Year 6 History: Immigration

"Between 1947 and 1982, over a million Britons emigrated to Australia, the majority of whom travelled under the ten pound assisted passage scheme funded by the British and Australian governments ... "

"Having always wanted to travel to Australia or New Zealand, Vaughan took advantage of the Australian Government’s post-war assisted migration scheme and paid £10 for passage on SS New Australia ... "

"The post-war immigration program has benefited Australian life in many ways ... "

"AUSTRALIA'S African communities no doubt will be relieved to see the back of the Howard government.
Their erroneous stance regarding African settlement in Australia was extremely damaging to these emerging communities and tarnished our reputation abroad ... "

"The broad finding of the Scanlon Foundation's latest survey of Australian attitudes, Australians Today, remains that Australia is seen as a good country for immigrants ... "

"According to figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Sudanese
community is currently one of the fastest growing groups in Australia ... "

"I am Martin Majur Majak and I live with Martha Makur and our six children in Dorrigo, Northern NSW. We come from Yirol in Southern Sudan ... "

"In 1975 Vietnam was taken over by Communist from the north. Since that day many people who worked for the South Vietnam government were in jail ... "

"Diana Nguyen's childhood memories range from the comforting to the terrifying ... "

"Refugees who find a haven in Australia contribute cultural diversity and entrepreneurship to our society – the basis for prosperity in the 21st century ... "

"The post-war immigration program has benefited Australian life in many ways ... "

"My name is Ramsen Youkhanis and I was born on the 6th of January 1989. My parents tell me stories of persecution, discrimination, repression and denial of human rights, of the Christian by the Iraqi regime ... "

"As he fled his homeland of Iraq and travelled with his family through dangerous conflict zones to Jordan, doctor Asseel Yako knew he hadn’t lost everything ... "

"NSW town will take 200 humanitarian migrants from Iraq and Syria as part of Australia’s migration program next year ... "

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'The catch-22': refugees to Australia struggle to find work
Syrians and Iraqis settled in a one-off program are full of gratitude but despair at being able to obtain jobs because they lack experience here ... "

"‘Where we lived … the war had destroyed everything—our house and our farm. So
we had to start again.’ Lucia, who left the south of Italy for Australia in 1963 ... "

"As most Italian migrants came from rural towns, many engaged in agricultural activities in Australia ... "

"Since the nineteenth century, chain migration, a system of self-funded migration, was Italians’ primary mode of entry into Australia ... "

"The post-war immigration program has benefited Australian life in many ways ... "