Michael Roe, Australia, Britain, and Migration, 1915 - 1940 Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1995 Australia, spacious sunny home of the sturdy, hearty Digger, is renewing the invitation to the people of the Old Land to come out and help her realise her proud future as the Britain of the southern seas. The story of Australia's post-war immigration program is well known, but little has been written about migration to Australia between the two world wars. This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Australian politicians and bureaucrats involved in the program, as well as the half-million migrants who uprooted themselves. The book has an imperial framework, for, as the above advertisement implies, the program of migration took place very much within the context of Empire. Yet while their imperial ties were significant, the book shows that British and Australian governments followed their respective interests. For Britain, migration was part of domestic policy, a way of dealing with social problems arising from World War I. Australia wanted to secure British investment and meet its own labour needs through the program, although it was divided over the benefits of migration. Neither government had much regard for the migrants themselves. Michael Roe shows that between the wars Australia remained steadfastly Anglo-Celtic in its make up, and largely British in its political and cultural sympathies. Nevertheless, the Anglo-Australian relationship was rife with contradictions and these often came to a head in the debates over migration. Not only is the book a rich and detailed study of imperial relations in the 1920s and 1930s, but it describes an important and overlooked aspect of Australian political and social history.