Australia Migration Post World War 2
. The rationale for the migration program was to boost Australias population and economy so that it could better defend itself against the yellow peril in the next Pacific war. The poster has historic significance as evidence of post World War 2 mass migration and the attempt by the Australian government to build the nations population with European migrants at a time when the White Australia Policy was firmly enforced.
World War 2 and post war migration Australias fear of invasion was once again heightened at the end of World War 2 and Populate or Perish became a common catchcry. Primary school at Bathurst Migrant Camp c1951. Amongst them were over 200000 refugees.
In a drive to increase national security and post-war economic development nearly three million immigrants arrived in Australia between 1945 and 1970 of whom almost a third disembarked in Melbourne.
The Australian government had made certain that migration was an attractive prospect by introducing the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945. World War 2 and post war migration Australias fear of invasion was once again heightened at the end of World War 2 and Populate or Perish became a common catchcry. In a drive to increase national security and post-war economic development nearly three million immigrants arrived in Australia between 1945 and 1970 of whom almost a third disembarked in Melbourne. The poster has historic significance as evidence of post World War 2 mass migration and the attempt by the Australian government to build the nations population with European migrants at a time when the White Australia Policy was firmly enforced.
