What Are The Features That Shaped Australia In The 1970's

During the post war period many features have shaped/still shaping Australian society today. These features include social, cultural and political. In the 70s fashion and the hippie moment was the big thing, also in the 1970s multiculturalism changed Australia from being only a white nation to not just a white nation. Australia had feared communism and joined the Vietnam War to try and prevent it coming in to our nation, introducing the domino effect.
During the 1970s fashion was considered as daring, carefree and diverse. The women in this decade would wear long, bright and bodily patterned clothing, while the men would wear tights shits, long wide at the ankle pants and have a long moustache. The 1970s was the decade of the hippie movement.

Most of the Australian perspectives on migration, war, sexual morality, the roles of women and environment all were going through radical changes which were changing Australia’s society. In 1974 the white Australian policy was taken (scrapped). Women also won the right to have equal pay.
From 1901the white Australian policy had stopped non-white people from coming and migrating in to Australia, after so long this policy was then abolished in 1974, from then thousands and thousands of people from Asia and the Middle East were mostly admitted to come in to Australia during the late 1970s. All of these Asian migrants were mostly all refugees from the Vietnam War, also around the time period many others from Britain and Europe that migrate in to Australia declined.
The 1970s was also known as the era of multiculturalism which meant that the Australian society embraced various cultural groups, languages, religions and traditions. A policy called the ‘assimilation’ was in contrast to the a previous policy which meant that migrants need/should abandon their cultures, languages and start to learn the existing populations languages and

This war was seen as the ‘cold war’. The cold war was a period from 1945 to 1991, the conflict between capitalism/democracy and communism.
The domino effect was why Australia feared communism. The domino effect/theory is when on nation falls under communism and then falls/travels to another nation and takes over. This domino effect was the reason why Australia joined the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was because of the national strategy of containment. This national strategy was demanding the U.S. To stop the communist aggression to the countries of south East Asia. This strategy was then called the domino theory. The domino theory is when a communist country will chain reaction which will cause more places to become communist.
These three features social, cultural and political features have yes changed Australian society. From having a big hippie movement and the styles of clothing then to what we wear now. To having a policy and not letting any non-white people migrating in Australia, then that policy being scrapped and letting tens of thousands of non- white people in. Australia feared that communism was going to fall upon the country then joining the war to prevent it from happening and now we are living in a free