New Australians

See New Australia for the Australian settlement established by William Lane in 1893. That settlement was established in Paraguay, South America.

New Australians are non-British migrants to Australia who arrived in the wave of immigration following World War 2. The term initially referred to newly arrived immigrants, generally refugees, who were expected to eventually become mainstream Australians. It was originally coined by Arthur Calwell,^[1] Australia’s first Minister for Immigration, to promote the assimilation of migrants to Australia from continental Europe.^[2] Its use was intended to be positive, and to discourage use of pejorative terms such as “reffo” or “Balt” that were then in frequent use.^[3] The term has fallen into disuse since the 1970s.

References

1. ^ Colm Kiernan (1978). Calwell. A Personal and Political Biography, West Melbourne, Thomas Nelson, pp. 129-130. ISBN 0170051854
2. ^ Egon F. Kunz (1988). Displaced persons. Calwell’s New Australians, Sydney, Australian National University Press. ISBN 0080344062
3. ^ James Jupp (ed.)(1988) The Australian People. An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, North Ryde, NSW, Angus and Robertson, p.103. ISBN 0207154279