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Year:

1958

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1961

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1963

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Ethnic Festivals, Arts and Crafts

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Year:

1966

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1971

Category:

Promotional Activities, Publications and Launches

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Year:

1960

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1963

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1988

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Migrants in Sport, the Arts and Entertainment

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Year:

1959

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Refugees

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Year:

1984

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Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1972

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1972

Category:

Promotional Activities, Publications and Launches

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Year:

1963

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1963

Category:

Refugees

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Year:

1985

Category:

Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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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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United Kingdom

Scared Stiff

I was 12 years old and was ordered by the High Court in London to leave to join my father Frank a
Australia

Just the Beginning- Peter Stokes Part 3

The following day I was given a very lengthy series of tests in maths, English, solving problems,
Indonesia

Bas Wie the 'Kupang Kid'

Bas Wie was an orphan who had survived the Japanese occupation of Timor during World War II.
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
Netherlands

The Hoogenhout family - 'always a houseful of people...

While Jan died in December 2010 and Nieske only six months later, their legacy in Tasmania remain
vinckx

the people you see at this picture are my uncle and my aunt Bep Bijster and there two children.
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
Germany

Eddie & Irene Kinast

Family Challenges: Loneliness. Isolation.
Luxembourg

Working in the Villawood hostel

Sydney, Villawood Hostel.
Australia

Migrant children at study and play

Various programs were run for the children of migrants, particularly via hostels and community or
Netherlands

Australia's 100,000th Dutch migrant - newly found fame

On their arrival, Adriana Zevenbergen and her family were treated to gifts, dinner receptions wit
United Kingdom

A migrant’s story: Alan Ventress

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

Esther and Aldo Bongiorno - 'In my eyes it was a...

Dad met us at the wharf in Sydney and took us to our new home on a market-garden farm in St Ives.
China

The arrival of my family, Leonard Boniecki, Karolina...

My father was born in Chandaochedzy, Manchuria; my mother in Chingan, Manchuria and I was born in
Netherlands

Leaving Amsterdam

May 5th 1957 - cold and a light snow.
South Africa

Maria Peters - 'Princess Ubangi'

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

Arrival of the first displaced persons from Europe

On 28 November 1947, 843 displaced persons from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia arrived in Fremantl
Luxembourg

Sydney 1 first steps

SYDNEY 1 first steps.
Czech Republic

Voitre Marek - The Journey

Voitre Marek, an artist now with works at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gal
Vietnam

Operation Babylift - Vietnamese orphans settle in Australia

In April 1975, a large scale evacuation of children took place in Vietnam, sending thousands of c

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Motivations
11 Stories
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31 Stories
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17 Stories
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16 Stories
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19 Stories
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20 Stories
Challenges
12 Stories
Return visits
8 Stories
Reflections
8 Stories

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A Ticket to Paradise?

Exhibition
Uncover the real story of Australian immigration. The lives and experiences of Australia's post World War II migrants.
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A Place to Call Home?

Exhibition
Explore what life was like in Australia’s migrant hostels with vivid photographs.
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