Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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"White Australian policy," said Mr. Vaughan, "is one designed to keep Australia free from such racial problems as exist in this country and in South Africa. It is a policy directed towards the total exclusion from the Commonwealth of all nations of Asia. But if danger threatened it would equally...
Outpost of the White Race
"Australia lies in a position peculiarly exposed to Asiatic immigration. We are the outpost of the white race in the Orient. We constitute but a white drop in a colored ocean. Around us are the teaming millions of Asiatic people whose population equals half the population of the world. To...
Australia under British rule has played an important part in pioneering legislation of an experimental character. The Australian Ballot, Women Suffrage, The Torrens System of Land Transfer and a whole volume of laws dealing with industrial relations have been the fruit of our government of the Island Continent. This legislation...
"The standard of living of our people differs entirely from that of the native of India, China or even Japan. There is, therefore, a strong economic objection to cheap and inferior labor being admitted. We are solving the problem of developing both our temperate and tropical zones by white labor...