Bankstown City Library - Just wanted to relate the story that Mayor Tania Mihailuk explained to new Australians at a citizenship ceremony Dec.12 where the library had a presence. She explained that she was a first generation Australian whose parents migrated to Australia from China. The Mayor's parents were of Russian descent and were born in China as a result of her grandparents fleeing to China on foot with no possessions after their village was destroyed in Russia and set on fire during the Russian Revolution in 1917. In the many years that her grandparents and parents lived in China, they did so without having the privilege of citizenship and were eternally grateful to be accepted as citizens of Australia.