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A Chinese Barrister

A1, 1906/8578, Immigration Restriction Acts 1901-1905. Persons born in Australia

A1, 1908/12936, 'Kitchen'. Prohibited immigrant, 1908

A1, 1908/1498, Ah Sheung

A1, Correspondence files, annual single number series

A10074, 1908/31, POTTER Lionel Frank versus MINAHAN James Francis Kitchen

A10074, Full Court case records (Victoria) and from 1973, Court and Cause case records, annual single number series

A5522, Correspondence files, single number series with 'M' (matters) prefix

A5522, M47, Habeas Proceedings re WILLIE LEE HOOK

Affadavit of John Gardner Davies, 22 April 1908, Copy Documents (prepared by Charles Powers)

Published: 22 April 1908

Ah Ket, William (1876–1936)

Ah Sheung - Immigration Restriction Act', Minute Paper by Robert Garran, Secretary, Attorney-General's Department, 28 November 1906

Published: 28 November 1906

Alien Acts: The White Australia Policy, 1901 to 1939

Alien or Native?

Aliens in Their Own Land: 'Alien' and the Rule of Law in Colonial and Post-Federation Australia by Peter Prince

Anglo-Chinese and the Politics of Overseas Travel from New South Wales, 1898 to 1925 by Kate Bagnall

Annotated Minute Paper from the Attorney-General's Department, 8 April 1908

Published: 8 April 1908

Application of Immigration Restriction Act 1901-1905 to Australian-born Chinese', Minute Paper by Atlee Hunt, Secretary, Department of External Affairs, 6 October 1906

Published: 6 October 1906

Asian Migration to Australia by A.T. Yarwood

Attorney-General for the Commonwealth v. Ah Sheung (1906) 4 CLR 949

Published: 29 June 1906

Australian Citizenship Law in Context by Kim Rubenstein

Australian or Asiatic?

Caricature portrait of J.T.T. Donohoe

Charles Powers, Crown Solictor, to Atlee Hunt, Secretary of the Department of External Affairs, 30 April 1908

Published: 30 April 1908

Chia Gee v. Martin (1905) 3 CLR 649

Published: 20 October 1905

Chiltern Gold Mine

Published: 1900

Chinese or Australian?

Published: 25 October 1913

Circular by the Collector of Customs, Customs and Excise Office, Port Adelaide, 8 April 1909

Published: 8 April 1909

Citizen or Alien?

Citzenship and the Centenary by Kim Rubenstein

Copy of Dictation Test from 16 to 31 January 1908

Published: 1908-01

Cornishtown and Prentice Freehold Reunion 1873–1998 edited by Nell Begley and Rex Fuge

Published: 1998

Crown Solicitor to Atlee Hunt, Secretary, Department of External Affairs, 8 February 1908

Published: 8 February 1908

D596, 1909/2128, Immigration Restriction - POTTER versus MINAHAN - judgement handed down by High Court re application of the dictation test

Death of Mr. Bryant, K.C.

Death of Mr. W.T. Coldham

Defining Strangers: Human Rights, Immigration and the Foundations of a Just Society by Mary Crock

Department of External Affairs, 1904

Died at His Post

Donohoe v. Wong Sau (1925) 36 CLR 404

Published: 17 April 1925

Eastern end of Little Bourke Street, 1908

Empty thoroughfare at Darlinghurst Gaol

Published: 1918

English or Chinese?

Evidence of Ching Kay, 28 February 1908, Copy Documents (prepared by Charles Powers)

Published: 28 February 1908

Handwritten Letter from E.A. Fortescue Croft, Solicitor, to Atlee Hunt, Secretary, Department of External Affairs, 6 February 1908

Published: 6 February 1908

History of the Shire of Chiltern by Robert Ashley

Immigration Restriction Acts 1901-1905

Immigration Restriction Acts 1901-5 - Persons born in Australia', Minute Paper by Littleton Groom, Attorney-General, 27 November 1906

Published: 27 November 1906

Immigration Restriction in Australia by Everard Digby

Imprint of the left hand of James Frances Kitchen, 28 January 1908

Published: 28 January 1908

Information for an Offence in the Court of Petty Sessions, Melbourne, 14 February 1908

Published: 14 February 1908

Is He an Australian?

James Francis Kitchen Minahan (bIrth)

Published: 1876

Judges of the Federal High Count, 1903

Published: 1903

Landscapes of Memory and Forgetting: Indigo and Shek Quey Lee by Kate Bagnall

Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts by Mark Finnane

Letter from Charles Power, Crown Solicitor, to Robert Garran, Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department, 8 April 1908

Published: 8 April 1908

Lying-in Hospital, corner Cardigan and Grattan Streets, Carlton, c1868

Memorandum from Atlee Hunt, Secretary, Department of External Affairs, to Crown Solicitor, 11 February 1908

Published: 11 February 1908

New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922 [online database]

Non-Immigrants, Non-Aliens and People of the Commonwealth: Australian Constitutional Citizenship Revisited by Sangeetha Pillai

Old Supreme Court

One Month's Grace

Passenger List for the Taiyuan, Sydney, 23 January 1908

Published: 23 January 1908

Photograph of SS Taiyuan

Photograph of SS Wollowra

Police station, George St North, Sydney

Portrait of Atlee Hunt

Portrait of Edmund Barton

Published: 1902

Portrait of F.S. Boyce

Portrait of H.W. Bryant

Portrait of Harry Hoyling

Published: 1916-09

Portrait of Henry Bournes Higgins

Portrait of Isaac Isaacs

Portrait of John Starling

Portrait of Lancelot Dawson

Portrait of Lionel Potter

Portrait of P.J. Dwyer

Portrait of Richard O'Connor

Portrait of Robert Garran

Portrait of Sir Frank Gavan Duffy

Portrait of Sir Littleton Groom

Portrait of Sir Samuel Griffith

Published: 1903

Portrait of W.T. Coldham

Portrait of William Ah Ket

Potter v. Minahan (1908) 7 CLR 277

Published: 8 October 1908

Prohibited Immigrant

Report of Passengers for the Taiyuan from Hong Kong, Sydney, 23 January 1908

Published: 23 January 1908

Richard Monaghan and Mary Mangan (marriage)

Published: 1865

Robert Garran, Opinion No. 1279

Published: 29 November 1922

Singh v. Commonwealth of Australia (2004) 222 CLR 322

Published: 9 September 2004

Sir Phillip Street, Chief Justice of New South Wales

Published: 1925

Starling, John Henry (1883-1966) by David I. Smith

Statement by J.T.T. Donohoe, 10 February 1908

Published: 10 February 1908

Still Call Australia Home: The Constitution and the Citizen’s Right of Abode by Helen Irving

Sun Nam Hie & Co. advertisement

Telegram from Atlee Hunt, Secretary, Department of External Affairs to the Collector of Customs, Sydney, 6 February 1908

Published: 6 February 1908

The Administration of the White Australia Policy by A.C. Palfreeman

The Chinese Exclusion Law

Published: 29 September 1911

The Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth: The Making and Meaning of the Australian Constitution by Nicholas Aroney

The Legal Interpretation of the Constitution of the Commonwealth by a. Berriedale Keith

The New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1921 by C.F. Yong

Vessels Advertised as Landing

Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages

View of Chiltern, looking east

View of Circular Quay

View of Sydney Harbour from Dawes Point

View of Water Police Court, Sydney

Winefred Managyan (birth)

Published: 1858

Winifred Cheong Meng (birth)

Published: 1881

Winifred Cheong Meng (death)

Published: 1881

“Habeas Corpus Mongols” – Chinese Litigants and the Politics of Immigration in 1888 by Mark Finnane