Australian Immigration By anneke1234567890 1945 Populate or perish was the govt policy 1946 Department of Immigration established. Policy to boost population 1946 Expansion of assisted passage to British migrant, known as 10 pound poms 1947 Aus begins accepting refugees through the Displaced Persons Scheme 1949 Menzies Govt introduces services to speed assimilation of migrants 1957 Laws changed to allow non - Europeans who had lived in Aus for 15 years to gain citizenship 1958 Abolition of the dictation test 1968 Dept of Immigration's, Division of Assimilation, renamed Div of Integration 1973 Multiculturalism replaced integration as gov policy 1974 "Advance Australia Fair" replaced "God Save the Queen"