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  "White Alien" Immigration Policy
National Archives of Australia
 
A section from the National Archives of Australia website on immigration policy relating to non-British Europeans up until the early 1960s, with a link to a list of material available in the archives.
Format: pdf | Size: 41 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  1421 Website
Menzies, Gavin
 
Website for the book and TV show "1421" which tells about Chinese Admiral Zheng He and his voyages towards Australia as part of his global adventures.
Format: pdf | Size: 41 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  A Long Life: the See Poy portraits
Queensland Art Gallery
 
Link to the story of two paintings of a Chinese family from early in the twentieth century and the historical times they reflect, and the collaborative effort which resulted in their restoration.
Format: pdf | Size: 38 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Across the Coral Sea
State Library of Queensland
 
The website of an exhibition of historic photographs showing how South Sea Islanders came to Queensland, and their lives and work in the nineteenth century.
Format: pdf | Size: 39 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  AMF Home Page
Australian Multicultural Foundation
 
The AMF Home page opens up the full range of projects and initiatives.
Format: pdf | Size: 71 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  AMF publications
Australian Multicultural Foundation
 
After 1996 the national government reduced support for research on multiculturalism - including closing the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. The AMF supports innovative research on issues of multiculturalism and making diversity work for Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  ANTaR - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation Website
ANTAR
 
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation is an independent, national network of mainly non-Indigenous organisations and individuals working in support of justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 240 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 19 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Artists link up
Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre
 
Link to a website set up by BEMAC allowing artists to connect through posting their artwork.
Format: pdf | Size: 33 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Asia-Pacific art at the Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland Art Gallery
 
Link to the Asia-Pacific Triennial Contemporary Art section of the Queensland Art Gallery website, providing a look at past exhibitions and previews for the future.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Asian-Australian studies
Department of Education and the Arts, Queensland Government
 
A link to a section of the Queensland Department of Education and the Arts website that outlines the aims of the study program on Asia and Asian-Australian relations undertaken in the state's schools.
Format: pdf | Size: 44 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  ATSIC - The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Website
ATSIC
 
This is the official website for ATSIC, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
Format: pdf | Size: 174 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 19 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Bridging Cultures
Queensland Museum
 
Link to the story of Phyllis Ah Loy, a Queenslander of Japanese descent, and her experience of internment, along with her family, when she was a child, after Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Format: pdf | Size: 64 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane Actionweb for Refugee Collaboration
Brisbane Actionweb for Refugee Collaboration
 
Link to the BARC! website which helps groups and organisations working with refugees and asylum seekers to keep in touch and coordinate their activities.
Format: pdf | Size: 38 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane Stories: The Chinese Connection
Brisbane City Council
 
A link to a section of a community website sponsored by the Brisbane City Council, which looks at the city's Chinese communities and their contributions.
Format: pdf | Size: 49 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane: regional and world city
Brisbane City Council
 
Link to the City Council's statement of its goals for the future: "Living in Brisbane 2010", including its vision for the city's position as a regional and world city.
Format: pdf | Size: 47 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Cultural diversity in the arts
Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre
 
Text from the website for BEMAC - the Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre - and a link to it. This organisation provides services and advocacy for artists and groups.
Format: pdf | Size: 353 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Daring Diving
Queensland Museum
 
A section of the Queensland Museum website "Queensland Stories" in which a former pearl diver tells about the dangers of this type of work in the first half of the twentieth century.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Deck to deck
Brisbane City Council
 
Link to a Brisbane City Council community website which tells the stories of migrant families, with "decks" symbolic of their travels to their new homes, of the lifestyles they have taken up in Brisbane, and of the city's cultural links with the world.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Diversity of Sydney Road Brunswick
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read about the diversity of Sydney Road Brunswick
Format: pdf | Size: 436 KB | Length: 2 Pages | Date Added: 03 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd
 
Link to the homepage of the ECCQ, which groups individuals and ethnic organisations across Queensland and represents their interests.
Format: pdf | Size: 36 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Globalisation in Queensland schools
Queensland Studies Authority
 
Link to the Queensland Studies Authority, which works on curriculum and testing in Queensland schools. A search using the word "globalisation" will bring up a range of curriculum information on this subject and its teaching.
Format: pdf | Size: 37 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Griffith University Multi-Faith Centre
Griffith University
 
Link to information on Griffith University's Multi-Faith Centre, set up in 2002 as a venue for research by people of diverse religious traditions and for inter-faith dialogue and education.
Format: pdf | Size: 43 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Key export markets
Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation
 
Link to a Queensland Government webpage outlining key export markets for the state, including Australia's Asian and Pacific neighbours, and further linking to information about specific markets.
Format: pdf | Size: 48 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Kuraby Mosque after the fire
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
 
Link to the transcript of an ABC interview with Mohammad Abdalla, in which he outlines the role in educating the community about Islam that the Kuraby Mosque has taken on since it was rebuilt, after an arson attack in 2001.
Format: pdf | Size: 48 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Listening to Emerging Voices
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
 
The report of a project of the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland, which canvassed the concerns and needs of less well established migrant groups and suggested ways of meeting those needs.
Format: pdf | Size: 145 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Local Councils and Multiculturalism
Local Government Association of Queensland
 
A description of the Local Area Multicultural Partnership (LAMP) between the state government, councils, and the Local Government Association to promote community relations, and a link which provides access to: “Council of the Month”, highlighting the activities for which councils have been recognised.
Format: pdf | Size: 47 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Migrant welcome
Brisbane City Council
 
A link to Brisbane City's website where information on services to help newcomers can be accessed in several languages.
Format: pdf | Size: 39 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Myths about refugees
Brisbane City Council
 
The link to a document available on the Brisbane City Council website in several languages which explains the origins of negative perceptions of refugees and refutes these myths through factual information.
Format: pdf | Size: 39 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Pearl Shellers
Queensland Museum
 
A section of the Queensland Museum website "Queensland Stories" about the Japanese who settled on Thursday Island and worked in the pearl-shell industry there.
Format: pdf | Size: 50 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Pioneers of Love
Orana Films
 
Link to the description of an SBS documentary about the marriage of a Russian migrant and an Aboriginal woman in the early twentieth century in North Queensland and the racism and difficulties they faced.
Format: pdf | Size: 41 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland beckons
Queensland Museum
 
A section of the Queensland Museum website about Asians and Pacific Islanders who settled in north Queensland in the 19th century and became involved in a variety of industries, from farming to gold digging and pearling.
Format: pdf | Size: 38 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Racism no way
Department of Education and Training Australia
 
Link to the Queensland section of a Commonwealth initiative to combat racism in schools, containing a list of programs in the state with similar goals and the links to them.
Format: pdf | Size: 37 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Restricted Business
Queensland Museum
 
Link to the Queensland Museum website and the story of George Fong On, who settled in Australia in 1867 and ran a successful business, yet faced severe restrictions under racist legislation most of his life.
Format: pdf | Size: 71 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Scattered People
Brisbane City Council
 
The link to a Brisbane City Council community website, on which refugees and asylum seekers tell about their escapes from their countries of origin and their struggles to be allowed to stay in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 40 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Schools material on Asia
Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training
 
Link to the Voices and Visions website, which describes a series of CD-ROMs put out by the Commonwealth Education Department, containing senior secondary materials on Asian cultures and societies.
Format: pdf | Size: 49 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  South Sea Islanders
Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
 
Links to a section of the Queensland Government website which outlines the contributions of the state's South Sea Islanders, in spite of their regularly encountering discrimination throughout their history.
Format: pdf | Size: 51 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Sugar, Shops and Pearls in the 'Alien' North
Queensland Museum
 
Link to a Museum of Queensland website which tells about the varied groups who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and laid the foundations for some of the diverse communities in the state today.
Format: pdf | Size: 58 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Sweet 'n Sour
Queensland Museum
 
Link to the story of one Italian family and their experiences with sugar cane growing and later, internment, on the Queensland Museum website.
Format: pdf | Size: 63 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The art of Ken Thaiday
Queensland Art Gallery
 
Link to a webpage of the Queensland Art Gallery displaying the work of Torres Strait Islander artist Ken Thaiday, who creates headdresses and other costume and music elements of traditional island dances.
Format: pdf | Size: 37 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Global Metropolis project
Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements
 
The world's major cities are cities of immigrants and diversity. In 2007 the AMF in conjunction with Monash University hosts the Melbourne gathering of Metropolis on the theme: Migration, Economic Growth and Social Cohesion.
Format: pdf | Size: 45 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The South Sea Islander community
Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
 
Links to a section of the Queensland Government's website which outlines the history of South Sea Islanders in the state.
Format: pdf | Size: 51 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Under the skin
Education Queensland
 
Link to an Education Queensland website which outlines teaching of anti-racism units in the state's schools.
Format: pdf | Size: 37 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  White Australia
Commonwealth of Australia
 
Links to documents on the National Archives of Australia website which outline legislation and other government action to install a White Australia policy - to remain in force for well over half the twentieth century.
Format: pdf | Size: 39 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  World Refugee Survey
U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR)
 
The US Committee for Refugees website links to the annual World Refugee Survey. Facts, figures and statistics.
Format: pdf | Size: 57 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 23 November 2004 | | VIEW |

 
 
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