Freedom and the Migrant Experience " The secret to happiness is freedom...And the secret to freedom is courage." Thucydides 460-395 B.C The online series, Migrant Stories, is about to conclude with anther two interviews to go and then it will be a few months in the edit suite to complete Series 4 & Series 5. In May last year, I committed to the idea of creating a series of Migrant Stories, inspired mainly by the stories that we were losing and not recording here in Australia due to the ageing population of Migrants, considering so many came to Australia during the Post War years. I figured I would dedicate 12 months of my filmmaking time to do this- and this I have done. With the last of the interviews to be aired between April and May of 2018. In all, there will be 30 stories. At this stage, I wanted to share that there were a number of common threads between each and every person that was interviewed, and to take a moment to reflect on this. In doing