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Forty years ago a young Italo-Australian labourer decided he had to take a risk with his life. Luigi Grollo had been working in Australia for all of twenty years and did not even own his own house. The Second World War had turned his world upside down – he and other Italians were caught in the hostility between their homeland and the adopted country. After the war he decided to improve his situation; he began collecting jobs of his own, jobs denied to his own employer. Luigi would obtain materials and men, and undertake these extra jobs himself on the weekends. This started in about 1948, and by 1952, many weekends later, Luigi Grollo himself became a padrone, a full-time employer.
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