Australias Immigration Policy In The 1950s
. The end of the White Australia Policy The dictation test was abolished in 1958. In the 1970s this policy changed and people from other countries were encouraged to come to Australia.
Australia in the immediate postwar period consisted of two separate worlds. The staunch Anglo-British assimilationist rhetoric of the early 1950s is at odds with the mass immigration of non-English speaking Europeans to Australia during the 1950s and 1960s and the arrival of the first Vietnamese boat people in the 1970s. Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia in the decades immediately following World War II and in particular refers to the predominately European wave of immigration which occurred between 1945 and the end of the White Australia policy in 1973.
Between 1947 and 1953 the Australian Government assisted over 170000 Displaced Persons to migrate to Australia.
Between 1945 and 1970 the Australian Governments Immigration Policy sought migrants from England and Europe. Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia in the decades immediately following World War II and in particular refers to the predominately European wave of immigration which occurred between 1945 and the end of the White Australia policy in 1973. In the 1970s this policy changed and people from other countries were encouraged to come to Australia. Assistance to settle in Australia 31 Immigration and nation building 33 Assisted immigration schemes in the 1950s and 1960s 35 Ten Pound Poms 36 Nationality and citizenship 40 The Department drives a new approach to immigration 43 Non-European immigration 44 A new secretary and policy reform 45 Humanitarian resettlement 46.
