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| Title: | The End of the White Australia Policy in the Australian Labor Party; a discursive analysis with reference to postcolonialism and whiteness theory. |
| Authors: | Whitington, Luke Department of History |
| Keywords: | Australian Labor Party post-colonialism White Australia Policy Whitlam Whiteness Calwell |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2012 |
| Abstract: | Labor leaders ended their commitment to a White Australia in response to the experience of the Second World War and societal changes brought about by post-war non-British migration. Previous scholarship erroneously credits the ‘baby-boomer’ generation and the ‘middle-classing’ of the ALP. Changing the policy did not mean abandoning the Australian national project or ceding control of the spaces and bodies of the nation to non-white people. Immigration would continue to be controlled to preserve working conditions and democracy. The Whitlam Government’s move toward non-racial civic nationalism proscribed racial discrimination but was productive of discourses of white Australian nationalism. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8841 |
| Department/Unit/Centre: | Department of History |
| Appears in Collections: | Honours Theses - Department of History |
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