Tag: White Australia Policy
Sunday essay: a slave state – how blackbirding in colonial Australia created a legacy of racism
Image: Kanakas on a sugar cane plantation, Queensland c.1890. Public domain
In July 2021, Jack Dempsey, the mayor of Bundaberg, delivered an official apology for Northern...
Sunday essay: Our utopia … careful what you wish for
A slide by Gordon H. Woodhouse to accompany a 1901 lecture by his father Clarence entitled ‘exploration and development of Australia’. State Library...
From lurid orange sauces to refined, regional flavours: how politics helped shape Chinese food in Australia
A Chinese community dinner in Sydney, some time in the 1930s. City of Sydney Archives
The first whiffs of Chinese cooking in mid-19th century...
From curried wombat to rendang and doro wat: a brief history of curry in Australia
Picture: Andy Hay/Unsplash
Curry occupies a grey area in Australia: sometimes exotic and other, sometimes ordinary, often a bit of both.
Advertised in Australia as early as 1813,...
Could you pass the proposed English test for Australian citizenship?
English language tests will be used
to decide Australian citizenship.
The Australian government is proposing tough new English language competency requirements for those seeking Australian...