From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 4
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Acronyms and abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
A new Britannia......Page 20
White Australia......Page 21
Populate or perish......Page 25
Planning and control......Page 28
Notes......Page 34
Assimilation......Page 36
The ethnic situation in 1972......Page 38
Language and culture......Page 39
Ethnic community organisation......Page 42
The new proletariat......Page 44
Ghettoes and ethnic suburbs......Page 45
A political base......Page 47
Social mobility......Page 49
Asian settlement......Page 50
A new middle class......Page 51
An ethnic underclass?......Page 52
Notes......Page 54
3 The Fraser, Hawke and Keating governments, 1975–1996......Page 56
The Fraser government, 1975–1983......Page 57
The Hawke government, 1983–1991......Page 61
The Keating government, 1991–1996......Page 64
The ministerial record......Page 67
Prime ministerial intervention......Page 68
Continuity and difference......Page 71
Notes......Page 74
The Immigration Department......Page 76
State government agencies......Page 82
The advisory structures......Page 84
Inquiries and reports......Page 87
Consultation and representation......Page 88
Research and advocacy......Page 90
The ethnic communities......Page 94
Notes......Page 97
5 Multicultural policy......Page 98
Australian multiculturalism......Page 99
The foundations......Page 100
The Galbally report......Page 101
Multicultural institutions......Page 104
The agenda of 1989......Page 106
The reassessment of 1995......Page 107
Settlement policy......Page 108
Language policy and multicultural education......Page 109
Access and equity......Page 112
The agenda of 1999......Page 113
Indigenous peoples and multiculturalism......Page 114
Theorising multiculturalism......Page 116
Shifting emphases......Page 117
Notes......Page 118
6 The attack on multiculturalism......Page 120
Conservative criticism of multiculturalism......Page 121
Other criticism......Page 124
The bipartisan consensus ends,1988......Page 125
Australians Speak......Page 127
A developing critique......Page 128
Popular critiques......Page 130
Summarising the conservative critique......Page 131
Less conservative critics......Page 134
The survival of multiculturalism......Page 135
Notes......Page 136
7 The impact of One Nation......Page 138
The racist inheritance......Page 139
The arrival of One Nation......Page 142
Hanson’s policies......Page 144
One Nation’s immigration program of 1998......Page 146
One Nation support......Page 149
Graeme Campbell and One Nation......Page 151
The influence of One Nation......Page 152
Tragedy or farce?......Page 153
Notes......Page 154
Economic rationalism in immigration policy......Page 156
The overall economic impact......Page 159
The human capital approach......Page 161
Selection criteria......Page 162
User pays and cost-free immigration......Page 166
Settlement outcomes......Page 168
The ‘uneconomic’ immigrant......Page 170
The limits of rationality......Page 172
Notes......Page 175
9 Sustainability and population policy......Page 177
Populate or perish......Page 178
Growing doubts......Page 179
Zero population growth......Page 182
A population policy......Page 185
Growth, limitation and devolution......Page 188
Ageing and decline......Page 190
Future stabilisation......Page 191
Notes......Page 193
10 Refugees and asylum seekers......Page 195
The UN Convention and Protocol......Page 197
Refugee intakes since 1975......Page 199
The humanitarian programs......Page 201
Boat people, asylum seekers and mandatory detention......Page 202
The shift to temporary protection......Page 205
Tampa and the Pacific solution......Page 208
A tough solution for a small problem......Page 211
Notes......Page 214
11 A past, present and future success?......Page 215
Immigration policy in a globalised economy......Page 216
Multicultural reality......Page 223
A glance at the future......Page 228
Changing attitudes and values......Page 232
Notes......Page 234
Appendix I Chronology: 1972–2002......Page 235
Appendix II Ministers of immigration, departmental secretaries and gross annual settler intake (including New Zealand…......Page 239
References......Page 240
Index......Page 248