'If you want anything done, get the Sikhs': community wins admirers for bushfire and Covid aid

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When Amritvir Sekhon and eight other Sikh men and women drove into Bairnsdale in the middle of the worst bushfire crisis in decades, locals didn't know what to think.

They had never seen turbanned men with long beards before - we probably looked pretty alien from them," Sekhon says.