- Oceania
Immigration Restriction Act and 'White Australia'
One of the new parliament's first laws established the cornerstone of the 'White Australia' policy, using a dictation test to exclude non-European migrants and keep the nation overwhelmingly white and British.
Era: Federation and the new nation
Sources: The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 · National Archives of Australia, Australia (country) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Peoples & Migration in the 1900s
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1900s, tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 1
- Nations
- 1
- Earliest
- 1901
- Latest
- 1901
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.