Blog Topic #2

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/people-smuggler-avoids-jail-term/story-fn6bfm6w-1225972902673
          This article was about how a 20 year old and his father were smuggling Afghans and Pakistanis to Australia from Indonesia. They were charged with nine months in prison but got it suspended and in that time the father died six months after being arrested dying by mysterious circumstances.
          Our book states that 25 percent of the population in Australia are immigrants, and the major cities in Australia offer some attractive possibilities for these immigrants. Up until 1973 Australia had a White Australian Policy which promoted European and North American immigration at the expense of other groups. Now it is different, the migration trends have flipped and now more diverse immigrants are giving the country a more multicultural character. Kanakas, or Pacific Island laborers, who are imported as inexpensive workers usually from the Solomons and New Hebrides, these laborers diversified Queensland's "Sugar Coast." Currently there has been a big change and lots of immigrants are starting to escape from Africa because of civil wars and starvation and have made a new home in Australia. Now, around 70 percent of the immigration quota for Australia is filled by Africans. Australia is also a home to lots of Asians, more and more immigrants are coming from Asia, so many that 40 percent of Australians immigrants are from Asia, and cities like Sydney have a Asian flavor to fullfil the immigrants needs. Found on page 646-647

http://www.smh.com.au/national/sydney-celebrates-australia-day-20100126-mv5b.html
This article talks about the festivities that were held on Australia day in Syndney. The reason for Australia Day is to celbrate the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. They arrived with 750 prisoners in Botany Bay which is now known as Sydney. I could not find anything on Australia Day itself in the textbook, so i went off of the arrival of the British to Australia and how Europeans started to move to Australia. So now Australia celebrates the arrival of them as Australia Day. Found on page 640