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works citedCresciani, Gianfranco. The Proletarian migrants: Fascism and ItalianAnarchists in Australia,http://www.takver.com/history/italian.htm#fn20 (accessed 27 May2010).State Library of South Australia, Archives: Internment during WorldWar II,http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/murray/content/didYouKnow/internment.htm (accessed 27 May 2010).Fig 5. Excerpt of security report relating to the disappearance ofClemente Cerreto, 24 February 1945. Image courtesy of the NationalArchives of Australia.The family story goes that this was the third time internee No.9490 had fled the makeshift home of camp, though researchsuggests that there were only 10 escapees from 1941 till releasein 1946. 2 In an attempt to forge something lasting, internee9490 had run into the Deputy Director of Security, and wassubsequently thrown “into the hands of the Acting DeputyCrown Solicitor”.Nonno’s penalty for being an escaped enemy alien wasremitted on 6 December 1946 by the Governor-General PrinceHenry. This was due largely to the invented evidence of asympathetic Doctor Cuthbert, who created Clemente’s cripplingarthritis and convinced the Governor that Clem was unable topay the £17.9 fine for freedom.The house is finally empty, the move finished, papers andmandolin neatly packed away. Fingers of sun have slid aside toreveal a shirtless sky and the smell of burning bricks.Leaning against the fencepost I reflect, my lyrics to “O SaltyCheese" play on a loop in my ear. I feel the burden of Nonno'sabsence and sacrifices made for the life we have just crammedinto a truck, something felt by the countless Australians livingrelatively unadventurous lives compared to the transhemisphericgamble made by their grandparents and parents.Whoever he was - musician, anti-fascist or local eccentric - Iknow that nobody will take his place in a world where sacrificecomes second to the modern illusion of absolute freedom.2http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/murray/content/didYouKnow/internment.htm42 | IHSJ ITALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL VOLUME 18 2010