The prevalent racist ideology was that Aboriginal people were inferior in intelligence and only fit to become the servants of the rest of society.
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September 13, 2020
THE WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY
As a policy, White Australia is gone. But as an ideology, it arguably lingers on. There certainly is a minority who want to “reclaim” an imagined idyllic Australia of yesteryear, with its white monoculture.