![Painful history: Harry Triguboff.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180123061759/http://www.afr.com/content/dam/images/g/z/t/j/8/i/image.related.afrArticleLead.620x350.h00rdx.png/1512632788597.jpg)
The incredible cover story about Harry Triguboff's painful family history in today's The Australian Financial Review Magazine is a reminder of just how arbitrary the conferral of citizenship can be. Mr Triguboff's father, Moshe, was accused but acquitted of collaborating with the Japanese in China during World War II. Yet in this terrific read by senior writer Geoff Winestock, the second richest man on the Financial Review Rich List 2017 has opened up about how he and his brother still had to slip past Australian customs before spending almost 20 unsuccessful years fighting the intelligence services and bureaucracy for their parents to join them.