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White Australia Policy

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White Australia Policy

Australian government policy of immigration restriction, mainly aimed at non-Europeans, which began in the 1850s in an attempt to limit the number of Chinese entering the Australian goldfields and was official until 1945.



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The producers and directors of these shows are very sadly harking back to the White Australia policy of the '40s and '50s.
Topics related to racism and immigration in Australia are still regularly connected by the media to the White Australia Policy.
But when migration officials and other administrators of the White Australia policy created whiteness at the point of the border, what exactly did they have in mind?
 
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