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Early cultural diversity in Queensland
Brandle, Max |
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Max Brandle describes some of the groups of European migrants who came to Queensland between 1859 and the First World War. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 4.23 MB | Length: 2 min 36 s | Date Added: 10 February 2006 | |
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Federation Procession in Sydney on January 1, 1901
Salvation Army |
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Footage of the Federation procession in Sydney, 1901, shot by the Salvation Army's film production and distribution unit, the Limelight Department. |
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Format: mov | Size: | Length: 18 secs | Date Added: 03 June 2002 | |
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Queensland eyes New Guinea
Moore, Clive |
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Historian Clive Moore discusses Queensland's imperial adventures in New Guinea. |
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Format: mov | Size: 6.3 MB | Length: 4 min 31 s | Date Added: 10 February 2006 | |
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Queensland's Islander trade
Moore, Clive |
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Clive Moore explores the contradictions of the recruitment of South Sea Islanders for work in Queensland - and their later expulsion. |
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Format: mov | Size: 3.6 MB | Length: 2 min 59 s | Date Added: 15 February 2006 | |
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Rethinking the north of Australia
Ganter, Regina |
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Historian Regina Ganter explains how much of the history told about other parts of Australia does not apply in the same way to the north, where the earliest external links were with lands close by. |
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Format: mov | Size: 2.65 MB | Length: 1 min 30 s | Date Added: 20 December 2005 | |
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The Macassans and trepang fishing
Ganter, Regina |
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Regina Ganter tells about the people who came from what is now Sulawesi to northern Australia to collect sea cucumber and about Flinders' encounter with one such group. |
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Format: mov | Size: 2.6 MB | Length: 1 min 48 s | Date Added: 10 February 2006 | |
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The Migrant Experience, episode 4 "Working"
Film Australia |
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Working conditions for immigrants during the post war years were not always as rosy as government films portrayed them. |
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Format: mov | Size: | Length: 38 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | |
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"Kanakas" workers in Queensland Canefields 1899
Will, Fred (Agriculture Department of Queensland) |
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Workers from the South Pacific were brought to Australia, often against their will, to work for British farmers in appalling conditions. After Federation, this practice was eventually stopped and the "Kanakas" deported, as they were seen as unfair competition to the white workforce. |
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Format: mov | Size: | Length: 23 secs | Date Added: 03 June 2002 | |
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