Coming To Australia: Post War Immigration

By: Scott Forbes
Genre: History: Australian
Published by: Australian Geographic
Published: 01 Sep 2015
ISBN: 9781742456751

Description

In 1946 a great immigration program began. It was encouraged by a desire to rapidly increase the population to lessen the chance of invasion by a future enemy.

The other main reason to provide a large base of workers for the nation's expanding factories and ambitious infrastructure projects.