 Refugees who cannot now go back to Hungary, to North Korea, to North Vietnam, to East Germany or to Poland or to any of the other land from which a steady stream of refugees born for an eloquent testimony to the cruel oppression now holding sway in their homeland. Originally my family's from Prague, Czechoslovakia and when the invasion of Czechoslovakia happened we were on holidays in Italy. So that was me, three, two sisters and one brother and my mother and father. So we heard some information on the radio and one of my early recollections was of us huddling together around this little radio with other Czechs that were also camping and travelling around Italy trying to get the latest news. My father rang a relative great art in Czechoslovakia in Prague and she said to him, well basically I'm just looking at the windows we speak and I've just seen a protestor run over by a tank and it was that point that my father decided he's not going back. We have this fantastic photo of us arriving in Australia after a 36 hour flight. It was a Sydney airport was taken by a local newspaper and that was literally we got off the plane because it was a big hoo-haar, us coming from like we were political immigrants. That's me on the bottom left-hand corner, okay, just got off there not really knowing what was happening. What you see there is the clothes on our back and in the cargo was the actual tent and that's all we came with to Australia. My real name is, most people don't know, is Vratislav Kasparek. Vratislav is my first name, Kasparek is my last name. No one really wanted to sort of try and pronounce that name or the short version of Vratja and I remember having tennis coach lessons and the tennis coach when I said to him what my name was he said, mate I'm not calling you that. I'll call you Fred and that's how I got my name Fred. And what's interesting about that was that literally by adopting that name that everyone could remember and say I had so many more friends because they felt comfortable. Not that people were mean, but they felt comfortable able to pronounce your name. What has Australia given me? It has given me everything. It's given me my wife, it's given me my children, it's given my father and mother-in-law. It's given me a lifestyle that I never could have dreamt about anywhere else. What I've contributed to the community through my architecture is affordable housing. The sector where semi-professionals can't quite afford their house, they can actually afford to buy one. It's giving them good design, good construction and a place where they can enjoy their life. Refugees are an important part of Australian culture because it's like a good meal. The recipe is made up of a number of different ingredients and each one adds its spice, the sweet sour and so forth to bring up a good meal at the end of it. And you need that diversity to create a healthy meal and something you can really enjoy.