White Australia policy
In writing about the preoccupations of the Australian population in early Federation Australia before World War I in "ANZAC to Amiens", the official historian of the war, Charles Bean, considered the White Australia policy and defined it as follows:"White Australia Policy" – a vehement effort to maintain a high Western standard of economy, society and culture (necessitating at that stage, however it might be camouflaged, the rigid exclusion of Oriental peoples).