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To: TimF who wrote (272990)	2/10/2006 10:06:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576163

They changed the immigration laws which allowed non Anglo Saxon people from countries other than the UK to emigrate to AU for the expressed purpose of getting cheap labor. OK. They are accountable to that. I don't consider that to be a moral failing. It may or may not be a mistake. At the same time they did not pass laws that made it illegal to discriminate against these groups. Australia has anti-discrimination laws. hreoc.gov.au; They changed the immigration laws after WW II. The first anti-discrimination law was passed roughly in 1975. What do you think happened between WW II and 1975 to the people who were not of Anglo-Saxon origin? Why do you think there is still repressed hostility in 2005....nearly 40 years later? Another view as to why AU eased its immigration restrictions: "Australia needed a great power to defend it because its population was a tiny seven million. If it was to be more secure in the future, its population would have to grow rapidly. This was the aim of the post-war Labor government and its Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell. He had an American grandfather and was a great admirer of the United States, which had built up its population by accepting people from all the countries of Europe. In the great migration program he planned, some migrants would come from continental Europe, but most still from Britain. He knew Australians would be suspicious of Europeans so he made a sort of promise that for every one of them there would be ten migrants from Britain." curriculum.edu.au They knew what they were doing was not cool, but they did in any case. And then to add insult to injury, they didn't change the country's discrimination laws until 1975......nearly 20 years later. A gov't is responsible to all its people and is charged with planning a country's future. AU failed at that task when it came issues of ethicity and discrimination. ted