DEFENDING AUSTRALIA
'(§>■ ARCHBISHOP'S VIEWS ON PROBLEM SYDNEY, September 7. Dr. James Duhig (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane) declaied in an interview that the present population of Australia was able neither to sustain the growing burden of taxation nor to defend the country, the vulnerability of which was causing grave concern in the Commonwealth. Japan certainly had shown nothing but friendliness, but 110 man was justified in leaving his house unprotected because he had friendly | neighbours. The paucity of Australia's population was a matter of weakness aggravated by an unwise immigration policy, which gave no encouragement to the people of Great Britain and Europe to settle in the country.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20955, 8 September 1933, Page 13
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