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Recycling – Another Way Of Living

Bankstown Lebanese Community Council

A two day event organised by a community group to celebrate the achievements of Arabic women, their testimonies and their artworks.

A Bankstown Lebanese Community Council and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Roads To Refuge

NSW Department of Education and Training

This project aimed to provide a learning program for the children and young people of NSW on the specific experiences of refugee children and young people.

A NSW Department of Education and Training and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Rural And Regional Migration

NSW Local Government and Shires Association

The Regional Migration Heritage Identification project was initiated to ensure that the stories, experiences, achievements and places of interest for migrant communities in rural and regional NSW are recognised and celebrated as part of the common history and rich heritage of the State.

A NSW Local Government and Shires Association and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Scheyville Training Farm And Migrant Centre

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

Research and oral histories to document the Scheyville Training Farm (1911-1939) for Dreadnought Boys and the Post WW2 Migrant Accommodation Centre (1949-1964).

A NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Sempre Con Te (always with you)

Sempre Con Te Group (Northern Beaches)

Winner 2010 National Trust Heritage Award. Stories about the separation and reunion of Italian women from the Northern Beaches suburbs of Sydney (1920-1970).

A Sempre Con Te Group (Northern Beaches) NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Sharing The Lode

Broken Hill Migrant Museum

‘Sharing the Lode: the Broken Hill Migrant Story’ is a publication and an exhibition about Broken Hill’s non-English speaking migrants who arrived in a harsh and alien outback mining town and chose to call it home.

A Broken Hill Migrant Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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So Much Sky

Albury LibraryMuseum

Visit Bonegilla, a National Heritage listed place near Albury-Wodonga. Reminisce or learn about Bonegilla – the largest and longest operating migrant centre of the post-war era in Australia.

An Albury LibraryMuseum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Stamina

Aspiration and Capability - Wollongong

Read about Wollongong’s textile, clothing and footwear industry from the 1940s to 1970s in a new mini-book.

An Illawarra Migration Heritage Project supported by the Royal Australian Historical Society and assisted by the NSW Migration Heritage Centre.

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Sudanese Stories

Blacktown City Council

Oral histories about the migration journeys and settlement experiences of southern Sudanese refugees now living in Blacktown in Western Sydney.

A Blacktown City Council, Blacktown Sudanese Community and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Sweet Harvests

Tweed River Regional Museum

Explore the tenacity, camaraderie, humour and hard-work of the local South Sea Islander and Indian communities who worked the banana farms and cane fields of the Tweed.

A Tweed River Regional Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre video.

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Sydney’s Italian Fruitshops

Co.As.It.

Celebrate the cultural and historic contribution made by Italian fruiterers to Sydney’s social history.

A Co.As.It. database and touring photographic exhibition in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney. Supported by the NSW Migration Heritage Centre.

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The Boat

Asia Australia Arts Centre

Vietnamese-Australian artist Dacchi Dang collaborated with Vietnamese community members to tell the story of their journey from Vietnam to Australia for The Boat Project, as many Vietnamese people arrived in Australia by boat.

An Asia Australia Arts Centre and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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The Bonegilla Story

Albury LibraryMuseum

The NSW Migration Heritage Centre has been working with the Albury LibraryMuseum to document the Bonegilla collection, record oral histories and encourage tourists to visit the Bonegilla Heritage Park and its associated collections at the Albury LibraryMuseum. This is to develop regional tourism.

An Albury LibraryMuseum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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The Enemy At Home

Historic Houses Trust

Winner 2012 National Trust Heritage Award. Newly discovered photographs by internee Paul Dubotzki reveal what it was like to be interned in Australia during World War One.

A NSW Migration Heritage Centre and Historic Houses Trust of NSW project.

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The Forgotten Children

Fairbridge Heritage Association

The Fairbridge organisation operated a Farm School for underprivileged British child migrants near Molong from 1938 until 1974. About 1000 boys and girls passed through and were trained as “farmers and farmers’ wives”.

A Fairbridge Heritage Association, NSW Heritage Office and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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The Male Domestic

Wollongong City Gallery

This project focused on male migrants, whose acceptance in his new country came from his capacity to work, and explored what happens when this capacity is taken away.

A Wollongong City Gallery and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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The Migration Series 1992-2002

Gosford, New England and Orange Museums and Galleries

This international project demonstrated how diverse communities throughout the world could be brought together and interconnected by art and the narrative voice of personal experience.

A NSW Migration Heritage Centre project with the Gosford Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, New England Art Museum and Orange Regional Gallery.

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Tracking The Dragon

Museum of the Riverina, Australian-Chinese Historical Society

A thematic study, exhibition and book reveal a complex and poignant narrative examining both the public and private lives of the Australian-Chinese migrant experience in the Riverina.

A Museum of the Riverina and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project assisted by the Australian-Chinese Historical Society.

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Tune In To Fairfield City

Fairfield City Council

Highly 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 self-drive audio tour takes you to fascinating places in one of Australia’s most culturally diverse neighbourhoods.

A Fairfield City Council and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Undertow

Maitland Regional Art Gallery

‘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.

A Maitland Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition in partnership with the NSW Migration Heritage Centre.

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Uranquinty Remembers

Wagga Wagga City Council

The Uranquinty Migrant Hostel provided accommodation for migrants and the partners and families of workers of projects such as the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

A Wagga Wagga City Council and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Wattan – Redfern

Powerhouse Museum

This project promoted the heritage of Arabic-speaking Australians by collecting oral histories, identifying important places and historically and culturally significant objects and materials culminating in a Powerhouse Museum exhibition.

A Powerhouse Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Windsor market gardens and farming

Hawkesbury Regional Museum

An exhibition to research and interpret the history of migration in the evolution of farming and market gardens in Windsor from 1790 to present. Coming in 2012-13.

A Hawkesbury Regional Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Wollongong’s Migration Heritage Places

Illawarra Migration Heritage Project

The population of Wollongong more than doubled between 1947 and 1961 due to migration. A project to identify, document and assess migration heritage places in Wollongong.

A Wollongong City Council, NSW Heritage Office, Illawarra Migration Heritage Project and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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Zivil Lager (Internment Camp)

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

About 7,000 people were interned in Australia during the First World War. All German and Austrian subjects had to report to their nearest police station and many were sent to live in internment camps. The 550 German men at Trial Bay Gaol were under continuous guard.

A NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and NSW Migration Heritage Centre project.

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