It's been 70 years since migrants shaped one of Australia's great engineering feats

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This week marks the 70th anniversary of the Snowy Hydro scheme. Widely regarded as one of the country’s greatest engineering projects, it also formed an instrumental part of Australia’s multicultural history

For 88-year-old, Dieter Amelung, reminiscing on his career with the Snowy Hydro electricity scheme is an honour.

"We wanted work because we'd been sitting on a ship for six weeks and we'd never had a holiday in our lives that long. We wanted to work and we said we'd take any work.”At the age of 24, he took a job as an electrical assistant on the hydro electric scheme in NSW's Snowy Mountains. Widely regarded as one of the country’s greatest engineering projects, it also formed an instrumental part of Australia’s rich multicultural history.

Among them was Joseph Plibersek, who worked at Snowy Hydro for two years after he left Slovenia in 1954.

 

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