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Christmas Island Stories
Добавлен 10 ноя 2020
Christmas Island Stories is an incorporated association made up of Christmas Island locals, with the purpose of recording, sharing and conserving the authentic stories of the people of Christmas Island.
The stories that we have captured aim to communicate the unique nature of the Christmas Island community, the role we have played in the Island’s development and our impact on Australia and the South-East Asia region.
There is nowhere else in Australia where Malay, Chinese, Australian and European people live together and celebrate each other’s cultures in harmony.
We hope this publicly available collection will help grow the Australian community’s understanding of the Christmas Island story - our past, present and our hopes for a prosperous and harmonious future. We hope our stories help keep the spirit of the Christmas Island community alive for current and future generations.
The stories that we have captured aim to communicate the unique nature of the Christmas Island community, the role we have played in the Island’s development and our impact on Australia and the South-East Asia region.
There is nowhere else in Australia where Malay, Chinese, Australian and European people live together and celebrate each other’s cultures in harmony.
We hope this publicly available collection will help grow the Australian community’s understanding of the Christmas Island story - our past, present and our hopes for a prosperous and harmonious future. We hope our stories help keep the spirit of the Christmas Island community alive for current and future generations.
Christmas Island Stories: Jude De Cruz
The broad outlines of Jude De Cruz’s story are shared by many Christmas Islanders of his generation.
He came to the Island looking for work and was won over by everything else it has to offer.
But, like his peers, Jude’s story is equally worth remembering and celebrating as an enduring part of a community that has endured a constant rollercoaster since he first arrived in the 1970s.
The De Cruz family’s history with the Island began with Jude’s elder brother.
“My brother spent one year here, but he went on holidays, so he recommended my other brother and myself to look for a job here,” he recalls.
So it was that Jude, fresh off two years of national service in Singapore, made his way to Christ...
He came to the Island looking for work and was won over by everything else it has to offer.
But, like his peers, Jude’s story is equally worth remembering and celebrating as an enduring part of a community that has endured a constant rollercoaster since he first arrived in the 1970s.
The De Cruz family’s history with the Island began with Jude’s elder brother.
“My brother spent one year here, but he went on holidays, so he recommended my other brother and myself to look for a job here,” he recalls.
So it was that Jude, fresh off two years of national service in Singapore, made his way to Christ...
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Christmas Island Stories: Brigitte & Ron Lines
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It was 1963 and Beatlemania was sweeping across Europe. It was a banner year in world history - US President John F Kennedy was assassinated. Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. And Ron met Brigitte in a French nightclub. When Brigitte came into the nightclub with a large group of friends, the Brigitte Bardot-lookalike turned everyone’s head. But Ron knew they were destined for...
Christmas Island Stories: The Muslim community of Christmas Island
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It’s 3:45am on Christmas Island, dawn hasn’t yet broken and 37-year-old Norazian Abdul-Halim is up and about preparing food for her family to eat. “Usually, the moms or the ladies of the house are first up to reheat food or cook before the sun rises,” says Norazian, more commonly called Nor. The pre-dawn meal is known as Sahūr and it’s a morning ritual during the Islamic month of Ramadan, which...
Christmas Island Stories: Suzane Chan
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Dancing isn’t just a hobby for Suzane Chan, it’s her way of connecting Christmas Islanders to their past and ensuring their culture survives long into the future. The 34-year-old has a fulltime job running community events, but spends her evenings and weekends working tirelessly to keep local children engaged in the community through dancing, costume and drumming. She pays for most of the costu...
Christmas Island Stories: Patrick Chan
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.2 года назад
Christmas Island resident Patrick Chan is committed to keeping Chinese traditions alive on his new home. This is Patrick's Christmas Island Story.
Christmas Island Stories: Ian Francis
Просмотров 5 тыс.2 года назад
Christmas Island District High School principal Ian Francis is the longest-serving principal in the school's history. This is Ian's Christmas Island Story.
Christmas Island Stories: Zaini Ahmad
Просмотров 7 тыс.2 года назад
Zaini Ahmad began his life on a patio and has graduated to pest control after growing up in the shadow of Christmas Island's wartime past. This is Zaini's Christmas Island story.
Christmas Island Stories: Lai Ah Hong
Просмотров 33 тыс.3 года назад
Lai Ah Hong started his Christmas Island journey sleeping on a wooden bed frame, with no mattress, in a three-square-metre army barracks style accommodation. This is Lai's Christmas Story.
Christmas Island Stories: Cindy Eng
Просмотров 31 тыс.3 года назад
Christmas Island grocery store owner Cindy Eng gets no pleasure from charging her customers almost $12 for an iceberg lettuce. Unfortunately, that’s the way it goes when you live on a remote island with high freight costs. This is Cindy's Christmas Island Story.
Christmas Island Stories: Khaliesha & Khairin Amin
Просмотров 18 тыс.3 года назад
With no people indigenous to Christmas Island, every human living there is either a migrant or descended from one. But there are still families who have lived on the Island for generations and have an extensive, treasured connection to the place. The Amin family is one of the few Island-born dynasties that can trace their family history on the Island back several generations along the paternal ...
Christmas Island Stories: Zainal Majid
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Zainal Majid, 62, is one of many Christmas Island locals who is willing to fight for the future of his Island. A fight, which dates back to the 80s, when Zainal and his community banded together to reopen the mine and prop up their Island’s economy. This is Zainal's Christmas Island Story.
Christmas Island Stories: Mark Bennett
Просмотров 11 тыс.3 года назад
Mark Bennet has a goal for Christmas Island - that it can one day not only grow enough food to sustain its own population but can be an example for other remote communities to do so as well. Through his Hidden Garden Sustainable Farm, he's well on the way to achieving that goal. Hidden Garden develops sustainable organic farms by repurposing land, using his own composted waste to grow fresh, or...
Christmas Island Stories: Kamar Ismail
Просмотров 30 тыс.3 года назад
The Christmas Island of today is almost unrecognisable from what it was like in the 1960s of Kamar Ismail’s youth and in many ways it’s for the better. When the 54-year-old was born on the Island, it had only become an Australian territory less than a decade earlier and the Malay, Chinese and European cultures were still figuring out how to coexist. Kamar recalls that his generation was the fir...
He's a Malaysian
They are Malaysians
Ian Francis is an Australian living in Christmas Island.
I just wonder, can i live on that island ??
Would really love a follow up to this story to see how the Hidden Farm has endured.
Ohhhhh sooo trouble boss 😞😞😞😞
Hii dear i want to come in ur county 🥰ok
❤
Teringin mau ke sini 😢😢
Beautiful country with beautiful culture. Glad that you are welcoming anybody to your place but please never welcome rohingya
incredible island, harmonious, peaceful life
Nk tya kebanyak kan org melayu kat sana kerja apa
Alhamdulillah banyak saudara muslim disana. Salam dari victoria Dan budayanya sepertii di Jawa
Di mana letak pulau ini?
South of Java island but in Australian territory
Are you all still in the Island
Pak Zainal bolih terima saya jika ingin bertamu di Xmas Island … dulu punya kawan di Radio Xmas Island tetapi tak tau sudah ke mana … Sy dulu Penyiar di Malaysia
Assalamualaikum Mr Zainal, I am from Indonesia
whomever create this channel, I wanna thank you so much for showing the other side of the island and the people there.
Why isnt GEE FOO in any of the videos? She is a very important person in C.I
May Allah allows me one dy to visit our brother Muslims in this island..
Ko orang nya sama kaya orang jakarta.. Padahal negara nya Australia
Sape sini fikira yg tu pakduan😅😂
Halo.Gimana caranya saya bisa ke pulau Natal?please help me
Kl d sna Krj apa
I never knew Christmas island is like a mini-Singapore/Malaysia.
This island very near from Indonesia
come home brown man
let it be as it is!!!! you know we descover and destroy
this people think logic!
what a lovely island
u guys are like pihillipines
let it be as it is, u know we discover and we destroy
respect to you bro
Greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩
Tahniah orang Melayu Christmas Island. Salam dari Melayu Malaysia
dont bring chinese culture there Cindy.Let the Malays live happily there.Malays from Lenggeng N9 Malaysia went there in 50s & 60s to work as Pearl divers & stayed there.No need to claim its belong to Singapore. Even Singapore is once Malay owned and its going to be retaken later.
So?
Can you speak malay language?
Tempat nak saya lawati bersama isteri
Are there any regular flights to CI from Jakarta or do we still hv to fly from WA?
Pulau terindah
kalau kita ikut ajaran islam..selamat dunia akhirat...
There is a job vacancy there?, where I want to see for job aportunity in cocos island/cristmas island?
Any padi (rice ) planted
Hope there will be often direct flight from Kuala Lumpur or Jakarta or Singapore to this island
Klo kt malaysia.. asal mna?Dia ada lg lagi tak kt malaysia?
Melaka
Salam dari melayu Riau Indonesia....mudah mudahan kaum muslim dimana saja berada ....dalam lindungan ALLAH SWT. Amin ya Robbal alamin terma kasih.
What a wonderful serene simple life with people and nature.
I think the only place with original Malay community (non immigrant) in Australia?
Salam dari melayu muslim Jambi, Indonesia. Semoga muslim di Christmas Island selalu dalam lindungan Allah Subhanahu Wataala 🙏
Salam from Penang