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“Dad would smother the porridge in brown sugar and full cream milk that was usually delivered in bottles every morning by a milkman to our door. Forty years later I still love porridge, but my poor sister turns pale when she thinks of it. She’s never eaten porridge again. ID047 Gibbs-Carson, Felicity Ulladulla NSW What it Means to be an Australian Citizen “I am a sixth generation Australian of English and Irish descent. Most of my ancestors came to New South Wales in the 1820s. Some were looking for a better life and some were convicts. “I was born in 1959 and I suppose that is when my Australian citizenship begins. I grew up in Orange on the Central Western Tablelands of NSW. Growing up in Australia in the 1960s was a very interesting time. I have a vivid memory of listening to the wireless reporting the disappearance of our then Prime Minister, Harold Holt. I remember watching the Moon landing in glorious black and white, and growing up listening to my parents reliving the horrors of ‘their war’, World War II. It didn’t seem long before our boys were off to Vietnam and my generation’s war. “ In my quilt I have tried to represent the memories that stand out the most to me as a child growing up in Australia. For breakfast every day my Dad made Uncle Toby’s Oats for my sister and I. He was hard working and loved our family and it was his way of helping Mum while she got ready for work. “Billy tea also played a big part of our growing up in Australia. I had the most wonderful grandmother who made the best afternoon teas with fresh pikelets, strawberry jam and cream. Nan had a beautiful large pink teapot and I was always told ‘one spoonful of tea for each person and one for the pot’. Years later when Nan was very old and after the amazing invention of tea bags, that beautiful teapot sat on the side board in the ‘good room’. That’s where Nan kept her secret money. I remember Mum going to her on occasions when times were tough and there were bills to pay. Nan would quietly go to her teapot, take a note from it, and slip it into Mum’s hand. What would we have done without our Nan’s generosity? “Aeroplane Jelly was Mum’s favourite and she always made raspberry jelly for a special treat. Mum always tried so hard to make everything special when we were growing up. ‘Any colour, as long as it’s pink’, she would say. That went for food, clothes, or flowers, she just loved pink and she was wonderful. “These three very important people are gone now, but they will never be forgotten. They are the people who taught me what it is to be ‘Australian’. So what is so special about being an Aussie? I would have to say our loyalty, our generosity, our sense of humour, our fierce determination, our larrikinism, our sporting achievements, our fair play and always watching out for the under dog. We are so fortunate to live in this wonderful country. Our way of life and our history, born here or not, is what makes up proud Australians and we are all Australian.”
Giblin, Sally St Ives NSW THE BEST MONEY I EVER SPENT WAS THE ₤10 IT COST ME TO EMIGRATE TO AUSTRALIA! ID070 “I arrived in Sydney, aged 22, on a very hot and humid 13 th February 1973 wearing a sueded trouser suit, suede knee-high boots and socks, polo-neck sweater and vest (singlet) and waist length hair. To say I was a little warm was the understatement of the century! My lone journey took 54 hours, flying Qantas 747, from London via New York, San Francisco, Honolulu and Fiji – a route no longer taken by Qantas. I still have all the menus from the flight. “I was met by my Godmother… and the first meal she fed me was Seafood Paella … a meal I have never forgotten (some of the ingredients I had never heard about – let alone eaten!) My first surf experience was at Palm Beach, and being a typical lily-white POM, I was not a very good swimmer – and short-sighted to boot. The waves weren’t terribly big, but unfortunately for me they were “dumpers” and I was thoroughly initiated by being dumped when I unwisely turned my back to the sea. “As a fully qualified State Registered Nurse, I was employed as a Sister at the Royal North Shore Hospital. It was there that I met my husband to be … an Intern.. My wages were five times greater than my English salary and I was so shocked at my first pay, that I went to the finance Officer to query it … you see I was afraid they would take it all back the next week!”
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