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Migration in post WW2 Australia
As you know, the White Australia policy had been a guiding tenet of Australian immigration in the C20th. The first act of the new Federation was the Immigration Restriction act of 1901. This meant that Kanakas, black labourers from Pacific islands were to be ejected, and Chinese kept away.
Up to 1947 this policy was reasonably successful in its aims. Although I will later argue that Australia has always been multicultural, to white citizens in 1947 it would have seemed that we were a homogenous society of white folk, with a similar racial and cultural background. But whereas before the war the white Australia policy was eminently respectable, the racial genocide of the Nazis had made racial politics a disreputable position. The war had also changed something else for Australia. With a population of 6.5 million, Australia had been threatened by the more populous Japanese. The country was on the very point of being invaded in 1942 and without the assistance of the Americans it was likely this would have occurred. It was realised that we did not have the population to defend such a large area.
In 1947 the Labour minister for Immigration was Arthur Calwell. Calwell planned to grow the Australian population by about 2% per year, half of which would be through immigration, the other half by natural increase. In the years after the war the growth through immigration exceeded this figure.
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Migration in post WW2 Australia
As you know, the White Australia policy had been a guiding tenet of Australian immigration in the C20th. The first act of the new Federation was the Immigration Restriction act of 1901. This meant that Kanakas, black labourers from Pacific islands were to be ejected, and Chinese kept away.
Up to 1947 this policy was reasonably successful in its aims. Although I will later argue that Australia has always been multicultural, to white citizens in 1947 it would have s...
