Given together with 972.03 and a lemon-scented gum seedling to Pat Grainger when she was naturalised at the Port Town Hall in 199230 cm yellow ruler stamped with 'City of Port Melbourne Electricity Supply Department'utilities - electricity, immigration

Digital file of Thomas Smith SAVAGE's log of voyage from England to Melbourne, aboard the Joler, in 1866.immigration, thomas smith savage

Account of the Nash family's voyage from England to Australia c.1955. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.immigration, nash family

Recording of PMHPS Meeting on 22.03.2004. Recording done at Port Town Hall. Speaker was Dr Keith Pescod "A Place to lay my head". Discussing where migrants to melbourne found shelter in earliest days. Recording duration 01:02:25.immigration, dr keith pescod

Ballarat Trades Hall was part of the Intercolonial Trades Hall Congresses created for the purposes of collective organising within labour organisations. There were eight Congresses held within Australia: - 1879 Sydney - 1884 Melbourne - 1885 Sydney - 1886 Adelaide - 1888 Brisbane - 1889 Hobart - 1891 Ballarat (after the Maritime Strike in 1890) The political organisation of the labour movement and of restructuring trade union organisation under the Australasian Federation of Labour were significant agenda items. - 1898 Adelaide The following items were regularly discussed: - legislation of trade unions- organisation of labour - abolition of ‘Chinese and coolie immigration’ - Compulsory Court of Arbitration - Employers Liability Act - legalisation of the 8 hours system - land nationalisation - manhood suffrage - direct representation of labour in Parliament - appointment of working men on technical and other boards - free compulsory and secular education by the state and regulation of apprentices. Some of the resolutions passed were about: - Commonwealth Draft Bill - assisted immigration - payment to Members of Parliament - single tax, paid union organisers - minimum wage and industrial federation. See also http://archives.anu.edu.au/files/document-collection/intercolonial-trade-union-congresses-web-final.pdfTopics of discussion show the union/labour movement's ongoing activism and engagement on parliamentary and union matters, organising and employment on a national scale.1 volumeunions, organising, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, legislation, immigration, court of arbitration, employers liability act, land nationalisation, manhood suffrage, parliament, education, taxation, union organisers, wages, commonwealth draft bill

Article Nunawading Gazette. Senator McKellar, Minister for Immigration, says the situation of non English speaking children from Eastbridge Hostel arriving at Mitcham High School is under control. Education at the hostel by English, Vietnamese teacher. Portable classroom is available at Mitcham High.migrant education, mitcham high school, mckellar, senator

"Turkish Settlement in Victoria". Large book with coloured cover and dust jacket . Pictured family with children on a bicycle. Housing Commission flats in background.migrants, immigration, turkey

Both volumes purchased from Hillis April 2001; he in turn had purchased the books from the author in the 1980s. Syme intended these as the first of a series, but lost his enthusiasm after Volume Two.'Shipping Arrivals and Departures - Victorian Ports' by Marten A. Syme, Volume One 1798-1845, 290 pp with blue dust cover, illustrated: comprehensive reference comprising dates in port, ship name and type, Master, destination and brief description of cargo/passengersVol. 1 p.39 William Metcalfe marked in pencil 'Liardets'transport - shipping, immigration, marten arlington syme

Both volumes purchased from Hillis April 2001; he in turn had purchased the books from the author in the 1980s. Syme intended these as the first of a series, but lost his enthusiasm after Volume Two.'Shipping Arrivals and Departures - Victorian Ports' by Marten A. Syme, Volume Two, 1846-1855 830 pp with blue dust cover, illustrated: comprehensive reference comprising dates in port, ship name and type, Master, destination and brief description of cargo/passengerstransport - shipping, immigration, marten arlington syme

Commentary and documents comp. by D. M. Gibb.Commentary and documents comp. by D. M. Gibb.manners and customs, immigration, australia

Recording of PMHPS Meeting on 25.10.1999. Recording done by Glen STUART at Port Town Hall. Speaker was Rod Fraser on immigrants who came on the "Champion of the Seas". Recording duration 0:47:10champion of the seas, immigration, rod fraser

Sheet of 12 contact prints of rephotographed photographs. Identifying numbers 5720 a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l (a) Observatory Hill (b) Builders Arms Hotel (c) First jetty and immigration depot (d) Pile driver-1st pile Ocean Pier (e) Residence of William Corney (f) Row of single wooden houses on beach, Observatory Hill in background (g) Double storey stone building (h) Mrs Edward Henty (i) View of spit from Henty Beach (j) Julia Street (k) Same as (c) - First jetty and immigration depot (l) Dray loaded with bales outside Grant & Co merchants

Australian history includes coverage of: Indigenous matters; white settlement; Macquarie; convicts; immigration; pastoral era; politics; gold rush; unions; identity; federation; wars; the great depression.Treatment of issues relating to the Ballarat Reform League and the Eureka Stockade. One chapter covering craft unions, unskilled workers, Trades Halls, women's issues, industrial action, and ALP and unionism.Paperback; yellow with black lettering; 411 pages.Front cover: title and authors' names Title page: the name CULNANE has been written in red.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, history - australia, history - ballarat, history - indigenous, gold mining - ballarat, eureka stockade, ballarat reform league, unions - history

Tool made by internee and used when weaving with manual loom. Made with scrap materials ansd improvised tools. W. (Jack) Weber had immigrated to Queensland in 1933 and was interned in 1939.Metal hook with varnished wooden handletatura, handcrafts, weaving

THOMAS WILLIAMS WAS BORN IN REDRUTH CORNWALL IN MARCH 1850, THE SON OF THOMAS MORCOM WILLIAMS (A MINER) AND GRACE FAULL. THE FAMILY IMMIGRATED TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1851, ARRIVING ON THE OREGON AT PORT ADELAIDE IN NOVEMBER 1851. THE SETTLED IN THE COPPER MINING TOWN OF KAPUNDA. AFTER HIS PARENTS DIED IN 180/61 THOMAS WAS ADOPTED BY HIS AUNT HARRIET AND UNCLE HENRY ROWE. HE ACCOMPANIED THE ROWES WHEN THEY SHIFTED TO CLUNES IN VICTORIA GOLDFIELDS SOMETIME IN THE LATE 1860'S.ON OCTOBER 9 1873 THOMAS WILLIAMS MARRIED MARGARET WILLIAMS HAWKEY AT CLUNES AT TEH HOME OF HER PARENTS. MARGARET WILLIAMS HAWKEY WAS BORN IN THE PARISH OF TYWARDREATH ST. AUSTEL CORNWALL ENGLAND ON MARCH 14TH 1851. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF SIMEON HAWKEY AND ELIZABETH HAWKEY (NEE KNIGHT). MARGARET IMMIGRATED TO VICTORIA IN 1866 WITH HER MOTHER AND THREE SIBLINGS. SHE JOINED HER FATHER WH HAD IMMIGRATED THREE YEATS PREVIOUS. THE HAWKEYS HAD A STORE IN CLUNES. THOMAS WILLIAMS WAS MINE MANAGER AT PORT PHILIP GOLD MINE FOR 30 YEARS. HE MOVED TO MINE IN WA IN 1894/95. THOMAS AND MARGARET CAME BACK TO CLUNES IN MAY 1898 FOR A HOLIDAY.HE WAS THE MANAGER OF THE CHUM GOLD MINE IN MT. MAGNET WA. THOMAS DIED 21/12/1912 IN PERTHport phillip gold mine, thomas williams, chum gold mine