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First Fleet
In the year from 1788 to 1868, Britan transported over 160,00 convicts,from its over populated prisons, to australian colonies. This is also know as invation day to the Aboriginal people,as they have settled here thousands of years before that. -
Free Immigrants
nbetween 1793 and 1850 about 200,000 free settlers chose to come to australia for a better life.The magority were English agricltural workers or servents, as well as Irish and Scottish people. These settlers created the start of an early australian society. -
The gold rush
housands of Chinese people came to australia when the 1850s gold rush started 139 1901 chinese were the third largest people in australia after the british and germans. when the gold rush was found many took up a market gardening or established busineses like retaurants or laundries -
labourers
n the second half of the 19th-century South Sea Islanders were recruited to work on Queensland sugar plantations, Afghan cameleers played a vital role in the exploration and opening up of the Australian outback, and Japanese divers contributed to the development of the pearling industry. -
white australia
Did you know migrants had to pass a dictation test in any European language in order to enter Australia between 1901 and 1958?
Following Federation in 1901 Australia’s newly-formed Federal Parliament passed the Immigration Restriction Act, which placed certain restrictions on immigration and aimed to stop Chinese and South Sea Islanders from coming to Australia. These laws, known as the White Australia policy, were administered by a dictation test and informed Australian -
populate or perish
In the years after World War 2, Australia promoted immigration with the catchphrase ‘Populate or perish!’ to replenish the countless citizens lost at war. It negotiated agreements to accept more than two million migrants and displaced people from Europe, offered assisted £10 passages to Australia to one million British migrants, and finally, in the 1970s, repealed the restrictive White Australia policy framed in 1901. -
boat people
In the late 1970s a new wave of seaborne refugees docked in Darwin, firstly from East Timor and then from Indochina, most fleeing from war and violence in their home countries.The Vietnamese ‘boat people’ in particular arrived at a time of dramatic social upheaval in Australia, with heated public debate about our involvement in the Vietnam War and the new concept of multiculturalism. Despite some opposition from the wider community, the relaxation of immigration restrictions meant that most of t -
asylum seekers
Since the late 1990s increasing numbers of asylum seekers fleeing conflict in the Middle East and Sri Lanka have arrived in Australia by boat. Today the question of how to deal with asylum seekers arriving on unauthorised voyages remains one of the most controversial issues in contemporary Australia.
1990s – pres