Like more than 320,000 other migrants, I arrived in Bonegilla on 8th August 1965; unlike most of them, I only stayed for two nights because two nights were more than enough in what was essentially an ex-army camp stripped of all amenities which made a POW camp look like CLUB MED.
Find your own registration card at idcards.bonegilla.org.au
For more click here
For more, click here
Still, I always thought I owed them something, so when they asked for donations in a recent fundraiser to help maintain the camp as a public memorial, I thought that twenty dollars a night, or forty dollars in total, ought to be sufficient recompense for those two traumatic nights.
You, too, can make a donation to Bonegilla Migrant Experience online at www.bonegilla.org.au/Support-Us/Donations. And it's tax-deductible!
