Editing White Australia policy (section)

====Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901====
In 1901, there were approximately 9,800 Pacific Islander labourers in Queensland. In 1901, the Australian parliament passed the [[Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901]] (1 Edward VII 16 1901).<ref name="BRL9-1" /> The result of these statutes was that 7,500 Pacific Islanders (called "[[Kanaka (Pacific Island worker)|Kanakas]]") working mostly on plantations in Queensland were deported, and entry into Australia by Pacific Islanders was prohibited after 1904.<ref name="BRL10">{{cite book |last1= Lawrence |first1= David Russell |title= The Naturalist and his "Beautiful Islands": Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific |date= October 2014 |publisher= ANU Press |isbn= 978-1-925022-03-2 |pages= 295–296 |chapter= Chapter 10 The critical question of labour |chapter-url= http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p298111/pdf/ch102.pdf |access-date= 31 March 2019 |archive-date= 12 August 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190812061619/http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p298111/pdf/ch102.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> Those exempted from repatriation, along with a number of others who escaped deportation, remained in Australia to form the basis of what is today Australia's largest non-indigenous black ethnic group. Today, the descendants of those who remained are officially referred to as [[South Sea Islanders]].<ref name="AHRC">Tracey Flanagan, Meredith Wilkie, and Susanna Iuliano. [http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/forum/Erace/south_sea.html "Australian South Sea Islanders: A Century of Race Discrimination under Australian Law"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314080249/http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/forum/Erace/south_sea.html |date=14 March 2011 }}, Australian Human Rights Commission.</ref>