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Australia is a popular and longstanding destination for international students. End of year data for 2009 found that of the 631,935 international students enrolled in Australia, drawn from more than 217 different countries, some 120,913 were from India, making them the second largest group. [142]
Until 1952, Australia did not permit Japanese women who had married Australian soldiers to enter Australia. [ 50 ] The Chifley government introduced the Aliens Deportation Act 1948 , which had its weaknesses exposed by the High Court case O'Keefe v Calwell , and then passed the War-time Refugees Removal Act 1949 which gave the immigration ...
Institutionalized racial segregation was ended as an official practice during the civil rights movement by the efforts of such civil rights activists as Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and James Farmer working for social and political freedom during the period from the end of World War II through the Interstate ...
At the time of the Freedom Ride in 1965, some Aboriginal People of Australia were counted separately in the census [5] and their rights as citizens were regularly ignored. Inspired by the Freedom Riders of the American Civil Rights Movement, a group of SAFA students travelled into New South Wales country towns on what some of them considered a ...
Built on the land of the Wakka Wakka people, Cherbourg’s modern motto of “many tribes, one community” reflects the varied origins of its 1,700 residents, descendants of people once forced to ...
The Australian settlement was a set of nation-building policies adopted in Australia at the beginning of the 20th century. The phrase was coined by journalist Paul Kelly in his 1992 book The End of Certainty .
Slavery in Australia has existed in various forms from colonisation in 1788 to the present day. ... Toward the end of 1848, ... at the same time, ...
The White Australia policy involved the exclusion of all non-European people from immigrating into Australia, and was the official policy of all governments and all mainstream political parties in Australia from the 1890s to the 1950s, and elements of the policy survived until the 1970s.