THE MAKING OF "WHITE AUSTRALIA", by D M Gibb - 1979

Victorian Historical Society, North Melbourne - with revisions 1979 stapled softcover, 5¼" x 8½", with card covers Book in VERY GOOD condition This collection concentrates on the late colonial and early Commonwealth period, is highly selective and scarcely representative (ie. other publications have more material on the Chinese in goldfields & the Queensland labour question). Here, from late nineteenth century writings on race, we find justification to non-European immigrants. Further avowedly economic arguments for immigration restriction are also presented. Both lines of argument were used in parliamentry debates shown here.