HeyJaredChinese Australian History by Chidestudy Press
While focused on Chinese Australian history this podcast boasts three unique features - its focus on the very niche but fascinating field of Chinese Australian history for one, its use of AI to not so much create but summarise the texts of ChideStudy Press, and the fact that…
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32. A Gross Piece of Chicanery: Australia's Dictation Test (opens the original)
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What do a watercolour entitled "Advance Australia", an American jazz band and the Purple Wiggle all have in common? For over the first half a century of its existence there resided at the heart of the administration of the immigration policy of the Commonwealth of Australia, a legal trick. Known at first as the Education Test and thereafter as the Dictation Test, this was a bogus quiz for which a prospective entrant into Australia was set up to fail. The purpose of this pretence was to bar entry
31. Dueling Australians in Warlord China (opens the original)
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What Happened to Riley - is the first piece of Chinese-Australian literature written in English. It follows The Poison of Polygamy (see podcast No.29) by some twenty years and pre-dates the next example of this literature by some fifty years. Why is this short story almost unknown, despite this distinction and its remarkable tale of a confrontation between a Chinese Australian and a European Australian in warlord China? The answer tells us something of the narrowness of perceptions about what is
30. Royal Commission and Chinese Welfare 1891 (opens the original)
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This discussion examines the fascinating Royal Commission into the Police and Chinese Gambling of 1891. [Or to give it is full offical name: REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON ALLEGED CHINESE GAMBLING AND IMMORALITY AND CHARGES OF BRIBERY AGAINST MEMBERS OF THE POLICE FORCE.] A document that in fact tells us little about either gambling or the police or even immorality and a great deal about the make up of the Chinese communities of Sydney in the late 19th century. Feel free to ask questions at:
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