From the Archives: Australia's unfair dictation test

Author : News Master Published: May 30, 2019

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The dictation test was the bluntest instrument of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901. It was wildly successful. Not a single person passed the test after 1909 until the scheme was abandoned in 1958.

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