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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    The history of white supremacy in Australia and New Zealand

    White supremacy has deep roots in Australia and New Zealand, going back to when the British colonized both countries in the early 1800s.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Mar 18, 2019 • 1 min read

    White supremacy has deep roots in Australia and New Zealand, going back to when the British colonized both countries in the early 1800s. By the early 1900s, the countries adopted strict immigration policies called "White New Zealand" and "White Australia." Those policies required literacy tests for immigrants. The policies ended in the mid-1970s. However, some white nationalist ideas continue.

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      David Atkinson

      Associate Professor Of History at Purdue University, and author of “The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States”

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    How women changed what you eat (and how you eat it)
    1. 0:00The link between Trump and white supremacists
    2. 7:44The history of white supremacy in Australia and New ZealandYou’re reading this
    3. 15:49Does Paul Manafort face double jeopardy if he goes to trial in New York?
    4. 23:12Why millennials are burned out
    5. 33:38Women who changed what you eat
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