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The ‘new world’ and genocides against blacks: Part Five

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AS from January of 1788 CE till 1901 CE, Australia was invaded and ruled over by British ex-prisoners and their prison guards who were soldiers.
The land grabs were conducted by these people and their descendants and the manner in which they chose to carry them out was totally up to them.
In May of 1901 CE, with the Duke of York (future King of England) in attendance, Australia held a Federation Celebration in Melbourne.
Australia was being officially recognised as a baby and ally of Britain.
The first Prime Minister of the new Federal State of Australia was Edmund Button. Edmund Button, like many whites of that era, was a follower of the racist European science known as eugenics.
Three months after the Federation Celebrations, the first Federal parliament of Australia was held on August 7 to discuss their objective of creating an all-white Australia.
They wanted to ensure that in a few generations, there would be no one in Australia, but whites.
They sought to create an exclusively white working man’s utopia with equality, democracy and freedom.
All this was to be done at the expense of the indigenous blacks and the Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants of Australia.
The decision to create an all-white state was because white people did not consider the non-white races equals.
The Black-fellaz, in particular, were portrayed as a remnant of a primitive and dying people which only made it to the modern era by accident.
The Chinese were a very productive community which greatly contributed to the growth of Australia.
There were tens of thousands of Chinese and they had begun entering Australia in the mid-1800s CE.
There were three prosperous China towns and at the Federation Celebration, there were more than 30 000 Chinese in attendance.
But did they know that they would be victims of possible expulsion from that land?
The Japanese too were in Australia since the 1850s CE and they made great contributions to the pearl industry as they were sea divers.
The Japanese considered themselves a proud and great nation and the white Australia policy was very humiliating for them.
There were also Pacific Islanders who were black and indistinguishable to Africans. These were forced into Australia after being kidnapped from their Islands by the white Australians.
They were tricked onto the ships with mirrors and tools and chained to the bottom. Whole villages were taken.
They were first shipped to Australia in 1863 CE and by 1901there were 10 000 Islanders working at a large plantation in Queensland and many others elsewhere. They had lost their property, friends and relatives to become slaves.
They were promised release after three years, but instead, they became paid labourers in agriculture, industry and construction.
Forced to begin a new livelihood in Australia, they started intermarrying with the Black-fellaz and now they were at the risk of losing their lives to the white Australia policy.
At the parliament that was working to pass this controversial legislation that sought to exclude non-Europeans from Australia, the Prime Minister quoted a book called National life and character by Charles Pierson.
This book warned the white race that if they did not take precautions against Africa, India and China, they risked being outrun.
He wrote that one day the world might be dominated by the black, brown and yellow people of the world and this would be most humiliating for the white race.
Edmund then proposed for a subtle immigration restriction bill to be passed in the form of a dictation test designed for non-Europeans to fail and Europeans to pass. This 50-word dictation test idea was based on a model which was being used by the settler whites of South Africa to control the population in favour of whites. This would make it easy for them to maintain their dominance and control the lands without any problems from the other races.
The immigration dictation test was made to appear as if it was based on level of education, yet it was subtle racism.
The Opposition Labour party sought ‘for bolder’ measures against none-whites and proposed that there be a clear ban of entrance into Australia on all non-whites. They feared competition and racial contamination and proposed for the prohibition of the importation of any man or woman of colour into Australia.
Edmund sent his proposal to Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of Colonies of the Commonwealth, who endorsed the passing of the immigration dictation test.
The only reason they did not make an outright ban on non-whites is because they feared Australia’s alienation from the British Empire if they were to make their decision unilaterally.
Otherwise left to themselves, these descendants of criminals would have chosen to ban all non-white people from Australia.
The new immigration law was passed on September 26 1901 CE.
The Asians that were in the land before 1901 CE were given a certificate of exemption from the dictation test, but from then on, no Asian or black man was allowed to enter Australia without passing the test.
Alfred Dickens succeeded Edmund as Prime Minister and he deported the thousands of Islanders in Queensland.
Many of them had become land owners and they lost everything again because of the same whites that had initially stolen them from their homes.
By 1908 CE 9000 Islanders had been deported, many of them leaving their Black-fella wives and children behind forever.
By 1914 CE, there were five million people in Australia and most of them were whites.
The Australian government then called for the importation of whites into Australia so as to replace the races they were kicking out.
The dream of making Australia a white working man’s paradise was adopted by an extreme racist and Euro-centrist called Henry Ruder Hegad.
He was a key adviser to the British government and wrote and lectured about British Supremacy and the expansion of British territory.
Henry endorsed the all-white-Australia idea and endorsed it saying that Australia would truly become the young one of Britain if the British were to make organised migrations into that land.
Britain was too full, and Australia was large and empty enough to accommodate a big part of the nation.
He also proposed for the British government to pay the cost of this mass migration using the wealth acquired from its colonies.
Henry also said that this would empower Australia and protect it from being invaded by Asian nations like China and Japan.

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