Template:Did you know nominations/Lorenzo Gamboa

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Lorenzo Gamboa

  • ... that the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy led the Philippine House of Representatives to pass a bill banning Australians from the country? "In 1949, the parliament in Manila passed a Reciprocity Immigration Bill, which, if it had been enacted, would have prevented Australians from entering the Philippines." [1]:195 (general summary). [2] gives more detail and explains the explicit connection with Gamboa and that the bill passed only the House not the Senate.

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