£5 poms were already saturated as a migration route.
The scandal of an Australian soldier with an indonesian wife in the 1950s was massive.
The existing "better worker" breeding and labour quality programmes saturated: Australians refused to reproduce on largely economic grounds based on rational long term predictions of the amount of quality labour expected to be available.
Australians didn't historically "forgive" Japan until the 1990s.
By the 1980s it is "too late" economically.
Leftitists probably would have pretty bad view on such nation which accepts only some certain ethnic groups/races insteasd accepting everybody.
Apart from Aboriginal rights
which had to be internationally ordered in the 1930s by Moscow the Australian left didn't discover racism historically*1*2 until the 1970s.
Europeans were "non-white" in the 1940s and the Labor government's refugee programmes for right wingers and social democrat workers was controversial historically: Europeans weren't "white." The Liberal government's populate or perish migration programme for Europeans was racially controversial.
There isn't an alternate population source within Australian racism in a timely manner.
"White"ness in Australia at the moment works by the eventual incorporation of every migrant ethnicity into the "white" complex with an internally structured view of "whiteness" as complex as the Brazilian conceptions of race. Every migrant ethnicity. People who were here first are eternally denied access to whiteness, unless they "pass" continuously. Accent / dialect is a much larger marker than skin. The first instance of this process would be the end of the pro-/anti-Irish identity street battles in children in the 1960s, as "New Migrants" or "wogs" became the new not-quite-white. Traditional Chinese communities were integrated into whiteness much later, around the early 2000s. In the early 2000s one could imagine that if a community stuck around three generations, and their children took up Australian standard suburban accents or a variant or dialectical equivalent, that as newer migrants arrived that community would in future be viewed as "white-in-comparison." By the early 2000s, "wogs," and "Viets" were comparatively inside; and, culture woke up to the existence of Traditional Chinese australian communities by reference to post-1989 Chinese migration or non-migration groups. By the early 2000s anyone with half a brain could see that "lebs" or the Lebanese migrant communities were about to become thoroughly integrated into the racial power structure.
This structure of Whiteness solidified in the 1960s, by reflecting on the position of the Irish under populate-or-perish migration. Without populate-or-perish, Australian white-ness would be much more exclusionist, and much of the bigotry towards those from overseas would have had no economic or social reason to have been contested in the 1970s-1990s. Don't compare such an Australia to South Africa: South Africa was internationally policed for its apartheid society. Australia has consistently gotten away with it in the court of international opinion. Without a non-Isles-of-the-Britains migration programme, real existing racism in Australia would be deeply ethno-cultural, wouldn't be internationally policed, and the settler-society racism attacking surviving (and by the 1960s) beginning to rebound or thrive underground indigenous cultures would be a self-supporting self-righteous and internationally uninspected
mono-cultural hell. As opposed to historically where it is poly-cultural at least where cafes come to pass. Incidentally modern Australian coffee culture is destroyed without the Italian pressure coffee culture brought by Italians and amplified by traditional Greek fishshops under expanded Greek and Balkan migration. Populate-or-drink-tea.
yours,
Sam R.
1 Ted Mackey and the Mt Isa strike is more a matter of an American trained unique union individual. And even there it was Finnish social democrats who viewed the existing union as a boss's union.
2 Historically the "wogs*3" brought their own Communist Parties with them, and the PCI (Australian Branches) and KKE (Australian branches) were *larger* CPs than the CPA.
3 At the time a term of abuse, now a term of pride in ethnicities which are simultaneously Australian ethnicities and Australian [x] ethnicities. This is common in historical racism, where the "banter" culture of Australia turns insults into matters of pride (over time). Amusingly the terms of abuse for Isles-of-Britain-with-multiple-generations-in-Australia Australians is the impotent "skip" or other impotent abuses. I'd like to think that the very structure of banter here cuts the balls off the majority benefits of "whiteness," leaving them with no real identity at all.