The Iraqi-Australian said he had “mixed emotions” about returning to the country where he spent four years as a refugee awaiting resettlement.
This time he went back for work, to record Albanian’s visit.
“The thing is, when I lived in Indonesia, we didn’t know what our future would look like,” he said.
“Going back as a cameraman representing the Prime Minister of Australia was very special to me.”
Ghaith fled Iraq with his family when he was 14 after losing friends in a bomb attack near his school.
In asylum seekers’ centers, the five members of the Nadir family shared two small rooms.
Ghaith and his family finally arrived in Melbourne in 2011.
“All I wanted was a better life, a normal, happy life for me and my family,” he said.
And now he is a man who has accomplished more than he ever thought possible.