Amazing how we used to treat refugees so well. I’m glad to see that my grandparents were welcomed to this country.

@jimmymccloskey4913

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good on them, just wonder how they learned English since they got no translator back in the days🤔

@Atlastheyote222

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@@jimmymccloskey4913 apparently there were daily English classes on the ships.

@jimmymccloskey4913

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@@Atlastheyote222 sure but as a non-native speaker it would be a bit hard to learn English without a translator, must paid a lot of effort

@Atlastheyote222

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@@jimmymccloskey4913 i mean they had 2-ish months, which with professional help is enough to get at least a basic grasp of the language. Plus once you're living amongst english speakers you learn a lot faster

@jimmymccloskey4913

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@@Atlastheyote222 glad they went to Australia, did they arrive from Eastern europe or whatever?

A valuable teaching resource for my Year 10 History students. Thanks for this - super useful in providing context to Australia's policy of assimilation.

Great film

Wow cool film

Teaching them to be British in Britain’s convict colony! 😂

My grandparents met at the Bonegilla camp in the late 1940s. My grandad was from Poland and my grandma from what was then, Czechoslavakia. They didnt speak any english and ended up conversing in german as they both knew that language. They were remarkably resilient!

the cousin of my great grandmom immigrated from poland to australia after ww2 in the year 1946 the she worked in a factory where cane sugar was processed the working conditions where horrible in australia she met her husband also polish he work on a sugar cane farm also under horrible working conditions the worked in the fields where venomous snakes and spiders lived they were forced to sign working contracts because the boat journey and because they were immigrants

What a load of hypocritical rubbish . I am first generation in Australia from immigrants . My parents were treated worse than convicts coming to Australia after running from the communists in China. They were forced to sign a contract , that my qualified father in electronics would take on any job specified by the Australian government , for 2 years , before entering Australia. My father fought in WW2 with the US army in Shanghai and was never allowed to march on Anzac day , we still have his medals. When my parents came to Australia, Mutton , lard and chunky potatoe mash , with something that was supposed to be gravy was the meal of the day. My father suffered from scarlet fever when he was 18 , in China , he was deemed physically unfit , however he had a mind , hence the electronics side of things. When he came to Australia , the government put him into physical work , even though they knew his medical history, for 2 years. During that time , he was offered a job in electronics , he took it and was taken away from his place of employment , forcefully by the police , after 2 weeks. Give me a ticket , I want out of this country ...unfortunately , I have alot of family here now , however , I'm still working on getting out . I have alot more to say , but I will eventually publish a book on the "Life and times of post war immigrants and the truth"

@jimmymccloskey4913

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Hi ,Are your parents originally from the present day Russia?

@leoegerton-warburton5061

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Are you American or Chinese? Your name sounds Eastern European. I guess Immigration depends on luck and where you get placed. A lot of Pommies got a house and few acres when they first arrived. However I did read a story, were some recent immigrants ygot unlucky and were put in temporary housing at the old internment camps.

@jimmymccloskey4913

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@@leoegerton-warburton5061 He is probably soviet that arrvied from China in the 1950s, they were once refugees before the ccp came to power, a lot of them lived in Shanghai

@care4animals114

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I was thinking the same Bless you❤