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.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readWhite 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.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
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”