1901

The White Australia policy



The Commonwealth of Australia formed a policy that would change the history of Australia forever, the White Australia Policy. This policy concluded that the colour of everyone who came into the country, must be white, unless you were able to succeed in the dictation test. The dictation test started of as a ordinary English test, but it was soon turned into a test where the tester could chose from any European languages to make it harder to exclude non-whites. The policy also restricted the rights and freedoms of non-whites including Aboriginal people.

Dictation Example