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Subscriber only At just 21 years old, Damien van dan Merwe has taken a leap of faith by opening the unorthodox Renegade Barber on the outskirts of Paget. Mr van dan Merwe said he was passionate about providing on point cuts, a complete opposite from his early experiments in the profession. Five or six years ago, my mate wanted a haircut back home in South Africa, Mr van dan Merwe said. He went to a boarding school and they were pretty strict with their hair ⦠but he desperately needed this haircut. I went, All right ; I sat him down on a little chair outside and I cut his hair.
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Hundreds of Austrians, Italians and Slavonians migrating to Australia from the early 19th century were actually Croatians.
One of Mackay’s few Croatian migrants was instrumental to the building of Paxton’s Warehouse; his name was Joseph Vidulich.
Mr Vidulich arrived in Queensland in 1873 and worked as a seaman in Townsville before making the switch to boatbuilder and timber merchant, wrote Sutalo in