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Year:

1971

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1966

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Minister for Immigration

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Year:

1961

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Migrants in their Homes

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Year:

1965

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Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1972

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Promotional Activities, Publications and Launches

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Year:

1969

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Historical Milestones and Prominent Persons

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Year:

1959

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Refugees

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Year:

1965

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Migrants in the Community

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Year:

1961

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Churches and Religion in the Migrant Community

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Year:

1969

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1965

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1966

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1973

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1962

Category:

Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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Year:

1968

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Migrants in Sport, the Arts and Entertainment

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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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Germany

By Susanne Blaschka- Family

It was five years after the worst global conflict ever had come to its end, when Father had manag
Australia

My next chapter to Dad and Mum's story and their...

Dad and Mum had met on Australia Day 1965, just after Dad had come back from Frankston beach with
Czech Republic

Czechoslovakia 1968

The Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 ended a period of democratic reform and led to an
Germany

The Peters family story - SS Mozaffari

Australia accepted us as emigrants in 1948 and we left Deggendorf in mid-winter.
Germany

The Peters family story - Bonegilla

I cannot remember arriving at Bonegilla, but I clearly remember waking up in the hospital with da
South Africa

Maria Peters - 'Princess Ubangi'

Born in 1901 and standing 88.9cm tall, Maria Peters was variously known as ‘Princess Ubangi’, ‘a
Australia

This story is about Dad and Mum and their amazing...

Mum and Dad had achieved so much in their lives, but nothing bought them as much joy and happines
Italy

Australia's 250,000th Italian Migrant - grand plans

As with other milestone migrant arrivals, there were grand plans to welcome Antonia Bellomarino a
Italy

Esther and Aldo Bongiorno - 'the family's future...

The MV Roma went on to Melbourne and then arrived in Sydney at 2.35pm on Thursday 11 October 1951
Germany

Love on the dance floor

Gertrud Neumahr was 18 when she decided to go on a grand two year round trip adventure to Austral
Australia

This story is of our amazing life growing up seen through...

Dad would always try and do something special with us on the weekends.
Italy

Jim's Dad's first journey and his motivation to...

Giuseppe Cosentino was born on 2nd March 1927 in a town called Melissa in Catanzaro, Italy.
Germany

The Peters family story - leaving postwar Germany

My parents, Johannes (John) and Elisabeth (Lisa) had applied to emigrate to Venezuela and to Aust
Japan

Sachiko McKay

Sachiko McKay nee Morimoto, known as Marie, was born in Japan in 1928.
Netherlands

Immigration publicity photos - Dutch family settles in

By the 1960s the Immigration Department’s publicity campaign to attract migrants to Australia was
United Kingdom

Church sponsorship made all the difference for this migrant...

We arrived at South Brisbane on 5 November, 1968, having made the final leg of our long journey b
Netherlands

Sibajak - Journey To Australia - Udo Family 1956

I (Frans Alexander Udo) was born on March 29 1950 in Amsterdam Holland.
Vladimir Tichy, Czech Sculptor and Ceramicist

Vladimir and his family (Jirina his wife, and Marcella his daughter) found asylum in Australia f
Poland

Cecylia Kazimierczak - Churchill Fellow

In 1969 at the age of 21, Cecylia was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study piano abroad, inclu
Netherlands

Migration to Australia to paradise? - There seemed to be no...

There seemed to be no future for me in Australia, so I decided to return to the Netherlands after