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Amos Roberts

Verified
Melbourne
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History-making mayor of Maribyrnong, Mohamed Semra, is only getting started

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By Amos Roberts Verified, Leisa Scott
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
Sometimes, when the online abuse for being a young, African-born, Muslim mayor gets brutal, Mohamed Semra turns to the lesson he learnt on the back of a donkey in Sudan. He was just 10, a city kid from Melbourne on his first trip back to the country his mother fled with her six children when Mohamed was three. His family needed water, so his uncle propped up Mohamed on a donkey loaded with barrels and sent him off, alone, to the well about two hours away.
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Scammers fleeced pensioner Ian Williams out of $1,338. So he sued his bank for $379 million

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By Amos Roberts Verified, Leisa Scott
| MSN Australia Verified
Leisa Scott and Amos Roberts The two men caught on camera buying gift cards at the exact time and place that $1338.55 disappeared from Ian Williams's bank account looked nothing like the aged pensioner. They were young, slightly built, and as a police detective noted to Mr Williams's amusement, sported more than the then-70-year-old's "minimal hair".
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Amos Roberts - ABC News

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By Amos Roberts Verified
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
At 15, Mohamed Semra made headlines when he was kicked out of a Melbourne Apple Store by staff who were worried he might steal something. At 27, he's making history as the first Australian mayor from sub-Saharan Africa. Airs Monday June 1, 8pm (AEST), on ABCTV and ABC iview.
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