AHC: Kimberley Plan accepted.

If you have never heard of it, the plan was to offer 7 million acres of land in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, for an initial 75,000 Jewish refugees from Europe. It was denied because of Australia's policies on immigration,. My challenge is to have Australia put the plan into action.
 
If you have never heard of it, the plan was to offer 7 million acres of land in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, for an initial 75,000 Jewish refugees from Europe. It was denied because of Australia's policies on immigration,. My challenge is to have Australia put the plan into action.

Have a Jewish PM, maybe due to a more open immigration policy in the past that led to some Eastern European Jews coming to Australia instead of the USA?
 

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Kimberley!

Hitler would definitely be shoving Jews and undesirables that way pretty damn quick if it got approved. They would then take up work in what the wiki says is the diamond, oil, natural gas, pearling, and pastoral industries.

Holy, this might lead to Australia becoming majority Jewish and if the region's economy takes off from all the immigrants, then you likely butterflied away Israel as Jewish Settlers would want in on Kimberly's already established industry.

Once the Zinc, Lead, oddly no silver, and nickel mines come on, we just might see factories springing up.
 
It would seem unlikely that Australia would accept such a thing at any point in the federal era. Few countries like massive population transfers of aliens (in the neutral sense of the word), to an area that is under their control but only sparsly so.

I wonder if it would have been possible to do something similar back in the day, during colonial times, pre federation?

Or perhaps smaller population transfers, say settlements of 5000 here and there scattered across Australia.

I don't know if having a Jewish PM would necessarily help much either. NZ had one in the early days, one Julius Vogel and I don't see that he encouraged specifically Jewish immigration. He, iirc, kept up the focus on British settlement, but then he was British Jewish so I guess that makes sense
 
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I was thinking a pre-1900 POD would be needed to get a less Xenophobic Australia.

Settlement by a larger number of Dutchmen? If Australia hadn't been a criminal colony feeling it needed to prove its "Britishness" to everyone, could it have been a more open place? Maybe the British, who want to develop it as a mining colony not just a penal colony, bring in thousands of Indians? Just things like that...
 
I was thinking a pre-1900 POD would be needed to get a less Xenophobic Australia.

Well I don't really know if xenophobia is the right term. I mean, yes, it does have some flavour of that, but I think Australia and NZ just wanted to keep British populations in control while also avoiding importing undesirable elements from the home countries (well, NZ was like that anyway).

The populations were also pretty small in the 19th century, so large, non British immigration could actually swamp the British settlers and the latter, having just done something similar to the indigenous peoples were probably not too keen on letting the same happen to them.
 

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Well I don't really know if xenophobia is the right term. I mean, yes, it does have some flavour of that, but I think Australia and NZ just wanted to keep British populations in control while also avoiding importing undesirable elements from the home countries (well, NZ was like that anyway).

Which is ironic considering Australia was originally populated entirely by undesirable elements from the home countries ;)
 
Which is ironic considering Australia was originally populated entirely by undesirable elements from the home countries ;)

I was listening to a Radio NZ show the other day on this topic (generally), about colonial settlers reinventing themselves and the researcher made the point that a fair few Convicts, once they were free and had some resources moved onto NZ, changing their names etc, to start afresh without the stigma they'd attract in the Australian colonies. So for all our pride of not being a convict settlement, there is a good chance a lot of our early European settlers were convicts all the same!
 
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