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Having shifted the native Brits to Australia, Britain proceeded to import West Indians.

My great great great grandfather was born in Rome in 1799 and migrated with his son from the Italian speaking canton of Switzerland arriving in Melbourne in 1854. Yet for all this length of time in Australia, an Australian army officer made a derogatory comment to my uncle when he was a child during WW2 about his name ( Fritz) when they visited the family farm at John's River just north of Taree.

Yeah don’t worry it’s our white Scottish and Irish ancestors were only described as British if you noticed on this film. Anglo Celtic only added not so long ago to the census.

I, too, like to pick nits.

We were taught at school that the Colombo plan was to educate Asians for the benefit of their own countries, not Australia. But many of the people who were educated under the Colombo plan, wanted to stay into Australia. Being educated at the expense of the Australian taxpayer wasn't enough, and they didn't want to serve their own countries, as the Colombo plan intended.

@pete smyth Yes, every one of the Indian students in the class that I taught, wanted work rights and permanent residency. University personnel are financing their salaries by selling off work rights and a path to permanent residency to foreigners. Australia's infrastructure and our institutions are our heritage. We must insist that our governments stop giving our birthright away to people from cultures that gave the world FGM. honour killings, foot-binding, the caste system, suttee and child marriage.

@@tormon506Moron. The points made by lastbreathsigh are important and in a sense decisive in refuting the BS in the Australian taxpayer funded production in question.

No, that is not how the White Australia Policy ended. The Policy was only ever about the Chinese.

@@roslynross2649 Actually, it was about "Cooly" labour - mainly Chinese and Indians and it was the organised working class that were at the core of opposition to that and the big grazing and other capitalistic interests who were for breaking it down, the pattern of the whole of the British Empire which regarded the colonies like a giant chessboard where the cheapest and most available and willing labour could be moved onto and square and to hell with the wishes of the pre-existing populations.

Exactly. But instead we choose to increase the working class; Bring up class-warfare with cheap foreign labour. Increase ethnic tensions, and destroy social cohesion amongst communities as a result of increased urbanisation and pure cultural/ethnic divide. As our population growth goes through the roof with 1,000,000 migrants per year. Our politicians would rather march us on the road to becoming a minority - than acknowledge what's going on, because of course to acknowledge it is 'racism'.

Poland

growing up in the 60's , I was torn between the country I was born in (Australia) and the country my parents were born in (Italy). Australians didn’t understand us when we spoke in Italian. Often, even in crowds my I could hear other Italians rubbishing Australians. It used to upset me because I was Australian, and I took it personally. Then when Aussies rubbished Italians, it used to upset me too , because .... well I was kind of Italian too. If we are honest, it went both ways and it still happens even within Italians today. My brother in law is from the North, we are from the south. When they argue, she calls him derogatory northern names and he calls her ‘Terroni' which means peasant southerner. We are racist to each other in italy. The north hate the south and vice versa ! Please stop the self-flagellation and accept that Aussies were actually very good to us. All my mates were Aussies. Sure sometimes they called me a Wog and I called then a convict, but that was generally when we were angry with each other. Otherwise we got along fine. I know of no Italian that didn’t find a job or get ahead in Australia. However I know of many Italian relatives in Italy from the south that cant get jobs in ITALY !!! I’m tired of all this knocking of our great country and great people.

Who says that?!? Australia was founded on racist principles. The colonies couldn’t agree on a union, but they all agreed to form a nation with a single immigration policy to keep the Chinese out (the yellow peril). The very first bill passed by the Australian Federal Parliament was the Immigration Restriction Bill, which was known informally as the “White Australia Policy “. Our first Prime Minister said that the IRB was the “most important piece of legislation that our country would ever create”.

based on your logic - the entire planet is racist ... as for 'who says that'? it was Me !!!! ... the son of a migrant

Who said that? The white Australia policy and our racist past was taught in high school when I was there in the 1970's (year 11 history 1976). This past is well known and public. I don't know who you are talking to.

People in these comments are simultaneously saying "those were the days" and "this video is propaganda". I think the past tense is the problem with your sentence.

Thanks for taking time to comment Kevin.

It is deceitful

Fair dinkum… ‘twas so in your face.

What are you calling racism? How is it worse than discrimination on the basis of gender or age? The only reason that we think that it is bad to discriminate on the basis of race is that none of us can choose our race or change it. Discrimination on the basis of race is unfair, but it is no more evil than discriminating on the basis of gender or age. We have no obligation to share what we have built with any one, and if we choose to share our inheritance, then we have no obligation to be fair when choosing the beneficiaries of our generosity.

@Ophelia orsic if you want to say something say it? dont be criptic about it, I believe in free speech even if I dont like what you say I will defend your right to speak your mind.

@Ophelia orsic Christ stop being a pussy like most people in this political correct madness and speak your mind.

Oh poor thing. You just know it right now?

Perth and Australia as a whole is very much a Catholic country as it is larger than all the other denominations combined. No doubt that would have caused friction among the British aristocracy. Today Catholicism is still growing largely due to immigration aswell

Chris Watson oh those poor asians!

There's no excuse for your blatant racism not ok !

The only reason that we think that it is bad to discriminate on the basis of race is that none of us can choose our race or change it. Racism is unfair, but it is no worse than sexism or ageism. Unlike modern migrants, the first British settlers in Australia didn't come to get a share of the wealth built by another country's people. They started from scratch. They introduced the western industrial economy to Australia and built the infrastructure and Australia's institutions: the welfare, education, health care and political systems. The early migrants who did the hard yards of establishing a nation are entitled to have the fruits of their labour go to their own descendants, not to the latecomers who weren't interested in Australia until the British made it rich. Australians have absolutely no obligation to share our country with any foreigner and if we share our inheritance with foreigners, we have no obligation to be fair in choosing which ones.

Mate I am an Indian and living in India and a Hindu. I whole heartedly support your views. Too much of immigration destroys the soul of a Nation. Aussies should join hands and demand for White Australia policy once again otherwise the beauty of your country will be gone. By the way sending love for all the true blue Aussies from India. God bless Australia, God bless the world.

Australia should accept anyone regardless of race

Na mate Australia is way better than the Huns

Nobody is putting visa applicants into gas chambers. Australia is our inheritance and our home. We have no obligation to share our inheritance with anyone and if we do share our home, we are entitled to choose migrants who are from western civilization. Modern migrants come to get a share of the wealth built by our ancestors.

@@rockynanach He can't hear you, he's too busy crying.

European migrants came to Australia by unleashing genocide and terrorising the first Australians of this land... A bit hypocritical of you for saying that migrants coming here don't want to assimilate.

Agreed

@@wawobear The "first Australians" weren't 'Australians', they (probably) had their own word(s) for what they thought of as being their own land before the people who could actually enforce their own ownership arrived.

@Endeavour If another nation with the means to invade Australia camee and enforced their perception of civilisation on to Australia today, would you respect their philosophy for doing so? For example if China colonised the current Australia and brought its culture and heritage over, would you say "this is not an invasion? This is simply the birth of a nation based on another country's perception of civilisation" You certainly wouldn't. You'd feel like you're having not only your country but also your culture and identity robbed from you. I know this because these arguments are ones that are used even today to argue for stronger borders: "We don't want our country to be overrun by Chinese/Indian/Arabs etc. In the same way, the indegenous peoples of Australia well equally robbed of their culture and identity. They did not see the invasion as a cultural renaissance for Australia, they saw it as a forced violent and inhuman overhaul. I think the key to reconciling nationalism or white supremacy in Australia with the suffering of the indigenous and migrants is to stop antagonising one another and discuss a future Australia based on empathy and understanding. The understanding that the fears of nationalists and conservatives may be real and the understanding that refugees and migrants come to Australia not to ruin the country but to contribute to it. I think it's time to stop arguing and resorting to personal or racial insults and actually achieve some social change in this great country.

The Aborigines who were living in Australia in 1788, were the ultimate winners of millennia of low level warfare. They or their ancestors gained their occupancy by killing other Aborigines. Modern Aborigines have a longer life expectancy at birth than did their ancestors, living the hunter gatherer lifestyle. No one has been able to show that, when the whites arrived, there were any more than a million Aborigines spread over the whole continent after having Australia all to themselves for 40, 000 years. Clearly, their children weren't surviving to adulthood, or they were being periodically being decimated by drought, or they were killing each other off. We have eyewitness accounts of the violence of Aborigines against other Aborigines.

WAP was because people didn't want cheap labour undercutting their wages and putting themselves back into the slums they escaped from in the UK.

I wouldn't say less racist, black people were still being lynched for sport during that time in america & there was no way for legal migration for non Europeans to the US until the end of the 1960s

@@Lando-kx6so 20% of convicts sent to Australia were boys aged 10-14.. for starters 🤠

The warning at the start for Aboriginal people is because they don't like to hear images or sounds of people who have died, its considered disrespectful.

@@kaitlins2934 Imagine if a white person said that, we'd laugh them out the room. Double standards, but you live in that distortion.

South Africans allowed Africans from further north to migrate to their country to be cheap labour and to build the country. Australia sought to avoid bringing in cheap foreign labour. Not the same thing as aparthied.

@jo dirt speak for yourself.

@@laurenjamieson8411 And who do you speak for girlie?

I'd simply say that humans now live in a modern world, we are capable of coexisting. We no longer live in tribes. An xenophobic mentality has no place in today's society whether you like it or not, kids don't carry the ideologies of their ancestors. But that's just my understanding.

everyone i have owned in debate says they are confused..is that mental reservation ipa doublespeak for I cannot longer intelligently discuss the issue???

still is

...at what?

@@jameskiffin502 wrong

@@Mrsgabrysol i am not wrong .if it was bad here people would be leaving in droves

@Electro PvP UK recently left the EU

@Electro PvP Yes you are correct on the minor difference between the EU and Europe and sensible Norway and Switzerland are smart. Sir Winston Churchill write a book on the History of the English Speaking People.They, like the folk in UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are progressive and not like some European countries, particularly in East Europe who are still medieval like particularly were race and religion are concerned (eg) the recent Balkans war in former Yugoslavia.

@@adrianjackson2696 You have a primitive way of writing English for an "Adrian Jackson". Lol!

Didn't you know his grandson is Peter Dutton?

60 years it was common sense policy, today we call ourselves Nazis and shame our own people for thinking it could be the wrong idea.. Whos the real authoritarian? Those who make you lose your job and livelihood over a political opinion. Its 1984 and we're living in it, wake up

I am not ashamed. The first British settlers didn't sail into a country with roads, buildings, dams, power stations, telecommunications, power and water distribution networks. They didn't sail into a country with education, health care, and welfare systems in place. They started from scratch. Unlike modern migrants they did not come to Australia to get a share of the wealth built by another culture. (The Aborigines didn't build the land or anything much else either). The British have no obligation to share what they have built with anyone, and if they do give their inheritance away, they have no obligation to be fair when deciding with whom they will share.

Piss off then you ignorant prawn...or is it "pawn"?

@@chriswatson1698 Your triggered comments are everywhere here. The society that British settlers built here was based on dispossession. The intention may not have been genocidal, but the effect was. And today? Land management practices that have led to damage to ecosystems, reductions in biodiversity and degradation of soils and waterways.

He didn't get his Papal knighthood for nothing.

Lol

So, only Europeans it seems... What about others living in Australia with four Asian, African grandparents, etc, grand parents who were all born in Australia? I know there probably aren't that many of them, but still.

Yes cheap and plastic.

Vicious .....but fair m8..

James, lawyers don't create legislation. Its got nothing to do with lawyers.

James Bedu Kodjo Graham You speak for your ethnic interests, they aren't mine.

There's nothing "alleged" about PC, moron.

When your Maltese ancestors came here in 1901, they would have been regarded as "bloody foreigners" and people would have said that NSW was becoming a "circus". Lucky you are white enough and Christian enough to be considered an "Australian" today. It's sad how the descendents of yesterday's foreigners have no sympathy with those of today.

@@johnmoyle4195 ended up a circus did it not?

The Kimberley Plan was never serious, and was routinely ignored/rejected by the Chifley and Curtain governments. A good thing too, because its main proponent, Isaac Steinberg, was a contemptible human being (I use the term loosely) who presided over the deaths of thousands as People's Commissar of "Justice" under Lenin and who fled Russia when he was personally threatened.

100%

In what way??

I think they've toned down the racism, but I think it gets the point across