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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