Thus the "White Australia Policy" was developed, primarily allowing only white British and Irish settlers to migrate to Australia. ... "Australia should concentrate on eliminating immigrants' old ideas, on destroying the old worlds in the interest of a new Australia." ... By the time the government changed over from Labor to Liberal, immigration was in full flow. ... With the Governments emphasis on the expansion of our manufacturing sector, Australia didn't want to tarnish any possible trade relations. ... Multiculturalism meant that there would be Government policies and programs ...

• Word Count: 1273
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The whites also had all the rights and controlled all forms of structure in the society, and to ensure that this continued the government established a "White Australia" policy. ... Human rights are a luxury enjoyed by wealthy countries which have stable governments. In many Asian countries people are suffering due to corrupt governments, wars, discrimination, famine, disease and poverty. ... When Indonesia invaded East Timor the Australian government which had remained very complacent could not stand by any longer and sent our own troops to the region to support the United Nations peace-keepi...

• Word Count: 1471
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is our own successive governments inflicting these policies on us and they, not the individual migrant, should bear the blame. ... Yet the government plans to double the size of our major cities over the next 30 years by immigration. ... DEFENCE The 1987 government policy paper on the defence of Australia stated, "no population increase is necessary for defence". ... The government admits it does not have the resources to immunise those as risk of Hepatitis B or to provide the necessary TB screening procedures. ... The preferential admission of children of migrants to unive...

• Word Count: 2083
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• Grade Level: High School

Australia also had a large migrant population. ... The government policy of conscripting people into the armed forces, by a ballot system, is also referred to by the characters. ... Away is a play about ordinary Australian life and ordinary Australian people. ... These cultural references make the setting of the play unique to Australia and may need some explanation to audiences outside of Australia. However even though Gow makes observations of Australian society and uses familiar Australian expressions the actual events that occur in the play are not unique to Australian society and port...

• Word Count: 1746
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• Grade Level: High School

In 1885, Chinese immigrants were brought to Canada to build a national railway and after its completion; the Canadian government prohibited the families of these workers from immigrating to Canada by passing the Chinese Immigration Act (Abu-Laban & Gabriel, 2003, p.294). ... During the Second World War and the Great Depression, the government prevented immigrants who were understood to have a communist view from entering into Canada, which they then saw a decrease in immigration soon after. ... A study was conducted in Australia, which happens to have a similar immigration system to Canad...

• Word Count: 1742
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate