... federation of 1901. This policy was also most of the publics view at the time anyway, as the Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell, was a strong supporter of it and he held a lot of power within the political world. The other policy was for British migration, nicknamed "populate or perish". This meant that Australia realised that she was under threat from Asia ... started massive protests in a plea to the government to soften the White Australia Policy. Another thing was that during the Vietnam War, a lot of it was televised back to Australian homes and the public saw the suffering o...

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