Australia has always had restrictions on race, and relig not so much in the last 30-40 years but during WWI and WWII immigrants couldn't look Italian, or darker skin and dark hair, they only wanted European blond hair white people. They could select who they would give a literacy test to (so often focusing on those that didn't "fit the bill") where they could ask that individual to re-write a paragraph in any european language even if it wasn't that person's home country, it was whatever language the test giver desired, as well as they could issue another one if the person was lucky enough to pass.

Little history lesson for ya

It doesn't surprise me though, while i was there they passed a law concerning terrorism and the next day they arrested 17 men in a terrorist plot, i thought that was ironic!

wildlifewarrior