Comments on: Toward a global strategic framework: The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 1) https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/04/toward-a-global-strategic-framework-the-comintern-and-asia-1919-25/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Mon, 01 Jun 2020 01:30:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 By: Lüko Willms https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/04/toward-a-global-strategic-framework-the-comintern-and-asia-1919-25/#comment-9033 Sat, 06 Jan 2018 12:17:23 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4923#comment-9033 In Australia, the Australian Labour Party was one of the strongest supporters of the “White Australia Policy”, meaning “various historical policies that effectively barred people of non-European descent from immigrating to Australia. There was never any specific policy titled as such, but the term was invented later to encapsulate a collection of policies that were designed to exclude people from Asia (particularly China) and the Pacific Islands (particularly Melanesia) from immigrating to Australia.” (en.wikipedia.org). “Soon after Australia became a federation, it passed the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901.” (ibid)

The imperial government in London rejected the explicit racist language of the law, which was then replaced by a concealed procedure, the “language test” which was to be passed upon leaving the ship at an Australian harbour.

“During the Second World War, [Labour] Prime Minister John Curtin reinforced the policy, saying “This country shall remain forever the home of the descendants of those people who came here in peace in order to establish in the South Seas an outpost of the British race.” (ibid)

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