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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.

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