Zdroje informací o Austrálii v období první Československé republiky
The Information Flows about Australia in the Period of the First Czechoslovak Republic

Summary/Abstract: The study tracks how the involved inhabitants of the first Czechoslovak Republic received pieces of information about Australia. The Czechoslovak Foreign Institute was intentionally interested in Czechoslovak compatriots living abroad. Information about circumstances in Australia, the life of Czechs and Slovaks settled there as well as conditions for immigration were primarily flowing through this institute. Approximately 400 Czechs and Slovaks lived in Australia during the first Czechoslovak Republic which is quite a small amount in comparison with other states. They moved there because of economic reasons. The vast majority of them worked there manually especially as farmers, workers and partly as craftsmen; individually they were also employed in different professions. The living conditions were pretty hard in Australia during the Great Depression at the turn of 1920s and 1930s so that the Australian government strongly restricted the immigration of foreigners. Some of them even returned to Czechoslovakia. The situation began to be improved in the second half of thirties and the interest in moving to Australia gradually aroused.

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