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Captain Arthur Phillip arrives with the very first Australian immigrants
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Immigrants flock to Victoria and New South Wales after large amounts of gold is discovered
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The White Australia Policy excluded dark skinned people from immigrating to Australia
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For the first time in it's history Australia allowed 5000 Jewish families into Australia as refugees escaping the holocaust.
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Immigration minister Arthur Caldwell enforces that the only way for Australia to survive is to drastically increase it's population. To do this the price of Australian citizenship was dropped significantly and refugees from Europe flooded in.
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Australia sees a massive influx of vietnamese refugees looking to escape from the war.
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It is decided that Australia's immigrant population is growing too fast so the government limits the amount of immigrants taken in to about 100,000 a year.
