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After World War II, Australia launched a massive immigration program, believing that having narrowly avoided a Japanese invasi
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After World War II, Australia launched a massive immigration program, believing that having narrowly avoided a Japanese invasion, Australia must "populate or perish." Hundreds of thousands of displaced Europeans, including for the first time large numbers of Jews, migrated to Australia. More than two million people immigrated to Australia from Europe during the 20 years after the end of the war. Australia actively sought these immigrants, with the government assisting many of them and they found work due to an expanding economy and major infrastructure projects like the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Similar progress was being made in respects to women post World War II. Women were seeking a more outspoken stance in relations to equality. Demands of equal pay, no discrimination and a more prominent role in the workplace were issues being brought to various governments in the post war period. Through political activism, influential policy such as the Racial...
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