Overview of Immigration in Australia since WW2 On this page - Planned immigration White Australia policy Immigration Restriction Act Patterns of Migration The Impact Migration has had on Australia Planned immigration After World War II a census showed that Australia's population was only 7 and a half million people - and if this didn't improve Australia's industries would die and leave Australia open for invasion from more powerful countries. ... Calwell had a motto he was known for - ...

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While on first glance, it appears that the White House plan to bail out automakers is dimwitted and a ploy to make rich men richer, the facts run contrary to that opinion. ... In addition to manufacturing new cars, the auto manufacturers, directly or indirectly create jobs for dealers, salesmen, secretaries, parts manufacturing, service personnel, tire manufactures, and tire sales people and more. ... The first casualties of recession are debtors, and like the Mortgage industry, the Auto industry depends on people paying down the notes that they finance. Unfortunately for the auto industry, ...

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Silko describes the affects of traditional, "white", schooling and society, experienced by Tayo's mother before the war had taken place, and how the assimilation and integration of Native Americans to whites had its negative effects not only to the specific person, but to their entire family, as well as white people. "She hated the people at home when white people talked about their peculiarities; but she always hated herself more because she still thought about them, because she knew their pain at what she was doing with her life. The feelings of shame, at her own people ...

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White collared jobs replaced guilds because of the mass need of employment. ... White collared jobs have to take some of the blame for this accusation. White collared employees have the weekends off and along with public schools for kids. ... Television today has better quality, more feature , and a lot more channels- creating subcultures of certain people who only watch certain shows or channels which results in the killing of the conversation. Today instead of people not leaving their television set which still happens they just move to another screen, such as a computer or a smartphone. ...

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" In this war an army of red and an army of white faced off in the battle for power. ... "The feud between the red army and the white army had finally boiled over into war. ... They fought the white army who consisted of the people who wanted to restore a monarchy to Russia. These people, known as royalists, managed to gain support from France, Great Britain, and partly the United States. ... He begins pulling people back through brutality and enforces his rule on the people with a sturdy hard he begins creating new politics and begins pushing Russia in a positive direction. ...

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Jay Gatsby is faced with many challenges in his life and how he deals with them in the story shows a length of his maturity and patience with people are thrown at him. ... You see this character as a good-looking sharp clean-cut man. " An hour later the door opened nervously and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold colored tie hurried in". Colors reoccur often like gold, white, green and silver. ... Parties with laughter, dancing, music and people usually complete the package of a quite popular man. ... I think that he never really got his chance in life to prove to peopl...

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This breakdown was in the most part caused by disorganization of the government since they had forgotten that the people are the true rulers of our country. ... Again some how our nation has gradually getting far from being controlled by the people rather than a guy sitting at a round office at the white house. ... The main purpose for this policy would not be to put people on the front line without knowing anything, but to realize what it takes to keep our nation free, why? ...

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The declaration of war with Japan affected many people in America in a number of ways. ... She lived in a predominately white neighborhood and went to a white school. ... Ira was also praised by another group of people, his tribe in Arizona. ... America celebrated the people who helped win the war, while not forgetting who fought against U.S. soldiers. ... Japanese Americans were able to return home, but were still considered a lesser people. ...

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People called this war as the World War II. ... Although Japan freed many Asians from the White colonial rules, there are people who experienced hard time. ... Although Japan helped some Asian countries to be freed from the White colonial rulers, Japan made Hong Kong people's life harsh by damaging the population and economy, and it relates the failure of building their ideal Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. ... It shuttered white superiority and provided hope for Asian countries. ... It completely made Hong Kong people's life harsh. ...

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Jewish people fleeing religious persecution of nazi Germany. White Russians fled to the Land of Oz escaping their communist mother country. ... The multiculturalism policy was not officially introduced until the white Australia policy was abolished in 1973 by the Whitlam Labor government. ... Many Chinese people fled to Australia during this time escaping communist china. ... Sharing a "white made country" with other cultures is a small price to pay for the benefits of a wider variety of food and deeper understanding of other cultures....

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The construction industry boomed in the 1950s to satisfy the demand of people who wanted to move to the suburbs. ... The move to the suburbs was also called the "white flight" because most of the modern migrants that went to the suburbs were white. People of all kinds found their way to the suburbia, heading for neighborhoods that varied from the superior to the plain. Even with all the diversity of people in the suburban areas, the overwhelming majority of suburbanites were made up of white and middle-class families. ... The years following World War II proved to invoke a great change in ...

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The Japanese are somewhat divided from white Australians. First of all Broome has a "Register of Aliens", this was a register or list that kept track of foreign people. ... Chinatown contains houses that are far smaller and in general with little fortunes unlike the white Australians. ... Another aspect of distrust is from the white community concerning over aborigines of Broome "Your Abo is unreliable... ...

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It shows you how people lived and how the town ran. ... Next on the ladder came poor white people. ... Tom is an African American man who is wrongly accused of raping a poor white woman named Mayella Ewell. ... Both of the novels above are examples of prejudices against people. People can learn a lot from literature if they just let themselves. ...

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Up until the 1960's, Australia was defined as a White Nation. ... When Australia was made into a federation, it needed more people to develop the land. ... Due to racial attitudes and economic factors, the influx of Asians and coloured people into Australia society was feared and therefore brought in policies to limit and restrict such people from entering. ... In 1966 the Liberal-Country Party Government began dismantling the 'White Australia' policy by permitting the immigration of 'distinguished' non-Europeans. ... Some large groups of similar cultural background...

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As the war raged on and the battle against Nazi Germany was won, discrimination against non-white people became more apparent. People of differing ethnic groups wanted the chance to participate in society as equal members, with all of the same opportunities as white Americans. ... The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) gained half a million members. ... Nazi Germany and Hitler's attitudes toward anyone that wasn't part of the Aryan race showed people firsthand the horrors of extreme prejudice. ... I believe that with each new generation, people beco...

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In 1669, Slavery was made into property by law, so beginning the centuries of oppression by white Americans on people who were not "pure" enough. ... African Americans demanded equality from whites when they embraced their heritage with truth and began the fight for white to accept that they played a key role to make American what it is today. ... The Chinese class were often isolated from the "white" Americans, and found restrictions to their limits of opportunities such as the Chinese Exclusion Act. ... Coming back to the Giddy Multitude, they represented all of the peoples who were not...

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History cannot be looked at trough White and Black glasses. ... From current point of view advocated by many people including myself, War was terrible mistake and it cannot be justified. ... Stone in his "A Reply to the "White Paper", successfully criticizes US official report known as "White Paper", and leaves many doubts if government was honest to its citizens why United States enter the Vietnam War. ... He like many people of that had doubts what is true reason why United States entered Vietnam War. ... Stone "A Reply to the "White Paper" (March 8, 1965) 3. ...

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The people of Africa have suffered tremendously, like the people in the other cases but almost no progress has been made for their repayment. ... The people of Africa have suffered through much worse than the people of Iraq and we are doing almost nothing about it. ... African-American author Abigail Thernstrom stated in her book Americans in Black and White, " No group in American history ever improved its position so dramatically in so short a time." "In the nineteen-fifties, barely one in ten blacks were in white collar occupations. ... However, how he says this scares away white Americ...

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Before World War II, many Asians were accused of "stealing" all the jobs that supposedly rightfully belonged to the white Americans. The white Americans felt as though they had a right over these jobs, and that the Asian immigrants were creating the increasing unemployment among the whites. ... We saw how the refugees were able to embrace both the east and west through the people who adopted them. ... However, much of the resentment the white natives felt about the presence of the Asian refugees seemed as though the hostility over the labor market had always existed. ...

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With the help of Mike Jacobs, Louis was able to get in important fights against famous white boxers... White sportswriters gave him nicknames like, Brown Bomber, the Dark Destroyer, and the Tan Tornado. Louis was the only black boxer in the white world. ... After these fight people still had doubts about Louis abilities. ... The fight took place in Yankee Stadium in front of 70,000 people. ...

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This book allows the American people to hear private conversations and letters of historical giants. ... Roosevelt and Truman knew that to punish the German people to harshly would bring about the creation of another Hitler or possibly an alliance with Russians which would lead to Communism. ... Many of the administrators in the White house opposed The Morgenthau plan. ... There are many people who would believe that Bechloss totally mispresents Roosevelt. ... There were many different sects of groups lobbying the white house to do something about the mass killings that were going on in Pola...

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One of the main policies at the time concerning immigration was the "White Australia Policy", which restricted any Asians coming to Australia. ... These students then started massive protests in a plea to the government to soften the White Australia Policy. ... Since the end of the White Australia Policy, the only hiccups have been the One Nation party, led by Pauline Hanson, and the defence centres which lock up the boat people from Asia. Not letting in the boat people was one policy that has not changed. ... This was probably another reason that the White Australia Policy ended, that is beca...

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The thick fact that I chose to excavate is "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling. ... "Take up the White man's burden" is a line that is repeated throughout the poem. ... It allowed the people who believed in old Europe to participate/live in the same community and government system with the people who agreed with the newer ways of Europe in the early 19th century. ...

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Moreover, Monica and her siblings were criticized by Japanese kids for being Americans when they traveled to Japan, yet they couldn't blend in with the American mainstream due to widespread discrimination toward Japanese people. The prejudice of white Americans lasted half the twentieth century. ... These people didn't do anything wrong in the first place; therefore, they should be given back what's theirs and compensated for all the hardships they had been put through. Next, because discrimination has been proved to be wrong and unjust, the Nisei have to be provided with equal...

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The people look to the president for guidance and direction. ... George Washington made the white house accountable to the Congress to a degree that the British king had not been answerable to the Parliament. ... Almost on its own, the White House created a new nation that blandly did what it was told to do. ... Truman believed he should govern in the name of the all the people at all times. ... Truman also believed the White House would be a reasonable, safe and sound place after Roosevelt. ...

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