Turned away at caravan parks,
treated as shirkers or swindlers, even as a fairytale. Stereotypes have
followed Australia's Romani “Gypsies” since the First Fleet. But step inside
their culture, music and travel stories. You might even be inspired to hit the
road. In the living room, I'm greeted by a verbose
parrot in a cage and an excited dog. We sit at their dining room table and
uncork a bottle of red. Yvonne and I have been corresponding for about a year,
but this is the first time we've met in person. As Dave attends to cooking
lunch in the adjoining kitchen, she begins to tell me about her life.
“Not
many people know this,” she says in her soft, almost musical voice, “But after
the Jews, Romanies were the most targeted ethnic group by the Nazi regime.”
The link is taken from
SBA Australia:https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/feature/romani-road-australias-gypsy-culture