Bold Experiment: Documentary History of Australian Immigration Since 1945 by John Lack and Jacqueline Templeton

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have started to sun.

Australia's post-war immigration confronts historians with perhaps the greatest paradox in our recent history. Policies and programmes of the 1940s and 1950s, designed and adopted to confirm and fortify our identity as a British-European outpost, eventually resulted in the complete abandonment of racial exclusivity.

Bold Experiment is the first documentary history to address this paradox. It considers issues such as the development of policy, the decline and collapse of 'White Australia' and the immigration debate of the mid-1980s. It examines the impact of immigration on individuals, documenting the settlement experiences of migrants and refugees from Britain, Europe and South-East Asia, and their perspectives on themselves, their communities and their place in Australian society.