Acts+of+Legislation


 * Immigration and Restriction Act 1901**
 * Entry would be refused to any person wishing to immigrate to Australia if they could not write out and sign 50 words in English upon arrival to Australia.
 * English was later replaced by any European language at the insistence of the British Government so that the Japanese and European countries would not get offended. In addition, it made it easier for the Australian government to exclude citizens they did not wish to enter Australia. That is, those who would threaten the vision of a pure, white society.
 * Verbal instructions from Barton to Hunt recorded in his diary in Paul Kelly, 100 Years The Australian Story: //"All aboriginal inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Polynesia should be subjected to the test... In the case of White Races, the test will be applied only under special circumstances..."//
 * Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901**
 * This was the removal of a whole people in the pursuit of a White Australia.
 * This Act prevented the further recruitment of laborers or 'Kanakas' from Pacific Islands from 1904 and ordered that those already living and working in Australia leave or be deported by 1907.
 * The Pacific Islanders had been recruited and even 'kidnapped' and brought to Queensland in order to work on sugar plantations.
 * This was, according to Marilyn Lakes, "//a radical act of racial expulsion//." (Imagining Australia)
 * Commonwealth Franchise Act 1901**
 * This Act decided who could vote and who could not. Effectively, all people of non-European descent were excluded from the vote.
 * "No aboriginal native of Australia, Asia, Africa or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand shall be entitled to have his name placed on an Electoral Roll unless so entitled under Section Forty-One of the Constitution." (Imagining Australia)
 * //"It cannot be claimed that the Aboriginal native is a person of very high intelligence, who would cast his vote with a proper sense of responsibility that rests upon him. And it can even less be claimed that the gins would give a vote which would be intelligible."// - Richard O'Connor, a Minister in Barton's government in the Senate. (Imagining Australia, pg. 75)