... "Immigration's the key" Prior to 1945 the White Australia Policy prevented anyone to enter Australia unless they were from Britain. However In 1945 the government felt that the population needed to grow so they got rid of the White Australia Policy and came up with a new policy called "Assimilation". ... can enter Australia as long as they gave up their culture and learned to live the Australian way of life. "These people didn't speak English but they were "white", so they were acceptable to the government". "Non-white" people were still not accepted from entering Australia under the Ass...

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... the play is set in a specific time period - the Christmas of 1967 and New Year of 1968. The late sixties is a period of Australian history where there was a great deal of political and social change. One significant event was that Australia was at war with North Vietnam. Australia also ... standard ". Coral finds the loss of her son hard to accept. She is devastated by his departure and just wants him back. The government policy of conscripting people into the armed forces, by a ballot system, is also referred to by the characters. Rick tells Coral how he ... situation through an empathe...

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... training our own youth and our skilled labour remains unemployed. Yet both Liberal and Labour regard importing skilled migrants as the way to increase the labour market! DEFENCE The 1987 government policy paper on the defence of Australia stated, "no population increase is necessary for defence". Today's defence needs require a strong economy and sophisticated, expensive military infrastructure. We ... producing real skills for real jobs. The preferential admission of children of migrants to universities under the unfair LOTE (Language Other Than English) bonus ensures Australian child...

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... send them back where they came from in just 3 years. If these whingers can't deal with the problems of their own country, why should we have them in ours? Under Australian law, they are not illegal, only if they overstay their Visas. Do you think that once those 3 years are up they will happily frolic back to their country with a handful ... of photos and a stuffed toy kangaroo? They will most probably do a runner from the Government and change their name from Mohammed to Bruce. According to Amnesty International, 1 in every 115 people on earth is a refugee, and a new refugee is born ev...

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Federation refers to the unity of several states to form one nation, but remain independent in internal affairs. The Australian Federation was proclaimed on the 1, January 1901. The following discussion will focus on the issues that lead to six separate British colonies forming one united Australia. The economic advantages to ... . This added to the economic hardship. Politicians, bankers and businessmen began to believe that the problems that by now had lasted a few years could be better handled by a central federal government. Another important issue was defence. The colonies relied on Brit...

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... is outside their country of origin and genuinely risks serious human rights abuses because of who they are or what they believe. They cannot or will not return because their government cannot or will not protect them2. They illegal entry of these refugees into Australia came to a head with the Tampa and children overboard crises. My opinion on the topic is ... human rights; these include: - Protection against discrimination - Freedom of religion - Identity and travel documents - Work rights - Housing, education and relief - Protection against penalties for illegal entry - Freedom of mov...

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... due to the wars and depression. Australia needed to survive, and this was done through planned immigration. The Department of Immigration was set up in 1945 by the Commonwealth Labor government and Arthur Calwell was the first Minister of Immigration. However Calwell had a single-minded view of where the migrants should come from. He was in favour of the 'White Australia ... origins of people who came to Australia between July 1947 and June 1970 - the British Isles having many more immigrants than other countries. The White Australia Policy When the various Australian colonies formed th...

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