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Year 6 HASS - Historical Recount Journal: Australia in the 20th Century: White Australia Policy & Immigration

Australia in the 20th Century

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Resources on the End of the White Australia Policy & Immigration (1973)

Eye witness accounts, Images, Documents 

 

Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (House of Representatives and Attorney-General's Department, 1901) - image of document with transcript - available from the National Archives of Australia. 

Japanese propaganda and White Australia during World War II - memorandum (John Latham, Australian Legation, Tokyo and Department of the Interior, Central Office, 1941) - image of document available from the National Archives of Australia. 

Revision of 1966 immigration policy affecting non-Europeans (Department of Immigration, Central Office, 1968) - image of document available from the National Archives of Australia. 


 'White Australia Policy' badge - Artefact from 1920

Available via TROVE

George Megalogens' top 3 Defining Moments (National Museum of Australia)

 


Admission Impossible (NFSA Films) [54:22 minutes Documentary] - includes Primary Source Material

 


 

100 Years The Australian Story Episode Two: The Rise and Fall of the White Australia Policy (ABC Documentary - 58:41 minutes)

 


 

Australia's Population History - Behind the News (ABC BTN)

 


 

Sunrise - Accomplishments since end of White Australia (2013) - Interview with former PM Malcolm Fraser