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EVERYWHERE MAN

JOHN JENKIN HAS ALWAYS been a curious man. Born and raised in Box Hill, Victoria, he was one of those kids who liked to tinker.

“I was always making something or fixing something,” he chuckles. “Mum and Dad had a holiday house at Apollo Bay, and I remember repairing a water tank down there when I was 12 years old. I drained the tank, slid it off and worked out what the problem was. The builder had been too lazy to put concrete

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