Multiethnic gang of canecutters from Europe and the Pacific

Multiethnic gang of canecutters from Europe and the Pacific.

Copyright © Private Collection

Cane fields and solidarity in the multiethnic north

Queensland sugarcane fields were riven with ethnic divisions between Anglo-Celts and migrants with non-English speaking backgrounds from southern Europe.

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Paronella Park, Spanish Castle of the North, 1953

Mena Creek, QLD
Australia
17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E
See map: Google Maps
1 January 1953
11 January 2013
11 January 2013

Location

Mena Creek, QLD
Australia
17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E
See map: Google Maps
11 January 2013
Cairns
G.K. Bolton

Copyright © Collection of the centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Hispanics and human rights in Queensland’s public spaces

Tourist map of Cairns & Innisfail showing Paronella Park, 1953

Mena Creek, QLD
Australia
17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E
See map: Google Maps
1 January 1953
11 January 2013
11 January 2013

Location

Mena Creek, QLD
Australia
17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E
See map: Google Maps
11 January 2013
Cairns
G.K. Bolton

Copyright ©Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Hispanics and human rights in Queensland’s public spaces

Fiesta

Fiesta. Music has formed a central part of Spanish-speakers’ presence in Queensland since the time of Federation, when musician Luis Pares toured the State.

Collection of Fryer Library, University of Queensland

US Hands Off El Salvador

US Hands Off El Salvador. Public protests focussed on alleged human rights abuses in Central and South America. Poster, Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of Fryer Library, University of Queensland

El Salvador: The New Vietnam

El Salvador: The New Vietnam. Public protests focussed on alleged human rights abuses in Central and South America. Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Interwar Spanish mission style home, Durack, Brisbane, 1972

Interwar Spanish mission style home, Durack, Brisbane, 1972. Spanish-style homes proliferated in post-war Queensland, recalling an image of Spain that was Utopian and pre-industrial.

Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Letter from Australia, Salvador Torrents

Letter from Australia, Salvador Torrents. One of a long-running series of articles titled ‘Letter from Australia’ and published in the New York newspaper Cultura Proletaria.

Salvador Torrents Papers, ST5/18, James Cook University Special Collection, nd.

Paronella Park

Paronella Park. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, 110320

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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