Australian International Research Institute

Welcome to Sydney

50th Anniversary of White Eagle Polish Hall in Cabramatta

1939 onwards: Acid Test for Alliances and Resilience:
Modern history seminar at NSW Parliament House

Australian International Research Institute invites you to a Modern History Seminar in the theatrette of NSW State Parliament House on Thursday 9 September 2010 at 4:00 PM (doors open at 3.30 PM).

Sculptures at the Sea, Sydney '09

Way of the Cross, Mercy College, Chatswood '08

The Wieliczka salt mine exhibition was opened in the NSW Parliament House
on 7 January 2009

Upon Professor Ryszard Sarkowicz, Consul General of Poland delivered the initial address, Hon John Aquilina, Leader of the House has shared his observations on relevance of salt from the Polish and Australian perspectives.

Scouts throughout the world celebrate the 100th anniversary of their movement Photo W. Niemotko

St George monument in Stockholm (Sweden)

Australia

M/v "Aurora",registered in Hamilton, was among those passenger cruisers visiting Sydney in 2009

The Maltese passenger cruiser "Millennium"
in a pre-Christmas visit to Sydney '08

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2008

History Week 2008

The Australian International Research Institute Incorporated has staged the Modern History Forum in the NSW Parliament House in Sydney on 11 September 2008. Dr Waldemar Niemotko delivered a lecture “Eyewitness accounts of Australian soldiers and POWs during the Second World War”, aimed at enhancement of school syllabi and text books on modern history. The revolution in education as proclaimed by the Federal Government would focus primarily on teaching English, Mathematics and History from kindergarten to year 12. At present, there are thirty four separate organisations and more than eighteen different senior history and English courses. The National Curriculum Board is due to start work on 1 January 2009 with the objective in preparing a single, high quality, world class curriculum.

XXIII World Youth Day Sydney
15-20 July 2008

The inauguration of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II in October 1978
has attracted to Vatican thousands of pilgrims from all over the world,
whilst those from Poland had a special reason to cheer their famous countryman;
this was for Waldemar Niemotko a lifetime experience

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (St Mary's Cathedral, 19 July 2008)

... and the Church flock

His Eminence George Cardinal Pell Archbishop of Sydney
... and the buoyant pilgrims

Papal boat-a-cade

The Knights of Malta on the Papal Guard of Honour at St Mary’s Cathedral

Volunteering

Final Mass for 400,000 worshippers

Pilgrimage means walking

Servant of God, Pope John Paul the Great, Father of World Youth Day

The Knights of Malta

The Knights of the Australian Association of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of

Malta

, have congregated on Saturday the 5^th of July 2008 in Hunters Hill ( Sydney), on a Votive Mass on the Birthday of their Patron, St John the Baptist, that was featured by the Investiture of Deirdre Patricia Page as a Dame