Australian Government Policies And Practices Affected Patterns Of Migration

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History assignment

How have Australian government policies and practices affected patterns of migration and changed Australia since World War Two?
Changing government policies and practices have affected pattern of migration to Australia and changed Australia significantly since World War Two. Policies such as ‘populate or perish’ and the ending of the ‘White Australia Policy’ changed Australia from a largely British society to a multicultural one.
In 1947 we Australian government made the ‘Ten Pound Pom’ policy, as part of the "Populate or Perish" policy. It was intended to increase the population of Australia and to supply workers for the country's booming industries. In return for minimizing the cost of travelling to Australia, adult migrants were charged only ten pounds for the …show more content…

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The European immigrants that came under the white Australia policy came from Italy, France, Ireland, Spain, Holland, Germany, Suedan, Greece, Lithuania, Estonia, and Lattua.
The snowy mountain scheme, this was a extremely large engineering scheme designed to produce hydro-electricity and water for immigration. Many European immigrants worked on this scheme. The Scheme collects and stores the water that would normally flow east to the coast and diverts it through trans-mountain tunnels and power stations. The water is then released into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for irrigation.
Seventy per cent of all the workers were migrants. They came to Australia to work on the project, attracted by the relatively high wages. At that time, soon after the Second World War, work was hard to come by in

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