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Igor Maver
Australian Made, 08/2018Book Chapter
The first Slovenians came to Australia in the 1850s and 1860s, working on Austrian warships on their journeys around the world, since Slovenia, like most of the other Central European countries, was part of the Habsburg and the later Austro-Hungarian Empire. They did not decide to settle there, despite the alluring sensational news of the goldrush in Victoria. In the period between the two world wars, some 10,000 Slovenians migrated to Australia. They were mostly people from the Primorje (the Slovenian Adriatic Littoral) region, which after the Great War became part of Italy. They wanted to avoid the strong Italianising
