From This Place: Italian-Australia, Wogs Like Us

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools - Salman Rushdie Wogs, Dagos, Post-War migrants, New Australians, Zips, Marios and Marias, I-Ties, Multicultural Australia. This episode we meet heaps of Italo-Australians to subtly address these labels, some embraced, some forgotten and some derogatory by asking the question: Can we define ourselves? Is it possible to document the commonalities of experience and of culture and to start to trace the transition from migrant group to diaspora? together, we create a collage that in some ways might confirm your impressions of Italian-Australians and in others, may also challenge it. This is not a nostalgic gaze into tradition, nor is it a definitive contemporary document, but rather an introduction to the idea that it is possible to be both Australian and Italian, and it is possible to feel like you are neither.