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020			_a9789004471108 _q(electronic book)
020			_a9789004470101 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1163/9789004471108 _2DOI
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050	0	0	_aJV9133 _b.W55 2021
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100	1		_aWilliams, Michael, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAustralia's Dictation Test : _bThe Test It Was a Crime to Fail / _cMichael Williams.
246	3		_aThe Test It Was a Crime to Fail
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2021.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aChinese Overseas ; _v18
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- List of Figures -- 1 As Absurd as It Is Unique -- An Introduction -- 2 Avoid Stigmatising Them by Name as Being Unfit for Civilised Life -- The Historical and Ideological Background up to 1901 -- 3 To Place Its Sufficiency beyond Doubt -- Crafting the Dictation Test 1901 - 1909 -- 4 On Account of the Elasticity Which It Permits -- Evolution of the administration of the Dictation Test -- 5 A Man Would Need to Live for Three Generations -- Chinese exceptionalism -- 6 Is the Applicant of European (White) Race or Descent? -- Defining the Desirable -- 7 The Humanity of Australia Itself Will in Time Revolt -- Passing of the Test and Fading of the Project -- 8 Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose -- Has Australia Passed the Test? -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aThe last person to 'pass' White Australia's Dictation Test did so in 1907 by submitting a watercolour entitled 'Advance Australia Fair. For the next 50 years of its existence the thereafter more carefully trained officials ensured no one ever passed again. Here is detailed how the White Australia Policy came to have a fake test of dictation at the heart of its administration. Beginning as an inspired piece of hypocrisy designed to preserve the semblance of imperial equality, in the hands of the early Commonwealth of Australia this 'education test' quickly evolved into a test it was impossible to pass.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration.
650		0	_aChinese _zAustralia.
650		0	_aCitizenship _zAustralia _xExaminations, questions, etc.
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration _xLaw and legislation _zAustralia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration _zAustralia.
650		0	_aWhite Australia policy.
651		0	_aAustralia _xEmigration and immigration _xGovernment policy.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tAustralia's Dictation Test : The Test It Was a Crime to Fail. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 _z9789004470101 _w(DLC) 2021031738
830		0	_aChinese Overseas ; _v18.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004471108
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