My late father emigrated from Cyprus as a teenager. Unable to speak English he ended up in Katoomba. Within a few years of arriving, he was conscripted as a ‘New Australian’ (a now disused but still positive and inclusive descriptor for emigrants) into national service through the first National Service Scheme which operated between 1951 and 1959.
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