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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 ...
In 1890, a strike in the shipping industry spread to wharves, railways, mines and shearing sheds. Employers responded by locking out workers and employing non-union labour, and colonial governments intervened with police and troops. The strike failed, as did subsequent strikes of shearers in 1891 and 1894, and miners in 1892 and 1896.
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 ...
The Victorian legislation was the forerunner of the racial segregation policies of other Australian governments from the 1890s. ... as did subsequent strikes of ...
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 ...
Slavery in Australia has existed in various forms from colonisation in 1788 to the present ... and another 31 arrived in Perth a year later. Toward the end of 1848, ...
By the end of the penal transportation in 1868, approximately 165,000 people had entered Australia as convicts. From about 1815 Sydney began to grow rapidly as free settlers arrived from Britain and Ireland and new lands were opened up for farming.