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ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 39 | June 1999


The collections

Migration Group visits the Oral History Collection

migration group visit

Pictured above are Dr George Woustsas (Austria), Mr Frank Arnauts (Belgium),Ms Christine Hope (Finland), Mr Guilio Timoni (Italy), Dr Gioconda Mifsud (Malta), Mr Peter ‘T Hooft (Netherlands), Mr Santiago Villalta (Spain), Mr Abdurrahman Bilgic (Turkey), Mr Jorgen Steen Olesen (International Organisation for Migration), Professor Ron Adams, of the Europe–Australia Institute, and Barry York.

A visit by members of the Migration Group highlighted the work of the Library in recording the experience of immigration to Australia. The group, consisting of senior diplomats who meet informally on subjects related to migration, visited the National Library in March.

Dr Barry York, Research Fellow at the Europe–Australia Institute at Victoria University of Technology, conducted the members through the Library’s Oral History Collection. Dr York explained the processes of recording and preserving the migration experience through interviews and music. To illustrate his talk an interview with Arthur Calwell, Australia’s first Immigration Minister, was played. In it Calwell reminisces about his grandfather who migrated from the United States of America in the last century.

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