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Block 19, Former Bonegilla Migrant Camp

Bonegilla Road,, BONEGILLA VIC 3693 - Property No B7009

Block 19, built in 1940 as an Army camp and used between 1947 and 1967 as a Migrant Reception Centre is of historical and social significance at a National level. Block 19 is of historical and social significance as the last remnant of the much larger Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre which played a central role in the post Second World War immigration programme. It was the first, the last and the largest migrant reception centre in a system of camps in all States and is by far ... more

B7009

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