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Immigration of convicts from U.K. Later seen as Australia day or from the Aboriginal people's perpectives, Invasion Day
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1851: gold rush, British/ Irish/Germans colonials Chinese discrimination, Eureka stockade
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1901: federation- white Australia policy, dictation test
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1929: Great depression, no migrants accepted
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1938: Jewish Refugees, holocaust were accepted
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1945: Immigration populate or perish policy, displaced persons were accepted (Russia, Poland) ten pound pom policy- had to be 100% of one race not mixed. Arthur Calwell stated 'Two wongs don't make a white' the migrants had to be from Europe. He wanted 2 million migrants by 2000, which was achieved.
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Generation of the baby boomers. Over 50 million homeless and refugees were in Europe.
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Calwell wanted more migrants to assimilate to Australian life and culture. However, it was dififcult for them to assmiliate, language was a major issue. Many came out from Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia,
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As a result of the Vietnam and Korean War, both of which the Australians contributed to.
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