During the 1880s, Melbourne had considerably grown from a dusty old town into an outstanding city; it even had the nickname of “Marvellous Melbourne”. Melbourne’s population was approaching 300000 and it had considerably grown since it was founded. At this time, Melbourne was the second largest city in the British Empire. The middle classes lived in detached villas on large blocks of land, while the working class lived in comfortable cottages in the Northern and Western suburbs. Large industries were placed in the Western suburbs and the extremely wealthy lived in massive mansions near the Yarra River.
The entire “gold country” was open to everyone and there was no taxes levied on what the miners find. Although the peak of the rush was in 1849, some 80,000 prospectors conglomerated into that one year, arriving by the California trail, by ship around Cape Horn, or through the Panama shortcut. Many of the immigrants then became known at the 49’ers. Miners came from all around the world, Britain, Europe, China, Australia, North and South America. In The Gold Rush, it states, “The ocean voyage often took over six months, and the notoriously rough seas at Cape Horn gave rise to dangerous passage.
In comparison the Nina (Columbus’s biggest ship) was a mere 90 by 30 feet. The size of the Chinese ships at this time was what the Europeans conjured up in the Victorian era over 2 centuries later. Simply in knowing that you could say that the Chinese were equipped well enough to make it across the Pacific. This plus Chinese advanced maritime skills and archeological finds supporting even earlier voyages all the way to Easter Island. Saying that is based on opinion and assumptions, so here’s the proof an amateur historian, found detailed maps, logs and accounts of voyages to the Americas in the early 1400’s.
More restrictions were added in the 1890s. In 1901 the Federal Government introduced the White Australia Policy. c) What was the outcome for the four Chinese men? On arrival in Tasmania, William Joseph Heang and George Henry Heang presented customs a birth certificate stating the birth place as; Tasmania. Whereas Ah Wah and Ah Toon presented customs a certificates of Naturalization, which was unsuccessfully accepted and were instantly shipped back to Melbourne.
Immigrant groups, because of innate inferiority or prior cultural disposition, are not capable of self-government and are therefore a danger to our political institutions. A flow of immigrants will result in loss of jobs for Native Americans, and will bring about a lower standard of living as well as in many other situations. In the beginning of the book, Daniels stated the Congress created Chinese Exclusion Act that was signed into law by Chester A. Arthur on May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. Because Chinese immigrants came to America in large numbers during the 1848 California Gold Rush and in the 1860s when the Central Pacific Railroad recruited large labor groups to build its portion of the transcontinental railroad.
Article One The purpose of the article is to state why Measure Q, a proposition on the November 2004 ballot in the city of Berkeley, is negative and should not be passed. Measure Q it set up to make enforcement of all prostitution laws the lowest priority of Berkeley's police department. Mr. Weitzer claims that there are three main reasons why this law would not solve the social problem of prostitution. First, the author of Measure Q does not provide adequate statistics to support their claims. Furthermore, author of Measure Q tries to validate it by mentioning privacy rights,
By focusing predominantly on the large increase of Asian immigrants subsequent to the termination of the policy, the author carefully evaluates the radical change in the large percentage of once racist Australian attitudes towards Asians. Written by a political scientist and experienced writer, James Jupp, and published in a scholarly political journal, the article thereby demonstrates a high level of reliability as well as a strong relevance to my research on the changed Australian perceptions of Asia following White Australia, and therefore will be used to supplement the basis of my essay. 4) MacLeod CL 2006, Multiethnic Australia: its history and future, 1st edn, McFarland & Company, North Carolina, America. This book examines the gradual transformation of the past and present of Australia’s immigration policies, detailing both the challenges and positive repercussions of the new multicultural
Australians were making it very clear that they wanted to defend their colonies as a place for only white people. By the year 1890, all colonies of Australia had its own anti Chinese law in place to try to reduce the number of Chinese immigrants in Australia. In the decade of public debate leading up to Federation in 1901, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were not included in any of the conventions and consultations, and they were largely ignored. After federation aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders were excluded from Australian society generally, and from the rights, responsibilities and benefits which other Australian citizens enjoyed. Not only did this effect on the lives of aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, it affected all non-European cultures in Australia.
Wealth in Australia: Wealth is very unequally shared in Australia. The wealthiest 10% of householders hold 45% of the wealth while half of Australia’s households own only 7% of the nation’s wealth. Growing gap between poor youth and wealthy
The Page Act, passed March 3, 1875, forbid involuntary immigration, specifically Chinese women brought over for the purpose of prostitution (79). This law kept out all Chinese women. The Chinese Exclusion Act, dated May 6, 1882, is another immigration law that intended to prohibit Chinese immigrants from entering the United States (79). By prohibiting Chinese from immigrating to the United States, it was believed that the threat to America from the impurity of the Chinese was erased. Other ways that the United States worked to ensure that Chinese communities would not develop were to create anti-miscegenation laws that prohibited all Asians from intermarrying with whites (79).