Dear runner,

You need to do your research and actually get your
facts straight as to who built what in this country
and who or what staffs the hospitals, et cetera.
Ever heard of the Snowy Mountains Scheme?

Foxy,

To quote your quote more fully,

"Outside Australia's Indigenous People, we are ALL
immigrants or descendents of immigrants -some
earlier than others - but all with an experience of
immigration during the foundation of modern
Australia... Australia's immigration experience is
also a broad one. ORIGINALLY IT WAS ANGLO-CELTIC [Capitalized for emphasis], but after the war our immigrants came increasingly
from Europe...."

So you say "Peter Costello was referring to the Australian Government's official policies that remained in force for 65 years...."
No he wasn't he was talking about the foundation of modern Australia which is 1788 and after.
There was no sudden move to modernity in 1901, in 1901 nothing of note happened that is in anyway comparable to the wholesale change that occurred in Sydney Cove in 1788 when modern Australia kicked off.

Dear Is Mise,

Ever since the start of its colonisation in 1788,
Australia has depended on three sources for the
continuation of its population: the Aboriginal
people; immigrants; and their descendants.

Throughout the 19th century, people of various
races migrated to Australia. They mainly came from
Britain, Ireland, India, China, Pacific Islands (Kanakas),
Japan, Germany, Scandinavia and North America (Murphy,B.
(1993). "The other Australia: Experiences of migration.
Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. p. 20-27).

Gradually, public opposition grew to the use of coloured
labour. Australians feared that non-whites were preapred
to accept lower wages and this would lower living standards.
Several confrontations occured. Indian coolies (1841),
the Chinese on the goldfields of NSW and Victoria (1850s),
Queensland goldfields (1870s),
Kanaka labour on the Queensland sugar plantations (1880s and
1890s).

The focus of the Australian opposition was on the Chinese, but
all Asians and coloured people were included in the
campaigns to keep Australia "white and British."
Antagonism was therefore not only economic, but also
social and racial.

Finally, the Australian Federal Government decided to be more
selective in its migrant intakes. The White Australia policy
was introduced in 1901, in the form of the Immigration
Restriction Bill. Non-whites were to be excluded from
settling in Australia. Racial purity and protection of
living standards had to be ensured.

As stated earlier. in this context, the "white" of White
Australia was to mean primarily Anglo-Saxon (Murphy, 1993, p.30).
The White Australia policy remained in force for 65 years.
And the exclusion of non-Europeans was later strengthened by
other acts of parliament and by the notorious dictation test.
(Murophy, 1993, p. 32).

Until the middle of the 20th century, the majority of
Australian immigrants came from the United Kingdom.
This changed dramatically after World War II.

thanks for confirming your bigotry Foxy

Dear runner,

Thanks for confirming your ignorance!

Foxy that's just completely untrue, in 1945 something like 95% of people living in Australia were born here and immigration was in decline from 1960 until the mid 1990's, in 1976 it bottomed out at about 52,000 permanent migrants.
Australia wasn't built on immigration, that's an urban myth and most people agree that the massive influx of migrants in the past 20 years has been a disaster which is now threatening our quality of life and the future prospects of our children.