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Britain transported more than 160000 convicts from it's overcrowded prisons
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200,000 free settlers chose to migrate to Australia. The majority were English agricultural
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Thousands of Chinese people came to Australia during the 1850's gold rushes.
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In the second half of the 19th century, South Islanders were recruited.
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Following federation in 1901, Australia's newly farmed Federal Parlimant passed the Immigration Restriction Act.
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In the years after world war 2, Australia prompted immigration with the catchphrase "Populate Or Perish!"
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In the late 1970's a new wave of seaborn refugee's docked in Darwin, firstly from Timor and then from Indochina.
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Since the late 1990's increasing numbers of asylum seekers fleeing conflict in the middle East and Sri Lanka have arrived in Australia.