Publications
You can borrow copies of the titles listed below from the Powerhouse Museum’s library and collect them at your local library anywhere in Australia – telephone the Librarian on 02 9217 0259 from 9.00am to 5.00 pm on weekdays.
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At The Beach
La Perouse - South Eastern SydneyBotany Bay is where James Cook and the crew of the HMS Endeavour made first contact with the indigenous people on the east coast of Australia in 1770. 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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Australians And Greeks
A multi-award winning history, covering an age of war and migration – when world crisis brought Greeks and Australians into intimate contact.
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Canterbury’s People
Western SydneyCelebrate the stories and lives of Canterbury’s people, a City of Cultural Diversity, located 14 km south-west of Sydney’s centre. It is a cosmopolitan hub of cultures, religions, languages and races.
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Different Sights
New EnglandAn introduction to the rich and diverse history of migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds in the New England Tableland in northern New South Wales.
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Fairfield – Evolution Of A Migrant City
Western SydneyOver 130 nationalities live in Fairfield and three quarters of all residents have overseas ancestry – it is one of the most culturally diverse areas in Australia.
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Families Of Fortune
Chinese Community - Tweed RiverHighly Commended 2010 National Trust Heritage Awards. A wave of Chinese migration to the Tweed began in the late 19th century and the newcomers quickly established themselves as market gardeners, banana growers, cooks, herbalists and shopkeepers.
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Fields Of Memories
Scheyville Farm And Migrant Centre - Western SydneyVisit Scheyville National Park, the location of the former Dreadnought Training Farm and a post-Second World War Migrant Accommodation Centre.
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Fruits Of Our Labour
Italian Community - GriffithHighly Commended 2008 National Trust Heritage Awards. After the Second World War, Griffith’s Italian business interests helped create the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area as a nationally important place for growing and processing rice, grapes and citrus and stone fruits.
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Golden Threads
Chinese Community - New South WalesWinner 2005 National Trust Heritage Awards. Explore Chinese working lives, hopes and beliefs in regional New South Wales from 1850 to 1950 and the attitudes of a white Australia which viewed the Chinese at one extreme as a menacing threat and, at the other, an exotic presence.
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Griffith Italian Heritage Trail
Murrumbidgee Irrigation AreaExplore places associated with the history of Italian migration, settlement and horticulture in Griffith – famous for its wine, citrus and stone fruit industries.
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Half A World Away
Post-WW2 Migration - OrangeHighly Commended 2008 National Trust Heritage Awards. A tribute to the hundreds of families from Europe and the United Kingdom who left conflict, uncertainty and economic chaos in the hope of attaining a stable, prosperous lifestyle in the Orange district.
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History Of The Fairbridge Settlement
Child Migration - MolongA new CD Rom documents the history of the Fairbridge settlement and features photographs, plans and drawings.
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Lebanese Settlement
New South WalesLebanese migrants have been settling in Australia from the mid-19th century. By the 1880s sizeable numbers of Lebanese people were finding homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
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Liverpool Migration Heritage Trail
Western SydneyTake an exciting historical journey through the Liverpool City Council area – this trail honors the heritage places of our many communities.
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Liverpool Migration History
Western SydneyThis book highlights Liverpool’s rich multicultural history by revealing the importance of migration and settlement in Sydney’s South-West.
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Lives Lost, Life Regained
Holocaust Survivors, Memoirs, Jewish Community - SydneyIn six interminable years of madness their ancestral homes and communities were swept away – this book is an anthology of excerpts from the memoirs of participants from Sydney Jewish Museum’s Community Stories program.
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Maitland Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Community – New South WalesA Monument to Dreams and Deeds, explore the Maitland Jewish Cemetery’s history and read the stories of the people buried there.
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My Own Boss
Opal Miners - Lightning RidgeLightning 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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Prisoners In Arcady
German Community - Berrima GaolDiscover 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 – People & Cultures At Work
Liverpool Health Services - Western SydneyJourney 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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Sempre Con Te (Always With You)
Italian Community - Northern Beaches SydneyWinner 2010 National Trust Heritage Awards. Stories about the separation and reunion of Italian women from the Northern Beaches suburbs of Sydney (1920-1970).
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Sharing The Lode
Broken HillFrom Afghan cameleers to Filipino book-keepers is the story of Broken Hill’s non-English speaking migrants who arrived in a harsh and alien outback mining town and chose to call it home.
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So Much Sky
Bonegilla Reception & Training Centre -Albury/WodongaVisit Bonegilla, a National Heritage listed place near Albury-Wodonga. Reminisce or learn about the rich history of Bonegilla – the largest and longest operating centre of the post-war era in Australia.
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The Forgotten Children
Fairbridge Farm School - MolongFrom 1938 to 1974 thousands of parents were persuaded to sign over legal guardianship of their children to Fairbridge and the Farm School, Molong. Now many of those children have decided to speak out.
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The Other Side Of The World
Post-WW2 Migration - Tweed RiverWinner 2009 National Trust Heritage Awards. With hopes high and families left behind, migrants travelled to the Tweed from the South Sea Islands, China, India, England, Greece and Italy, and many other nations. This is a history of migrant labour on banana plantations and sugar cane fields.
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Ties With Tradition
Macedonian Apron Designs - IllawarraWinner 2010 National Trust Heritage Awards. A powerful juxtaposition of colour and patterns, this book showcases over 40 Macedonian aprons from the Illawarra region.
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Tune Into Fairfield City
Driving Tour - Western SydneyHighly 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 tour takes you to fascinating places in one of Australia’s most culturally diverse cities.
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Water From The Wells
Market Gardens, Chinese Community - New South WalesAn historical survey of Chinese market gardens in New South Wales 1850-2010, and the labour and lives of Chinese men employed in scrub cutting, land clearing and market gardening.
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Wing Hing Long & Co
Chinese-Australian Rural Store - TinghaVisit the Wing Hing Long & Co museum, a Chinese-Australian rural general store and a time capsule of original fittings and merchandise.
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Zivil Lager (Internment Camp)
German Community - Trial Bay GaolVisit 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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EXHIBITIONS
Sudanese Stories
Prisoners In Arcady
Ties With Tradition Governor Macquarie
Pai Nai Ma
The Forgotten Children
Sudanese Stories
Prisoners In Arcady
Ties With Tradition Governor Macquarie
Pai Nai Ma
The Forgotten Children
STORIES
Ayul Towng
Kim & Vihn Nguyen
Anton Potocnik
Rajalakshmi Ram
Angelina Todoroska
Helen Sham-Ho
Ayul Towng
Kim & Vihn Nguyen
Anton Potocnik
Rajalakshmi Ram
Angelina Todoroska
Helen Sham-Ho
The Migration Heritage Centre at the Powerhouse Museum is a NSW Government initiative supported by the Community Relations Commission.
PO Box K346, Haymarket NSW, Australia, 1238 info@migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au
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