Every town is a bordertown

"Jay-kob Tes-fay Sul-tan." In his austere office above Woolshed Street, Graham Excell is practising his pronunciations for the citizenship ceremony. "Say-eed Mohammed Tar-har." As mayor of Tatiara District Council, the "good country" around Bordertown in the southeast corner of South Australia, the former shearer is keen to get things right. He doesn’t want the mayor's mangling of their names to be the dominant memory of becoming Australian for these four new citizens.