IT IS hard to imagine Raihana Hashimi as the awkward, non-English speaking kid she describes herself as when she first moved to Australia.

VCE results are in for Sunraysia students She moved to Mildura from Quetta in Pakistan with her mother and sisters in 2012, after her father had arrived by boat in 2010.

Fast forward to 2019, and Ms Hashimi is fluent in English, the first in her family to...