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Sydney Morning Herald on 2019-05-30 04:34

From the Archives: Australia's unfair dictation test

The dictation test was the bluntest instrument of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901. It was wildly successful. Not a single person passed the ...

EGON KISCH

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