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Year:

1956

Category:

Refugees

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Year:

1968

Category:

Migrants at Leisure

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Year:

1967

Category:

Migrants in Sport, the Arts and Entertainment

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Year:

1955

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1973

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1972

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1959

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1968

Category:

Ethnic Groups and Clubs

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Year:

1966

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1958

Category:

Migrants in the Australian Armed Services

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Year:

1964

Category:

Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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Year:

1968

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1960

Category:

Migrants in their Homes

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Year:

1968

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1973

Category:

Minister for Immigration

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Pages

Video portraits

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
Lam Tac Tam

Personal stories

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Luxembourg

Sydney 2 getting work

Sydney 2 getting work On the way to the employment office, the predominant question in the back
Italy

My amazing Dad and Mum's memorable visit back home to...

This story is about my Dad and Mum on their second trip back home together, but without us kids a
Netherlands

Henk Wolswinkel's Story - magpies singing

Like many new arrivals, Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre was the Wolswinkels' firs
Netherlands

The Misses

Migrants who had won beauty pageant titles were the perfect models for promotional photographs ta
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
Poland

Cecylia Kazimierczak - Churchill Fellow

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

This is the next chapter to my Dad and Mums beautiful story...

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

Esther and Aldo Bongiorno - 'The ship that can't...

The local newspapers in Melbourne and Sydney carried articles on the arrival of the MV Roma with
United Kingdom

Glasgow to Geelong.

My father Alexander was sixty five years old when he and my mother Susan decided to migrate to Au
Australia

Life as a 13 year old POM

The top picture is one of me and a mate walking through C Block Wacol Hostel on the way to starti
Greece

Vassiliki Daflou - chosen as campaign ambassador

The selection officer who interviewed Vassiliki Daflou in Athens described her as ‘just an averag
Netherlands

Meerbach Memories - Cornelia and Antonius

Cornelia Grosveld and Antonius Meerbach married in Roosendaal in the Netherlands just after the o
Australia

This is the 2nd part to Dad and Mum's journey of...

In their new home, they planted lots of fruit trees and vegetable plants and lived off the garden
Sri Lanka

The Colombo Plan

The Colombo Plan, launched in 1951, was an intergovernmental program designed to strengthen relat
Germany

Arrival

I arrived on the ship Fair Sea in March 1954 in Melbourne.
United Kingdom

A migrant’s story: Alan Ventress – Australian accents

(Mitchell Librarian 1993-2001, Associate Director State Records NSW 2001-2008 and Director State
Luxembourg

Arriving in Australia part 1

From Singapore we had an overnight flight to Sydney, dawn came, the first glimpse on our new home
Italy

This story is about my Mum, Nara De Santis and her first...

When they first arrived in Melbourne, Mum and her family lived in North Essendon for a short time
United Kingdom

Outward Bound - on the SS Asturias

Tom & Millie Wilkinson, with their young family - Gordon and Rosemary - arrived in Melbourne,
Germany

Eddie & Irene Kinast

Mum and Dad came from Ulm in southern Germany.

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Motivations
11 Stories
The journey
30 Stories
First impressions
17 Stories
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16 Stories
Work & play
19 Stories
Family
19 Stories
Challenges
10 Stories
Return visits
8 Stories
Reflections
7 Stories

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