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Nyok Achuoth Gor was just eight years old when he was forced to flee southern Sudan.
It was the late 1980s and the Second Sudanese Civil War had begun a few years earlier.
He was conscripted as a child soldier and separated from his mother and younger siblings.
He would spend decades in refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. I ended up in Ethiopia, and became part of a generation [of displaced youths] referred to as the lost boys of Sudan , Mr Gor told SBS News.
He came to Australia as a refugee a few years before the Sudan People s Liberation Movement and the Sudanese government signed a historic peace deal on 9 January 2005.