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To: naturalman1975

Fraser ended the White Australia policy. Was that wise?


3 posted on 03/19/2015 4:59:38 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

He didn’t. It began being dismantled from 1949 and the process was completed by 1975, before Fraser took office. It was mostly done by the Menzies and Holt governments, with the Whitlam government dealing with the final traces of it.

Was it wise?

I think so, yes. The White Australia Policy was genuinely racist in both intent and effect. Stronger immigration controls based on other factors besides race may well be a good idea, but that one was not a good one.


4 posted on 03/19/2015 5:04:33 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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