How Has The Australian Political Policy Changed In 1975

The Australian Political Policy changed in 1975, mainly due to the Vietnam War. After the war between North and South Vietnam, thousands of Vietnamese immigrants migrated to Australia bearing their own political views. The original policy, impacted a larger, broader reach of Australian Society, especially the selected migrants living in Australian capital cities. Prior to the Vietnam War, Vietnam was a democratic nation. After the change of political leadership, there was a dramatic change in critical leaders that were in power previously (source 1).The change in leadership turned Vietnam into an intense war zone. The first wave of immigrants mainly consisted of South Vietnamese government officials and military personal (source 1). The use

Canada and the United States started large and successful international agreement and discussion during 1965 (source 4). Australia and the rest of the world forcibly constrained the amount of unregistered migrants from the Vietnamese war zone. An Orderly Departure Program was put into action to regulate the amount of registered Vietnamese migrants into countries all around the world especially Australia. Overall all Vietnamese migrants that arrived in Australia have a say in government and are appointed a representative in the Upper house in Canberra and Western Australia (source 4). As the numbers of Vietnamese migrants increased they were apprehended and then accepted in later

Multiculturism was a policy that Australia wanted to put into place that aimed to recognise differences whilst still maintaining differences in ethnic, cultural and linguistic communities (source 6). The overall impact of immigration to Australia changed Australia’s demography after WWII, it then increased dramatically after the Vietnam War. After the largest wave of Vietnamese immigrants between the years of 1972 and 1992, the new policy of multiculturism was deemed to have minimised the amount of socially orientated conflict. (Source 1&6). The cultural policy was also changed to help signal Australia’s ability to assist after settlement in the ethnic identification of most immigrants (source 1). The large amount of Vietnamese migrants that arrived in Australia was seen as a test, for both the policies and eventual ending of multicultural