This is Frank Kadlec, he escaped the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and came to Australia as a refugee with his wife, 1yr old son and the clothes on their back.
He arrived at the Mayfield Migrant Hostel on the Sunday, started at BHP on the Monday and worked every day till it closed. He didn’t speak a word of English but was a master metallurgist and within 4yrs he was blast furnace foreman.
His full story and insights into what made the BHP unique will blow you away. An additional odd fact is that we travel all over the region to gather these stories, after several initial phone calls with Frank I found out he lived 200m from my house.