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Immigration Restriction Act, (1901), in Australian history, fundamental legislation of the new Commonwealth of Australia that effectively stopped all non-European immigration into the country and that contributed to the development of a racially insulated white society. Representing a widespread sentiment in all of the Australian colonies, the desire for a coordinated immigration bar against nonwhites was a spur in the 1890s toward Australian federation. Thus, the act was among the first pieces of commonwealth legislation enacted. It was directed primarily against Asians, who, because of Europeans’ experience with influxes of Chinese labourers, were thought to be unassimilable and a threat to the European ... (100 of 215 words)
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