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The immigration history of Australia began with the initial human migration to the continent around 80,000 years ago [1] when the ancestors of Aboriginal Australians arrived on the continent via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea. [2]
Since 1945, more than 7 million people have settled in Australia. Between 1788 and the mid-20th century, the vast majority of settlers and immigrants came from Britain and Ireland (principally England, Ireland and Scotland), although there was significant immigration from China and Germany during the 19th century.
publication is a brief history of the Department of Immigration (the Department) and captures some of the key events, highlights and challenges relating to immigration to Australia. It has been prepared in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Department’s establishment in July 1945.
From the 1950s, Australia began to relax its ‘White Australia’ policy. In 1956 non-European residents were allowed to apply for citizenship. Two years later the Dictation Test was abolished as a further means of exclusion.
Now known as the infamous White Australia Policy it, along with the Pacific Islander Labourers Act and the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, made it virtually impossible for Asians and Pacific Islanders to migrate to Australia.
Since the early days of European settlement, immigration has caused huge debate and controversy in Australia. This timeline looks at key events along the way.
6 Νοε 2019 · In this chapter we briefly review the context and nature of nineteenth-century immigration to the British colonies of what was to become Australia, and present a case study drawn from the historical archaeology of the Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney.
