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A personal history of multicultural arts in Victoria
Kapetopoulos, Fotis |
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Fotis Kapetopoulos, a long time activist around multicultural arts, describes and analyses the rise of culturally diverse arts as an important dimension of the Victorian arts scene. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 246 KB | Length: 16 pages | Date Added: 11 January 2011 | |
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Achievements of the Good Neighbour Movement 1949-72
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs |
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A summary by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs of the Good Neighbour Movement, its growth, its activities, and changes to its role from its founding in 1949 to 1972. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Arts for a Multicultural Australia 1973-1991
Blonski, Annette |
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A detailed history of the way the Australia Council for the Arts has dealt with issues of multiculturalism and ethnic arts from its establishment in 1973, to 1991. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | |
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Battles Small and Great
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) |
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This monograph, subtitled “The First Twenty Years of the Racial Discrimination Act”, was put out by the Commission - along with a video of the same name – to mark the landmark anniversary in 1995; it covers the Act’s history, the reasons for the review announced that year, and records the celebration of the anniversary. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Brief History of SBS
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) |
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The landmarks in the SBS story, from the beginning of experimental ethnic radio broadcasts in 1975, through the establishment of the permanent radio service, the launching of television in 1980, and its development until mid 1997. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | |
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Community strategies to combat racism
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team |
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A brief history of some of the major strategies that have been undertaken from within the community to combat racism, from the Freedom Ride of 1965, to 1997. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Excerpt from Matthew Flinders' log, 1802
Flinders, Matthew |
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Explorer Matthew Flinders describes some of the people with whom he came into contact in what would later become northern Queensland, in his A Voyage to Terra Australis. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 1.16 MB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | |
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Fifty Years of Post-War Migration
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs |
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A fact sheet outlining a brief history of Australia’s post-war migration program, issued in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the program. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Glenda Banks interviews Mabel Wang 1987
Banks, Glenda |
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The Big Dragon brought to Melbourne in 1979 was the catalyst for the city’s Chinese New Year celebrations in the years since. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 10.1 MB | Length: 595 x 842 | Date Added: 23 February 2009 | |
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Harvest of Endurance: A History of the Chinese in Australia 1788-1988
Mo, Yimei |
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The history of the Chinese in Australia and of their contribution to Australian society, written by Mo Yimei to accompany a 50-metre long scroll, painted in traditional style by Mo Xiangyi for the Australia-Chinese Friendship Society for the Bicentennial. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Heidi Zogbaum reviews the Kisch case of 1934
Zogbaum, Dr. Heidi |
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Heidi Zogbaum reviews the Kisch case of 1934 and its impact on Australian public culture |
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Format: pdf | Size: 408 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 06 February 2009 | |
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Immigrant women and their role in the rise of multiculturalism
Immigration Museum, Victoria |
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Read about immigrant women and their role in the rise of multiculturalism and programs for immigrants and refugees |
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Format: pdf | Size: 40 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | |
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Islam in Australia
Cleland, Bilal |
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An excerpt of a history by Bilal Cleland which describes early contacts with and influences of Muslims in northern Australia. A second excerpt outlines the importance of Afghan camel teams in the opening up of the interior. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 580 KB | Length: 26 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | |
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Italian Immigration Fact sheet 1850-1900
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Italian migrants began arriving in Australia in the mid-1800s. They were motivated by the need for work, the search for new opportunities, and the deprivations caused by war, poverty, crop failure and natural disaster. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 56 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 04 February 2009 | |
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Italian speakers on the goldfields of the Great Dividing Range
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Read Annamaria Davine's "micro-historical " study of Italian speakers on the Walhalla goldfields in the 1860s. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 808 KB | Length: 14 Pages | Date Added: 04 February 2009 | |
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John Lack's reflections of the 1950s
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Read John Lack's reflections on coming of age in Melbourne of the 1950s |
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Format: pdf | Size: 56 KB | Length: 6 Pages | Date Added: 12 February 2009 | |
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Judaism in Australia
Rubinstein, W. D. |
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A brief history of the Jewish community in Australia, dating back to the First Fleet, from a 1995 report by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | |
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Key Events and the Racial Discrimination Act
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) |
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A brief history of anti-discrimination measures in Australia, from 1966 when Australia signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, from the Commission’s State of the Nation 1995 - A Report on People of Non-English Speaking Backgrounds. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Laura Mecca on emergence of the Italian Historical Society
Mecca, Laura |
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Laura Mecca describes the emergence of the Italian Historical Society |
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Format: pdf | Size: 104 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 17 February 2009 | |
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Looking back on 30 years of migration
Committee for the Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Vietnamese Refugee Settlement in Queensland |
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A brief history of the settlement of the Vietnamese in Queensland, who arrived after escaping the war in their homeland. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 9.1 MB | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | |
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Memorial to Gov. Darling by Chinese merchants of Ballarat, 1863
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Read this "Memorial" to Governor Darling by Chinese merchants of Ballarat, urging police action on illegal gambling |
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Format: pdf | Size: 268 KB | Length: 4 Pages | Date Added: 02 February 2009 | |
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Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
Tench, Captain Watkin |
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One of the commanders in the First Fleet describes the proceedings when the British established the settlement at Sydney Cove in 1788, in Sydney’s First Four Years – a reprint of a Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 268K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | |
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Parliamentary Library Report on Anti-Racism
Milbank, Adrienne |
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Adrienne Milbank discusses the value of an anti-racism campaign in Australia during the rise of racism and controversy over immigration |
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Format: pdf | Size: 156 KB | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | |
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Petition to the Governor, 1861 from European and Chinese residents of Ararat
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Read this petition from Europeans and chinese urging the Governor to reduce the residence (or poll) tax on Chinese in the colony |
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Format: pdf | Size: 692 KB | Length: 7 Pages | Date Added: 02 February 2009 | |
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Petition to the Governor, from Chinese residents of Victoria on education for miners
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Read this petition by Chinese residents of the colony asking for government support for the supply of Chinese type to print laws in Chinese, and for the government to provide teachers for evening classes for Chinese miners in Chinese and English to improve their literacy and education. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 284 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 02 February 2009 | |
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South China Morning Post Report 1979
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Read how an old dragon making factory in Fat Shan China was reopened after almost 30 years to make the Big Dragon to represent Victoria's Chinese Community at the 25th Moomba Festival in 1979. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 4.8 MB | Length: 2 Pages | Date Added: 23 February 2009 | |
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The Chinese in Victoria
Jones, Paul |
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Read Paul Jones' overview of the Chinese in Victoria and explore the Chinese-Australian Historical Images online archive
http://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au |
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Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 03 February 2009 | |
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The ECCQ from the 1970s to today
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd |
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A brief history of the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland from its founding in 1976. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 66 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | |
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The Maccassar Story
Wurramarrba, Charlie, Galiyawa |
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An Indigenous Australian born in 1893 describes what his father told him and what he remembers of visits by the Macassan (Indonesian) traders who came to the Northern Territory until 1906, his story recorded by Judith Stokes in This is What Happened, by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 10 March 2002 | |
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Victorian Multicultural Commission Act of 1993
Victorian Multicultural Commission |
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Read the Victorian Multicultural Commission Act of 1993, passed by the Kennett conservative government |
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Format: pdf | Size: 188 KB | Length: 10 Pages | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | |
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What their deaths tell us about Chinese miners in Victoria
Jakubowicz, Andrew |
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Read Valerie Lovejoy's The Things that Unite:Inquests into Chinese Deaths on the Bendigo Goldfields 1854-65 |
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Format: pdf | Size: 852 KB | Length: 18 Pages | Date Added: 03 February 2009 | |
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