| Bib ID |
2971552 |
| Format |
Audio [sound recording] , Online - Google Books |
| Author |
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| Access Conditions |
Access open for research, personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
1984
1 sound cassette.
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| Series |
Maltese Australian folklife and social history project.
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| Summary |
Debrincat speaks about his family background on Gozo; his parents' farm; his schooling; work at Valletta, Malta; reasons for emigration to Australia; contacts at Innisfail, Qld; voyage on the 'Moreton Bay' in 1936; rail journey from Brisbane to Innisfail; accommodation and work at Innisfail; Maltese community at Innisfail; Captain Henry Curmi; contact with Malta; father's emigration to Australia in 1913; move to Sydney from Innisfail in 1941; recruitment into the Army; employment at Port Kembla steel works in 1945; search for work in Melbourne in 1949; meeting ships carrying Maltese migrants at Port Melbourne; assistance to other Maltese migrants; return to Wollongong in 1953; visits to Malta; sense of ethnic identity; description of cutting sugar cane in the late 1930s; the Maltese and the Australian Workers' Union.
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| Notes |
Recorded at Fairy Meadow, Wollongong, N.S.W. on Oct. 29, 1984.
Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 23 leaves) |
| Subjects |
Debrincat, Joseph, - b. 1913 - Interviews. | Curmi, Henry. | Australian Workers' Union. | Maltese Australians - Interviews. | Maltese - Australia - Interviews. | Maltese Australians - Queensland - Ethnic identity. | Maltese Australians - Queensland - Innisfail - Social life and customs. | Maltese Australians - Queensland - Innisfail - History - 1922-1945.
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| Other authors/contributors |
York, Barry, 1951-, Interviewer
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| Related records |
Maltese Australian folklife and social history project
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