Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction -- Creating an immigrant society, 1788-1972 -- A new Britannia -- White Australia -- Populate or perish -- Planning and control -- Notes -- 2 From assimilation to a multicultural society, 1972-2002 -- Assimilation -- The ethnic situation in 1972 -- Language and culture -- Ethnic community organisation -- The new proletariat -- Ghettoes and ethnic suburbs -- A political base -- Social mobility -- Asian settlement -- A new middle class -- An ethnic underclass? -- Notes -- 3 The Fraser, Hawke and Keating governments, 1975-1996 -- The Fraser government, 1975-1983 -- The Hawke government, 1983-1991 -- The Keating government, 1991-1996 -- The ministerial record -- Prime ministerial intervention -- Continuity and difference -- Notes -- 4 Policy instruments and institutions -- The Immigration Department -- State government agencies -- The advisory structures -- Inquiries and reports -- Consultation and representation -- Research and advocacy -- The ethnic communities -- Notes -- 5 Multicultural policy -- Australian multiculturalism -- The foundations -- The Galbally report -- Multicultural institutions -- The agenda of 1989 -- The reassessment of 1995 -- Settlement policy -- Language policy and multicultural education -- Access and equity -- The agenda of 1999 -- Indigenous peoples and multiculturalism -- Theorising multiculturalism -- Shifting emphases -- Notes -- 6 The attack on multiculturalism -- Conservative criticism of multiculturalism -- Other criticism -- The bipartisan consensus ends,1988 -- Australians Speak -- A developing critique -- Popular critiques -- Summarising the conservative critique -- Less conservative critics -- The survival of multiculturalism -- Notes -- 7 The impact of One Nation -- The racist inheritance.

The arrival of One Nation -- Hanson's policies -- One Nation's immigration program of 1998 -- One Nation support -- Graeme Campbell and One Nation -- The influence of One Nation -- Tragedy or farce? -- Notes -- 8 Economic rationalism -- Economic rationalism in immigration policy -- The overall economic impact -- The human capital approach -- Selection criteria -- User pays and cost-free immigration -- Settlement outcomes -- The 'uneconomic' immigrant -- The limits of rationality -- Notes -- 9 Sustainability and population policy -- Populate or perish -- Growing doubts -- Zero population growth -- A population policy -- Growth, limitation and devolution -- Ageing and decline -- Future stabilisation -- Notes -- 10 Refugees and asylum seekers -- The UN Convention and Protocol -- Refugee intakes since 1975 -- The humanitarian programs -- Boat people, asylum seekers and mandatory detention -- The shift to temporary protection -- Tampa and the Pacific solution -- A tough solution for a small problem -- Notes -- 11 A past, present and future success? -- Immigration policy in a globalised economy -- Multicultural reality -- A glance at the future -- Changing attitudes and values -- Notes -- Appendix I Chronology: 1972-2002 -- Appendix II Ministers of immigration, departmental secretaries and gross annual settler intake (including New Zealand… -- References -- Index.