White Australia

My little Revoltette is currently in Australia, and she comments that the Australians are 'casually' racist. In her opinion, we are less racist here in England, which shows, if nothing else, that we Poms have better manners than our colonial cousins.
According to the Narrative one of the chief sins of Australian racism was the White Australia policy, yet this policy was not so black and white as it may seem.
Australia was always a more working class society than England. Most European emigrants were people who were tired of living under the jack boot of bureaucrats with titles.
Being strongly working class also meant being strongly unionised.
At the end of the nineteenth centuries, mine owners and plantation owners were importing cheap Chinese and Polynesian labour to undercut the European workers' wages. Indeed, the Polynesian workers were virtual slaves, many of them having been kidnapped and transported to the Australian mainland.
The White Australia policy was instigated by unionised labour and designed to protect both Australian and foreign workers from exploitation.
Of course, racial profiling is rather a blunt instrument, and as Asian economies developed in a European fashion after World War II, a points based immigration policy was introduced in 1973. This was much more civilized and sensible.
When uncontrolled immigration is encouraged by Authority, it is inevitably to the detriment of the native working class. The Third World and Eastern European influx into England, instigated by New Labour at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and continued by the ConDem government, has inevitably led to a massive decrease in working class wages and a worsening of working conditions. 
Immigrant labour is cheap labour. It always has been and it always will be. Immigration is simply a weapon by the managerial classes to keep the servant classes in order. Wages are kept low, unemployment is kept high, and the power structures of hierarchy remain in place.