Traces

Migrant and minority stories

As anyone researching local or family history will have found, Trove is a wonderful resource for tracking all sorts of stories from Australia’s past, including stories of the migrant and minority press of Australia.

First given real attention by Miriam Gilson and Jerzy Zubrzycki back in 1967 (in ), many of these lesser-known or forgotten newspapers are being given a new lease on life by digitisation, and by Trove’s ability to, the Spanish-language , or the government-sponsored , that the families and communities of multicultural Australia have found a voice, and recorded their everyday lives for posterity.

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