A community history to record the distinctive histories and ethnic profiles of towns including Port Macquarie, Taree, Kempsey, South West Rocks, Wingham, Wauchope and Laurieton, including the shared labour histories working on farms and in local industries.
A Port Macquarie-Hastings Council and NSW Migration Heritage Centre research partnership.
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Winner 2009 Museums And Galleries NSW IMAGinE Award – Education and Public Engagement. Discover the story of captured German mariners and their internment at Berrima in New South Wales during World War One and the artefacts that survive in Berrima District Museum.
A Berrima District Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
Produced an exhibition on six local people and families from migrant and refugee backgrounds who contributed to industry and business in Young and surrounds.
A Lambing Flat Museum, Young and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
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Insights into the lives, work, successes and frustrations of people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in the Australian workforce.
A Liverpool Health Services and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
A two day event organised by a community group to celebrate the achievements of Arabic women, their testimonies and their artworks.
A Bankstown Lebanese Community Council and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
This project aimed to provide a learning program for the children and young people of NSW on the specific experiences of refugee children and young people.
A NSW Department of Education and Training and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
Rockdale City changed dramatically after World War Two. Migrant accommodation centres at Kingsgrove and Kyeemagh settled many migrants. Rockdale is now home to a culturally diverse population with 45% of people born overseas. The local parks and reserves and their community associations are being researched.
A Rockdale City Council research partnership with the NSW Migration Heritage Centre.
The Regional Migration Heritage Identification project was initiated to ensure that the stories, experiences, achievements and places of interest for migrant communities in rural and regional NSW are recognised and celebrated as part of the common history and rich heritage of the State.
A NSW Local Government and Shires Association and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
Research and oral histories to document the Scheyville Training Farm (1911-1939) for Dreadnought Boys and the Post WW2 Migrant Accommodation Centre (1949-1964).
A NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
Winner 2010 National Trust Heritage Award. Stories about the separation and reunion of Italian women from the Northern Beaches suburbs of Sydney (1920-1970).
A Sempre Con Te Group (Northern Beaches) NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
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‘Sharing the Lode: the Broken Hill Migrant Story’ is a publication and an exhibition about Broken Hill’s non-English speaking migrants who arrived in a harsh and alien outback mining town and chose to call it home.
A Broken Hill Migrant Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
Visit Bonegilla, a National Heritage listed place near Albury-Wodonga. Reminisce or learn about Bonegilla – the largest and longest operating migrant centre of the post-war era in Australia.
An Albury LibraryMuseum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
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Read about Wollongong’s textile, clothing and footwear industry from the 1940s to 1970s in a new mini-book.
An Illawarra Migration Heritage Project supported by the Royal Australian Historical Society and assisted by the NSW Migration Heritage Centre. Continue reading
Oral histories about the migration journeys and settlement experiences of southern Sudanese refugees now living in Blacktown in Western Sydney.
A Blacktown City Council, Blacktown Sudanese Community and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
Celebrate the cultural and historic contribution made by Italian fruiterers to Sydney’s social history.
A Co.As.It. database and touring photographic exhibition in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney. Supported by the NSW Migration Heritage Centre.
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Vietnamese-Australian artist Dacchi Dang collaborated with Vietnamese community members to tell the story of their journey from Vietnam to Australia for The Boat Project, as many Vietnamese people arrived in Australia by boat.
An Asia Australia Arts Centre and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
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The NSW Migration Heritage Centre has been working with the Albury LibraryMuseum to document the Bonegilla collection, record oral histories and encourage tourists to visit the Bonegilla Heritage Park and its associated collections at the Albury LibraryMuseum. This is to develop regional tourism.
An Albury LibraryMuseum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
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Winner 2012 National Trust Heritage Award. Newly discovered photographs by internee Paul Dubotzki reveal what it was like to be interned in Australia during World War One.
A NSW Migration Heritage Centre and Historic Houses Trust of NSW project.
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The Fairbridge organisation operated a Farm School for underprivileged British child migrants near Molong from 1938 until 1974. About 1000 boys and girls passed through and were trained as “farmers and farmers’ wives”.
A Fairbridge Heritage Association, NSW Heritage Office and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
This project focused on male migrants, whose acceptance in his new country came from his capacity to work, and explored what happens when this capacity is taken away.
A Wollongong City Gallery and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
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This international project demonstrated how diverse communities throughout the world could be brought together and interconnected by art and the narrative voice of personal experience.
A NSW Migration Heritage Centre project with the Gosford Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, New England Art Museum and Orange Regional Gallery.
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Highly Commended 2002 National Trust Heritage Awards. From spiritual temples to a bustling commercial centre, from kitsch to classical, from ancient traditions to contemporary cultural development, this self-drive audio tour takes you to fascinating places in one of Australia’s most culturally diverse neighbourhoods.
A Fairfield City Council and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
Explore the tenacity, camaraderie, humour and hard-work of the local Islander, Indian and Aboriginal communities who worked the banana farms and cane fields of the Tweed.
A Tweed River Regional Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre research partnership. Continue reading
‘Undertow’ is a series of paintings by Hanna Kay influenced and informed by the Jewish Cemetery in Maitland; one of only two ‘stand alone’ Jewish Cemeteries in regional NSW.
A Maitland Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition in partnership with the NSW Migration Heritage Centre.
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The Uranquinty Migrant Hostel provided accommodation for migrants and the partners and families of workers of projects such as the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
A Wagga Wagga City Council and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project. Continue reading
This project promoted the heritage of Arabic-speaking Australians by collecting oral histories, identifying important places and historically and culturally significant objects and materials culminating in a Powerhouse Museum exhibition.
A Powerhouse Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
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The population of Wollongong more than doubled between 1947 and 1961 due to migration. A project to identify, document and assess migration heritage places in Wollongong.
A Wollongong City Council, NSW Heritage Office, Illawarra Migration Heritage Project and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
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About 7,000 people were interned in Australia during the First World War. All German and Austrian subjects had to report to their nearest police station and many were sent to live in internment camps. The 550 German men at Trial Bay Gaol were under continuous guard.
A NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.
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