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Nino
Randazzo is promoting facilitating the ability
of Italian Australians, who are entitled, to acquire Italian Citizenship.
Nino
is also interested in restoring cuts in
And
he wants programs that will educate Overseas Italians more about their Italian
Heritage and Culture.
These
suggestions will fall on more receptive ears since the vote of Overseas
Italians was decisive in the Election, and
Italy
could learn a lot from Australia, says our senator in Rome
[RAA:
Really: Like What? Throwing a Boomerang?]
The
Age (Australia)
By
...Nino
Randazzo....Essendon,
(Melbourne) Australia is the first (Italian) senator to greet visitors
with "G'day, mate"....
Senator Randazzo, 73, is convinced that Prodi's
planned 5 per cent reduction in company tax, plus the crackdown on tax evasion,
will revive the economy.
He adds that the
Centre-Left will consider immigrants as a resource rather than a threat.
With Marco Fedi, the other Melburnian
elected for the Democratic Left to the Chamber of Deputies, Senator Randazzo, who was sworn in last night, has already had a
session with Mr Prodi on
what should be done for Italians in
Senator Randazzo recommended making it easier for Italians who had
renounced their citizenship to reacquire it. In
Resources for
diplomatic, consular and cultural activities have been cut back in recent years
but Senator Randazzo made a case for more money for
them, for the welfare of elderly migrants, for initiatives to interest second
and third generation Australian-Italians in their homeland.
"Because the
vote of Italians outside
He is now looking
for a flat in
When he can he
will visit his wife and three daughters in
When he gets a
break from the Senate he will visit his birthplace, the small volcanic
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