Operation Kangaroo
Operation Kangaroo, or Operación Canguro, was part of an informal immigration initiative[1] — "informal" due to the fact that there were no formal diplomatic relationship between the two countries — that brought male, Spanish, assisted migrants to Australia to work as cane-cutters in North Queensland.[2][3]
First contingent
[edit]The first group arrived in Brisbane, Queensland, in the SS Toscana (Lloyd Triestino Line), on 9 August 1958.[4]
See also
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]References
[edit]- Garcia, Ignacio (2002), Operación Canguro: the Spanish Migration Scheme, 1958-1963, Jamison Center, ACT: Spanish Heritage Foundation.
- Mason, Robert (2018), The Spanish Anarchists of Northern Australia: Revolution in the Sugar Cane Fields, Cardiff : University of Wales Press. ISBN 1-786-83308-5
- Tao, Kim (2018), The 60th anniversary of the Spanish migration agreement Archived 18 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Australian National Maritime Museum, 6 August 2018.