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Year:

1980

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Minister for Immigration

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Year:

1969

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1975

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Refugees

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Year:

1956

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Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1975

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Refugees

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Year:

1963

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Historical Milestones and Prominent Persons

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Year:

1956

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Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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Year:

1971

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Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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Year:

1979

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Migrant School Children and Students

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Year:

1963

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Historical Milestones and Prominent Persons

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Year:

1967

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1971

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Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1962

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Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1967

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1967

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Migrants in Employment

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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
Lam Tac Tam

Personal stories

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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
Luxembourg

Arriving in Australia part 1

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

By Susanne Blaschka – Challenges

No longer young at 44, Father finally made good his lifelong dream of migration.
Australia

Section 8 (A) - the challenges of mental illness

Many migrants that made the journey to Australia found it hard to adapt to the Australian way of
Italy

Australia's 250,000th Italian migrant - Antonia...

The Bellomarinos were considered a ‘very good family group’ by their interviewing immigration off
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
Germany

The Peters family story - Bonegilla

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

A migrant’s story: Alan Ventress – working in the Pilbara

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

The Misses

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

Jim's Mum and Dad's next chapter of settling down...

Mum and Dad would eventually settle into their home at 35 Gladstone Road, Dandenong in 1971. Mum
United Kingdom

Just the Beginning- Peter Stokes Part 1

It was 16th March 1952.
United Kingdom

A migrant’s story: Alan Ventress – Australian accents

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

George Henry Daniels - A deportation story

It was not smooth sailing for all migrants that arrived in Australia after WWII.
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.
Hungary

Laszlo Makay's story - a cheerful place to live

Between 1947 and 1971 the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre accommodated more than
Greece

Vassiliki Daflou - chosen as campaign ambassador

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

My Dad and Mum's story of their journey to settling...

Dad and Mum had met by chance over the Australia Day weekend in 1965. Dad had just come back fro
Poland

Cecylia Kazimierczak - Churchill Fellow

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