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Reviving the white Australia policy: the labour movement returns to its roots.(Politics)
THE CYCLE OF HISTORY, it seems, is extremely hard to escape. Recent controversy over temporary skilled worker migration to Australia shows remarkable similarities to similar controversy over a hundred years ago.
In the present instance, however, it is possible that the current rhetoric is tinged with a racism that was not present in earlier times. Whereas pre-Federation debate about the immigration of non-white workers was focused almost entirely on the economic effects such immigration would have, there is, in the current debate, a sensationalist--clearly political--tint to the rhetoric that has racist undertones.
But the rhetoric is not ostensibly ...
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