"I was only three years old"

The Flaminia docks in Cairns in 1955

Source: Supplied

Renato Ius arrived in Australia as a child from his native Friuli in 1955 on board the ship "Flaminia" with his mother Lina and father Giuseppe.


In our interview he tells about the difficult first few years of school, when he was called names and beaten by local kids for being a foreigner.

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