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The First Ten Years in Australia: Revised Edition

The First Ten Years in Australia: Revised Edition

Barrington, Max

Paperback

Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN13: 9798304368278
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 21 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This story follows ten years of a boy's life, who, at the age of ten, in the year 1959, was brought to Australia from England by his parents, who participated in the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme, which was created in 1945 by the 'Chifley Government' and its first Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell. The scheme was intended to substantially increase Australia's population and supply workers for the country's booming industries. This story, tells of a family's uncertain migration to a new life in a country they had only read about in brochures issued by the Australian Government. It tells of the many hardships and good times, the family experienced in the transition period of that time. It tells of the family's ten moves to different New South Wales towns within the first ten years. It will take you back to how things were in Australia, in the 1960's

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