Museum Scavenger Hunt

Find the information:

Australian Immigration:
1. What proportion of migrants came from urban areas? _____________________________
2. What nationality were the earliest immigrants? __________________________________
3. Who could come to Australia and how? _________________________________________
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Transport to Western Australia

4. What were some the issues with the transport? __________________________________
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What do you think?

5. Consider the quoted words on plaques outside: what do you think immigration was like?
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6. Why was the welcome wall established?
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7. Find an item of technology in the Museum that may have led to improved immigration.
Draw, title and explain why you think it would have improved immigration.

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Cloze activity:
Find the plaques inside the museum and fill in the blanks.

Would you be allowed in?

Most immigration from the 1920s to the 1940s was from _________________________.
However, many people from Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece also began migrating to
________________________. From the end of World War 2 until the early 1970s mass
migration was encouraged, under the slogan _____________________________. This created a
more multi-cultural society. The white Australian policy was abandoned in 1972. After this
migration from Asia, the Middle East, Far East and America _____________________.
Migrants have entered by a point scheme since the 1980s. Since 1990, controls have
been lightened to prevent people arriving illegally by boat.
Towards a White British Australia
From 1829, British authorities granted aboriginal land to new ___________________. These
people forever changed the physical and cultural face of Western Australia. In the 1850s
immigration to Australia was not controlled. Suffering labour shortages the new colony

imported Asian indentured labourers, accepted convicts, and assisted British women to
migrate. Gold Fever in the 1890s more than trebled the states population, attracting
people from all over the world. At federation in 1901, the Commonwealth government
brought in new laws restricting immigration from Asia. This came to be known as the
_______________________________ policy. Aboriginal peoples were denied citizenship.
Australia was to be white and British.
Fremantle Harbour
For Western Australia to develop, a safe and deep ________________ was needed at
Fremantle. Gold discoveries during the 1880s and 1890s provided the wealth needed for
major public works. ______________________ designed a harbour inside the river mouth
despite claims that it could not be done. Work began in November 1892. When completed,
shipping could enter the harbour safely.

Searching for work: Fishing:

Portuguese fishers:
A group of Portuguese left the island of Madeira to settle in Cape Town in ___________
_____________________. In 1952, they came to Fremantle where fishing prospects were
better. They later brought their families from Madeira to settle here.
Croatian fishing
During the 1890s Gold Rush, many Croatian fishers came from Europe to Western
Australia as Austro-Hungarians, or ____________________ because of national border
changes. Some left the Eastern states of Australia where there was an economic
______________________. In 1922, it was reported during an inquiry into the fishing industry
that: the industry seems to be wholly in the hands of the Greeks, Italians and Austrians.
The Austrians were later Yugoslavians and now Croatians or Dalmatians.
Molfettese
Around 1886 several fishers from the village of Molfetta on the east coast of Italy came to
Fremantle. With help from______________ and ________________, they bought boats that they
worked with two crew throughout the year. Like the Sicilians, the partnerships were
between family and friends. Molfesttese men lived aboard their________________ until they
could afford to rent offshore.
Greek Pioneer fishers
During the 1890s gold rush, Greek migrants from the islands of Ithaka, Kythira and
Kastellorizo, near Turkey, began arriving in Western Australia. A 1922 government report
said, the Greeks_____________ the fishing business better than Britishers [who] have not
learnt the methods like the Greeks, who have engaged in the fish trade in their own
country for many years.
Dugout canoes
Dugout canoes were introduced to ________________ Australia by Indonesians. They were
traded, stolen and later copied by the peoples of the Kimberley. Canoes could fill with
water in rough seas, but they were faster and easier to steer than mangrove rafts. This
made them safer to paddle to distant islands.
Indonesian outrigger canoe
Outrigger canoes carried migrating peoples from mainland ________________, through the
islands of Southeast Asia and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.