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	Podcast:		Please Explain
	Episode:		The 'helpers' of Singapore – raising expat children, while never seeing their own
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:19:46
	Publish Date:		2025-11-19 18:00:00
	Description:		It’s a Sunday at a park in Singapore, and, as journalist Zach Hope observed, it’s the servants day off. They lounge on picnic rugs, shaking off the week of cooking, cleaning – and raising other people’s kids. Singapore has more than 300,000 migrant domestic workers, or “helpers”, as they’re called and many care for the children of expats, including Australians. Today, South-East Asia correspondent Zach Hope on this extraordinary workforce and the system, he says, is premised on profound sadness. Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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