In October 1950 a ‘Flying Tiger lines’ Curtiss Wright C-46 Commando designated Aus./163-Sydney/7 took off from Bremen in Germany, carrying a load of DP’s (displaced persons) heading for a new life in Australia. None of these people on board had previously heard of Australia. They were Polish refugees who could not return to Poland as their country had been overrun by the Soviet Red army hordes, and Polish ex-soldiers were being executed by their liberators.

The day was just Election Day - within the same old walls,
Wherein I sat in school day years - again I heard the calls.
The bird notes seemed to be the same - 'een silence seemed to speak;
The murmuring stream, still murmured low, a-lazing down the creek.