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Year:

1965

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1963

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1959

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1974

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Ethnic Festivals, Arts and Crafts

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Year:

1981

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Historical Milestones and Prominent Persons

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Year:

1960

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1981

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Refugees

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Year:

1984

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Migrant Education and Migrant Resource Centres

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Year:

1974

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Ethnic Festivals, Arts and Crafts

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Year:

1970

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1972

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Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1953

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Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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Year:

1971

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Promotional Activities, Publications and Launches

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Year:

1965

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Minister for Immigration

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Year:

1971

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Ethnic Festivals, Arts and Crafts

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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
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Australia

Just the Beginning- Peter Stokes Part 2

He found me a private room in his mission hall.
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
Netherlands

Meerbach Memories - Cornelia and Antonius

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

By Susanne Blaschka- Family

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

Laszlo Makay's Story - a long life in Canberra

Laszlo Makay arrived in Australia in 1951.
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.
Latvia

Maira Kalnins, the 50,000th New Australian

Seven-year-old Maira Kalnins (who is referred to incorrectly as ‘Naira’ within the records) becam
Netherlands

Australia's 100,000th Dutch migrant - 'going for...

When Adriana Zevenbergen first thought of coming to Australia with her husband Cornelis in the ea
United Kingdom

Just the Beginning- Peter Stokes Part 1

It was 16th March 1952.
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.
Greece

The Greek Wedding

My parents travelled independently from Greece to Australia from the same region of Greece.
Australia

My Reflection on the most amazing parents in the World.

As I reflect on Mum and Dad's life, I think of my own life and how I am who I am because of these
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
Luxembourg

Arriving in Australia part 2

We were loaded into Buses, it took more than two hours to arrive in Villawood hostel, some houses
Netherlands

Henk Wolswinkel's story - family reunion

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

Eddie & Irene Kinast

When they landed in Fremantle, Western Australia, a kind gentleman bought them an ice cream and m
Italy

Esther and Aldo Bongiorno - my parents were trying to...

My parents Gennaro and Esther Bongiorno were married in 1946 in Pollara, a little town on the isl
Italy

Impressions of Greta Migrant Camp, NSW

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