People & Places

A Living Heritage

The New Italy Museum is an important link to the rich Italian heritage that has left such strong imprints upon the Northern Rivers region.

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A Place For The Friendless Female

The Female Immigration Depot (1848 to 1886) was the primary reception and hiring depot in Sydney for thousands of working-class Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh female immigrants.

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At The Beach

Botany Bay is one of the most significant places in the history of migration to Australia. After the arrival of the British First Fleet and the French Lapérouse Expedition in 1788 the European colonisation of Australia began.

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Belongings

Winner 2010 National Trust Heritage Awards. Memories, personal mementos and photographs of former migrants who arrived in Australia in the decades after the Second World War.

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Fields Of Memories

Scheyville National Park, in north-west Sydney, was the location of an agricultural training farm for English child migrants in the early 20th century, and later a migrant accommodation centre after the Second World War.

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From Estonia To Thirlmere

Thirlmere’s Estonians, who worked in the New South Wales poultry industry from 1927 to 1967, recall surviving war, adapting to ‘Displaced Persons’ camp life, journeying to Australia and their experiences of settling and farming.

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Getting Married

Wedding stories and photos celebrating love, life and culture in Australia today. Meet the couples and discover experiences of cross-cultural marriages.

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Gold And Silver

Discover four personal accounts of refugees and migrants from Vietnam who have made new homes and attachments in Sydney’s south west.

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Half A World Away

Highly Commended 2008 National Trust Heritage Awards. A showcase for the enormous contribution migrants have made to the economy and cultural life of Orange in the Central West of New South Wales.

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Journey To A New Life

This exhibition, produced in partnership with Co.As.It, documents Italian migration and life in NSW from the late nineteenth century to the present through a selection of 24 photographs and objects.

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Making Multicultural Australia

Teaching resources and strategies to understand cultural diversity and tolerance.

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Meie Uus Kodu (Our New Home)

Stories of invasion, dispossession, and settling in a new home, told by the Estonian migrants who came here as Displaced Persons post-WW2.

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My Own Boss

Lightning Ridge, 75 km north of Walgett, is the only place in the world where the exquisite black opal is mined in quantity and sold in the rough. People have come from around the world to find their fortunes in this outback town.

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National Quilt Register

Old quilts carry memories about our history, needlework and provide a rich insight into women’s lives. The Register features many Greek and other community quilts.

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Objects Through Time

Winner 2009 National Trust Heritage Awards. An online journey to view fascinating objects and explore important chapters, places and events in Australian migration history.

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Our Newspapers Online

Our Newspapers Online features first editions and histories of community newspapers, highlighting their vital role in supporting and informing communities across New South Wales.

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Packing To Leave

View mini-documentaries filmed in people’s homes. Former migrants share their personal stories, photos and memorabilia.

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Pai Nai Ma

Pai Nai Ma means ‘where have you been?’. From the Loy Krathong festival to Buddhist temples, Thai culture has become a part of the Parramatta and wider Australian story.

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Prisoners In Arcady

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.

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Real Stories

Journey through the stories of migrants who work at Sydney’s Liverpool Health Services, in a series of online documentaries.

Hear them talk about the successes and frustrations of establishing a new life here in Australia.

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Sharing The Lode

Celebrate the lives of people from non-English speaking backgrounds who have made Broken Hill their home since 1883.

Visit Sharing the Lode at the Migrant Museum, Sulphide Street, Broken Hill.

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So Much Sky

Visit Bonegilla, a National Heritage listed place near Wodonga, and see the Bonegilla Collection at the Albury LibraryMuseum. Reminisce or learn about the rich history of Bonegilla.

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Sudanese Stories

An exhibition featuring oral histories about the migration journeys and settlement experiences of southern Sudanese refugees now living in Blacktown, Western Sydney.

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Sydney’s Italian Fruit Shops

Celebrate the cultural and historic contribution made by Italian fruiterers to Sydney’s social history in this major photographic exhibition at Leichhardt Library from Saturday 11 September 2010.

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The Age Of Macquarie

2010 marks the bicentennial of the Governorship of Lachlan Macquarie Esq who took over the running of NSW in 1810 and transformed the colony from a sordid gaol to a prosperous community.

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The First Wave

On 12 March 1947, the Misr sailed from Port Said, Egypt, bound for Australia, carrying hundreds of passengers from over fifteen countries. View a compelling documentary.

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The Forgotten Children

Read ten oral history transcripts of former British child migrants from the Fairbridge Farm School, Molong.

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The Ultimate Goal

An inspiring tale of young people from war-torn countries brought together by a passion for football.

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The World Cup Dream

Meet the parents of five Socceroos and hear their personal stories. Diverse family backgrounds – Italian, German, Anglo-Saxon, Croatian and Lebanese – show how the face of football in Australia was transformed by post-war migration.

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Ties With Tradition

Winner 2010 National Trust Heritage Awards. A powerful juxtaposition of colour and patterns, this exhibition showcases over 40 Macedonian aprons from the Illawarra region.

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Undertow

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.

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Wing Hing Long & Co

Visit the State Heritage Register listed Wing Hing Long & Co store at Tingha, 26 km south of Inverell – a time capsule of original fittings and merchandise 1881-1998.

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Zivil Lager (Internment Camp)

Visit Trial Bay Gaol, a former concentration camp for people of German descent interned as ‘enemy aliens’ during World War One. View its extraordinary collection, including rare photographs.

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