Immigration to Australia

By mrsbolto

  • First Fleet Arrives

    Australia Day / Invasion Day

  • Goldrush Era begins

    British and Irish settlers
    Some Germans and other Europeans
    Chinese immigrants

  • Federation

    The colonies joined to form a single nation.

  • Immigration Restriction Policy

    "White Australia" Policy
    Dictation test introduced
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    The Great Depression

    Australia stopped accepting migrants

  • Immigration begins again

    5000 Jewish refugee families from Germany arrived (exempted from Dictation test).
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    WWII

  • Populate or Perish Policy

    Immigration Policy created for displaced Europeans.
    Hundreds of thousands of people from Commonwealth countries and later Netherlands and Italy.
    Requirements: must be <45 and in sound health.
    10 pound poms.

  • Too many migrants

    Australia couldn't accept the many migrants anymore. Subsidies for fares were abolished. Gough Whitlams era,
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    Border protection issue

    Asylum seekers and Border protection after:
    September 11, Children overboard, tamer affair.
    John Howard Prime Minister

  • Pacific solution

    Detention camps on off-shore islands to detain asylum seekers waiting to be processed.