Contexts in which the phrase white australia was used in the Senate during the 1970s

• It is a fact that the Prime Minister recently stated in Asia that to all intents and purposes, the former policy, commonly referred to as the white Australia policy is dead and buried. [More…]

• Is it a fact that both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Immigration have stated in South-East Asia that the white Australia policy is officially dead? [More…]

• There are many people in the Australian Labor Party who will stand up and complain about Mr Gregory being refused entry to Australia but who, if he came to this country, would say that because of the colour of his skin and the white Australia policy he should not have been allowed to come here. [More…]

• But 1 did not ever hear them complain when Sergeant Gamboa was being kept out because of his racial origin, and I did not ever hear them complain when Mrs O’Reilly was being kept out because of the white Australia policy. [More…]

• The third case that I raise is appropriate to the statement made by no less a person than the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) a few days ago that the white Australia policy cannot be justified on moral grounds. [More…]

• But because he is of Chinese descent, the white Australia policy and all the immigration bars that one could think of are applied to him.I respectfully request that each of these three cases be reviewed and justice granted to each of the three persons concerned. [More…]

• I believe that it will back up my submission that the Australian policy on immigration is still a White Australia policy. [More…]

• 1 want to refer to one other thing before I leave what I believe is the white Australia policy of the Liberal-Country Party coalition. [More…]

• Take that to is logical conclusion and let people say: ‘Well, that is fair enough; this country should or should not have a White Australia policy’. [More…]

• When I was in the Labor Party- I moved for the abandonment of the White Australia policy at Labor Party conferences . [More…]

• Over the years its members were the people who talked about white Australia. [More…]

• They wanted a white Australia policy. [More…]

• Years ago my Party, before anybody else thought of doing so in this country, abandoned the concept of a controlled immigration policy being known as a white Australia policy. [More…]

• Aborigines, I draw attention to the fact that Opposition senators are trying to gain political capital by saying that the ‘Government is bad and is racist and that they, who have seen the light of a White Australia policy only a year or two ago, are the purists now. [More…]

• We were only about 15 years ahead of the Labor Party in advocating the abandonment of the white Australia policy and things of this nature. [More…]

• I have argued with Japanese friends who have queried our immigration policies and have wrongly designated them as a White Australia policy. [More…]

• Lately the Prime Minister has been in Asia making statements that he and he alone has buried the white Australia policy. [More…]

• Let me say this clearly and categorically; the White Australia Policy is under no challenge in this Parliament or in this country, except by bad administration. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that we can avoid that sort of experience in our country, but I wonder whether we can when I hear honourable senators opposite and when I read the outmoded and outdated attitudes expressed in the other place by people who hitherto slavishly wedded themselves to the white Australia policy. [More…]

• In another document which the National White Australia Policy League has sent to us all there is reference to the ‘Stalinistic formula’ in this Bill. [More…]

• There are lots of people who have various views on this matter and it was until only recently that the white Australia policy operated in this country. [More…]

• One of the reasons they stopped coming here, one of the reasons it became almost impossible to obtain immigrants from Western Europe and one of the reasons the previous Government stretched the White Australia Policy to include Turks was because it could not get people to come here from countries such as Austria, West Germany and other parts of Western Europe. [More…]

• In the 1974 Senate Election a number of persons enrolled under such names, including White Australia’ and ‘StopAsianImmigrationNow’. [More…]

• Mr President, the only thing I would say about Senator Baume- very few words are required to deal with what he said- is that this long panegyric upon the drug companies and this rather garbled version of the history of social development whereby credit for the eradication of whooping cough, measles, the slave trade and the white Australia policy can be given to the private drug industry, interesting and inaccurate though it may have been, have absolutely no bearing on the legislation which is before the Senate. [More…]

• As Senator Keeffe pointed out, white Australia has a sorry history in terms of our relations with the indigenous people. [More…]

• The blood of Aboriginal people is on our hands and on the hands of past generations of white Australians. [More…]

• Since that time these causes have been identified, recognised and wiped out within the whole of Western Europe, the United States and white Australia. [More…]

• I have also written this book in order to bring White Australia to some greater compassion through understanding and to enlighten it to its responsibilities in the areas of land and compensation for Aborigines. [More…]

• White Australia has come a long way since Governor Philip met his first aborigines, ls not Black Australia also entitled to some advancement? [More…]

• But the aim of this suggested advance must not be to blend white Australia with black. [More…]

• assimilation of Aborigines into white Australia society. [More…]

• White Australia policy is long dead, that our immigration policy today is totally nondiscriminatory and is applied consistently to all applicants regardless of race, colour, nationality, descent, national or ethnic origin and sex. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of allegations arising from that program that the recently suspended president of the New South Wales Liberal Ethnic Council, Lyenko Urbanchich, is a former Nazi collaborator, is on the Yugoslav list of wanted war criminals and currently argues in favour of a White Australia policy? [More…]