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Year:

1965

Category:

Migrants at Leisure

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Year:

1961

Category:

Migrants in their Homes

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Year:

1975

Category:

Migrant Education and Migrant Resource Centres

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Year:

1971

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1988

Category:

Refugees

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Year:

1969

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1969

Category:

Migrants in their Homes

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Year:

1958

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1960

Category:

Promotional Activities, Publications and Launches

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Year:

1978

Category:

Migrant Education and Migrant Resource Centres

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Year:

1969

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1971

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1978

Category:

Migrant Education and Migrant Resource Centres

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Year:

1967

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1961

Category:

Migrants in their Homes

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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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Netherlands

Australia's 100,000th Dutch Migrant - a great deal of...

As promotion for the Australian government’s migration programs, much was made of milestone arriv
Germany

By Susanne Blaschka- The Journey/ First Impressions

As a teenager, seventeen at my last birthday, I had my own cabin aboard.
Netherlands

Migration to Australia to paradise? - my first job...

My first job was at a car yard cleaning cars and so.
United Kingdom

A migrant’s story: Alan Ventress

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

My amazing Dad, Luca Cannito and his first trip back home...

Early October 1973, a few of Mum's siblings picked up Dad and Mum and headed to Tullamarine Airpo
Germany

Memories of a 5 year old - Kuebler Migration

My Mother and Father decided to come to Australia from Germany.
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

Esther and Aldo Bongiorno - 'Migrants are special...

Migrants are special people. They are different from those who stay in their home country.
Netherlands

Immigration publicity photos - Dutch family settles in

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

Refugees displaced by World War II

In the aftermath of World War II, around one million Europeans were displaced from their country
Italy

Jim's Mum and Dad's journey to Australia in...

In early 1964, Dad had made contact with Mum in Italy and had asked her to sell their family home
United Kingdom

Back ome again

I picked 1970 as this when I was just 15 and left Aus reluctantly but keen to see me mum brothers
Italy

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

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

Working in the Villawood hostel

Sydney, Villawood Hostel.
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
United Kingdom

Southhampton to Sydney

Here we are, having gone through customs and heading for the gang plank not knowing what might li
Netherlands

Henk Wolswinkel's story - family reunion

Fifty years after their arrival, the Wolwinkels held a family reunion in Gumbuya Park, Victoria,
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
Germany

By Susanne Blaschka- Family

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

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Motivations
12 Stories
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32 Stories
First impressions
17 Stories
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16 Stories
Work & play
19 Stories
Family
23 Stories
Challenges
12 Stories
Return visits
9 Stories
Reflections
9 Stories

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A Place to Call Home?

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