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    Default The first Greek migrants who settled in Australia are the real heroes of the diaspora

    “It’s time to honour our Greek ancestors who opened the doors to Australia,” say members of Greek communities around the country.
    Young but courageous, helpless but determined to succeed, the first Greek migrants who arrived in Australia in the early 1900s, seeking a better future for themselves and their families, are without a doubt the real heroes of the diaspora.

    While most Greek migration to Australia is associated with the period immediately following World War II, in the early 1900s chain-migration patterns began resulting in large numbers of arrivals, mainly from the islands of Kythera, Ithaca and Kastellorizo.

    Predominantly male, the Greeks arrived in Australia and worked hard in fruit farms, factories and mines in order to make a better life for themselves.

    According to testimonies, upon arrival in the land of opportunity, the young adventurers were greeted with suspicion and fear by the residents of a country that was already trying to overcome its own anti-migration hysteria, nevertheless, they worked hard and by the end of the 19th century the Greek communities of Sydney and Melbourne were well established.

    Once settled, the first Hellenes began to shape their own little communities, build their own enterprises and establish partnerships that led them to be pioneers in many industries around the country.

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    My grandfather came to Australia in the 1930s, before there was a big Greek community here. Before him, he had one uncle living here but he knew nobody else and migrated without his parents as a teenager and he enlisted in the Australian army during WW2, served for 2 years. My family used to operate a few milk bars in Sydney and New Castle which was pretty typical for Greeks in Australia.

    There were actually a few Greeks who came even earlier than the 1900s, a very small wave of Greek migrants came in the 1850s.

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    According to TA most of them were Pontians
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    Quote Originally Posted by cybernautic View Post
    According to TA most of them where Pontians
    Definitely not most I don't think but there are all kinds of Greeks here. We have Greeks from the Pelopponese, Islands and most other regions, I even met an Egyptian Greek once. There are also a lot of Cypriot Greeks here but most of them came in 70s I think.

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