Examples Of Social Darwinism In Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were treated differently before the war and during the war. They had few rights, low wages and poor living conditions before the war. They were not officially classified as Australian citizens, because of the 'Aboriginal Protectors Act' from 1869, which gave the government more control over them. This meant they couldn't go to a public bar to drink, couldn't vote, couldn't be in a relationship with a non-Aboriginal person, could not own any property and were not included in the census. When the war started and Australia was recruiting soldiers, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders tried to sign up, as they were

WWII had a big impact on the social changes in Australia before and after the war. One of the reasons it had such an impact on Australia was due to the immigration policy, which was made to increase Australia’s population. The immigration policy is a policy on legal migrants. Legal migrants who come to Australia under the migration act are non – Australians who come to the country for work or other reasons without permission or people who overstay their visas. This enforces that those who come in the country without permission may be subject to mandatory immigration detention and may be deported from the country at any time, unless been given permission to stay in Australia. This policy has contributed to the multicultural society of Australia today. To this day, there in an estimated 50 000 people who have overstayed their visas, most of these people come from British nations. Those touching base by boat or different means without official classification as refugees are no longer granted permission outcast status on landing. For example, those from an Asian background are becoming a more familiar part of Australia’s society today. Overseas migrant entries have assumed a vital part in changing the face of Australia. The current variety of migrants born in Australia include areas such as The United Kingdom, New Zealand, Italy, Vietnam, China, Greece, Germany, Philippines and India. Since the change in immigration policy in the late 1960s to one of non-discrimination on race or ethnic background, there has been a significant change in the overseas sources of migrants, with settlers arriving from more diverse regions of the world. To this day, Australia’s overseas born population consists of people who practise over 140 recognized ethnic groups, people who fluently speak over 90 different languages and people who believe in over 80 different religions. This expanding ethnic and social diversity has changed the way Australians view both themselves and other societies of the world. It has

Before the 1900s, there was no Australia, just 6 colonies. New south wales, South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania (the island colony). The colonies eventually joined up. Referendums were put to the people and on the 23rd of December 1901, Edmund Barton put forward and idea called the immigration act.The immigration restriction act is an act, led by the Australian parliament to limit immigration in Australia. This act formed the basis of the white Australian policy which disallowed all non-Europeans from Australia. This act was introduced on the 23rd of December 1901 by Edmund Barton.The law allowed all immigration officers a wide amount of responsibility to stop individuals from entering the country. The ACT

After the end of indenture in the British colonies and the end of the importation of labourors from the South Sea into Queensland, the stories of the oppressed do not improve. As Island Footprints records, the South Sea people in Queensland were forced to leave Queensland at Federation, as Alfred Deakin stated, “Unity of race” was essential to the unity of Australia and as a result the employing of South Sea Islanders was outlawed and many were forced to return to the islands. Later, a compromise was made and some South Sea Islanders were able to stay, but their freedoms were restricted and discrimination was rife. They found themselves stuck between neither being white nor being Aboriginal and as a result, as things improved for the Aborigines, the South Sea Islanders were neglected. The Indo-Fijians faced comparable difficulties, because after the indenture system was abolished, they were free to live in

Culture is always changing. Beliefs, behaviours and presentation, religion and language all form part of what is an individual’s or community’s culture. (Bowes, Grace, & Hodge, 2012, p.75 & 77). Due to its intrinsic nature, when people migrate to Australia, they bring their culture with them. As migrants come from all over the world, and not the one place, their

Since World War 2 and the Vietnam War, Australia has become a multicultural country. Before the Vietnam War, though, the Australian government tried their best to keep Australia ‘white’. After the fear of communism from Vietnam, the government thought it would be in the country’s best interest to try and build up the population in Australia, but only allowing ‘white’ Europeans and British people to come. What is included in this report, is to discover how and why the migrants from non-European countries manage to change the face of modern Australia.

After The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 was one of the first Acts passed by the Australian Parliament after Federation in 1901. The new law provided strict control over who could migrate to Australia. The White Australian Policy was not a single government proclamation but in fact

Life before the Mabo case was hard, throughout the 19th century white settlers gradually moved the aboriginal people off their land and into reserves. The Indigenous population were forced to experience dispossession and paternalism. In strictly legal terms they did not exist. Discriminatory policies such as the 'White Australia' policy and 'Assimilation' policy were imposed. In September 1901 the Australian government introduced the white Australian policy, trying to ban all non- caucasian people from entering the country. The assimilation approach was outlined in 1937. It presumed that Indigenous Australians could enjoy the same standard of living as white Australians if they were absorbed into white society. An example of a failed case would be the 1963 Bark Petitions, historic Australian documents that were the first traditional

Not only were the Aborigines excludes from human rights, but Australia enacted a policy which excluded anyone non-European from entering the country. Known as the White Australia policy or Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, it excluded anyone entry into the country who could not pass the dictation test. The dictation test was a basic grammar test that was administered by the government. The grammar in question was English, however if one was to pass the test in English the person could be re-tested in another European language. Thus keeping out all non-white people from the country (Gothard, J, p.35, 2003). The policy led Australia into growing a large White Caucasian population. However, the Immigration Restriction Act was abolished in 1958

During the 19th century, five main phases have characterized immigration in Australia. The Gold Rush period in 1851, led immigrants from Europe and East Asia to migrate to Australia in search of gold finds (Spinks, 2010). The second phase of immigration occurred in 1871, when Egypt expanded its passage of the Suez Canal and migrants from Northern Africa and the Middle East were able to gain access to Australia’s southern seaports (Boulus, Dowding, and Pietsch, 2013). In 1901, however, the new Commonwealth of Australia established the Immigration Restriction Act, or the ‘White Australia policy,’ which banned immigrants from entering Australia. Moreover, the policy prohibited those existing ‘non-whites’ from obtaining citizenship and gaining

When the Australian Government passed these laws of discrimination against the Aborigines, they never thought of them as human beings but rather an inferior race that had to be taken

Even though the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have improved in comparison to 50 years ago, they still aren't able to be defined as "equal", not to mention this type of treatment is being repeated to asylum seekers coming to Australia. Even before the 1967 referendum, in 1962, the Aboriginal population was legally allowed to vote, but still weren't counted on the census (Healey, 2003). After the referendum changed this, the European side believed that that was all that needed to be done, when in reality, even today, section 25 of the Australian Constitution still states "Provision as to races disqualified from voting- For the purposes of the last section, if by the law of any State all persons of any race are disqualified from voting at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of the

Since the time of federation the Aboriginal people have been fighting for their rights through protests, strikes and the notorious ‘day of mourning’. However, over the last century the Australian federal government has generated policies which manage and restrained that of the Aboriginal people’s rights, citizenships and general protection. The Australian government policy that has had the most significant impact on indigenous Australians is the assimilation policy. The reasons behind this include the influences that the stolen generation has had on the indigenous Australians, their relegated rights and their entitlement to vote and the impact that the policy has had on the indigenous people of Australia.

The police could also expel ‘trouble makers’ from reserves. The policy of Assimilation/Integration was in force from the 1930’s to the early 1960’s. The Assimilation policy was aimed to make the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people more ‘civilized’ and ‘westernised’. It was hoped by the State Governments and Federal Government that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity would be destroyed and lost forever.

Asian Immigrants have gone from having a continuous restriction year to year then to becoming a major part of Australian society. However, since the policy of Integration in 1970 and the abolishment of the dictation test in 1958 Asians has had the opportunity to migrate to Australia. This has been continuous since that major change with more and more arriving every year. The changes in these policies were made as Australia was becoming a more multicultural society and the Asian Migration wave has altered Australia today by making Australia richer and more culturally diverse. Asian immigrants have also contributed to the change in the Australian Political Policies which has allowed Migrants to become more accepted into Australia. Because of this no changes should be made to these political