What Was the Purpose of the White Australia Policy

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Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the White Australia Policy?

• A) to promote the emigration of Australians who were of European descent to other nations in the South Pacific
• B) to encourage Australians of European descent to migrate from Australia's densely settled east coast to the more sparsely settled interior and west coast
• C) It was an ethnic isolationist policy established by the Australian government, which sought to place the country's entire aboriginal population on reservation-like holdings in the far western portion of the country.
• D) to promote immigration of (white) North Americans and Europeans to Australia
• E) to clean up the country's white sand beaches, which had been seriously polluted by mining

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