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Screen (4 of 9) ...Mass migration ...
 


An eastern European family immigrating to Australia in the 1950s.


Hear Commentary:
...Mass migration - Listen to Professor Andrew Jakubowicz discuss the events and issues surrounding this topic. Read text commentary
Political Photographs: Mr A A Calwell at a meeting of State Premiers and Immigration Ministers. - Mr A A Calwell, the first minister for Immigration (centre, far end of table) at a meeting of State Premiers and Immigration Ministers in Parliament House Canberra, 1946 to discuss Australia's immigration program. - More ...

Audio Interviews:
Mass migration - Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki speaks on the idea of immigration from non-British sources. - More ...
Archival Footage: Post-war migration - Voices and pictures from the late 1940s and the 1950s, beginning with the voice of Arthur Calwell, Immigration Minister from 1945 to 1949. - More ...
Reports: White Alien Immigration Report, 1944 - Extracts from this report of 21 September 1944, which put the case for expanding the immigration intake to the countries of southern and eastern Europe, from Jerzy Zubrzycki’s Arthur Calwell and the Origin of Post-War Immigration. - More ...
 
...Mass migration ...