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To: lorne who wrote (2007)	9/20/2002 8:33:42 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3959

ROFIS! () That great "White Fortress".... Australia! How dare they lecture anybody on race issues?!? Instead of snooping around the Internet and trying to curtail freedom of speech, they'd better take care of their Aborigines and South Asian refugees... How many boat people from South Asia have Aussie coastguards capsized so far? 1,000? 2,000? White Australia policy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.* The White Australia policy refers to an extensive period of both official and unofficial discrimination in Australian history, during which immigration policy and citizenship requirements were heavily biased to favour white European migrants, and more specifically Anglo-Saxon migrants over other races. Although in the present day Australia generally prides itself on being one of the most multicultural of the "western-style" democracies, its past contains a dark chapter of government-endorsed racism that is perhaps only overshadowed by the apartheid regime of South Africa. The policy can be traced back to the 1850s when violence against Chinese miners led to the colonial administration introducing restrictions on Chinese immigration. Towards the end of the 19th century the kanakas (the South-east Asians recruited to work in the sugar cane fields) were the main target of discrimination, again on economic grounds. In 1901, the new Federal Government, as its first act, passed the Immigration Restriction Act to "place certain restrictions on immigration and... for the removal... of prohibited immigrants". Restrictions were placed on the immigration of the insane, of anyone likely to become a charge upon the public, and of those suffering from any serious contagious disease. It also prohibited prostitutes, criminals, and most manual labourers. [snip] wikipedia.org Hey, I love that part: "It also prohibited prostitutes, criminals,...." But what was Britain's use of Australia in the first place? LOL... you guessed it: a continent-wide penitentiary! It takes a thief... to repel a thief. (*) Rolling On the Floor In Stitches