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The White Australia Policy: Race and Shame in the Australian History Wars
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September 10, 2025
This was an outstanding book on The White Australia policy, its origins, intentions, and ultimate dissolution.
Far from the racist law that we have always been told, it was intended as a cultural protection for the tiny Australian population in a region of gigantic nations and populations.
Had it not happened at the time the nature of Australia would today be vastly different. I don’t know better or worse, but I’ve quite liked the way we ended up until very recently.
I’d recommend it for anyone with an interest in Australian history. A book worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as Geoffrey Blainey’s work.
Far from the racist law that we have always been told, it was intended as a cultural protection for the tiny Australian population in a region of gigantic nations and populations.
Had it not happened at the time the nature of Australia would today be vastly different. I don’t know better or worse, but I’ve quite liked the way we ended up until very recently.
I’d recommend it for anyone with an interest in Australian history. A book worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as Geoffrey Blainey’s work.
August 21, 2019
42 WORD REVIEW:
Not so much a reassessment of the White Australia Policy as a denouncement of academics who study history without actually sifting through the evidence. Windschuttle writes with the barely restrained cold-burning authority of a serious scholar at the end of his tether.
Not so much a reassessment of the White Australia Policy as a denouncement of academics who study history without actually sifting through the evidence. Windschuttle writes with the barely restrained cold-burning authority of a serious scholar at the end of his tether.
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