White Australia policy - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This policy was enforced through a 50-word dictation test given by border officials in any European language. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this policy based on a 1901 Immigration Restriction Act. This policy was supported by trade unions who wanted to stop the “blackbirding” of laborers called kanakas to sugar plantations.

ANSWER: White Australia policy

[10h] The White Australia policy was used to justify a 1907 ban on this centuries-old industry, in which Macassan fishermen sailed to Arnhem Land in boats called praus to harvest sea cucumbers for trade to China.

ANSWER: trepanging

[10e] Trepangers hailed from this country’s island of Sulawesi. The Aboriginal Yolngu (“YOLE-ngoo”) language adopted the word “rupiah” for “money” from what is now this country’s language, which like Malay is called “bahasa.”

ANSWER: Indonesia [or Republic of Indonesia; or Republik Indonesia]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	11	16.36	100%	55%	9%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	8.75	75%	13%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	10.00	88%	0%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley D	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Arizona State	UC Irvine	10	0	10	20
UCLA A	UC Santa Barbara	10	0	10	20
UCSD C	UCSD A	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCSD B	10	0	10	20
Toronto C	Brock	10	0	10	20
Carleton University	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20
Guelph	Toronto F	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	McGill A	0	0	10	10
Western A	McGill B	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Toronto D	10	0	10	20
Western B	Queen's	0	0	10	10
Toronto E	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto B	10	0	10	20
UBC A	Western C	10	0	10	20
Waterloo A	UBC B	10	0	10	20
Central Florida C	Central Florida A	0	0	0	0
Florida B	Central Florida B	0	0	10	10
Florida C	Florida A	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Michigan State	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Virginia	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
James Madison B	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
NC State B	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
NC State A	VCU	0	0	0	0
Duke	Virginia Tech A	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
Wake Forest	North Carolina B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina C	William and Mary	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
Illinois C	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Illinois B	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Indiana A	0	0	10	10
Northwestern D	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Chicago C	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago E	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Illinois A	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State C	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis A	Brown	0	0	10	10
Brandeis B	Dartmouth A	10	0	10	20
MIT	Dartmouth B	10	0	10	20
Harvard A	Harvard B	10	0	10	20
Yale	Southern Connecticut State	0	0	10	10
Missouri A	Missouri B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech A	Iowa State	10	0	10	20
Minnesota A	Carleton College	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Texas A&M A	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Murray State A	10	0	10	20
Washington A	Washington B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee B	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Sewanee	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Alabama B	0	0	0	0
Bruin	Tennessee A	10	0	10	20
Birmingham	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
Durham	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
UCL	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Montpellier	LSE	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Oxford A	10	0	10	20
Oxford B	Cardiff	0	0	10	10
Imperial C	Oxford C	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	City St. George's	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Cornell A	0	0	10	10
Penn State	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20
RIT	Rochester	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	WashU A	0	0	10	10