“Dad was a sailor, when we did see him, it was a party!"

Rita Picone-Di Giovanni

Rita Picone-Di Giovanni Source: Supplied

Born in Taranto, Rita Picone-Di Giovanni arrived in Australia at the age of nine with her mother, a sister and a brother in April 1960. Papa Rino had left for Australia 18 months earlier to organise accommodation for the whole family .



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