1960 Democratic National Convention, 15 July 1960 Governor Stevenson, Senator Johnson, Mr. Butler, Senator Symington, Senator Humphrey, Speaker Rayburn, Fellow Democrats, I want to express my thanks to Governor Stevenson for his generous and heart-warming introduction. It was my great honor to place his name in nomination at the 1956 Democratic Convention, and I am delighted to have his support and his counsel and his advice in the coming months ahead. With a deep sense of duty and high resolve, I accept your nomination. I accept it with a full and grateful heart--without reservation-- and with only one obligation--the obligation to devote every effort of body, mind and spirit to lead our Party back to victory and our Nation back to greatness. I am grateful, too, that you have provided me with such an eloquent statement of our Party's platform. I feel a lot safer now that they are on my side again. Under any circumstances, however, the victory we seek in November will not be easy. But we are not merely running against Mr. Thank you.
Chapter 1: Immigration 1901–39: An Overview - More People Imperative: Immigration to Australia, 1901–39 Immigration has been a vital feature of Australia's history and identity. The nation today is composed not only of its own indigenous peoples but a wide variety of ethnic and cultural groups. Although Australia has always been multicultural, for at least a century and a half after European settlement, the British predominated. This was especially so in the period from Federation until World War II, the period covered by this Guide. Federation in 1901 was closely followed by the passing of two restrictive immigration Acts which prohibited non-European immigration to Australia for more than sixty years and had a profound influence on the shape of the nation. With Federation, immigration restriction came under the jurisdiction of the Federal government, while the practical responsibility for immigration and its encouragement passed from the colonies to the state governments and remained under state control until the Joint Commonwealth and States Scheme of 1921. Pattern of immigration
Immigration history | Waves of migration Since the First Fleet dropped anchor in 1788, close to 10 million settlers have moved from across the world to start a new life in Australia. They have arrived in waves, encouraged by developments like the 1850s gold rushes, or to escape adverse conditions at home such as the Industrial Revolution’s social upheavals in 19th-century Britain, the two world wars and the aftermath of the Vietnam War in the 1970s. Collectively these migrants have helped shape a unique British-based and now multicultural society on the perimeter of Asia. Image: Group of migrants on MV Toscana at Trieste, 1954. ANMM Collection Gift from Barbara Alysen Convict transportation From 1788 to 1868 Britain transported more than 160,000 convicts from its overcrowded prisons to the Australian colonies, forming the basis of the first migration from Europe to Australia. Free immigrants Between 1793 and 1850 nearly 200,000 free settlers and assisted immigrants chose to migrate to Australia to start a new life. Labourers
Kids News: Photos snapshot of post-war immigration during Ten Pound Pom White Australia scheme | KidsNews More than 1.5 million people came to Australia from the UK after World War II as “Ten Pound Poms*” in what is one of history’s largest planned immigrations. This collection of black-and-white photos provides a fascinating snapshot* of this period of history. Australia’s government, business owners and farmers wanted to increase the population, mostly so there were enough workers for all the jobs that needed doing. The people who came wanted to escape post-war food rationing* and housing shortages in the UK. Cities in the UK were heavily bombed during the war, so many houses were destroyed. The usual cost to come to Australia was 120 pounds but the Australian government subsidised* this so that it only cost 10 pounds. The program ran from 1947 to 1972. Kathleen Upton, of Hastings, England, left for a better life in 1954. Speaking in 2008, she told the BBC: “We were on rations in London and there was so much and such tropical fruits. “I think they resented us very, very much. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Gene Editing Tool Hailed As A Breakthrough, And It Really Is One Editing DNA has never been easier. Pasieka/Science Photo Library/Corbis hide caption toggle caption Pasieka/Science Photo Library/Corbis Editing DNA has never been easier. Pasieka/Science Photo Library/Corbis Every once in a while a technology comes along that completely alters the way scientists do their work. It's hard to imagine astronomy without a telescope or high energy physics without an accelerator. From here on in, it's going to be impossible to imagine biology without CRISPR-Cas9. Simply put, CRISPR-Cas9 allows scientists to make specific changes to specific genes in living cells. In the three short years since the first scientific papers appeared about CRISPR-Cas9, the technique has been "spreading like wildfire," says Ramesh Akkina, a molecular immunologist at Colorado State University. And for 2015, the journal Science called CRISPR the "breakthrough of the year." But most biologists aren't interested in making designer babies or mutant species.
The changing face of modern Australia – 1950s to 1970s After the Second World War (1939–45) the Australian government committed to a vigorous and sustained immigration program. The purpose of this ambitious program was to meet labour shortages, protect Australia from external threat and create prosperity. As a result, from 1945 to 1975 Australia's population almost doubled from 7½ million to 13 million. Spanish immigrants on board on their way to Australia, courtesy of South Australian Migration Museum This was a major break in policy. However, in July 1947, the Australian Government entered into an agreement with the new International Refugee Organisation to settle displaced people from camps in Europe. Economic migrants normally leave a country voluntarily to seek a better life. Refugee and humanitarian entries in employment, courtesy of Refugee Council In the following two decades, in the 1960s and 70s, the refugee intake began to diversify. In 1972, 198 Asians expelled by Uganda's President Idi Amin were settled. A 'balanced intake' Work
Project notes African Migration: 31/07/2018, Behind the News There have been news stories and many of our politicians commenting on some people who have migrated from Africa. So, we thought we'd give you a bit of background and find out some of the reasons why African people have moved here in the past. Meet Hussein. He loves soccer, playing video games, and hanging out with his friends. HUSSEIN: My parents, both of them were born in Somalia. Australia's kinda known for being a multicultural country. 380,000 people said that's where they were born in the last census. The reasons people come to Australia are very different. And today, there are lots of African communities in towns and cities around the country. HUSSEIN: My first memory of coming to Australia, probably us going to our first house. While Hussein loves it here, he says there were some big adjustments. HUSSEIN: When we were younger me and my brother, we knew Swahili and when we made the move, we went to kindergarten and we couldn't talk English.
The Epicene Pronouns The Words that Failed: A chronology of early nonbinary pronouns Dennis Baron debaron@illinois.edu Common gender pronouns are words coined to fill a gap in English: the lack of third person singular pronouns to refer to either males or females, or to both males and females, and more recently, to refer to transgender or gender nonconforming persons as well. These new words were also called gender-neutral, doubtful, or epicene, pronouns, and sometimes they’re referred to today as nonbinary pronouns. These pronouns fill a need, but none has been widely adopted, hence they are the words that failed. In the 1850s, English speakers began inventing common gender pronouns to use when the gender of the antecedent—the person referred to by the pronoun—is unknown or irrelevant, as in sentence (1): (1) Everyone loves ____’s mother. There is no way to fill in the blank in sentence (1) that pleases everyone. (2) Everyone loves his mother. (3) Everyone loves their mother. (5) Everyone loves her mother.
Migrant contributions honoured with new Australia Day award Bhutanese refugee Parsu Sharma-Luital has worked tirelessly with refugees and asylum seekers, but he says his work is not done. "The signal sends a very positive message, and we can very proudly say, 'Australia we are one more step ahead of multiculturalism'," Parsu says. Parsu first arrived in Australia in 2002. He came to study a masters degree and on the advice of University staff, the horticulturalist soon sought asylum to escape the unrest in his native Bhutan, which left many stateless. "My parents lived 18 years in the camp, my father had gone to prison because he was considered one of the activists." He became an Australian citizen in 2008, but his community work started long before then. "When I saw many refugees suffer in the refugee camp in Nepal, and then our own people...and I felt we should do something and when I came here I wanted to carry out this sort of activity." But Parsu's achievements extend beyond his work within emerging communities.
Immigration history of Australia The immigration history of Australia began with the initial human migration to the continent around 50,000 years ago[1] when the ancestors of Australian Aborigines arrived on the continent via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea. From the early 17th century onwards, the continent experienced the first coastal landings and exploration by European explorers. Permanent European settlement began in 1788 with the establishment of the British Crown colony of New South Wales. Original inhabitants[edit] The history of Human habitation within the Australian continent begins with the first arrival of peoples ancestral to the present indigenous inhabitants. Whether these first migrations involved one or several successive waves and distinct peoples is still a matter for some academic debate, as is its timing. The ancestral Australian Aboriginal peoples were thus long established and continued to develop, diversify and settle through much of the continent. 20th century[edit]