Talk:History of Australia since 1901

This page has a few spelling and grammatical errors and needs cleaning up.

Well, hop to it, then! There's a reason this encyclopedia can be edited by anyone! :) Lacrimosus 06:17, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Japanese Australians

Could a writer familiar with the internment of Japanese Australians during WWII add a sentence or two to the WWII section.Kyle Andrew Brown 01:32, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Because of the White Australia policy, there were almost no Japanese in Australia prior to World War II. Any that were here would have been interned, but I am not aware of details. You may be thinking of Japanese POWs, of which there were large numbers. Adam 03:18, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

There were a lot of Japanese-Australians before WWII, and although I don't have references to back that up, I can assure you that many J-Australians immigrated by boat. Broome certainly had a large number of Japanese pearl divers before the war. Black-Velvet 08:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

In 1900 there were about 700 Japanese working in QLD pearl industry and about 1000 in canefields. The Japanese gov't restricted immigration to Aus. about 1897, and the White Policy took effect in 1901. By 1940 there were only small communities left in QLD, WA and NT. After 1945 about 600 war brides came in. [Collins, Aus. Ency (1984) p 345 Rjensen 08:30, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

World War I casualties

I have modified the false truism about the casualty rate compared with other countries as per the discussion at Talk:Australia#World_War_1_Casualties:

The book ANZACS, The Media and The Great War by John F Williams (UNSW Press, 1999) shows Australia's per capita war-time losses and mobilisation as less than those of France, Germany, the UK and NZ but ahead of Canada (graph p 27). On page 28 Williams points out that this "popular truism" has been stated in relatively recent times by prime ministers Fraser and Keating who he excuses as being poorly advised. He has little time for the historian Laffin though who wrote of the soldierly reputation of the 1st AIF rivalling "that of any army in the entire 3500 year recorded history of warfare" but failed to provide sources for the concensus or name the authoratative "military historians and generals".

Australia did have the highest proportion of deaths to mobilisations at 14.19% compared with NZ of 12.92% and Great Britain of 12.8%. Germany lost 19.48% and France lost 20.24%. (Williams page 270)

--User:AYArktos | Talk 11:33, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Jewish immigration to Australia

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Europeans, including for the first time large numbers of Jews, migrated to Australia.

Is this accurate? Britain had a reasonable number of Jews, and it was at some stages the main source of immigrants to Australia. I know that there was some antipathy towards postwar immigration, and some of that revolved around Judaism, but that doesn't mean that it's anything new. I'm not an expert on immigration, though. Andjam 12:14, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Great Article

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone involved in writing this article. I think it's probably the best Australian content on Wikipedia that I've seen. Nloth 07:18, 1 May 2006 (UTC )