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Achievements of the Good Neighbour Movement 1949-72
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs |
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A summary by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs of the Good Neighbour Movement, its growth, its activities, and changes to its role from its founding in 1949 to 1972. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Arts for a Multicultural Australia 1973-1991
Blonski, Annette |
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A detailed history of the way the Australia Council for the Arts has dealt with issues of multiculturalism and ethnic arts from its establishment in 1973, to 1991. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | |
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Battles Small and Great
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) |
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This monograph, subtitled “The First Twenty Years of the Racial Discrimination Act”, was put out by the Commission - along with a video of the same name – to mark the landmark anniversary in 1995; it covers the Act’s history, the reasons for the review announced that year, and records the celebration of the anniversary. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Brief History of SBS
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) |
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The landmarks in the SBS story, from the beginning of experimental ethnic radio broadcasts in 1975, through the establishment of the permanent radio service, the launching of television in 1980, and its development until mid 1997. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | |
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Community strategies to combat racism
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team |
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A brief history of some of the major strategies that have been undertaken from within the community to combat racism, from the Freedom Ride of 1965, to 1997. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Excerpt from Matthew Flinders' log, 1802
Flinders, Matthew |
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Explorer Matthew Flinders describes some of the people with whom he came into contact in what would later become northern Queensland, in his A Voyage to Terra Australis. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 1.16 MB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | |
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Fifty Years of Post-War Migration
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs |
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A fact sheet outlining a brief history of Australia’s post-war migration program, issued in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the program. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Harvest of Endurance: A History of the Chinese in Australia 1788-1988
Mo, Yimei |
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The history of the Chinese in Australia and of their contribution to Australian society, written by Mo Yimei to accompany a 50-metre long scroll, painted in traditional style by Mo Xiangyi for the Australia-Chinese Friendship Society for the Bicentennial. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Islam in Australia
Cleland, Bilal |
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An excerpt of a history by Bilal Cleland which describes early contacts with and influences of Muslims in northern Australia. A second excerpt outlines the importance of Afghan camel teams in the opening up of the interior. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 580 KB | Length: 26 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | |
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Judaism in Australia
Rubinstein, W. D. |
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A brief history of the Jewish community in Australia, dating back to the First Fleet, from a 1995 report by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | |
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Key Events and the Racial Discrimination Act
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) |
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A brief history of anti-discrimination measures in Australia, from 1966 when Australia signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, from the Commission’s State of the Nation 1995 - A Report on People of Non-English Speaking Backgrounds. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Looking back on 30 years of migration
Committee for the Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Vietnamese Refugee Settlement in Queensland |
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A brief history of the settlement of the Vietnamese in Queensland, who arrived after escaping the war in their homeland. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 9.1 MB | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | |
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Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
Tench, Captain Watkin |
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One of the commanders in the First Fleet describes the proceedings when the British established the settlement at Sydney Cove in 1788, in Sydney’s First Four Years – a reprint of a Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 268K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | |
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The ECCQ from the 1970s to today
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd |
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A brief history of the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland from its founding in 1976. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 66 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | |
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The Maccassar Story
Wurramarrba, Charlie, Galiyawa |
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An Indigenous Australian born in 1893 describes what his father told him and what he remembers of visits by the Macassan (Indonesian) traders who came to the Northern Territory until 1906, his story recorded by Judith Stokes in This is What Happened, by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 10 March 2002 | |
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