A WHITE AUSTRALIA
DISCUSSION BY ANGLICAN CONGRESS. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY , PROBLEM. Pwjs Ajjoeialion-By Telegraph-Copyright MELBOURNE, October 29. The Anglican Congress discii-sed the White Australia question. Divergent ™7 TOre wpnaed on tiho probable result of an Asiatic overflow with Australia. Archdeacon Whittington said that if a White Australia wore intended carefully to guard racial purity he was altogether in it* favour, but ho was afraid "that his Labour friends meant a, good deal more, and intended to urge ihe entire exclusion of coloured races. Ho suggested that consideration might be given to tho development of tropical Australia by means of indentured labour. Canon Steplion said t'lie tiuestion was :iot one of a difference of civilisation hut of a. difference of religion, and for tlio aak© of roKgioiti a White Australia policy was the right one. The Archbishop of Brisbane considered that tho White- Australia principle was unchristian. The only alternative to haying coloured races was an empty Northern Territory, and Uho attraction of an empty north would be greater than if ire attempted to fill it. Tho only solution for tho trouble was indentured labour, and he was heretic enough to believe that tho salvation of tho north was kanaka labour,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14668, 30 October 1909, Page 8
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