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  Anti Chinese riot in Brisbane, 1888
Evans, Ray
 
Ray Evans describes a day of violence against the Chinese, part of a wave of racist sentiment across Australia, during a year of "racial panic."
Format: pdf | Size: 92 KB | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Arab Muslims in Queensland
Ibrahim, Mahmoud
 
Mahmoud Ibrahim outlines the practices of Islam and the origins of Arab Muslims in Queensland, as well as their history, institutions and traditions.
Format: pdf | Size: 63 KB | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Biamunaga: Journey to the Mountain
Leaver. M
 
Journey to the land of the Yuin people from Teaching Heritage
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  Biamunaga: Journey to the Mountain
Leaver. M
 
Journey to the land of the Yuin people from Teaching Heritage
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  Biamunaga: Journey to the Mountain
Leaver. M
 
Journey to the land of the Yuin people from Teaching Heritage
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  Building a dynamic multicultural church
Mok, Jeannie
 
Jeannie Mok writes that there is no choice any longer in Australia but for Christians to accept truly multicultural churches.
Format: pdf | Size: 121 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Building services for Muslim women
Mok, Jeannie
 
A biography of Galila Abdel Salam, who established the Islamic Women's Association of Queensland and has done much other work aimed at helping educate, inform and support Muslim women.
Format: pdf | Size: 1.65 MB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Death, Dying and Religion
Babacan, Hurriyet and Obst, Patrica
 
Sections of a book describing beliefs and practices in several non-Christian religions to help health professionals in their work with diverse patients.
Format: pdf | Size: 6.36 MB | Length: 12 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Dorothy MacRae-McMahon
McRae-McMahon, Dorothy
 
Part of a chapter in the 1995 book Australians Against Racism – Testimonies from the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Australia in which the Reverend Dorothy McRae-McMahon tells of two years of harassment and vilification by an extreme right-wing group.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ecumenical Migration Centre, Melbourne - the first 20 years
Langfield, Michele
 
The history of the Centre from the 1960s to the late 1980s, outlining its evolution from a small Christian-based group to an organisation providing a wide range of services to migrant communities of all backgrounds in Melbourne.
Format: pdf | Size: 440K | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  End of White Australia - by Gwenda Tavan
Tavan, Gwenda
 
Gwenda Tavan summarises her argument about the end of White Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 100 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 16 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Galbally Report and its implications for the Ecumenical Migration Centre
Langfield, Michele
 
Michele Langfield writes in “The Ecumenical Migration Centre, Melbourne: The First Twenty Years” of the improvements in migrant services brought about because of the 1978 Galbally Report, but also points out shortcomings.
Format: pdf | Size: 149K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  How Many Australians Tomorrow?
Calwell, Arthur
 
Excerpted from a 1945 book by Arthur Calwell, the Minister for Immigration and Information, How Many Australians Tomorrow? in which he outlines the history of Australia’s population growth till then and explains his views on increasing the numbers through immigration.
Format: pdf | Size: 329K | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Internments in Australia during World War Two
O'Brien, Ilma Martinuzzi
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: 145 KB | Length: 23 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Italian Pioneers in the Innisfail District
Bortolanza, Barbara; Choat, Ada De Munari and O'Brien, Ilma Martinuzzi
 
Segments from a history of early Italian settlers and their descendants in the Innisfail region, from the late nineteenth century onwards.
Format: pdf | Size: 514 KB | Length: 27 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Judaism in Queensland
Ochert, Morris
 
Morris Ochert tells the history of the Jewish communities in the state, and outlines their organisations and activities over the years.
Format: pdf | Size: 323 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mapping Migrant Memories: crossing cultural borders
Armstrong, Helen
 
Excerpts from Helen Armstrong’s article on the places valued by migrant Australians from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Masters of their own Broadcasting Destiny
Ethnic Broadcasting Association of Queensland
 
A history of ethnic community broadcasting in Australia and Queensland.
Format: pdf | Size: 3.4 MB | Length: 18 pages | Date Added: 04 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mosques and Muslim Settlement in Australia
Bouma, Gary D.
 
An excerpt from this 1994 book published by the Bureau of Immigration and Population Research, in which the author examines the relationship between Muslim Australians and other Australians and looks into the future of Islam in this country.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  On the Record: a practical guide to oral history
Ashton, Paul
 
Excerpts from Paul Ashton’s discussion of the value of oral sources in constructing histories from teaching heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  On the Record: a practical guide to oral history
Ashton, Paul
 
Excerpts from Paul Ashton’s discussion of the value of oral sources in constructing histories from teaching heritage
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  Pacific Islanders in Queensland
Brandle, Max
 
This chapter in a state government publication outlines the history of the migration of people from the South Pacific to Queensland and briefly describes the main islands from which they have come.
Format: pdf | Size: 389 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 20 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australia
Alcorso, Caroline; Castles, Stephen; Collins, Jock; Gibson, Katherine and Tait, David
 
The first chapter of a 1995 book which documents the experiences of immigrants involved in small business - both the dreams and the nightmares - and places them in the wider national and international social and economic contexts.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  South Sea Islanders in Queensland
Moore, Clive
 
Clive Moore tells the history of Pacific Islanders from when they were brought over as indentured labour between 1863 and 1904, to the present, and discusses the problems and issues they currently face.
Format: pdf | Size: 169 KB | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  The Emergence of the Ethnic Press: World War II and Beyond
Ethnic Broadcasting Association of Queensland
 
An account of the way language difficulties and the aim to maintain community links among post-war migrants to Queensland led to the creation of many new ethnic media outlets.
Format: pdf | Size: 2.5 MB | Length: 20 pages | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Greek community
Kondos, Alexandros
 
A history of the Greek community in the state through the twentieth century, and current issues and organisations, from a 2001 Queensland Government publication.
Format: pdf | Size: 580 KB | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Italian community
Dickinson, Jan and Dignan, Don
 
A history of Italian migration to Queensland, from the late nineteenth century to the present day, from a 2001 state government publication.
Format: pdf | Size: 1.2 MB | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Japanese in Torres Strait
Nagata, Yuriko
 
Yuriko Nagata writes about the establishment of the Japanese presence in Torres Strait in the nineteenth century and the community's development from the 1880s to the 1990s.
Format: pdf | Size: 145 KB | Length: 20 pages | Date Added: 20 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Vietnamese community
Chuong, John
 
An overview of the historic events in Vietnam which resulted in many refugees fleeing, and of the customs and traditions they brought with them, from a 2001 Queensland Government publication.
Format: pdf | Size: 282 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Wacol Migrant Centre, 1949-1987
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: 110 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Torres Strait Islanders
Shnukal, Anna
 
Anna Shnukal outlines the history of this group of north Queensland people, and tells of their current concerns, organisations and aspirations.
Format: pdf | Size: 352 KB | Length: 23 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Volunteering and advocating
Mok, Jeannie
 
Community activist Jeannie Mok tells of her volunteer work and campaigns on behalf of migrant communities since her arrival in Queensland from Malaysia in 1981.
Format: pdf | Size: 331 KB | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Whitlam Government 1972-1975: Immigration Policy and Al Grassby
Whitlam, Gough
 
An excerpt from former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s book tells of the ALP’s policy of racial tolerance in the early 1970s and the way his Minister for Immigration, Al Grassby, was the target of a racist campaign because of his implementation of that policy.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Whitlam Government 1972-1975: The Racial Discrimination Act
Whitlam, Gough
 
Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam tells in his book The Whitlam Government 1972-1975 of the process his government followed in creating the Racial Discrimination Act in 1975.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Whitlam Government 1972-1975: “My government liberalised Australia’s immigration laws”
Whitlam, Gough
 
Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam describes how his government changed the immigration laws, and boosted services in a number of areas to migrants.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Wogfood - An Oral History with Recipes
Newton, John
 
The introduction to this 1996 book, in which author John Newton explores the extraordinary influence that food brought by immigrants has had on Australian eating habits.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  "Multicultural Trailblazer" - Eddie Liu
Mok, Jeannie
 
A biography of Eddie Liu and an account of his many activities for the Chinese and wider communities from his arrival in Queensland in the 1940s.
Format: pdf | Size: 629 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  "Multicultural trailblazer" - Jose Zepeda
Mok, Jeannie
 
A description of the achievements of Jose Zepeda in helping other migrants and refugees since his arrival from El Salvador in the mid-1980s.
Format: pdf | Size: 528 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  "Multicultural trailblazer" - Nick Xynias
Mok, Jeannie
 
A biography of ethnic leader Nick Xynias and a description of his work for the rights of migrants settling in the state and for services for them.
Format: pdf | Size: 650 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  "Multicultural Trailblazer" - Sultan Mohammed Deen
Mok, Jeannie
 
A biography of community leader Sultan Mohammed Deen, describing his activities consolidating Muslim services in Brisbane and in voluntary and charitable works for the wider community.
Format: pdf | Size: 643 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  "Multicultural Trailblazer" - Warren Joe Lomas Leo
Mok, Jeannie
 
A description of the work of Warren 'Joe' Lomas Leo in the campaign to get recognition for South Sea Islanders and in setting up sporting clubs and teams for his community in North Queensland.
Format: pdf | Size: 621 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  ‘So you want to write a history of your school?’
McKeown, Brian
 
Excerpts from Brian McKeown’s article on writing a school history from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  ‘The Knife Edge: debates about memory and history’
Hamilton, Paula
 
Excerpts from Paula Hamilton’s discussion of oral history’s role in interpreting and recording the past from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  ‘The Lions of Retreat Street: a Chinese temple in inner Sydney’
Choy, Harry
 
Elders of the Yiu Ming Society speak about their experiences as Chinese in Australia from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |

 
 
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