Showing posts with label Canberra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canberra. Show all posts
03 July 2025

More grateful Displaced Persons, December 1947, by Ann Tündern-Smith

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The Western Australian Immigration file of papers for the arrival of the First Transport party includes a letter of thanks additional to th...
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16 April 2024

Girts Broders (1923-2006): Industrialist’s Son to Company Manager by Ann Tündern-Smith

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Girts Broders was chosen in the Bonegilla camp to lead a band of men sent to the South Australian Railways at Wolseley because of his excell...
01 March 2024

WHAT LED TO THE FIRST DISPLACED PERSONS: A TIMELINE by Ann Tündern-Smith & Department of Information staff

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I’m looking through a Department of Information file on correspondence from the Minister for Immigration (and Information, Arthur Calwell) ...
19 August 2023

Why did Australia have an immigration program which brought our families here? Arthur Calwell (1896-1973) by Fiona Basile

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Arthur Calwell, Australia’s first Minister for Immigration, had been thinking and reading about population growth as a means of ensuring Aus...
08 July 2023

Margarita Vrubliauskienė (1911 - 1990): Canberra goes on strike over Balt housemaid, by Daina Počius and Ann Tündern-Smith

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Updated 18 July 2024 and 9 February 2025 ‘When attractive Balt housemaid Margarita Vrubliauskiene waved a mop at the manageress of the hoste...
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13 December 2022

From a Lithuanian farm to Australian lawyer: Stasys Čibiras (1923-2012) by Daina Pocius and Ann Tündern-Smith

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Updated 4 August 2024 and 19 July 2025. Stasys Čibiras was born on a farm in Lithuania but retired from a law practice in South Australia. ...
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