What factors contributed to people migrating to Australia?

What difficulties did people find in coming to Australia?

What challenges did families face when they had arrived?

Human Migration: Push and Pull factors by Justin Howard

One Country, Many Cultures – Difference Differently Together – The Australian population is always changing.  In this module you will explore why Australians have so many cultures, languages and beliefs. National Treasures – Bonegilla Migrant Camp a video produced by the Film and Sound Archive Immigration – Fill It or Lose It The Making of Modern Australia. Your Story, Our History – Child Migrants from Britain. The Changing Face of Modern Australia – 1950 to 1970’s

Objects through Time – explore the migration history of people, technology and ideas to Australia through a collection of significant objects.

Belongings tells the stories of migrants who arrived in NSW after the end of the Second World War.

Origins: Immigrant Communities In Victoria. This site has been designed and built by museum Victoria, contains information about Victorian communities from 85 countries of origin. Immigration Museum Victoria – Immigrant Stories – This resource explores why they came, where they settled and how they started a new life in Victoria.

Museum Victoria: Immigration to Victoria a timeline Museum Victoria :Journeys to Australia

Populate or Perish: War and Peace, rationing and rebuilding. Life in Cottesloe Western Australia.

TEN POUND POMS Immigration Museum: Ten Pound Pom Dictation Test:- Ten Pound Pom

SNOWY MOUNTAINS HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME 60 Years of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme – National Archives of Australia  The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme laid the foundations of our multicultural nation. A video clip from the National Film and Sound Archive: an excerpt from the documentary The Snowy – A Dream of Growing Up produced in 1989. Australia Screen:- Video Clips. Snowy-Hydro- Where Men and Mountains meet.

Migration Museum South Australia

Refugees The Making of Modern Australia – Your Story, Our History – Vietnamese refugees and their children’s future. Screen Australia – Three Afghans have escaped from the Taliban and arrived in Australia as asylum seekers. They express their views of life in Australia and the reasons for escaping from Afghanistan. Refugee Week Cuc Lam’s Suitcase – a symbol of a new beginning. Calling Australia Home:Refugees share their stories ABC

Refugee kids adapt to Australia – Video Welcoming a Refugee Family to Australia The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme Australia Encourages Child Migrants From the United Kingdom

N.S.W Migration HeritageCentre. Packing to Leave: Saris, Suits and Spices contains a collection of videos, photos and memorabilia which tell the stories of migrants from South Asia to Sydney.

Long Journey Young Lives