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Year:

1969

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1964

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Promotional Activities, Publications and Launches

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Year:

1971

Category:

Migrants in Employment

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Year:

1957

Category:

Australian Citizenship and Naturalisation Ceremonies

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Year:

1959

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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Year:

1961

Category:

Migrants in the Community

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Year:

1956

Category:

Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1962

Category:

Good Neighbour Movement, Good Neighbour Council and New Settlers League

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Year:

1971

Category:

Historical Milestones and Prominent Persons

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Year:

1953

Category:

Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1967

Category:

Migrants in Cities and Towns

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Year:

1955

Category:

Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1955

Category:

Migrant Arrivals and Transport Ships

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Year:

1972

Category:

Promotional Activities, Publications and Launches

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Year:

1987

Category:

Hostels, Holding, State Reception, and Detention Centres

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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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Germany

By Susanne Blaschka- Challenges

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

Arrival

I arrived on the ship Fair Sea in March 1954 in Melbourne.
Germany

Eddie & Irene Kinast

Mum and Dad came from Ulm in southern Germany.
Germany

The Peters family story - Bonegilla to Beechworth

On our arrival in Australia, my mother Lisa's only language was German.
Italy

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

My grandfather, Onofio, had come to Sydney, Australia, in 1904 with two of his brothers.
Australia

MIGRATION FROM THE TORRES STRAIT

The first entry into mainland Australia by Torres Strait Islanders from the Torres Strait began i
United Kingdom

Church sponsorship made all the difference for this migrant...

We arrived at South Brisbane on 5 November, 1968, having made the final leg of our long journey b
Netherlands

Sibajak - Journey To Australia - Udo Family 1956

I (Frans Alexander Udo) was born on March 29 1950 in Amsterdam Holland.
Netherlands

The Hoogenhout Family - a successful business

These photographs show the Hoogenhout family working in their bakery.
United Kingdom

Outward Bound - on the SS Asturias

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

Just the Beginning- Peter Stokes Part 2

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

Operation Babylift - Vietnamese orphans come to Australia

Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to nu
Czech Republic

Czechoslovakia 1968

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

Working in the Hostel

The main kitchen was huge, next to the kitchen, in a shed was a giant steam producing machine, th
Italy

Esther and Aldo Bongiorno - 'After one year he had...

Dad got work on a market garden in St Ives owned by fellow Aeolian migrants, Sam and Fay Fraumeni
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.
Germany

Eddie & Irene Kinast

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

Maria Peters - 'Princess Ubangi'

Born in 1901 and standing 88.9cm tall, Maria Peters was variously known as ‘Princess Ubangi’, ‘a
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.