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Kōrero: Kiwis overseas

Qantas Airways menu, 1950s

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Qantas Airways menu, 1950s

Few New Zealanders emigrated to Australia during the 1950s and 1960s. When air travel became more affordable and economic conditions there looked more alluring in the late 1960s and 1970s, New Zealanders increasingly flew across the Tasman.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-Qantas-1959-01

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Carl Walrond, Kiwis overseas – Migration to Australia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/880/qantas-airways-menu-1950s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 17 September 2014.