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Implementation of White Australia Policy
190 1 year, the new federal government adopted the first legislative measure, namely the Immigration Control Act, which was the first law in the policy of Belarus and Australia. South Africa already has a similar immigration restriction bill. The earliest draft explicitly prohibited non-European immigrants from entering the country, but because the British government opposed the rights and interests in India and the relationship with Japan, Barton's government had to cancel this public regulation and replace it with "hearing test" to exclude unwelcome immigrants. The so-called "listening test" is also called "European language test". This is a 50-word English essay read by the immigration officer, which requires the immigration applicant to dictate correctly. For people of color, immigration officials deliberately choose the longest and most confusing sentence in English legal provisions, or a paragraph full of technical terms in scientific papers to ensure that applicants of colored immigrants cannot pass the customs. If a colored immigrant applicant can pass the test, he will be given another European language test until he fails. In the more than ten years after 190 1, Australia, with a population of less than 4 million at that time, expelled nearly 10000 Pacific island residents. Melbourne's Chinatown has been reduced from 4 blocks to 1 block. As a result, Asian families and other colored people were displaced, and couples and mothers were separated forever.

At that time, Australia was not the only British territory that adopted this immigration policy. White people think that there are natural differences between races, and their own race is superior to other races. This view often leads to the introduction of policies with racial discrimination, such as the Jim Crow Act. South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and even the United States all had immigration policies with different degrees of racial restrictions at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. 1905, the British government passed a bill in favor of Jewish immigrants. (See 19 19 Little Pony Incident and Red Summer) Australian soldiers participated in the attack on the black British community in Cardiff, Wales in19/0/9.

At the 19 19 Paris Peace Conference, the Japanese delegation was led by Nobuyuki Konoha. In view of the "white supremacy" at that time, the Japanese delegation insisted on adding "racial equality clause" to the "League of Nations Constitution" in preparation. Most of the participating countries, including the representative of China, voted in favor of the Japanese "racial equality clause", and the voting result of each country was 11out of 7 votes. However, the two delegations of the British Empire and the United States unanimously opposed it, and the Australian Federation, the closest delegation of the British Empire to Asia, opposed it the most strongly. Australian Prime Minister BillyHughes' famous saying that "95 out of every 100 people in Australia are against (racial) equality" was published at this time. At the end of the Peace Conference, the draft "League of Nations Constitution" vetoed the "racial equality clause", which aroused the nationalist sentiment in Japan and laid the groundwork for the subsequent war.