia
A Filipino woman has left her husband and three young kids in the Philippines to start a new life in Coolamon, a small agricultural town in New South Wales. She has since been joined by her family, and they are thriving in their new community.
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By Staff Reporter
News reporter · Updated about 4 hours ago
A small agricultural town in New South Wales has become an unlikely haven for a Filipino family, after a woman left behind her husband and three young kids to start a new life in Australia.
April Laguros contemplated leaving her family in the Philippines to come to Australia, and it wasn't the iconic landscape that drew her in — it was the canola fields.
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