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Year:

1969

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1961

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Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1970

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1958

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1971

Category:

Migrants in the Community

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Year:

1960

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1961

Category:

Apex Sponsorship

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Year:

1972

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1962

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1969

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1973

Category:

Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1968

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1957

Category:

Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1956

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1955

Category:

Historical Milestones and Prominent Persons

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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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Netherlands

Migration 1956: Listening to a child's voice

I was nine years old in 1956. It had been one of the coldest winters on record in Holland.
Germany

Eddie & Irene Kinast

They sailed on 9.12.54 on the SS Skaubryn and Christmas was celebrated on the Red Sea.
Netherlands

The Hoogenhout family - the right decision

When you’re not sure what to expect when you arrive, 17,000 kilometres is a long way to travel.
Australia

Just the Beginning- Peter Stokes Part 4

Back in Adelaide, I settled down to my work. Three of the cadet engineers became my friends.
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

A few memorable experiences we shared while living with Mum...

Mum would do anything for us and in early 1998, she even let us stay with her in her 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

Esther and Aldo Bongiorno - 'After one year he had...

Dad got work on a market garden in St Ives owned by fellow Aeolian migrants, Sam and Fay Fraumeni
Japan

Japanese wives of Australian servicemen

Immediately following World War II, the Japanese brides of Australian servicemen were precluded f
Germany

The voyage of MS Nelly, 1952

The migrant ship MS Nelly carried the first German migrants under the bilateral assisted
Italy

My amazing Dad and his first trip back home to see his...

In early October 1973, a few of Mum's siblings picked up Dad and Mum and they headed to Tullamari
Croatia

John Sirola from Yugoslavia - My Story

In 1957, I was living in Salerno, Italy. Four years earlier
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Esad Salkic

Got Queensland Migrant Service Award by the Queensland Government for voluntary work .
Poland

Marianna and Vladimir's story

I, Marianna Konovalov and my husband Vladimir came to Australia as migrants in 1949.
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
Sri Lanka

The Colombo Plan

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

Some of the many challenges my amazing Mum and Dad had to...

To leave the only place you had ever called home and saying goodbye to all your family and friend
Australia

Jim's Mum and Dad's journey to finally settling...

It must have been really hard for Mum with not speaking much English and her not knowing too many
Italy

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

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