Re: OT: [Let_It_Be_Forever_Islam] THE WORLD OF THE JINN

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Tristan McLeay wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Umm.  Read up on your own history; there were few Asians in Australia
> > because your government carefully kept them out from 1901 onwards.
> > Indeed, the very first law passed by the Federal Parliament was an
> > Immigration Restriction Act.  The policy showed a few cracks in the 50s
> > and 60s, but wasn't definitely killed off until 1978.
>
> Oh, that would be it. I would normally have remembered that---it's very
> definitely one of the aspects often covered in History, and I've almost
> written but then deleted a few emails mentioning it. It certainly explains
> why they didn't come to Australia in great force between the gold rushes
> and relatively recently :)
[I'll also mention that unlike other disgusting elements of Australia's
history like the Stolen Generation, this is almost never spoken of outside
of History.]

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

 From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.
                                -- Dr. Seuss

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