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Author: Tony Parentich

Kalgoorlie Riots

INTRODUCTIONDuring the early 1930s- the Depression years- times were difficult throughout the world. It was no different in 1934 on the goldfields of Kalgoorlie/Boulder where, at the time, there was […]

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Croatians in Sport in WA

Compiled by Tony Parentich     March, 2001 ATHLETICS • Ivan Antunovich     (Drvenik) born 1895 and came to Australia (Perth) in 1912. Interned at Holdsworthy Army Camp in Liverpool (NSW) as “Austrian […]

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THE CALL OF THE SEA

Croatians in Fishing in Western Australia Most of the Croatians migrating to Western Australia during the latter part of the nineteenth and also the early part of the twentieth century gained employment […]

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