The story of F.J. Rose's fight for the rights of deaf Australians under the Immigration Restriction Act.
Frederick John Rose, founder of Deaf Children Australia, was a tireless advocate for the education and rights of the deaf community. Historian Chloë Okolihas researched his advocacy in response to the Immigration Restriction Act, a story also documented in the National Archives of Australia's file on Frederick J. Rose.
In 1903, Rose, who had been profoundly deaf since childhood after contracting scarlet fever, wrote to the Commonwealth Government questioning whether deaf people fell under the
