* We received a wide range of culture including food, religions, etc. * They helped us build the Snowy Mountain Scheme which would not have been completed with all the extra help (2/3 of workers were immigrants)
* When they first came, Australia was in a desperate shortage of labour. * They helped our population grow. * They helped our economy boom when they first came and it still does.
When I came toAustralia in 1958 Australia's Immigration policy was just about to change from what was then known as the white Australia policy. I was taught in school that this policy was there to protect Australians living and working conditions. the reasoning we were taught went along the lines that Blacks, Chinese, East Asian, and even the swarthier coloured people from south eastern Europe were not as intelligent and would endanger our economy by working cheap. I was also taught to my disgust ( I was a 10 year old white immigrant from the Netherlands That the aboriginals were a stone age people that could not deal with modern civilisation, and that the policy being employed by the white Australian government would eventually lead to their extinction. In effect the White Australia policy was an interesting regulation that was applied to people that in the opinion of the immigration department at the time was racially undesirable. In fact it had nothing to do with what race you were. You had to sit a test to show that you were literate. Now taking into account that there were a lot of different languages in the world the test could be done in any language, at the discretion of the department of immigration Now here comes the good bit. If you were unfortunate enough to have to sit one of these tests it would not mater how many different languages you learned, the department of immigration would make sure you would have to sit the test in a language you did not understand, declare you illiterate and therefore not suitable for entry into Australia. If you were white you did not have to sit the test unless you stepped in the wrong dept of immigration toes. Yes that is certainly a great example of the term "Fair go".
Ships moved most migrants after WW 2.
Australia did not want migration durig WW2. After the war they accepted displaced eoples and economic migrants.
It created jobs in the North
You have to consider, that if people escape their countries and migrate to Australia for peace and new life, if Australia is also in war, there isn't much reason for leaving in the first place. During the War, millions were spent on weaponary and eventually Australia fell into rescession, Australia couldn't feed its own people, migration was cut down, due to more mouths to feed. During ww1, German were held at camps. They did no kill them, but just held them captive because they feared if they were spies. This shortern the migration for Germans. On the other hand, many came to Australia to fight for the mother country, and risk their own lives to save Australia.
The Australian War Cabinet.
As a result of WW2 Asia became free to start trading on its own behalf and Australia had to change its strategy's from dealing with colonial powers to to dealing with Asian country's and cultures.
Australia did not want migration durig WW2. After the war they accepted displaced eoples and economic migrants.
After World War 2 when the largest migration took place, by boat as assisted migrants.
how do factors such as trade, war, migration, and inventions affect cultural change?
They were on a break.
Australia joined the first world war in 1914
The war after world war 2 in which Australia participated was the Korean war.
to fool German spies.
There was a shortage of food during WW2!
Australia has not had a war. The country has been involved with other wars around the world, but Australia has not had a civil war.
Australia became free of Britains constitutional links during World War 2, ending it's colonial status. With British defeats at the hands of the Japanese forces allowing Japan to threaten Australia, Australia turned to the United States for assistance. While politically and economically close still, after World War 2, Australia became less dependent on Britain.
The migration of African Americans to the North during and following World War I was mainly a result of the availability of new factory jobs
World War 1 occurred in Australia in the same years as elsewhere in the world - from 1914 to 1918.