Australia - Migrant Success Stories
By Chee Min Ng
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Australia, as an immigrant nation, has many migrant success stories. Each wave of migration generates its own migrant success stories.
The success stories of earlier migrants are in exhibits in museums or documented in research and other publications. A number of museums in Australia are dedicated migration museums - Migration Heritage Cen
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Australia - Migrant Success Stories - Chee Min Ng
A NATION
OF
IMMIGRANTS
Since the arrival of the First Fleet with convicts and free settlers from the British Isles more than 220 years ago, migration to Australia has continued unabated except for the short periods during the 1920s Great Depression years and the two world wars.
Seven million people have migrated to Australia since the 1945’s slogan of Populate or Perish by Arthur Calwell Australia’s first Minister for Immigration. Three-quarter a million people have come to Australia under the humanitarian stream.
Net overseas migration has become the number one contributor, overtaking natural increase, to Australia’s population growth for almost 4 decades since the 1980s.
First The Convicts And Free Settlers
Australia has been a nation of immigrants since British colonisation in 1788. Between 1788 and the late 1860s, over 160,000 convicts were transported to the penal settlements in New South Wales, Van Diemen’s land (present day Tasmania), and Western Australia. Other earlier settlers included free settlers seeking a better life and soldiers who stayed on when their term of service was over.
Before federation in 1901, individual colonial administration of the six colonies managed its immigration affairs. The many schemes aiming to attract and assist migrants resulted in more than 700,000 arrivals. The focus was on migration from Europe, with preference for those from the British