Australian Immigration Timeline

First Settlers

Jan 1, 1778

Gold Rush

Period: Jan 1, 1854 to Dec 31, 1865

Chinese Discrimination
Britians, Germans, Americans

Federation

Jan 1, 1901

White Australia Policy dictation

Great Deppresion

Jan 1, 1928

Zero Immigration

Holocaust

Jan 1, 1938

Jewish Refugees from Europe

WWII Ends

Jan 1, 1945

Populate or perish

Baby Boomers

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1959

Natural Increase
Northern Europeans, Italians, Yugoslavians, Maltese, Polish

Korea, Vietnam War

Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Dec 31, 1979

Wave of Immigrants from middle east

Period: Jan 1, 1980 to Dec 31, 1989

More Immagrants

Period: Jan 1, 1990 to Dec 31, 1999

Timor, Indonesia, Afganistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt

Pasific Solution

Jan 1, 2000

Detention centres
Skilled Immigrantion