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(Compiled by Mark Caruana and Barry York; published by the Centre for Immigration & Multicultural Studies, Australian National University, Canberra) 154 pp $15
Emmanuel Attard was one of 214 Maltese migrants who travelled to Australia on the French mailboat Gange in 1916. Turned away from Australia by Prime Minister Billy Hughes, they ended up stranded at New Caledonia. Today, these men are remembered among Maltese communities as "it'tfal ta' Billy Hughes", or "the children of Billy Hughes". This book tells the story of the only survivor of the Gange incident alive today: Mr. Emmanuel Attard.
As British subjects by birth, the Maltese on the Gange had no reason to believe they would be classified as prohibited immigrants under section 3(a) of the Immigration Act. This was the notorious 'dictation test' provision, which allowed for a test to be administered in any European language. A Maltese priest based in Sydney who boarded the Gange and interviewed the men found that they had been tested in the Dutch language.
Mr Attard's story is a notable addition to the exisiting literature on Australia's ethnic history, particularly on non-Anglo immigrant groups, on the reasons why many non-English-speaking-background people left their homelands for Australia long ago, on the effects of the 1930s Depression on every day life in South Australia and on how one man, with special grit, good humour and intelligence, survived.
Commencing with his impoverished childhood on the Maltese island of Gozo, the story takes the reader through Mr Attard's service with the Malta Labour Corps at Gallipoli and, later, on the Western Front with the Australian Army.
This book is based on extensive oral history interviews conducted for the National Library of Australia's Oral History Collection by Barry York with Mr Attard and his children, Monica and Brian, in 1989. It also contains a brief autobiography and a selection of historical documents.
Emmanuel Attard's story highlights many salient features of the Gozitan people: their tenacity, adaptability, diligence and strength. While Emmanuel Attard remains proudly Maltese, this is a story of the Australian 'battler' and a tribute to the capacity of working-class people everywhere to survive against often tremendous social and economic odds.
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