Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia in the decades immediately following World War II, and in particular refers to the predominantly European wave of immigration which
Arthur Calwell with the Kalnins family – the 50,000th New Australian – August 1949
In 1954, 50,000 Dutch migrants arrived
British migrants on the deck of the Georgic, Australia, 1949
Australian Government poster displayed between 1949 and 1951 in reception rooms and dining halls at various migrant reception centres in Australia (image courtesy of the NAA)
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The Australian continent was first settled when ancestors of Indigenous Australians arrived via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea over 50,000 years ago.
Post-war immigration to Australia
…Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia in the decades immediately following World War II, and in particular refers to the predominantly European wave of immigration which occurred between…
Women in England mourning their loved ones who are to be transported to the penal colony at Botany Bay, 1792
Migrants disembarking from a ship, c. 1885
Australian Government poster issued by the Overseas Settlement Office to attract immigrants (1928).