Australia's Dictation Test: The Test It Was a Crime to Fail by Williams, Michael

Australia's Dictation Test: The Test It Was a Crime to Fail (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004470101)

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Format: Hardcover
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Australia's Dictation Test: The Test It Was a Crime to Fail by Williams, Michael

Australia's Dictation Test: The Test It Was a Crime to Fail

$157.00
Australia's Dictation Test: The Test It Was a Crime to Fail by Williams, Michael

Australia's Dictation Test: The Test It Was a Crime to Fail

$157.00
Format: Hardcover
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The last person to 'pass' White Australia's Dictation Test did so in 1907 by submitting a watercolour entitled 'Advance Australia Fair. For the next 50 years of its existence the thereafter more carefully trained officials ensured no one ever passed again. Here is detailed how the White Australia Policy came to have a fake test of dictation at the heart of its administration. Beginning as an inspired piece of hypocrisy designed to preserve the semblance of imperial equality, in the hands of the early Commonwealth of Australia this 'education test' quickly evolved into a test it was impossible to pass.

Author: Michael Williams
ISBN-10: 9004470107
ISBN-13: 9789004470101
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2021
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.30w x 0.87d
By Michael Williams
By Michael Williams
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Michael Williams, Ph.D. (2001), Hong Kong University, is an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University. He has published extensively on Chinese Australian history with emphasis on continuing links with the home villages, including Returning Home with Glory (HKU Press, 2018).

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