AUSTRALIA'S DE-FENCE.
Responding to the toast of '"Parliament" at a banquet at Brisbane, Mr. Airey, M.L.A., dealt at some length with the White Australia question He said Austraba was in gieater peril of being overrun by Asiatic hordes than was generally supposed or realised. As England had been conquered time after" time by invaders, until she was strong enough to resist foes, so would Australia. The only way to keop the country white was to introduce large numbers of people from Northern Europe. He believed in a vigorous immigration policy. The Federal Government, instead of spending a miserable million on defences, should do one of two things, heavily subsidise the Imperial Government for a squadron always to be stationed in Australian waters, or have its own navy. He preferred the iatter. He maintained that Australia should spend at least £6,000,000 yearly on her own defence on land and water.
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Evening Post, Volume LCCVI, Issue 126, 26 November 1908, Page 4
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AUSTRALIA'S DE-FENCE.
Evening Post, Volume LCCVI, Issue 126, 26 November 1908, Page 4
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