Back When The White Man Understood That Being & Staying White Was Desirable

“The fundamental reason for the adoption of the White Australia policy is the preservation of a British-Australian nationality.

They knew that racial unity, though not necessarily racial homogeneity, was essential for national unity, for true national life. The union of a people depends on common loyalty to common ideals, and on a common belief as to the best course in general to pursue to attain these ideals.

‘A united race,’ said Mr. Alfred Deakin [Second Prime Minister of Australia] in 1901, speaking on the subject of a White Australia;

‘means not only that its members can intermarry and associate without degradation on either side, but implies one inspired by the same ideals, and an aspiration towards the same ideals, of a people possessing the same general cast of character, tone of thought, the same constitutional training and traditions-a people qualified to live under this constitution, the broadest and most liberal perhaps the world has yet seen reduced to writing; a people qualified to use without abusing it, and to develop themselves under it to the full height and extent of their capacity.’

 In the words of Sir Henry Parkes [Premier of New South Wales] it was;

‘a question of policy of the first magnitude to cement society together by the same principles of faith and jurisprudence, the same influence of language and religion, and the same national habits of life.'”

History of the White Australia Policy
Myra Willard · 1923

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