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...Assimilating into Queensland society... |
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Italian cancecutter at Innisfail, 1960. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 88777) |
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Russian immigrants arriving, 1912 - A Russian couple disembarks from a ship in Brisbane, with intentions to farm in the Mackay area. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 10106.) - More ... |
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Italian Pioneers in the Innisfail District - Segments from a history of early Italian settlers and their descendants in the Innisfail region, from the late nineteenth century onwards. - More ... |
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The experience of wartime internment - Francesca Merenda tells of her childhood in northern Queensland and of the shock of being interned during the Second World War at the age of 18. - More ... |
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Sweet 'n Sour - Link to the story of one Italian family and their experiences with sugar cane growing and later, internment, on the Queensland Museum website. - More ... |
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Internments in Australia during World War Two - Ilma Martinuzzi O'Brien writes on the impact of internment on Italian-Australians and explores what internment reveals about attitudes to citizenship and civil rights. - More ... |
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Bridging Cultures - Link to the story of Phyllis Ah Loy, a Queenslander of Japanese descent, and her experience of internment, along with her family, when she was a child, after Pearl Harbor was bombed. - More ... |
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The Italian community - A history of Italian migration to Queensland, from the late nineteenth century to the present day, from a 2001 state government publication. - More ... |
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The Greek community - A history of the Greek community in the state through the twentieth century, and current issues and organisations, from a 2001 Queensland Government publication. - More ... |
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Queensland's population in the first half of the 20th century - Australian Bureau of Statistics data on where immigrants to Queensland came from, and overall numbers in the state from 1901 to 1947. - More ... |
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The Wacol Migrant Centre, 1949-1987 - Introduction to a book comprising the stories of some of the thousands of people who lived for a time at the Wacol Migrant Centre, near Brisbane, over its nearly 40 year existence. - More ... |
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The Greek in me - Tony Maniaty ponders his changing perceptions over the years of his identity as the son of a Greek migrant to Queensland. - More ... |
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"White Alien" Immigration Policy - A section from the National Archives of Australia website on immigration policy relating to non-British Europeans up until the early 1960s, with a link to a list of material available in the archives. - More ... |
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