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AUSTRALIA’S PROBLEM
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DARWIN, June 13.
Mrs Mark Foy, of Sydney, who has just completed a world tour, stated here that she was amazed at the prosperity she had seen everywhere except in Australia. She had motored through miles of cocoa, tapioca, tobacco, and rice plantations, and had observed endless streams Of water conservation in Java. She marvelled, she said, when she learned that 49,000,000 people are living peacefully in Java, and she contrasted it “with my own vast country of emptiness.” Mrs Foy said that she asked herself why Australia could not emulate Java. “We can grow anything that they grow,” she declared, “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.” Mrs Foy added: —“You will never make good on land in the tropics without coloured labour.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 June 1930, Page 7
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