WHITE AUSTRALIA
POLICY CONDEMNED LEADING COUNTRY TO BANKRUPTCY PrtM Association—By Telegraph—Copyright DARWIN, June 13. Mrs Mark Foy, of Sydney, who has just completed a world tour, said that she was amazed at the prosperity everywhere except in Australia. She motored through miles of cocoa, tapioca, tobacco, and rice plantations in Java, where there are endless streams of water. Sho marvelled when she learned that 35,000,000 people are Jiving there peacefully, and she contrasted it “ with my own vast country of emptiness.” She said she asked herself why we could not emulate Java. “We can grow anything they grow, and but for our wretched White Australia policy millions of capital would be available for plantations in Northern Australia. While Java is moving ahead, Australia, with superior natural resources, is heading for bankruptcy.” She added: “ You will never make good on land in the tropics without coloured labour.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20510, 14 June 1930, Page 15
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