''The Good Neighbour'' was a monthly bulletin in newspaper broadsheet format issued by the News and Information Bureau, Australian Department of Immigration, to assist

immigrants Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, a ...

to Australia. Printed on buff-coloured paper, it contained eight pages of illustrated news and advice for new immigrants to Australia. It was published from August 1950 (No. 1) to October 1969 (No. 189) and was distributed by the

Good Neighbour Council The Good Neighbour Council was an Australian Commonwealth Government program launched in 1950 to win public acceptance of mass immigration to Australia of post-Second World War refugees and settlers by promoting rapid assimilation. State Good Neig ...

. ''The Good Neighbour'' also incorporated ''The New Australian'' which appeared from January 1949 (No.1) to December 1953 (No. 60). The

National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...

in Canberra holds a complete set of these papers, and digitized copies are available online.

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External links

* Copies of
Example copy of ''The Good Neighbour'' at Museums Victoria
Defunct newspapers published in the Australian Capital Territory History of immigration to Australia {{australia-newspaper-stub