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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 14:23
Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:

> 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.]
What's the Stolen Generation? Andreas

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