Saadou Khalaf was a successful dentist and university lecturer in Gaza. In Sydney, he's a shopkeeper, or meat factory worker, or a warehouse packer, or anything else he can pick up a casual shift doing.
"I say to myself: 'You are a professional and you have to continue to be a professional,'" he says. "Any work that is given to me, I try to do in a very proper way."
He is thankful to be allowed to work at all, after arriving with his family in March on a three-month visitor visa that did not allow him to earn money. Since applying for a permanent protection visa, his bridging visa allows him to work and access Medicare — but that's not the case for other Palestinians who were initially granted six or 12-month temporary visas.