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Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia (OMAA) – The University of Sydney

Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia (OMAA) – The University of Sydney

Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia (OMAA) – The University of Sydney

Key Periods

  • End of the Cold War

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    Coming in the same year as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the year…

  • Cold War (including decolonisation)

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    The surge in migration to Australia at the end of World War II increased the…

  • WWII

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    For Australia, involvement in WWII began well before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe. The…

  • WWI

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    The first shots of World War I were fired in Australia. Australia’s involvement in WWI…

  • National boundaries

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    When the colonies came together in 1901, the states had already established strategic and economic…

  • Settlement

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    Between 1788, when Great Britain established a colony in Port Jackson, and the Federation of…