In the 1950s, the Australian government gave the Chinese community a choice of taking up Australian citizenship; this decision marked one of the Australian government's earliest breaks in the White Australia policy.
二十世紀五十年代，澳大利亞政府給予華人社區澳大利亞公民身份的選擇; 這一決定標誌著澳大利亞政府白澳政策開始鬆動。