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"Brisbane Buddhas", Museum of Brisbane exhibition, 2005
Museum of Brisbane |
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The exhibition "Brisbane Buddhas" at the Museum of Brisbane, featuring more than a thousand Buddhas loaned by the people of the city, showing his many forms and the meanings people find in Buddha. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 6 images | Date Added: 14 February 2006 | |
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Afghans in early Queensland
State Library of Queensland |
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Photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Afghans and their camels provided transport services in inland Queensland and Australia. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 4 images | Date Added: 14 December 2005 | |
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Be Fearless!
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Participants at an African youth night in Brisbane in August 2005, organised through the ECCQ’s Be Fearless! Program, which aims to strengthen and support communities from the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Islands and Former Yugoslavia. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 6 images | Date Added: 14 February 2006 | |
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Chinese settlers over the years
National Archives of Australia and State Library of Queensland |
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Archival photographs of Chinese in Queensland from the 1860s onwards, in family life and in various occupations. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 6 images | Date Added: 14 February 2006 | |
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Diverse faiths
State Library of Queensland |
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Photographs of different ethnic groups and religious practices over the first half of the twentieth century. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 7 images | Date Added: 14 February 2006 | |
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European settlers
State Library of Queensland |
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Archival photographs of various ethnic groups in Queensland in the early 1900s. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 9 images | Date Added: 19 December 2005 | |
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Migrant Gardeners in Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane |
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Photographs and text from a 2005 exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane which showed the types of gardens a wide range of groups of migrants planted in their new homes, reflecting their countries of origin and providing links with their lives before they came to Australia. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 17 images | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | |
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Pauline Hanson headlines
Various newspapers |
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Series of headlines from 1996 during the initial rise of One Nation. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 23 August 2002 | |
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Showcasing Brisbane's ethnic communities
Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre |
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Artwork and performances from different ethnic communities, some from BEMAC's 2005 calendar which featured the artistic activities of various refugee groups in Brisbane. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 9 images | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | |
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South Sea Islander and Asian workers
State Library of Queensland |
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Archival photographs of South Sea Islander and Asian workers at various occupations in Queensland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 6 images | Date Added: 19 December 2005 | |
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Sri Lankan dance
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Performances in Brisbane in August 2005 by the Sri Lankan community celebrating Vesak, one of the most important festivals on the calendar. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 6 images | Date Added: 19 May 2006 | |
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Sri Lankan Vesak Festival, Vihara Temple, Brisbane, 2005
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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A celebration organised by the Vihara Temple in Brisbane in August 2005 of Vesak, one of the most important religious festivals of Sri Lankan Buddhists, featuring a "thorana" which depicts aspects of Buddha's life. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 5 images | Date Added: 14 February 2006 | |
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The Petrie Tableau
Walker, Stephen |
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A sculpture commissioned in the Bicentennial year to honour early Brisbane settlers, which depicts the Petrie family and their neighbours in 1842. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 2 images | Date Added: 28 December 2005 | |
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Vietnamese celebration
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Lion dance, part of the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of Vietnamese settlement in Queensland in Brisbane, 14 August 2005. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 6 images | Date Added: 19 May 2006 | |
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Vietnamese Celebration prayers, Phat Da Monsatery, Brisbane, 2005
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Brisbane's Vietnamese community gathered in the Phat Da Buddhist Monastery in August 2005 for prayers as part of celebrations of 30 years of life in their new home in Queensland. |
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Format: swf | Size: | Length: 6 images | Date Added: 14 February 2006 | |
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