Six months ago, she became the human face of Australia's controversial refugee deal with Malaysia.
Sui Neih Maui, a 35-year-old Chin refugee, had been living in fear in a Kuala Lumpur slum since she fled the army in Burma and her husband was murdered.
When _The West Australian _tracked her down in May, she was preparing to be the first refugee to call WA home since the so-called Malaysian solution was announced.
Last week, in her new home in Perth, she said he had never felt safer in her life. "I never want to go back there," she said.
Despite the collapse of the Malaysia deal, Australia will keep its end of the bargain - increasing its refugee intake by 4000 over four years.
Most of these will be Burmese refugees, who make up the majority of 94,000 refugees in exile in Malaysia.
The most likely Burmese refugees to benefit from the deal are the Christian Chin ethnic minority.
In the past month, seven ethnic Chin have been resettled in Perth.
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