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Year:

1960

Category:

Migrants at Leisure

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Year:

1965

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1966

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Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1973

Category:

Churches and Religion in the Migrant Community

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Year:

1984

Category:

Migrant Education and Migrant Resource Centres

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Year:

1969

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Good Neighbour Movement, Good Neighbour Council and New Settlers League

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Year:

1960

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1972

Category:

Ethnic Festivals, Arts and Crafts

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Year:

1956

Category:

Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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Year:

1984

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1959

Category:

Migrants in Sport, the Arts and Entertainment

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Year:

1967

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1993

Category:

Refugees

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Year:

1982

Category:

Historical Milestones and Prominent Persons

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Year:

1968

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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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
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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Germany

Eddie & Irene Kinast

Mum and Dad were like many thousands of other immigrants of their era.
Greece

Vassiliki Daflou: Campaign ambassador

By the 1960s the Australian government began to address the growing gender imbalance by actively
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
Italy

Australia's 250,000th Italian migrant - a celebrity-...

Milestone migrants received a lot of fanfare on arrival to Australia, and for Antonia Bellomarino
Netherlands

Immigration publicity photos - Dutch family settles in

By the 1960s the Immigration Department’s publicity campaign to attract migrants to Australia was
United Kingdom

A migrant’s story: Alan Ventress – a camp of migrants

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

Annie Maas O'Keefe vs Arthur Augustus Calwell and the...

Annie Maas O’Keefe arrived in Australia as a wartime evacuee from Indonesia.
Germany

Eddie & Irene Kinast

Dad worked at BHP at Newcastle, and was meant to stay in the hostel at Mayfield, but to save mone
Australia

This story is of our amazing life growing up in my eyes.

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

Impressions of Greta Migrant Camp, NSW

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

Migration to Australia to paradise? - There seemed to be no...

There seemed to be no future for me in Australia, so I decided to return to the Netherlands after
Australia

The Snowy Hydro Electric Scheme

Construction began on the Snowy Hydro Electric Scheme on 17 October 1949.
China

The arrival of my family, Leonard Boniecki, Karolina...

My father was born in Chandaochedzy, Manchuria; my mother in Chingan, Manchuria and I was born in
Lithuania

Refugees displaced by World War II

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

Just the Beginning- Peter Stokes Part 2

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

Laszlo Makay's Story - a long life in Canberra

Laszlo Makay arrived in Australia in 1951.
United Kingdom

Outward Bound - on the SS Asturias

Tom & Millie Wilkinson, with their young family - Gordon and Rosemary - arrived in Melbourne,
Italy

My amazing Dad and Mum's memorable visit back home to...

This story is about my Dad and Mum on their second trip back home together, but without us kids a

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Motivations
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Return visits
8 Stories
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