making multicultural australia - migration images and reflections on migration
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Migration
Images and reflections on migration
• Nina Skoroszewski (nee Antonina Libiszowska), passenger no. 1060 on the wharf Bremerhaven, waiting to board the transport “Delmenhorst” for Australia. 31 August 1950.
• Photo: Nina Skoroszewski collection.
• Six of the first seven Australian citizens pose on the steps of the Hotel Kurrajong. They were awarded citizenship in Canberra, 3 February 1949.
• Photo: Department of immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 1949, Catalogue No. 49/12A/1
• The “Castle Verde” arrived at Melbourne’s Station Pier on the 11th of April 1954.
• Photo: Department of immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 1954, Catalogue No. 54/4/37A.
• Immigrants arrive by ship.
• Photo: Peter Morris collection
• Polish, and possibly other refugees, waiting to board ship for Australia after the war.
• Photo: Oral History Project of the Bankstown Youth Development Service.
• Thirty young Britons are warmly greeted in Australia as the first assisted passenger migrants to emigrate by air. They paid ten pounds. The first party arrived in January 1959.
• Photo: Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 1959, Catalogue No. 59/4/5
• Little Polish boy bound for Australia, around 1947.
• Photo: Oral History Project of the Bankstown Youth Development Service.
• In the 1960s, immigrants increasingly arrived by plane.
• Photo: Peter Morris collection
• White Australia shows Black Australia to a new immigrant: “Australian Aboriginal in full war paint,” a Queensland Government photo in the Mowbray Series of Scenic and Historic Views, circa 1950.
• From the collection of Nina Skoroszewski.
• “Gold II”, Arrival series – silkscreen, 1990, artist: Milan Milojevic.
• This series of artworks by Hobart-based Milan Milojevic, illustrates the contrast between the hopes and expectations of the post-war migrants and the harsh realities they encountered on arrival here. Intead of finding their fortunes or “gold” here, many encountered difficult living conditions and a lack of job opportunities.
• Collection of the Artist.
• These images are free for your use for educational purposes, however not for publication.
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