WHITE AUSTRALIA
POLICY CONDEMNED
NO GOOD FOR THE TROPICS
JAVA'S EXAMPLE
United Press Association—By Electric Tele.
graph—Copyright.
DARWIN, 13th June.
ill's. Mark Toy, of Sydney, who has just completed a world tour, said she was amazed at the prosperity everywhere except in Australia.
She motored through miles of cocoa, tapioca, tobacco, and rice plantations, and endless streams of water conservation in Java. She marvelled when she learned that forty-nine million people were living peacefully, and contrasted it "with my own vast country of emptiness." She said she asked herself why we could not emulate Java.
"Wo <van grow anything they grow, and but for our wretched White Australia policy, millions of capital would bo available for plantations in Northern Australia. While Java is moving ahead, Australia, with her superior natural resources, is heading for bankruptcy."
She added: "You can never make good on land in the tropics without coloured labour."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1930, Page 9
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