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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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Laura Mecca describes her arrival in Australia in the late 1970s
Mecca, Laura and Moustafine, Mara |
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Laura Mecca describes arriving in Australia in the late 1970s, and both the sense of isolation and the strategies she used to recreate social networks. |
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Format: mov | Size: 15.2 MB|360x286 | Length: 05min48sec | Date Added: 17 February 2009 | |
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Laura Mecca on civilian internment and Italian prisoners of war in Australia
Mecca, Laura and Moustafine, Mara |
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Historian Laura Mecca tells of the experience of Australian Italians who were interned as "enemy aliens"; and Italian prisoners of war in Australia including those who returned as post-war immigrants. |
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Format: mov | Size: 9.8 MB|360x286 | Length: 03min45sec | Date Added: 30 March 2009 | |
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Laura Mecca on early Italian immigration to Victoria
Mecca, Laura and Moustafine, Mara |
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Historian Laura Mecca describes early Italian immigration, including the Gold Rush period and the wider settlement of Italians in rural Victoria and Melbourne, including regional origins. |
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Format: mov | Size: 13.9 MB|360x286 | Length: 05min20sec | Date Added: 26 March 2009 | |
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Laura Mecca on Italian experiences of the politicisation of Italian immigrants in the 1920s and '30s
Mecca, Laura and Moustafine, Mara |
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Historian Laura Mecca describes Italian experiences of the strikes of the 1920s on the Australian waterfront and the conflict they experienced. She also describes Italian fascism and anti-Fascism. |
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Format: mov | Size: 15.8 MB|360x286 | Length: 06min04sec | Date Added: 27 March 2009 | |
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Laura Mecca on Italians who came to Australia in 1920s
Mecca, Laura and Moustafine, Mara |
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Historian Laura Mecca tells of the Italians who came to Australia in the 1920s after the USA blocked immigration |
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Format: mov | Size: 3.2 MB|360x286 | Length: 01min14sec | Date Added: 26 March 2009 | |
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Laura Mecca on Post-World War 2 Italian Migration to Australia
Mecca, Laura and Moustafine, Mara |
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Historian Laura Mecca gives an overview of Italian post-war immigration to Australia. |
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Format: mov | Size: 8.3 MB|360x286 | Length: 03min10sec | Date Added: 03 April 2009 | |
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Maria Tence on early Italian settlement
Moustafine, Mara and Tence, Maria |
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Historian and museum curator Maria Tence describes early Italian settlement |
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Format: mov | Size: 11.3 MB|360x286 | Length: 04min20sec | Date Added: 26 March 2009 | |
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Maria Tence on the small business focus of early immigrants
Moustafine, Mara and Tence, Maria |
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Historian and museum curator Maria Tence describes the small business focus of early immigrants and their sense of themselves as White |
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Format: mov | Size: 6 MB|360x286 | Length: 02min18sec | Date Added: 27 March 2009 | |
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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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Richard Broome about Goldfields
Broome, Richard; Jakubowicz, Andrew and Moustafine, Mara |
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Historian Richard Broome explores the development of democracy on the Victorian goldfields |
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Format: mov | Size: 13.4 MB|360x286 | Length: 05min09sec | Date Added: 30 January 2009 | |
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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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