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The end of White Australia
Henry Tsang.
Cr Henry Tsang, First Asian Australian to be elected to Sydney City Council, speaks on the White Australia Policy.
Created:
1996
Date Added:
26 June 2002
Source:
Making Multicultural Australia
Format:
mov (Quicktime);
File size:
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Length:
19 secs
Transcript
CR HENRY TSANG
First Asian Australian to be elected to Sydney City Council, in 1991; Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, 1991
We do have a White Australian Policy since Federation. It's only, I think, twenty years since both governments agreed that we should not have a White Australia Policy, that our immigration policy should be based on a system where you choose the best people to come.
CONTINUATION OF INTERVIEW AS TEXT
In other words you don’t issue a visa on the basis that this person is a better person because of his colour, a better person for Australia because of his religion, a better person because he comes from a certain part of the world. It is only in the last twenty years that we have dismantled this White Australian Policy.
Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1996.
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