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Step back in time these school holidays

Bonegilla Migrant Experience

Entertain the whole family these spring school holidays with a trip back in time at the Bonegilla Migrant Experience. The heritage-listed site has unveiled a new display - a replica of a Bonegilla State School...

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Australia's Dutch Connections now on exhibition

Bonegilla Migrant Experience

On display until October 1. Bonegilla Migrant Experience is displaying a new exhibition which charts the history between Australian and Dutch migration from the 19th century through to the mid-20th century. Did...

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Bonegilla return prompts memories of a triple wedding

Bonegilla Migrant Experience

As a little girl in Czechoslovakia, Helena Peskova imagined what her wedding might be like but not in her wildest dreams could she envisage the reality – as one of three couples saying “I do” on the same date in the...

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Celebration of a shared beginning at Bonegilla

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A Wangaratta couple who only learned they were both child residents of the Bonegilla migrant camp after they were married have returned to the site for the first time since they almost - but not quite - crossed paths...

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Mural captures Bonegilla’s new arrivals

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The journey of migrants arriving by train to their first Australian home at Bonegilla has been captured on a large scale. Lavington street artist Kade Sarte attended Bonegilla Migrant Camp’s 75th anniversary in...

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