1945-08 Immigration and Acts of Parliament

Question 1

What is meant by 10 pound Pom

Answer 1

Britan was in terrible shape after the war so Aus was accepting them for the price of 10 pounds

Question 2

What year did poms apply to come to aus and how many poms had made it to aus by 1970

Answer 2

in 1947 400,000 poms applied to go to aus with a total of 1.5 million reaching aus shores by 1970

Question 3

In 1949-56 who was the immigration minister

Answer 3

Harold holt

Question 4

what did Harold holt say as immigration minister in 1950

Answer 4

this is a british community and we want to keep it a british community

Question 5

when was the immigration restriction act enacted and what is its more common name

Answer 5

1901, WAP

Question 6

when did the WAP officially end, under what gov?

Answer 6

ended in 1973 under the Whitlam labor gov

Question 7

why was aus largely unfit for settlement

Answer 7

-low rainfall
-poor soil
-1% of the land is cultivated
-over a third of the nation is unoccupied because it is ‘economically valueless’
-the age of migration is ended’- the best source of migrants was asia- prevailing social attitudes prevented this: WAP

Question 8

Ethnocentrism?

Answer 8

the idea that ‘ones group is the center of everything’ ‘individuals unsophisticated reactions to cultural differences’

Question 9

prejudice?

Answer 9

learned beliefs and values that lead an individual or group to be biased towards members of particular groups