How did World War 2 migration change Australia?

Answer 1

* 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.

Answer 2

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".

Answer 3

Ships moved most migrants after WW 2.