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Migrant hostels of South Australia are hostels where thousands of migrants passed from the 1940s to the 1980s. In South Australia these included Elder Park, Gawler, Gepps Cross, Glenelg, Hendon, Mallala, Pennington/Finsbury, Peterborough, Rosewater, Salisbury, Semaphore, Smithfield, Willaston, Whyalla, Woodside and Woodville. The hostels were temporary homes to a wide range of migrants, from Displaced Persons and refugees, through to "Ten Pound Poms".

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Migrant hostels of South Australia

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Migrant hostels of South Australia are hostels where thousands of migrants passed from the 1940s to the 1980s. In South Australia these included Elder...

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Balgownie Migrant Workers Hostel

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Migrant Workers Hostel is a heritage-listed former migrant hostel at Squires Way, Fairy Meadow, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia...

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Villawood Immigration Detention Centre

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Villawood Migrant Hostel or Villawood Migrant Centre, split into a separate section named Westbridge Migrant Hostel from 1968 to 1984, is an Australian immigration...

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East Hills Hostel

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Hills Hostel was a migrant hostel, outside of Liverpool, Australia, on the outskirts of Hammondville. It was operated by Commonwealth Hostels Ltd. It...

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Yungaba Migrant Hostel

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as a private residence, it was known as "Yungaba Migrant Hostel" during its use as a migrant hostel in the 1950s. Yungaba was constructed in 1890 as a...

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Laotian Australians

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were initially housed in migrant hostels. Commonwealth Hostels Limited, a government-sponsored organisation, operated 25 hostels which, in addition to accommodation...

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RAAF Bradfield Park

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II the base was utilised as a migrant hostel for new arrivals in Australia and for Australian families in urgent need of accommodation due to the acute...

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Nissen hut

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for Quonsets. This dairy barn at Brighton, Mich., illustrates one "Migrant Hostels". tenpoundpom.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved...

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Cronulla Fisheries Centre

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accommodate 102 migrants, mainly of British nationality. In 1967 the Cronulla Migrant Hostel was closed. All but two of the hostels and associated buildings were...

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Commonwealth Acetate of Lime Factory

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arranged. British migrants who needed longer-term accommodation would be housed at Workers' Hostels. In January 1952 "Commonwealth Hostels Limited" took over...

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Wallgrove Army Base

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was utilised as an army wireless chain and as a migrant hostel. Wallgrove Army Base was on the site of the now defunct amusement park called Wonderland...

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Greta Army Camp

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was converted into a migrant camp. The Australian army sold the site at auction in 1980. In November 1939, 2,930 acres (11.9 km2) of land was compulsorily...

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Yungaba Immigration Centre

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heritage-listed former immigration hostel at 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, alongside the Brisbane River. It...

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The Easybeats

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formed at the Villawood Migrant Hostel. The families of the band members spent their first years in Australia housed at the hostel in the early and mid-sixties...

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Uranquinty

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approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) south of Wagga Wagga, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The population of the town, often referred to...

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Peter Skrzynecki

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(either physically travelling, or in a migrant hostel) before they were allowed to begin their new life in Australia. The book also expounds the ongoing...

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Dick Diamonde

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Australia when he was four years old. Diamonde was raised in a Jehovah's Witness family, living in the suburb of Villawood near the migrant hostel of...

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Stevie Wright

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migrated to Melbourne, Australia, when he was nine. They moved to Sydney in 1960 and lived in Villawood near the Villawood Migrant Hostel. He was lead vocalist...

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