Here are some of the major countries that have had immigration links to Australia since 1788: - United Kingdom - Many early settlers in the late 18th and 19th centuries came from Britain. Britain remained the largest source of immigrants to Australia until the mid-20th century. - Ireland - There was significant Irish immigration to Australia during the 19th century, particularly during the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s. - China - Chinese immigrants came during the gold rush periods of the 1850s-1860s. However, the White Australia policy severely restricted further Chinese immigration after the late 19th century. - Italy - Italian immigration increased in the late 19th century and there were several waves in the early-

1. Australia and its global links

8. I was travelling with my four brothers, one of them was the 21 year-old Haydar, and my sisters, a
twenty year old and an eighteen year old and my son Karrar, eighteen month old. Only my
eighteen year old sister Zena survived. When we were brought to the boat, we were told that we
would be transported to the main ship, we found this to be untrue. We felt like meat on meat (like
sardines), my brother was sick, they put him on the top deck, we were all unwell, the boat moved.
I saw a ten months old girl before the accident, she fell from her father's arms into the ocean,
people were packed on top of each other, a small ship with people seasick and women and
children afraid and crying. Then a crack appeared in the boat and water started to gush inside
and the men could not keep up with the water trying to thrown it outside with buckets. There were
about one hundred lifejackets only, people were crying. My brothers came and gave a lifejacket to
my sister, we started praying to God: O God, You who saved Noah, save us! I was inside, my
sister was carrying my son, then I took my son from her, then we were in the water and the waves
kept washing me and my son dragging him under and over until the milk started coming out of his
face (nose or mouth). The boat broke up within seconds, the waves washed the family members
apart. I saw a woman giving birth in the ocean, I saw my brother being washed away by the
waves, I called out to him but saw him weeping/crying.
When night came, I saw a group of 22 young men with a thirteen-year-old girl and a lady who lost
her three daughters, lost her son and lost her mother-in-law. My brother did not want to come to
Australia, he only wanted to get us to safety and return.
Thirst, hunger and saltwater, people had not eaten since Wednesday so that they do not throw
up, I clung onto a plank with another lady, all the water around us was contaminated with fuel, the
little girl died from exhaustion and the cold, she did not have a lifejacket, from our group of 25,
there were only seven left. Time passed quickly, like a miracle, dawn came at what felt like
1:00AM, I prayed to God to take my life, I could no longer cope with the pain, we were then
rescued by an Indonesian boat.

9. What would make you
leave your country?
In pairs write two reasons that would
make you leave Australia and two
reasons why you would want to move
here if you lived somewhere else?

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpwqK3B2ac8
To be a refugee
In what ways have these kids lives
changed since they became
refugee’s?

11.  Where does your family come from?
me
Germany England
Israel
Norway

12.  Immigration has two parts
 Migration
 $10 scheme
 White Australia Policy
 Humanitarian
◦ Fleeing from conflict
◦ Escape from persecution

13.  Answer these questions
◦ In what way is Australia a nation built on
Immigration?
◦ What Act of Parliament ensured that only people of
a certain colour could immigrate to Australia?
◦ Murphy

14.  What is the name of the Act that regulates
immigration now?
 What are the two conventions Australia signed that
ensures Australia takes refugee’s in need?
 What is a refugee?

15.  Pg 278-279
 In what way does the government ensure that
Australia is developing into a country built on
social cohesion, harmony and security?

16.  List the countries that have had immigration
links to Australia since 1788.