© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan Are Indians an Ethnic Minority? Vols. 1-5 - 2008-2013. Migrants from India have been arriving on Australian shores since the early days of settlement and possibly before that time. However, this article is concentrating…
In 1922 the President of the Servants of India, the Hon. V. S. Sastri, toured Australia and spoke at public gatherings, including town halls in the capitial cities and addressed full houses or standing room only audiences. At the completion…
© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2014 updated 2016 When sugar plantations were under construction in Australia there was a mass migration of workers from across Asia, Pacific Islands and India. Some Indians settled in North Queensland and established cane…
Monga Khan an Indian Hawker from the Punjab, India, was one of the British Subjects in Australia before the National Citizenship Act 1948. He was an itinerant worker whose intention was to make money to send back to his family…
There is an apparent lack of understanding about the roll that the Certificate of Exemption to the Dictation Test (CEDT) played during the period that the “Immigration Restriction Act 1901” known as the “White Australia Policy” was operating. The Dictation…
DABEE SINGH A PIONEER - PART I POORAN DABEE-SINGH A PIONEER - PART II © Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan 2014 Pooran Dabee Singh was born in the Burnett District, Queensland in 1849 and was by far the most interesting…