AHC: An Australia that's 50% Asian?

Can anybody think of a scenario whereby Australia would actually have a present-day near-par Asian population however still resembling otl Australia in most facets of government, quality of life etc?
 
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Define 'Asian'.
For example, bearing in mind the location of Israel/Palestine, do people of Hebraic ancestry count? Imagine a situation where, with the Ottomans and then the British less favourable to Jewish re-settlement in the Middle East, and perhaps also a version of [or substitute for] the USA that's open to non-[Protestant] Christian immigrants as well, a lot of refugees from the pogroms during the late 19th & early 20th centuries are offered & accept assisted passage to Australia instead.
Kibbutzes along the edges of the Outback?

^_^
 
What if Australia got large numbers of Indian workers like South Africa and Fiji? Or what if the Chinese gold miners had stayed in Australia.
 
If Australia had not restricted or banned Asian immigration like it did in OTL, I think an Asian majority would have been inevitable simply due to proximity of Asia relative to Europe. So a POD to prevent White Australia or similar policies is all that's needed to make this happen.
 
That's a chicken and egg scenario, the WAP got up because whites were the vast majority. If whites were not the vast majority in 1901 then the WAP would not get up. "Civilised" Asia had 5000+ years to settle Australia, but all they did was release their dogs, so mere proximity isn't enough.

Perhaps the Dutch could discover pearls in their forays to Australia in the 1600s and import Asian pearlers to set up settlements.
 

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Define 'Asian'.
For example, bearing in mind the location of Israel/Palestine, do people of Hebraic ancestry count? Imagine a situation where, with the Ottomans and then the British less favourable to Jewish re-settlement in the Middle East, and perhaps also a version of [or substitute for] the USA that's open to non-[Protestant] Christian immigrants as well, a lot of refugees from the pogroms during the late 19th & early 20th centuries are offered & accept assisted passage to Australia instead.
Kibbutzes along the edges of the Outback?

^_^
Oh, you mean the Kimberly Proposal just before World War II. Sir Issac Issacs and the "proper British" Anglo-Jewish Community shot it down IOTL and slammed the door in their faces out of fear that instead of staying in the Ord and Fitzroy Valleys of Northeast Western Australia, the Eastern European Jews would troop off to Sydney and date their sons and daughters and make a total mess of things. So the Aussie Jewish Community at the time led the call to keep them out. :mad::mad::mad: Sons of bitches!! (And I don't say that too often).
 
Oh, you mean the Kimberly Proposal just before World War II. Sir Issac Issacs and the "proper British" Anglo-Jewish Community shot it down IOTL and slammed the door in their faces out of fear that instead of staying in the Ord and Fitzroy Valleys of Northeast Western Australia, the Eastern European Jews would troop off to Sydney and date their sons and daughters and make a total mess of things. So the Aussie Jewish Community at the time led the call to keep them out. :mad::mad::mad: Sons of bitches!! (And I don't say that too often).
I was actually thinking of a hypothetical earlier proposal, at some point during the Russian pogroms, maybe even pre-Confederation...
 
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