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Child
Migrant Statue
Victoria Quay, Fremantle, WA
(inscription in plaque at foot of statue)
This memorial
is jointly funded by the Commonwealth and Western Australian Governments
and
is dedicated
to the British and Maltese boys and girls who left their
homelands to brave an unknown future in Western Australia.
Hardships were endured, benefits were derived.
These child migrants provided valuable contributions to Australian
society in diverse ways as parents, workers and citizens.
Australia is better for their coming
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John CURTIN
Statue
Kings Square, Fremantle, WA
Erected 2005 |
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(The
front inscription)
JOHN CURTIN MP
1885-1945
PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA
1941-1945
MEMBER FOR FREMANTLE
1928-1931, 1934-1945 |
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(Inscription on side)
John Curtin is widely considered to be one of Australia's greatest ever Prime
Ministers due to his inspiring national leadership during the Second World
War. Curtin was born at Creswick, Victoria on 8 January 1885, the eldest
son of Irish immigrants. He left school at 13 to help support his family
and worked in a variety of jobs before moving to Western Australia in February
1917 as editor of the Westralian Worker.
Married Elsie Needham and lived in Cottesloe with his wife and their two
children. He first entered the Commonwealth Parliament in 1928 as member
for Fremantle. In 1935 Curtin was elected Parliamentary Leader of the Australian
Labour Party.
On 7 October 1941, two months before the attack on Pearl Harbour, he became
Prime Minister of Australia. As wartime Prime Minister following the fall
of Singapore and the bombing of numerous Australian towns, he guided the
nation through the darkest hours of war.
On 5 July 1945 John Curtin, the only Australian Prime Minister to represent
Western Australian electorate, died in office six weeks before the end of
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Explorers Monument
The Esplanade,
Fremantle, WA
This monument was erected by
CJ Brockman
as a fellow bush wanderer's tribute to the memories of
Panter, Harding and Goldwyer
earliest explorers after Grey and Gregory of this terra incognita.
Attacked at night by treacherous natives they were murdered
at Boola Boola near La Grange Bay on the 13 November 1864. Also
an appreciative token of remembrance of Maitland Brown
one of the pioneer pastoralists and premier
politicians of this state. Intrepid leader of the government
search and punitive party. His remains together with the sad
relics of the ill fated three recovered with great risk and
danger from lone wilds reside under a public monument in the
East Perth cemetery
Lest We Forget
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This plaque was erected by people
who found the monument before you offensive. The
monument described the events at La Grange from one perspective only;
the viewpoint of the white 'settlers'. No
mention is made of the right of aboriginal people to defend
their land or of the history of provocation which
led to the explorers' deaths. The 'punitive party' mentioned
here ended in the deaths of somewhere around twenty aboriginal
people. The whites were well-armed and equipped
and none of their party was killed or wounded. This plaque
is in memory of the aboriginal people killed at La Grange.
It also commemorates all other aboriginal people who died
during the invasion of their country
Lest We Forget Mapajarriya-Nyalaku
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CY O'Connor Statue
Victoria Quay, Fremantle, WA
This memorial was erected by the
people of Western Australia in grateful
memory of the public service of
Charles Yelverton O'Connor
Engineer-in-Chief 1891 to 1902
He designed and constructed the Fremantle
harbour, the goldfields water supply from
Mundaring to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie,
a distance of 352 miles and all railways and
other public works throughout Western Australia
during the above period.
see also CY O'Connor, Horse & Rider Monument
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Fishermen's
Memorial (The Jetty)
Boat Harbour, Fremantle, WA
This sculpture honours the many families that have
contributed to the fishing industry in Fremantle - in the very heart
of the Fishing Boat Harbour where it all began. Though the names listed
are taken from pre 1947 fishing license records, all those who have
participated - both men and women - are equally honoured for their
pioneering spirit and the hardships endured |
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Welcome
Walls
Victoria Quay,
Fremantle, WA
As Part of the 175th anniversary celebrations of the
modern state of Western Australia these Welcome Walls were unveiled
by the Premier Dr Geoff Gallop MLA on the 19th December 2004 as
a lasting memorial to the contribution of migrants from many lands
to this state.
Family members who immigrated to Australia through
Fremantle were invited to have their migrant heritage (name, year
of arrival and ship of passage) publicly recorded on these walls |
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