Abstract
Immigration and border protection policies are very problematic issues as far as the Australian nation is concerned. Australia has always adopted strict immigration restrictions especially concerning non European migrants. Although one of the first laws passed by the new Parliament was the Immigration Restriction Act in 1901, the Australian nation is known to have the largest number of young migrants in the world. This paradox was underlined by Mares that stated "If we are not Aborigines, then we are migrants or their recent descendants." This contradiction is essential to analyze the Australian nation as a whole and its evolution since Federation. The topic under consideration here is if the Australian nation has changed its policies with regard to immigration issues. It can also be argued that ?the more things have changed, the more they've stayed the same'.
