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1963

Category:

Minister for Immigration

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Year:

1966

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Migrants in Sport, the Arts and Entertainment

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1964

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1969

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1971

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Historical Milestones and Prominent Persons

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Year:

1969

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1966

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1969

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1972

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Migrants in Cities and Towns

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Year:

1967

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Migrants in the Community

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Year:

1965

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Good Neighbour Movement, Good Neighbour Council and New Settlers League

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Year:

1961

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Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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1963

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Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1967

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1958

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Migrants in Employment

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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
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Vera Marek
Series: A Ticket to Paradise? Exhibition
Seraphin Nyirenda
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Maria-Lourdes (Noonee) Doronila
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Lam Tac Tam

Personal stories

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Germany

Memories of a 5 year old - Kuebler Migration

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

This story is of our amazing life growing up seen through...

Dad would always try and do something special with us on the weekends.
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.
United Kingdom

Glasgow to Geelong.

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

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

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

Impressions of Greta Migrant Camp, NSW

We arrived at Greta Migrant Camp, approximately 180 kms north of Sydney, in mid December 1955.
Netherlands

Leaving Amsterdam

May 5th 1957 - cold and a light snow.
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
Lithuania

Refugees displaced by World War II

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

My Beautiful Dad taking us back home to meet our family for...

In July, 1977, Mum's family came to pick us up and take us to Tullamarine Airport as we were on o
Australia

This Story is about my beautiful Dad, Luca Cannito and some...

My Dad found work at the Ordish Brick Factory in Dandenong a few weeks after he had arrived in Au
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
Netherlands

The Hoogenhout family - embraced by the community

Jan and Nieske Hoogenhout became well-known and liked locally when they opened their bakery in Sh
Netherlands

Meerbach Memories - Cornelia and Antonius

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

The Peters family story - SS Mozaffari

Australia accepted us as emigrants in 1948 and we left Deggendorf in mid-winter.
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
Germany

Eddie & Irene Kinast

Initially Mum was very homesick.
Germany

Eddie & Irene Kinast

Challenges
Italy

This story is about my Mum Nara De Santis, the 2nd child...

My Mum was a bright and very adventurous little girl.
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

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Motivations
12 Stories
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32 Stories
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17 Stories
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16 Stories
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19 Stories
Family
24 Stories
Challenges
12 Stories
Return visits
8 Stories
Reflections
8 Stories

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