PART ONE: A little girl with a life split in three

Podcast: Conversations · ABC Australia

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

Mimi Kwa tells her family’s saga, featuring her father — the thirty-second child of a wealthy Chinese silk trader, and her mother, who survived decades of undiagnosed schizophrenia, and Mimi's glamorous other life in the intoxicating hubbub of Hong Kong. (CW: Discussion of mental illness and suicide attempt) Mimi presented the news on ABC and Channel Nine, and worked in the newsroom for more than 20 years. Today she has four children with her loving husband, John. This is all a long way from Mimi’s early life in Perth, where she managed backpackers’ rent and...