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=White Australian Policy=

//**By Alex and Michael**// The White australia Policy was a policly to try to keep non-white people out. In the 1850's in an attempt to the of the Chinese people. They didn't want Chinese people going on the Goldfields. They tried to keep the Chinese people out between 1850s-1945 from the Australian Gold Fields.

White immigration to Australia lasted form 1901 to 1973. In 1922 and 1925 migrants to pass 40 pounds. Who ever wasn’t Australia had to leave this country. The term “White Alien” was Wiley used into the period. The British didn’t mind the Greeks, Italians and the Poles.

British people didn’t like the Chinese because the brought Drugs and didn’t understand them. The Government was peter loyaler. The Australian people would bash up the Chinese people because they didn’t want them. Australian against the racist policy especially in the year of World War 2. Other countries were also criticised Australia’s racism.

In 2007 it doesn’t matter if Chinese came to Australia. Chinese people came to live have a holiday here.



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