by Mark Schuster (Brisbane, QLD) ‘Day in day out, nothing but this terrible ancestral castle, the sea and nothing but the sea, and the overwhelming unfulfilled yearning for freedom and our home country.’ (Martin Trojan, 1922) How did a large number of German internees and a small local […]
History and Geography
From Deutschland to Dundee: Germans South of the (Queensland) Border
Back in the early 1980s, when attending university at Armidale, I used to travel past the small New England tablelands community of Dundee. A name like that makes you envisage a Scottish landscape and memories of Celtic origins – which is how the region certainly feels. The New England region […]
They Came and They Stayed
‘They Came and They Stayed’: Settlement Patterns of the German-Queensland Communities Unlike South Australia that had a large immigration episode in the mid 1800s from the Silesian province of Germany, the situation in Queensland is more complex in terms of immigration from the provinces of Germany and eventual settlement patterns. […]
