 His biographer David Day has speculated that this initial first impression may have contributed to his later opposition to non-white immigration.Fisher's path to Australia was virtually identical to that of Billy Hughes, who had arrived less than a year earlier in December 1884 – both men took assisted passage, arrived at the age of 22, and travelled from London to Brisbane.Unlike Hughes, Fisher never lost his original accent and retained a thick Scottish "brogue" for the rest of his life.