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Barko, Ivan

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Barko, Ivan

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Ivan Barko is a Sydney-based French scholar

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A small but influential community, French Sydneysiders have been settlers, businesspeople, artists, performers and entrepreneurs. The visibility of Sydney's French community and its cultural organisations, schools and language has led to difficulties when French governments have taken unpopular action, such as nuclear testing in the Pacific, but reconciliations have usually been quick.