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All for Australia

All for Australia is a 1984 book by Australian historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey. It criticises Australian immigration policy and the direction in which it is pushing the country. The book examines the way policy developed in the 1970s and 1980s and explores what Blainey views as the disproportionately high levels of Asian immigration to Australia since the mid-1970s.

In All for Australia, Blainey argues:

Writing about the book in Australian Book Review John McKay was not impressed: "This is certainly a bad book. The arguments are badly put, sometimes verging on the ludicrous...Professor Blainey dismisses the assumption that Australia is part of Asia and regrets policies that might be construed as anti-British." He did, however, find some merit in the work: "There are challenges that have to be met, even though this book is not one of them, and the current debate may in the end be seen to have encouraged serious discussions about alternative futures."

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