'White Australia' Not British
HOBART, Thu. (1 p.m.).—The White Australia policy was not only contrary to the spirit of the United Nations Charter, but to British conceptions of equality which have been the guiding principle in building the Empire, said Mr J. B. Piggott, president of the United Nations Association in Tasmania.He added that this had been pointed out to Mr Edmund Barton, Australia’s first Prime Minister, by the British Government when the first immigration legislation was proposed in the Commonwealth Parliament in 1901. Accordingly, the expedient of a language test was introduced and the actual legislation to this day made no mention of the term White Australia. The term was offensive to millions of Asiatics upon whom the sectu-ity of Australia depended, and was the greatest obstacle to the creating of a Pacific union on the lines of the Atlantic Pact.
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Northern Advocate, 26 May 1949, Page 5
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