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view stories of migrants
who arrived in Australia in 1960
De Vos family arrives in Sydney, Australia, 23 May 1960 (Marius de Vos is standing, top left)
Marius (Rien) de Vos

Meet Marius de Vos and see the newspaper clipping of his family’s arrival from Holland in 1960. Continue reading →

"We are the group of people standing in the bottom right hand corner of the photo."
June Webb

Meet June Webb and see the jewellery box she bought in Port Said en route to Australia in 1960.
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"I arrived in Sydney to a very cold, wintry August. Sydney Harbour was very beautiful and I took photographs of the Harbour Bridge."
Lorna Denham

Meet Lorna Denham and see the programs she sold at London’s Royal Opera House during the 1950s.
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"These are the tickets for the ship that brought us from South Africa to Australia."
Esther Katz

Meet Esther Katz and see her boat tickets from South Africa to Australia in 1960.
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"This visa slip is from Communist Yugoslavia, now Serbia. When I left Serbia and decided not to return I did not receive the return stamp on this visa slip – it is still blank to this day. Instead I decided to migrate to Australia and make a new life."
Douglas Dunley

Meet Douglas Dunley from Serbia and see his unused return visa from Communist Yugoslavia. Continue reading →



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