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🧵 WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY THREAD 🧵
With #WhiteAustraliaParty trending as a charge against the pro-multicultural Liberal Party of 2023 for some reason, let’s take a look at what our Prime Ministers throughout history really thought about the White Australia Policy.
With #WhiteAustraliaParty trending as a charge against the pro-multicultural Liberal Party of 2023 for some reason, let’s take a look at what our Prime Ministers throughout history really thought about the White Australia Policy.
Edward Barton (Protectionist):
“The policy of this Government will be to bring about a white Australia… there is an interest of Australia, not only of labour, but one largely racial… It is Australia we have at heart.”
“The policy of this Government will be to bring about a white Australia… there is an interest of Australia, not only of labour, but one largely racial… It is Australia we have at heart.”
Alfred Deakin (Protectionist and later the original Liberal Party):
“A white Australia is not a surface, but it is a reasoned policy which goes down to the roots of national life, and by which the whole of our social, industrial, and political organisations is governed.”
“A white Australia is not a surface, but it is a reasoned policy which goes down to the roots of national life, and by which the whole of our social, industrial, and political organisations is governed.”
