0h 6min, jan 1, 1901 y - Immigration Restriction Act (1901)

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The Immigration Restriction Act was a plan to restrict certain people coming into the country to maintain it's 'White Culture'. It included a dictation test that needed to be passed in order to get in Australia.

All the parliamentarians were on board with the idea of the act and it passed in 1901.

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