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For the love of trams

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Days Like These
Days Like These

When Patricia Santiago moves from Manila to Melbourne, her new schoolmates make fun of her American accent, her Filipino cuisine, her skin colour.

But she's not going to let them win.

Earning social cache, academic success and finally, a career jet setting around Australia and rubbing shoulders with celebrities, she makes the unlikeliest of manoeuvres, switching tracks to ride the world's largest tram network.

  • Reporter Sam Wicks
  • Sound engineer Russell Stapleton
  • Executive producer Sophie Townsend

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Melbourne, Public Transport
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