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...Post-war reconstruction ... |
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Migrant workers at Ford Motor Works Plant, Geelong, 1956. |
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Post-War Reconstruction - Dr H C (Nugget) Coombs, discussing migrants being technologically illiterate. - More ... |
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Post-War Reconstruction - Malcom Fraser, speaking at the Inaugural Meeting of the Ethnic Communities' Council about the trade union movement. - More ... |
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The migrant experience, episode 4 "working" - A documentary film which demonstrates that working conditions for immigrants during the post war years were not always as rosy as government films portrayed them. - More ... |
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Newspaper clippings, 1948 - Quotes from the Sydney Morning Herald in 1948 reflect the debate on immigration: it was needed as long as it didn’t threaten working conditions or bring in a “foreign outlook" - More ... |
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Letter to the Federated Ironworkers’ Association - This letter in 1949 to the Federated Ironworkers’ Association gives the union assurances that the use of immigrant labour should be no threat to Australian workers; quoted in "Labour and Immigration", a seminar paper given by Dr Andrew Markus. - More ... |
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