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Lots of Chinese gold miners arrived in Australia
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The Immigration Restriction Act received royal assent
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White Australia Policy hailed by Prime Minister, William Morris Hughes as 'the greatest thing we have ever achieved'
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Minister Holt's decision to allow 800 non- European refugees to stay, and Japaneses war brides to be admitted. First steps to non-discriminatory immigration policy
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Non-Europeans with 15 years residence in Australia were allowed to necome Australian citizens
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Revised Migration Act, introduced a simpler system of entry permits and abolished the controversial dictation test.
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Watershed in abolishing the 'White Australia' policy, and non-European migration began to increase.
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The gradual process began to remove race as a factor in Australia's immigration policies
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An increase in migrants for non-Europeon countries did not take place till after the Fraser government came into office
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Government commissined a comprehensive review of immigration in Australia