The following are a number of relevant quotations from prominent Australian Nationalists. They are an integral feature of our history and social-nationalist ideology.
The following quotation by Henry Lawson regarding Chinese is equally applicable to all unassimilable alien groups and serves to demonstrate the superpersonal character of Australian nationalism as an ideology - as opposed to personal bigotry on the part of some people. Private friendships with individuals from unassimilable groups (as held by Lawson, O' Dowd and others) have never precluded one holding Australian Nationalist sentiments or participation in political activity.
The present large ethnic ghettos of Middle and Far Easterners is further proof that Australia should never have departed from the White Australia Policy.
The regular racial attacks upon white Australians (particularly women - "skippies") by these unassimilables (who are often Australian-born) is a confirmation of the validity of what Arthur Calwell prophesised regarding the outcomes of the permissive, liberal, multicultural society. The existence of an overt Moslem fundamentalist fifth column (as evidenced by young militant spokesmen who place their Islamic faith above their Australian citizenship) is multiculturalism's 'chickens coming home to roost'. These cultural parasites who constantly whinge and demand tolerance/acquiescence to their pecadillos in the form of so-called 'cultural senstivity' from the host majority culture, have never been willing to tolerate/acquiesce to our value system. Where are the formal apologies on the part of the Moslem community to the relatives of white Australians and other westerners who died in Bali, or who suffered at the hands of their renegade criminals and rapists?
The fact the ethnic-Chinese mayor of Darwin (a descendent of colonial times) fought for the retention of the White Australia Policy in the 1970's, in the ackowledgement that all this policy implied was Australia should remain a predominantly Anglo-European country, is also evidence that as individuals all people are assimilable. It is numbers which makes assimilation impossible.
"I am anti-Chinese as far as Australia is concerned; in fact, I am all for a White Australia. But one may dislike or even hate a nation without hating or disliking an individual of the nation."
"No matter where the pressure comes from, the Australian people will continue to resist all attempts to destroy our White society.
I reject in conscience, the idea that Australia should or can ever be a multi-racial society and survive."
ARTHUR CALWELL, Progressive-nationalist.. Quoted from this one-time Labor Immigration Minister’s autobiography, Be Just and Fear Not, Rigby Ltd., Sydney, 1972.
"The white population is being driven out of the labour market by an inundation of Mongolians; when the white man is driven to desperation, there will be desperate times.."
NED KELLY, Letter To Sir Henry Parkes, 1879.; Australian bushranger, republican, political radical, Australia's Robin Hood cum Che Guevara.
And no man single-handed,
can hope to break the bars.
It'll be a thousand like Ned Kelly,
who'll hoist the Flag of Stars.
JOHN MANIFOLD, nationalist poet.
"All that is necessary for us to urge in justification of this measure (Commonwealth Immigration Restriction Act of 1901) is that these people do differ from us in such essentials of race and character as to exclude the possibility of advantageous admixture or intermarriage if we are to maintain the standards of civilisation to which we are accustomed….
Our civilisation belongs to us, and we to it; we are bred in it and it is bred in us. It fits us and is our means of progress and advancement. These people have their own independent development, their own qualities and forms of life and government, which naturally are attached to them.
They are separated from us by a gulf, which we cannot bridge to the advantage of either. The attitude of Australia is not an offensive one when it becomes understood that it is based upon these principles. It is not based upon claims of superiority.
Where is the standard of comparison just to both? … Arguments which are used in favour of exclusion do not call for any reflection whatever upon the character or capacity of the people excluded."
Prime Minister ALFRED DEAKIN, addressing the Federal Parliament in 1901.
Deakin was a progressive-nationalist who was responsible for the first pension legislation at a Federal level. Although not a member of the Labour Party, he compromised with Labour on these principles.
Extract from "AUSTRALIA"
"Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space,
Are you a drift Sargasso, where the West in halcyon calm rebuilds her fatal nest?
Or Delos of a coming Sun God’s race?
Are you for light, and trimmed, with oil place?
Or but a Will o’Wisp or marshy quest?
A new demesne for Mammon to infest?
Or Lurks millennial Eden ‘neath your face?"
BERNARD O’DOWD, Radical-nationalist
"…I still think that Australia needs the sort of revolution that will produce fundamental far-reaching changes. Every country needs such a revolution every now and then to make some beneficial changes in its social, political and economic affairs. England needed a violent revolution to get rid of Charles I and then peaceful revolution after the Restoration to get rid of his ill-fated son, James II in 1688.
The last thing I want to do is shock native born reactionaries and kill them off prematurely by hinting at the word revolution in this country. Yet what else is there to talk about if man is to survive in the mess that capitalism has made of our society with its wars, its pollution of the air, the sea and the land and its degradation of our moral, social and economic health?
The United States came into being through a violent revolution that started in 1776 and finished with the creation of a new society on the other side of the Atlantic to that of the Old World. And then there was the French Revolution, the bloodbath that commenced in 1789 and ended with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. It was a revolution that was hundreds of years overdue, but was never completed.
A century later in 1917, the Russian Empire disappeared in a comparatively bloodless uprising followed by a long and terrible civil war, inspired and aided by foreign intervention and later, by the shocking era of Stalinism that cost the Russian Nation the lives of millions of its unfortunate people. The Russian Revolution was at least three hundred years overdue.
There have been other revolutions in the history of Europe and Asia as well as those to which I have referred, but none of them had had the significance of those, which I have cited.
We need sweeping changes that will result in the creation of an Australian Socialist society. Unfortunately, the great majority of Australians are too smug, too greedy, too slothful to care about the benefits of Socialism."
ARTHUR CALWELL, Be Just And Fear Not
"Ninety percent of people of Australia support me in my attitude today," he said. "Australians are not going to turn Australia over to those "inspired by an angry vocal minority of pseudo-intellectuals,"
These pseudo-intellectuals think they can promote the cause of a permissive society by flooding this country with people from all parts of the world."
" I have a tremendous respect for the Chinese who have yellow skins and have pride in their race.
I have a tremendous regard to the coffee coloured Indians who have a great respect for the colour of their race, and for both peoples because of their regard for their cultures, their histories and their achievements.
However, he said, Australia "has got to be held by people who are predominantly Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian and Southern European.
These are the only people who can make an integrated community. Why should anyone be hurt by a recitation of the truth?"
"We are for this Australia, for the nationality that is creeping to the verge of being, for the progressive people."
WILLIAM LANE, The Boomerang 1887.
"While we plough our fields and measure our calico, and swing our hammers, history is being made and we ourselves are taking part in a stirring drama. Here we face the hordes of the east as our kinsmen faced them in the dim distant centuries, and here we must beat them back if we would keep intact all that can make our lives worth living. It does not matter that today it is an insidious invasion of peaceful aliens instead of warlike downpour of weaponed men."
WILLIAM LANE, The Boomerang newspaper,18 February 1888.
Extract from "OUR LAND"
Bernard O’Dowd (Radical-nationalist)
From Northern strife and Eastern sloth removed,
Australia and her herald gods invite
A chosen race, in sternest ordeals proved,
To guard the future from exotic blight.
Yet on our margin other folk are set
Who, it is well, should keep a while away,
Too long apart to mingle wisely yet
(E’en I who love the Hindoo, Chinese, say!)
Yea, will we steel us to the death to fight –
In such poor means alone avail – whom’er,
Or Asian throng, or island brown, or white
Blood-brother e’en, would cloud our prospect fair,
To guard the future from exotic blight.
And not alone to feel the mouths of children at her breast
Australia wafts her sibyl call wherever white men are;
But, warden of the boundaries, lone outpost for the West.
She dare not risk the paling here of splendid Europe’s star.
Out in the night we seem to see piratic dangers sparkle,
And, on our moon’s horizon growing, omens grimly darkle!
O come ye of the white race hither, come ye to her call!
‘Tis not alone for us the word she sends you o’er the sea!
As ye shall rise up while we soar, our failure means you fall –
The fall of truth, the fall of love, the fall of liberty!
BERNARD O’DOWD, Collected Verses, Lothian, 1944.