‘YOU NEVER FORGET’
Dec 19, 2019
3 minutes
By John Burfitt
This Christmas Day will be one of mixed emotions for Melbourne businessman Joe Giardina. As the rest of the country celebrates with loved ones, Joe will instead travel to Canberra on a very personal mission – to mark the death of his son Paul, 15 years ago, in the Boxing Day tsunami. Joe, 62, was one of the main instigators behind the building of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial, located on the banks of Lake Burley Griffin in Kings Park.
For Joe, this place in
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