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In 1901, following Federation, the Immigration Restriction Act was passed, effectively barring non-Europeans from emigrating to the newly minted Australia. The origins of this lie in a backlash against Chinese miners in the New South Wales goldfields and increasing market penetration from Chinese labourers such as carpenters and boutique operators, as well as a swelling Melanesian population due to the sugar plantations of Queensland. And of course due to the perception of racial purity espoused at the time.

While still making it recognisably British, how would one avoid this policy from coming into affect in the first place and allowing greater non-European immigration? Bonus points for a notably large Indian community in the Kimberly Region, only because that's something I've always liked the idea of. ;)
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