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| Immigration Museum Housed in Old Customs Bldg. |
Today we visited the Immigration Museum which was very interesting. They had exhibits of what it would have been like to travel to Australia in a ship and where people came from. Melbourne never received any prisoners or indentured servants unlike other coastal cities. Most settlers were from Tasmania.
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| Immigration laws and actions |
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| Special Exhibit |
Immigration controversy in T-shirts.
Next we took the free circle trolley to the Melbourne Museum
"Waa"sculpture. Waa is the bringer of fire and fire is really sacred.
The English made treaties (English Law) with the Aborigines while the Aborigines extended tanderrum - welcome to visitors/temporary visas and expected the English to leave.
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| Workers needed |
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| Aboriginal Mourning Ritual |
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| Aboriginal Family |
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| Polynesian sculpture |
In the evening, Tauck held the welcome dinner for our tour and we met some our tour compatriots.
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