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Year:

1969

Category:

Minister for Immigration

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Year:

1960

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Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1960

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Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1972

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1970

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Migrants in Sport, the Arts and Entertainment

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Year:

1959

Category:

Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1955

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Historical Milestones and Prominent Persons

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Year:

1967

Category:

Promotional Activities, Publications and Launches

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Year:

1970

Category:

Minister for Immigration

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Year:

1966

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Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1962

Category:

Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1971

Category:

Migrants in the Community

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Year:

1954

Category:

Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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Year:

1968

Category:

Migrants in the Community

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Year:

1968

Category:

Migrants at Leisure

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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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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.
Luxembourg

Working in the Villawood hostel

Sydney, Villawood Hostel.
Germany

The Peters family story - Bonegilla

I cannot remember arriving at Bonegilla, but I clearly remember waking up in the hospital with da
Czech Republic

Czechoslovakia 1968

The Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 ended a period of democratic reform and led to an
Australia

Section 8 (A) - the challenges of mental illness

Many migrants that made the journey to Australia found it hard to adapt to the Australian way of
Egypt

The Voyage of the Misr, 1947

The Egyptian ship SS Misr arrived in Melbourne in April 1947 with 624 men, women and chi
Italy

Esther and Aldo Bongiorno - 'you cannot marry a...

My grandfather, Onofio, had come to Sydney, Australia, in 1904 with two of his brothers.
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? - It all began when I...

It all began when I was at secondary school where I had to do a project on one of the continents.
Luxembourg

Sydney 1 first steps

SYDNEY 1 first steps.
Luxembourg

Arriving in Australia part 2

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

Memories of a 5 year old - Kuebler Migration

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

The Mills family arrives in Sydney in June 1965

Having left New York six weeks earlier, the Mills family - all eight of them!- finally arrive at
Italy

Impressions of Greta Migrant Camp, NSW

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

Eddie & Irene Kinast

Initially Mum was very homesick.
Germany

By Susanne Blaschka- Challenges

No longer young at 44, Father finally made good his lifelong dream of migration.
Netherlands

Australia's 100,000th Dutch Migrant - 'a good...

In 1960 Cornelis and Adriana Zevenbergen with their sons Kees and Addo moved into their own three
Australia

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

To leave the only place you've ever called home and saying goodbye to all your loving family and
Germany

By Susanne Blaschka- The Journey/ First Impressions

As a teenager, seventeen at my last birthday, I had my own cabin aboard.
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

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8 Stories
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Promotions

A Ticket to Paradise?

Exhibition
Uncover the real story of Australian immigration. The lives and experiences of Australia's post World War II migrants.
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A Place to Call Home?

Exhibition
Explore what life was like in Australia’s migrant hostels with vivid photographs.
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