Share your story, read about other migrants’ memories and explore our photos – to see if you recognise someone you know. Between 1946 and 1999 government photographers snapped 22,000 images of people arriving and living in Australia. You can view them online in the National Archives’ collection.
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Browse videos- Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Cees, Ina and Erwin Huig, Dutch migrants to Australia - Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Gerard and Marretje van Wezel, Dutch migrants to Australia - Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Sherry Wright, Dutch migrant to Australia - Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Petronella Wensing, Dutch migrant to Australia - Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Stephanie Brantz, Dutch migrant heritage - Series: A Ticket to Paradise? Exhibition
Vera Marek - Series: A Ticket to Paradise? Exhibition
Seraphin Nyirenda - Series: A Ticket to Paradise? Exhibition
Maria-Lourdes (Noonee) Doronila - Series: A Ticket to Paradise? Exhibition
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Personal stories
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AustraliaWhen they first arrived in Melbourne in 1959, Mum and her family lived in North Essendon for a sh
AustraliaDad and Mum had met by chance over the Australia Day long weekend in 1965. Dad had just come back
ItalyThe local newspapers in Melbourne and Sydney carried articles on the arrival of the MV Roma with
AustraliaIt must have been really hard for Mum with not speaking much English and her not knowing too many
United KingdomHi I am but a mere Scot but the real story relates to my two uncles by the names of Magnus and Be
AustraliaMum and Dad would eventually settle into their home at 35 Gladstone Road, Dandenong in 1971. Mum
United KingdomJohn Albert Martin, his wife Mavis and son Donald, arrived in Australia onboard the Oronsay in Ju
AustraliaMum had really long hair when she was in her teens, but when she was about 18yrs old, she thought
United KingdomAustralia’s post-war immigration publicity campaign was in full swing by 1955.
ItalyDad got work on a market garden in St Ives owned by fellow Aeolian migrants, Sam and Fay Fraumeni
GreeceMy parents travelled independently from Greece to Australia from the same region of Greece.
NetherlandsI was nine years old in 1956. It had been one of the coldest winters on record in Holland.
AustraliaEllen tells me that just after they had arrived in Australia in 1970, they went to live with one
GermanyThe migrant ship MS Nelly carried the first German migrants under the bilateral assisted
Sri LankaThe Colombo Plan, launched in 1951, was an intergovernmental program designed to strengthen relat
HungaryIn exchange for assisted passage to Australia, Laszlo was required to fulfil a two-year work cont
NetherlandsI (Frans Alexander Udo) was born on March 29 1950 in Amsterdam Holland.
NetherlandsAfter a half a year my friend decided to move to another place and I had to decide what to do, st
