Indian Australians or Indo-Australians are a subgroup of the Indian diaspora residing in Australia. This includes both those who are Australian by birth, and those born in India or elsewhere in the di
An Aboriginal encampment, near the Adelaide foothills
'Podgy', a Sikh hawker in Goulburn Valley, Victoria
RAAF Personnel with an Indian Sikh man during WWII.
The White Australia policy was a set of racial policies that aimed to forbid people of non-European ethnic origins – Asians and Pacific Islanders – from immigrating to Australia, in order to create a
Indian Australians
…the Indian-born population had risen to 916,330 individuals, an increase of nearly 150,000 in 3 years. Having long been restricted from entry under the White Australia policy, the number of Indians in Australia has increased exponentially in the 21st century. Indians now form the fastest-growing community both in terms of…
Camp Hill (Lambing Flat) at time of the riots, 1860–61. Now the town of Young, New South Wales
Eight-hour day march c. 1900, outside Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne
"Keep Australia White" poster used during the 1917 conscription referendum. The "No" campaign claimed that conscripted soldiers sent overseas would be replaced by non-white labour.
Dutch migrants arriving in Australia in 1954. Australia embarked upon a massive immigration programme following the Second World War and gradually dismantled the preferential treatment afforded to British migrants.