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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Steve Evans

Canberra's hairdresser to prime ministers (and their wives) has died

Franco Calabria who has died at the age of 94 arrived in Australia in 1952 with nothing more than a suit-case - and became one of Canberra's biggest figures.

He cut the hair of Bob Hawke and his wife Hazel, and that of John Gorton and Malcolm Fraser - as well as four generations of "ordinary" people from taxi-drivers to waiters.

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