Immigration to Australia

Australia Day / Invasion Day

Goldrush era begins.
British & Irish settlers
Germans & other Europeans
Chinese immigrants

Colonies joined to form a single nation

White Australia Policy.
Dictation test commenced.

Australia stopped accepting migrants

5000 Jewish refugee families from Germany arrived. Exempted from the dictation test.

Immigration Policy by Arthur Calwell.
Hundreds of thousands of people emigrated from Commonwealth countries and later the Netherlands and Italy.
10 Pound Poms. Must be <45 and of sound health. Fares were subsidised.

Gough Whitlams era.
Too many migrants for what Australia could accept.
Travel fare subsidies were abolished.

Asylum seekers
September 11
Tampa affair
Children overboard