Multicultural Australia was built under a Liberal prime minister. The current party should take heed Malcolm Fraser was one of the country’s longest-serving prime ministers. His support of multicultural policy forever changed Australia’s social fabric.

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How Maltese migrants united to build a Queensland sugarcane legacy Long before they were cast in bronze, a group of Maltese migrants quietly reshaped who would own farmland across north Queensland.

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Ruth Balint: Australia’s Postwar Migration Schemes 1945–1952 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

‘We Will Decide’: The Howard Government’s Establishment of the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre This article examines Cabinet's decision to establish the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC), a key facility within the larger ‘Pacific Solution' framework. Unseale...

New article by Oliver Douglas & Paul Sendziuk
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Is Shaddap You Face Australia’s best ever novelty song, or a poor ethnic stereotype? Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face has been inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia. How can we best understand this song in 2026?

New article by @drjessc.bsky.social
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Biennial Conference 2026 CFP - Oral History Australia Call for Presentations Deadline  11 May 2026 Oral history is ‘history built around people’ (Paul Thompson). Its methodology is embedded in humanity—it is a person-to-person communication through which the experiences and memories of one are recorded for posterity by another, using best practice tools and techniques. Through oral history, voices are preserved and accents, nuances, […]

The AMHN would like to organise a panel around migration for this conference: if interested please contact e.henrich@unsw.edu.au asap
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The Swedish Emigrant Institute announces an international research grant - Kulturparken Småland A Fellowship to Support Academic Research in the Collections of the Swedish Emigrant Institute, VäxjöThe Swedish Emigrant Institute, housed in the House of Emigrants in Växjö, Sweden, holds Sweden’s l...

International Research Fellowship at Swedish Emigrant Institute www.kulturparkensmaland.se/the-swedish-...

CFP AEMI conference Migration & Power
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#historians - looking for any sources, primary or secondary, on controlling migration to Australia, during the first half of the 20th century, at port of departure (ie discouraging or preventing potential migrants from travelling to Australia), rather than at port of entry.

#OzHist 🗃️

The Hunt for the Last Nazis (TRAILER) YouTube video by Moving Story Entertainment

Trailer for Dan Goldberg's The Hunt for the Last Nazis, in which I appear saying "yes yes yes"

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What country Victoria revealed about my Chinese grandfather's secret past Genealogy is an addictive hobby but unlocking family secrets — and dealing with the fallout — can change your life.

Some basic historical googling by the ABC team would have been ace
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Ep. 48- War Criminals in Australia with Jayne Persian - The Holocaust History Podcast Among the flood of displaced persons that washed across Germany after WWII were a large number of perpetrators, particularly from Eastern Europe.  They mostly passed unnoticed (and unbothered) by...

And you can hear more about it here:

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This is a really excellent book with some great unhinged moments from the fascist immigrants to Australia.

White Australia’s Student Exception: Asians and the Selective Logic of Immigration Restriction This article examines the history of Asian students in White Australia whose movement constituted an exception to immigration restriction. While the student exception was a feature of the administr...

New article by Tandee Wang
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Children at the migration centre, Uranquinty, New South Wales, 18 January, 1950, by L Bartholomew. Image uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranqui...

Why doesn’t Hobart have a Chinatown? Early Chinese communities might seem to have left little tangible trace. But such an absence does not necessarily mean the absence of a Chinese history.

'Why doesn’t Hobart have a Chinatown?' by @imoweg.bsky.social, Annaliese Claydon, and me! theconversation.com/why-doesnt-h...

New Approaches to Studying Global Refugee Transit | UNSW Sydney Join the School of Humanities & Languages for this keynote lecture by Professor Atina Grossmann.

Atina Grossmann speaking @ UNSW on 16 March www.events.unsw.edu.au/event/new-ap...

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The Watchmaker's War: A compelling historical novel of revenge and justice, based on the true story of Nazi hunters in Australia :HarperCollins Australia share.google/hLI5qKc4RoB4...

PhD opportunity! Work with Ruth Balint and @juliekalman.bsky.social
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Gosh this sort of thing annoys me. See Karen Agutter's brilliant article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What’s in a name? Historical Chinese Australian names throw up all sorts of challenges – from the ubiquity of ‘Ah’ to confusion of name order – but in my recent research on Chinese Tasmanian history, it&…

new blogpost by @baibi.bsky.social
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Old gravestone with the name Claude Nan Shing and other faint Chinese and English words on it

View of Claude Nam Shing’s grave among other graves in Cornelian Bay cemetery

There’s valuable information recorded in Chinese on Tasmania’s old Chinese headstones that is gradually disappearing, like on Claude Nam Shing’s headstone in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. I’ve worked out some of the characters, but not all of them. Any thoughts, clever people? 🗃️ #EverdayHeritage

Malcolm Fraser Research Grant Malcolm Fraser Research Grant

Applications due 15 March 🚨 for projects including immigration & multiculturalism
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Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now” This chapter takes as its subject the memories of the 170,000 displaced persons (DPs)—predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans—who arrived in Australia as International Refugee Organiza...

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Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now”

Hit me up for a pdf 🙌

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1960s films restored in hope of enticing new migrants to regional Australia The National Film and Sound Archive has released 4K restorations of the 1960s film series Life in Australia, commissioned by the Department of Immigration to attract new migrants to regional Australia...

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We celebrate our member organisation, the Italian Historical Society of South Australia, on a landmark year 🇮🇹

Honouring 50–70 years of Italian community organisations, La Partenza, a 10th Anniversary Gala, and growing oral histories—celebrating legacy and living history.

No Trace: ASIO and the End of the White Australia Policy This contribution to the special issue studies the history of the White Australia Policy through an exploration of the intersections between national security, immigration restriction and social re...

🚨 new article by Sean Brawley
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Tracing the long history of Aboriginal-Chinese people in Australia, through archives and art Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs

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