Immigrants...all the reasons to fear them...being over run
Kobe Mitchell's List: HIST 3220 Australian History
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- from the 1860s to the 1920s, concerns about population imbalance resulted in deliberate efforts to attract women to Australia
- during the second half of the nineteenth century, Afghani, Pakistani and Turkish camel handlers played an important part in opening up the continent's interior, facilitating the construction of telegraph and railway lines
- Japanese fishers were instrumental in the pearling industry in the late nineteenth century.
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At the end of the nineteenth century, many Australian settlers believed that if Asian people continued to migrate to Australia, they would threaten not only our economic stability by driving wages down but also that they would threaten the status of Australia as a civilised country.
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