OC022 - White Australia Policy Ends - How One Nation Chose a Different Future

Australia was born with a race law. On 23 December 1901, one of the very first acts of the new federal parliament enshrined the White Australia Policy. It lasted 72 years. Then in 1973, Gough Whitlam's government took three decisive steps to end it. Al Grassby declared it dead and offered to bury it with a shovel. This is the story of how a nation confronted its founding ideology and what came next.🙏 THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY CYPRUSREALRETURNSA huge thank you to CyprusRealReturns for supporting Seven Continents, One Story. CyprusRealReturns offers secure real estate investments in Cyprus with guaranteed returns of 6-12%, fully backed by the Cyprus Land Registry. Visit them at cyprusrealreturns.com.🗿 THE ARTEFACTThe image of multicultural Australia emerging after 1973 - the living proof that policy change can transform a society within a generation.📖 WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVERThe Dictation Test: how officers chose a language the applicant was guaranteed to failThe Egon Kisch affair - when Scottish Gaelic humiliated the government in the High CourtWhy Arthur Calwell, Labor's own immigration minister, was the policy's last great defenderHow Don Dunstan and Gough Whitlam dismantled White Australia from inside the Labor PartyThe three formal steps of 1973: legislation, administrative orders, and international ratificationAl Grassby: the flamboyant minister who coined "multicultural society" in an official government documentThe Vietnamese refugee crisis of 1975 - the first real test of the new policyThe unsung hero: Peter Heydon - the public servant who quietly rewrote the administrative rules that made reform possible 🌍 SEVEN CONTINENTS, ONE STORYEvery episode, we travel to a different continent and uncover the historical events that shaped our world.🎧 SUBSCRIBE:Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube | Website: sevencontinentsonestory.com