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News from Home by George Baxter, 1854

From 1831 the British and Australian colonial governments paid for part or all of the cost for some migrants to travel to Australia. This was known as assisted migration. The two men in the centre of this painting might represent assisted migrants, reading news from Great Britain.

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State Library of Victoria

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