Contexts in which the phrase white australia was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

• Would reintroduction of this test strengthen claims that the Government is operating a de facto White Australia policy? [More…]

• Do you believe in a White Australia, strong, free and united? [More…]

• We have all at some time been assailed with what has been called the ‘White Australia policy’, which is supposed to be the policy of succeeding governments to allow in only people of European extraction, because it is claimed we believe that they are superior to those with a different coloured skin. [More…]

• J travelled for some 5 weeks through 9 countries in Asia last year and the only people who asked me about our so-called White Australia Policy’ were Australian journalists abroad. [More…]

• Only yesterday the Ambassador for South Korea said in Melbourne once more in reply to a journalist who had asked about white Australia: 1 am sure that if I were in Australia’s position I would have some sort of restriction, too. [More…]

• Fortunately government action was taken to destroy the iniquitous slave system, but unfortunately the policy that was evolved tended to discriminate against people who were nol white and became known as the White Australia Policy, a term that is still quoted in many countries and is as distasteful to me as it was when I first heard it. [More…]

• I was disappointed that at the conference to which I referred earlier there were people who talked about racial equality, who opposed our so-called white Australia policy and who encouraged immigration on a non racial basis. [More…]

• I am sure that references to the White Australia policy in overseas countries would be considered offensive by some of our diplomats in those countries. [More…]

• For political and diplomatic reasons the 1963 Federal Australian Labor Party Conference removed the words ‘White Australia’ from the Labor Party platform. [More…]

• We certainly did not try to water down the policy nor take the ideal of a White Australia from the hearts and minds of the [More…]

• He said that the term ‘White Australia’ had no place in the official vocabulary and policy as defined by him in 1 963. [More…]

• They have tried to suggest on many occasions in recent years that the White Australia policy was dead. [More…]

• Labor supporters can talk until they are black in the face about poverty, white Australia programs and so on, but I will let them in on a secret. [More…]

• No longer can the old white Australia bogey be pointed at Australia. [More…]

• He said that the White Australia policy was dead but it had not been applied in the sense in which he meant for years and years. [More…]

• Unfortunately, some people cannot understand the difference between white Australia and a homogeneous population. [More…]

• The Hobart ‘Mercury’ of 11 January 1974 asked this question in its headline How white Australia?’ [More…]

• A headline in the National Times’ of 20 August 1973 reads: If White Australia is dead Immigration isn’t saying’. [More…]

• The Opposition today tries to argue that it initiated a policy of wiping out the old white Australia policy; that it initiated a policy of equal rights for allpeople to come to Australia. [More…]

• He said that despite claims that the policy was racist and represented white Australia, the undeniable fact was that it was a policy that was in the country’s best interests. [More…]

• They may be regarded as racist, but the White Australia policy was right and in the country’s best interests. [More…]

• A very good example of this occurred last year when Mr Grassby, the then Minister for Immigration, visited the Philippines and told them that the White Australia policy was dead and buried. [More…]

• It was obviously simplistic to say that the White Australia policy was dead. [More…]

• The people in Rangoon who had waited outside the Australian Mission and were turned away went back to their villages and families saying: ‘The walls are not down; the doors have not been opened; the white Australia policy is as real today as it was before ‘. [More…]

• Philippines and assured those people that the White Australia policy was dead and that there was nothing more to worry about. [More…]

• The white Australia policy is a blot upon all of us. [More…]

• Whenever progressive policies are projected by the Government in this House to give effect to the mandate that was obtained from the people in 1972 and 1974, the scream of ‘socialism ‘is heard in practically every speech from Opposition members, who are devoid of any objective argument and dedicated to carrying out the philosophy of organisations such as the National Civic Council, the League of Rights, the White Australia Committee and other sectional interests. [More…]

• One person changed his name to White Australia and another changed his name to Stop Asian Immigration Now. [More…]

• People in this country still remember that the Labor Party is the Party that commenced the so-called White Australia policy, the Party that made people frightened of having kanakas in this country and the Party that said that bringing in people with a different coloured skin would prejudice the precious jobs of white people. [More…]

• I do not have the White Australia Party campaigning for me. [More…]

• The figures show central Australian Aborigines to be crippled by ill-health, with diseases and conditions of a sort almost eliminated in white Australia. [More…]

• Mr Grassby is reported in the Brisbane Telegraph of 20 April 1977 as claiming that generations of Japanese had been led to believe that “Australians were racists”, and that they, the Japanese, had “been brought up on textbooks critical of the White Australia policy and our treatment of Aborigines.” [More…]

• Incidentally, the white Australia policy is still found in some Japanese educational terminology, and perhaps that could be corrected. [More…]