Poverty, migration and Jimmy Barnes

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Clip from Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Boy | Seven | October 1, 2018

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Jimmy Barnes explains why his parents relocated their family from Scotland to Australia, revealing the "official" reason as well as the context of poverty, alcohol and violence in which the decision was made.

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