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Posted: 2020-06-25T06:29:15Z | Updated: 2020-08-06T06:01:14Z

Melbourne woman and daughter of Vietnamese refugees, Huong Truong, has lived in the Brimbank local government area her whole life.

This week its been in the spotlight as one of six Victorian COVID-19 hot spots some of which, like Brimbank, have large culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations.

As some community leaders have scrutinised the governments ad hoc approach to relaying coronavirus information to these ethnic groups, Truong has said Brimbanks Vietnamese community is getting the message, however the difficulty is how quickly they get the message.

According to the most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data collected in 2016, the most common ancestries in Brimbank were Vietnamese 13.3%, Australian 10.3%, English 9.7%, Italian 5.4% and Chinese 5.4%.

I dont think the older generation, like my mums around 60 but her parents generation, would have any access to internet, Truong, a former Greens MP, told HuffPost Australia, explaining her mother lives just across the road from her, while her aunties live in two or three neighbouring streets.