CHINESE IMMIGRANTS REGULATION ACT. An Act to regulate and restrict the immigration of Chinese and to make provision against their becoming a charge upon the Colony

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Supplement to the Queensland Government Gazette of Saturday, 18th August, 1877 No. 38. At head of title: (New Zealand, South Australia, and Tasmania agree to a Bill copied from the Queensland Act.). [Brisbane : Government Printer, 1877]. Two folio sheets, disbound from a larger volume, printed on three sides paginated 15-17; a good, clean copy of this important Act. In early 1877, there were no immigration restrictions in any of the Australian colonies. Queensland s Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877 was the first of many laws that restricted Chinese immigration, in a movement that ultimately led to the White Australia legislation of 1901-2. Abstract of article by Phil Griffiths The strategic fears of the ruling class: the construction of Queensland s Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877 https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1402/the-strategic-fears-of-the-ruling-class-the-construction-of-queensland-s-chinese-immigrants-regulation-act-of-1877

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