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Nineteenth
Century |
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1878 |
Mykhailo
Miklouho-Maclay, a Ukrainian explorer, naturalist and
ethnographer visits Australia. |
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1881 |
Miklouho-Maclay is instrumental in establishing
Australia's first
biological field station
at Watson's Bay, NSW. |
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The Twenties |
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1920's
early |
First
permanent Ukrainian settler in Australia. H. Donchak
settles in Brisbane from the Far East. |
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1928 |
Shkardun
& Hryhoriy Bodnia families arrive in Brisbane. |
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1928 |
Yevstakhii Antonyshyn arrives in Sydney. Moves to
Queensland in 1932, and to Macai in 1934. |
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The Thirties |
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1938 |
Marko
Merezhanyi, a former underground fighter in Ukraine who
fled to the Far East, arrives in Brisbane. |
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The Roaring
Forties |
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1948
February |
First
post-war Ukrainian settlers arrive in Western Australia
aboard the ship "SS General Stewart".
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1948
April |
First
post-war Ukrainian settlers arrive in Victoria aboard
the ship "General Black". |
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1948 May |
First
post-war Ukrainian settlers arrive in New South Wales
aboard the ship "General Sturgis". |
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1949
April |
First
Ukrainian association forms in South Australia |
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1949
July |
First
edition of the newspaper "The Free Thought" (Vil'na
Dumka). Published in Sydney, NSW. |
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1949
September |
First
Ukrainian association forms in Victoria |
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1949
October |
First
Ukrainian association forms in New South Wales |
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1949
December |
First
Ukrainian association forms in Queensland
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The Fifties |
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1950
February |
First
Ukrainian association forms in Western Australia. |
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1950
June |
Foundation of a representative body for all Ukrainian
organisations in Australia. This body was called the
Association of Ukrainians in Australia. Renamed to
Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations in
December 1953. |
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1950
July |
First
Ukrainian association forms in Canberra |
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1951
October |
Founding
of the Loan Agency "Samopomich", affiliated to the
Ukrainian Catholic Church, North Melbourne. Samopomich
became the Dnister Credit Cooperative in September 1959. |
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1953
October |
Association of Ukrainians in Victoria purchases first
community centre in South Melbourne for £12,250. |
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1954
January |
First
Ukrainian association forms in Tasmania |
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1954
April |
Credit
Cooperative "Nasha Maibutnist'" (Our Future) registered
in Merrylands, NSW. |
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1954
November |
Ukrainian community centre purchased in Brisbane. |
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1956
November |
Foundation of the newspaper "Ukrainian In Australia" (Ukrainets
v Avstrailiyi) in Melbourne. |
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1958
January |
The
first community centre, built by Ukrainians, completed
in Northam, WA. |
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The Sixties |
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1961 |
Opening
of the Catholic Church, Brisbane, Qld. |
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1961
March |
Official
opening of the community centre in Perth, WA. |
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1966
April |
Publication of the first major work "Ukrainians In
Australia" |
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1966
August |
Vasyl'
Avramenko, choreographer, begins 6-month tour of
Australia. |
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1966
November |
Opening
of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Essendon, Victoria. |
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1967
January |
Plast
Adelaide buys 45 acre property in Tea Tree Gully.
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1967
March |
First
Basilian sisters from Argentina arrive in Australia. |
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1968
February |
Publication of Year 4 reader "Yevshan-Zillia" by Maria
Dejko. |
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1968
March |
First
edition of the fortnightly newspaper "Church and Life",
from Melbourne. |
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1968 May |
A USSR
anti-submarine fleet visits Sydney |
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1968
June |
Opening
of the community centre in Geelong. |
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1968
October |
A
visitation and Australian tour by his Eminence Cardinal
Josyf Slipyj, Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic
Church. |
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1969
August |
Opening
of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Newcastle, NSW. |
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The Seventies |
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1970
January |
Inaugural all-Australian AFUO Ball. Chosen Princess of
the Ball - Halyna Rebij from SA. |
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1970 |
Dnister
Credit Cooperative reaches assets totalling $1million. |
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1971
April |
Second
all-Australian AFUO Ukrainian Festival, Melbourne. |
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1971
September |
Mass
demonstration in support of dissident, Valentyn Moroz,
in front of the USSR Embassy, Canberra. |
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1971
December |
Captain
Yurij Roman Wenhlowsky, the first Ukrainian-Australian
decorated with the "Military Cross" for bravery in
Vietnam. |
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1972
April |
First
visitation by the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,
Metropolitan Mstyslav. |
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1972
July |
Baritone
Mykhailo Minsky tours Australia. |
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1972
November |
Bandurist and tenor Volodymyr Luciv tours Australia. |
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1973
January |
V.
Kolesnyk, conductor of the Kyiv Opera, obtains political
asylum in Australia.
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1973
December |
Third
all-Australian AFUO Ukrainian Festival, Adelaide. |
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1974
June |
Ukrainian accepted as a matriculation subject by the
Victorian Ministry of Education. |
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1974
August |
Ukrainian accepted as a matriculation subject by Sydney
University. |
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1975
March |
Ukrainian radio programming begins in Adelaide on 5UV
under the leadership of Theodore Sudomlak. |
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1975
April |
Opening
of a community centre in Wollongong, NSW. |
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1975 May |
First
Ukrainian radio programmes on 3ZZ in Melbourne. First
announcer Irene Zaleska. |
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1975
December |
Visit by
renowned artist Jacques Hnizdovsky from Canada. |
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1976
April |
Fourth
all-Australian AFUO Ukrainian Festival, Sydney. |
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1976
June |
Baritone
Mykhailo Minsky tours Australia. |
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1976
October |
First
Ukrainian radio programmes on 6NR in Perth, First
announcer Bohdan Warchomij. |
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1976
November |
Ukrainian Medical Society formed in Sydney under the
leadership of Dr Bohdan Shekhovych. |
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1977
March |
Ukrainian community centre in Brisbane seriously damaged
by fire. |
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1977
July |
Australian visit by US Senator of Ukrainian descent Mary
Beck. |
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1978
January |
First
Ukrainian radio programme on 3EA in Melbourne. Announcer
Dmytro Pyrohiv. |
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1978
January |
Australian visit by the Vice-President of the Ukrainian
National Republic in Exile, Professor Mykola Stepanenko. |
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1978
April |
Leonid
Pliusch, recently released prisoner from the Soviet
Gulag, visits Australia. Appears before Australian
Senate Commission. |
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1979
April |
The
Lysenko Musical Theatre, from Melbourne, tours England. |
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1979
November |
Red Army
Choir visits Australia. Mass community protests.
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The Eighties |
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1980 May |
Queen
Elizabeth II visits Australia. Ukrainian community
represented by Stefan Lysenko and his wife. |
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1980
September |
Dissident Valentyn Moroz visits Australia. |
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1980
October |
The
Lubomyr Sklepkowycz Foundation is formed in Sydney to
foster Ukrainian education and culture. |
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1981
February |
Australian tour by the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus from
the USA. |
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1981 May |
The
renowned artist Mykhailo Kmit dies in Sydney. |
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1981
July |
48 hour
hunger strike in front of the USSR Embassy in Canberra
to release political prisoner Yuriy Shukhevcyh. |
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1982
August |
Pope
John Paul II proclaims the Eparchy of the Ukrainian
Catholic Church of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. |
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1982
October |
Formation of the Concord Credit Cooperative in Brisbane. |
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1982
October |
Ukrainian lectureship established at Monash University,
Melbourne. Financed by the Association of Ukrainians in
Victoria. |
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1983
February |
Plast
campsite Sokil seriously damaged by fire in southern
Victoria. |
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1983 May |
Stepan
Lysenko appointed as Advisor to the Minister for Ethnic
Affairs. |
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1983
October |
Visitation by former Soviet political prisoner Dr Nina
Strokata-Karavanska. |
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1983
October |
Mass
demonstration in Canberra to commemorate 50 years since
the Ukrainian Famine of 1933 |
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1983
December |
Opening
of the Ukrainian Catholic Centre in Canberra as a
memorial to 1000 years of Christianity in Ukraine. |
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1984 May |
Opening
of a new $2.5million Dnister Cooperative Centre in
Essendon, Victoria.
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1985
February |
Public
AFUO conference "Ukrainians in a Multicultural Austrlia"
in Melbourne. |
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1985
August |
Bolshoi
Ballet visits Australia. Community protests. |
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1985
October |
Chaika
Choir from Melbourne tours USA and Canada. |
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1985
October |
Screening of a Canadian film on the Ukrainian Famine
"Harvest of Despair" |
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1985
October |
Visit to
Australia by an expert on the Ukrainian famine, Dr James
Mace. |
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1985
December |
Fifth
all-Australian AFUO Ukrainian Festival, Melbourne. |
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1986
March |
First
visitation by the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Catholic
Church, Cardinal Ivan Liubachivkyi. |
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1986
April |
The
Chornobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine
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1986 May |
Mass
demonstration at Parliament House, Canberra. |
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1988
February |
Visitation by member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group,
Oksana Meshko. |
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1988
March |
Australian Federal Parliament accepts a resolution to
support the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Resolution put
forward by Philip Ruddock. |
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1988
December |
Sixth
all-Australian AFUO Ukrainian Festival, Melbourne. |
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1989
January |
Visit by
former dissident Petro Ruban. |
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1989
July |
Visit by
defender of the catholic faith in Ukraine, Josyp Terelia. |
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1989
August |
Visit by
poet and Ukrainian MP Dmytro Pavlychko. |
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1989
September |
Visit by
President of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, Slava
Stetsko. |
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1989
November |
Visit by
author and MP Volodymyr Yavorivskyi. Spoke before
Federal Parliament. |
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The Nineties |
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1990 May |
The
Sydney Dance Ensemble Veselka tours Ukraine. |
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1990 May |
Australian Chornobyl Foundation formed by the AFUO. |
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1990
July |
Nina
Matvienko, singer from Ukraine, tours Australia. |
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1991
December |
Australian Parliament recognises Ukrainian sovereignty. |
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1992
January |
Monash
University (Melbourne) holds conference "Ukraine in the
Nineties" |
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1992
January |
Ex-dissident Ivan Dziuba visits Australa.
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1992
March |
Zina
Botte is appointed as the first Honorary Consul of
Ukraine in Australia. |
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1992
June |
Macquarie University (Sydney) holds conference "Ukraine
Today - Perspectives" |
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1992
June |
Les'
Taniuk, Leader of the Ukrainian Opposition, meets with
Federal MP's in Canberra. |
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1992
August |
First
Worldwide Forum of Ukrainians in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Australia represented by Mykhailo Moravski. |
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1992
October |
Singers
Oksana Bilozir and Ivan Popovych tour Australia. |
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1992
November |
Delegates from Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada,
visit Australia. |
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1993
March |
Singer
Ihor Bohdan tours Australia. |
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1993
April |
Ukrainian Retirement Complex opens in Melbourne,
Victoria. |
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1993 May |
Archbishop Peter Stasiuk becomes Eparch for all
Ukrainian catholics in Australia. |
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1993
August |
Adelaide's song and dance ensemble Kashtan tours
Ukraine. |
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1993
October |
Official
opening of a youth centre in Geelong, Victoria. |
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1994
January |
Ten
children affected by the Chornobyl disaster visit
Australia under the auspices of "Caruna" |
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1994
March |
Dmytro
Nytchenko awarded the literary prize Premier of Lesia
Ukrainka. |
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1994
April |
World
Gymnastics Championship in Brisbane. Local community
hosts Ukrainian National Team who won two silver and one
bronze medals. |
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1994
June |
Youth
for Christ movement founded in Melbourne. |
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1994
July |
Sydney's
Ivasiuk Ensemble tours Ukraine. |
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1994
August |
The
Ukrainian Youth Association Dance Ensemble Verkhovyna
(Melbourne) tours Canada. |
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1995
March |
International Air Show in Avalon, Victoria. Entry by the
Antonov aircraft building works from Ukraine. |
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1995
April |
Whitbread round the world entry from Ukraine, the Hetman
Sahaidachny, berths at Fremantle, WA. |
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1995
April |
Australian parliamentary delegation visits Ukraine under
the leadership of Graham Campbell. |
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1995
June |
Helen
Darville (pseudonym Demidenko) wins Australian award for
literature, the Miles Franklin Award, for a book on
Ukrainian-Jewish relations The Hand That Signed the
Paper. Later uncovered to be a hoax. |
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1995
October |
The
Odesa National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Theo Kuchar,
tours Australia. |
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1996
January |
Australia's Coca-Cola Amatil opens factory in Lviv,
Ukraine. |
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1996
November |
Joint
venture signed between oil company "UkrNafta" and
"Fountain Oil Boryslav Inc.". |
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1996
November |
The
first President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, visits
Australia. |
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1997
November |
9th ITU
Triathlon World Championships in Perth, WA. Andriy
Gluschenko from Ukraine wins Junior category. |
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1999
January |
World
Swimming Championships in Perth, WA. Local community
hosts Ukrainian swimming team. |
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The New
Millenium |
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2000
September |
Sydney
Olympics. Local community hosts athletes from Ukraine. |
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2004
January |
Singer-composer Ron Cahute from Canada tours Australia |
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2004
January |
The
Canadian Dance Ensemble Tryzub tours Australia |
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2004
March |
Ukrainian parliamentary and business delegation tours
Australia. |
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2004
March |
Ukrainian goodwill ship "Batkivschyna" visits Australia. |
