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A- A period of Australian history in which official and unofficial policy favoured British immigrants
B- A movement in the 19th century to make the Australian flag slightly different from the British flag by making its background white
C- A breed of Australian Siamese cat
D- A section of the phone book in Australia
The Chinese Immigration Act of 1855 sought to:
A- Restrict the importation of Chinese goods into Australia
B- Stop the immigration of Chinese people to Australia
C- Limit the number of Chinese passengers on a vessel coming to Australia to one for every ten tons
D- Restrict the number of Australians entering China
Why was the Dictation Test applied to prospective immigrants as part of the White Australia policy?
A- The government wanted to be sure that migrants could spell
B- Overt discrimination against Asian and some European migrants appeared racist, so the Dictation Test was administered in the name of seeking literate migrants
C- To ensure that all migrants had at least a basic level of proficiency in English
D- It was one of many tests applied to prospective migrants, including health, sanity, morality and tone deafness checks
Which of the following is the only Western country that puts its asylum seekers into mandatory detention who arrive in the country without valid documentation?
1966 : Migration Act
First important multiethnic migration to NSW
Over 300 Languages
Competition on the goldfields
Restrictions on chinese immigration
Great wealth
40 000 Chinese men and 9000 women over 20 years
Residency taxes
Written test in any European language,
then in any language
Act that prohibited from immigration :
Harold Holt
Most common :
English
Italian
Greek
Cantonese Chinese
Arabic
Series of protests and riots
Original population of New South Wales in 1851 : 200 000
Born or have an ancestor born overseas
Nearly impossible to pass
1975
Racial Discrimination Act
Early drafts explicitly banned non-Europeans from migrating to Australia
1902-1909 : 59 people passed
made the use of racial criteria for any official purpose illegal
The government views Australia's cultural diversity as a source of both social and economic wealth.
Objection of the British government
1930
1960
1900
2010
1850
Fall of Singapore
Australia's current Migration Program allows
Italy
Greece
Yugoslavia
People from any country to apply to migrate to Australia, regardless of their ethnicity, culture, religion or language, provided that they meet the criteria set out in law.
Feared invasion by Imperial Japan
Large labour force
Applied for residency
Blackbirding
Reinforced the philosophy of "White Australia"
Protests against foreign labour
Recruitment of people through trickery and kidnapping
Growth of the sugar industry in the 1870s
Chinese workers took jobs away because :
Search for labourers
Thousands of Kankas were brought into Australia as indentured workers
Post-war immigration program
Limit and categorize the number of Pacific Islanders allowed in Australia
Arthur Calwell (First immigration Officer)
During WW2
Malays
Indonesians
Filipinos
Protests
6.5 Million migrants