One of Natalie Culina’s fondest childhood memories is spotting her dad, in his beige Akubra, standing out amid the sea of parents waiting at the school gates at afternoon pick-up. “He had such an iconic aesthetic,” recalls Culina. “He was known as the ‘Croatian Cowboy’ because of his collection of hats.”

We’re talking Sydney suburbia in the 1980s, at least an hour’s drive from farmland. Yet for Culina’s father, who grew up in a Croatian village and arrived here aged 23, that Akubra – with its wide, gently upswept rim – spoke to him of his adopted home.