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Screen (5 of 9) ...Post-war reconstruction ...
 


Migrant workers at Ford Motor Works Plant, Geelong, 1956.


Hear Commentary:
...Post-war reconstruction - Listen to Professor Andrew Jakubowicz discuss the events and issues surrounding this topic. Read text commentary

Audio Interviews:
Post-War Reconstruction - Dr H C (Nugget) Coombs, discussing migrants being technologically illiterate. - More ...

Audio Interviews:
Post-War Reconstruction - Malcom Fraser, speaking at the Inaugural Meeting of the Ethnic Communities' Council about the trade union movement. - More ...
Documentary Excerpts: The migrant experience, episode 4 "working" - A documentary film which demonstrates that working conditions for immigrants during the post war years were not always as rosy as government films portrayed them. - More ...
Articles: Newspaper clippings, 1948 - Quotes from the Sydney Morning Herald in 1948 reflect the debate on immigration: it was needed as long as it didn’t threaten working conditions or bring in a “foreign outlook" - More ...
Letters: Letter to the Federated Ironworkers’ Association - This letter in 1949 to the Federated Ironworkers’ Association gives the union assurances that the use of immigrant labour should be no threat to Australian workers; quoted in "Labour and Immigration", a seminar paper given by Dr Andrew Markus. - More ...
 
...Post-war reconstruction ...