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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
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AustraliaEnglish lessons were granted to all immigrants living in the Capital Hill Barra
IndonesiaAnnie Maas O’Keefe arrived in Australia as a wartime evacuee from Indonesia.
ItalyWhen they first came to Australia in 1965, Dad and Mum had bought a block of land in Dandenong So
United StatesHaving left New York six weeks earlier, the Mills family - all eight of them!- finally arrive at
AustraliaIn the early 70's a lot of people struggled financially and needed money even to go to the doctor
AustraliaIn their new home, they planted lots of fruit trees and vegetable plants and lived off the garden
United Kingdom(Mitchell Librarian 1993-2001, Associate Director State Records NSW 2001-2008 and Director State
HungaryIn exchange for assisted passage to Australia, Laszlo was required to fulfil a two-year work cont
AustraliaBy 1958, I had started my own music band and we often played at the Manuka Serv
NetherlandsAs promotion for the Australian government’s migration programs, much was made of milestone arriv
ItalyDad got work on a market garden in St Ives owned by fellow Aeolian migrants, Sam and Fay Fraumeni
ItalyIn July 1977, Mum's family came to pick us up and take us to Tullamarine Airport as we were on ou
ItalyMy Mum was a bright and very adventurous little girl.
ItalyMy grandfather, Onofio, had come to Sydney, Australia, in 1904 with two of his brothers.
VietnamIn April 1975, a large scale evacuation of children took place in Vietnam, sending thousands of c
AustraliaMum and Dad had achieved so much in their lives, but nothing bought them as much joy and happines
Australia'It has not been easy for organised world opinion in the United Nations or elsewhere to act direc
AustraliaSoon after announcing his search for ships and migrants to fill them, the first Immigration Minis
