Norm Marinovich – better known around Fremantle and especially Fremantle Hospital as Dr Norman Marinovich OAM – is a long time Freo Person. If anyone were entitled to be called ‘Dr Fremantle’ it would be Norm. Not to be confused with the famous ‘Fremantle Doctor’ summer sea breeze!
Norm’s parents, a decade apart, migrated to Western Australia from the country then known as Yugoslavia before the Second World War. His father’s father had already migrated before his son. His mother also had family here. After the War, Norm’s parents, with young Norm and his brother Mike, returned to Yugoslavia for a period to help rebuild the country. But a few years later they returned to Fremantle for good. Norm’s Freo life then began in earnest. Enjoy his and his family’s immigrant story.
You can read the full story at Fremantle Shipping News here.
