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“Young people tend to see things optimistically, and thus I can still think of Bonegilla as the beginning of a great adventure that was to be called Life in Australia. The place is certainly worth writing about – thank you, Ann, for having done it!“
“This book explores the social and cultural significance of the diverse history of Bonegilla over its more than 100 year existence, with a particular focus on the time when Arthur Calwell, Australia’s first Minister for Immigration, changed Bonegilla again to embrace 320,000 migrants from a war-ravished Europe. The author is the daughter of an Estonian migrant woman, and the first Australian-born child resulting from these population programs. Her background offers a unique personal perspective interwoven in her well-researched work looking at the early history of the Bonegilla Migrant Camp. The book is well formatted with an index, and a plethora of fascinating photographs and copies of newspaper articles to engage readers.“
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