Operation Kangaroo

Operation Kangaroo, or Operación Canguro was part of an informal immigration initiative[1] — "informal" due to the fact that there were no formal diplomatic relationship between the two countries — that brought male, Spanish, assisted migrants to Australia to work as cane-cutters in North Queensland.[2][3]

First contingent

The first group arrived in Brisbane, Queensland, in the SS Toscana (Lloyd Triestino Line), on 9 August 1958.[4]

gollark: My neural interface is ID 1981 by the way.
gollark: *Anavrin's snooper becomes a bit busier*
gollark: *nothing of consequence happens*
gollark: The worst you could do is... probably spoof my GPS on there, but I don't often run programs which need it and wojbie would eat you.
gollark: Anyway. Sending random modem messages to my neural interface, please understand, will do nothing of any consequence at all.

See also

Footnotes
  1. Part of the Spanish Assisted Migration Scheme.
  2. Garcia (2002), pp.36-46.
  3. Tao, 2018.
  4. Garcia (2002), p.45.

References
  • Garcia, Ignacio (2002), Operación Canguro: the Spanish Migration Scheme, 1958-1963, Jamison Center, ACT: Spanish Heritage Foundation.
  • Mason, Robert (2018), The Spanish Anarchists of Northern Australia: Revolution in the Sugar Cane Fields, Cardiff : University of Wales Press. ISBN 1-786-83308-5
  • Tao, KIm (2018), The 60th anniversary of the Spanish migration agreement, Australian National Maritime Museum, 6 August 2018.
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