Songs by Saga, a singer from Sweden. Saga: Ode to a Dying People Saga: Always Here For You Saga: Behind Blue Eyes Saga: Drömmarnas Stig (Swedish) Saga: Europe Awake Saga: Europe On My Mind Saga: Freedom Saga: Hail The New Dawn (live, acoustic) Saga: Impossible Battles Saga: Land of Ice Saga: My Man Saga: One […]
Ons Vir Jou Suid Afrika (song)
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A patriotic song about South Africa, by Bok van Blerk and Robbie Wessels. The following links are copies of the same song. The lyrics for the song are given here as well, along with an English translation. Ons Vir Jou Suid Afrika [Bok van Blerk & Robbie Wessels] Ons kom uit die Noorde, Ons kom […]
Ode to A Dying People (song)
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The song “Ode to a Dying People”, the most popular version of which is by the Swedish singer Saga. The following links are copies of the same song. The lyrics for the song are given here as well. Ode to a Dying People, by Saga Ode to a Dying People (singer unknown) Ode to a […]
Brand New Leather Jacket (song)
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A song by Lee Haggen about asylum seekers in Britain. The following links are copies of the same song. The lyrics for the song are given here as well. I’ve Got a Brand New Leather Jacket We came to England through the Tunnel last night (that’s right, that’s right) We claim asylum, now they’re treating […]
White Australia saved Australia, by Jack Lang
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[In this chapter from his book, I Remember, Jack Lang gives a brief history of the White Australia Policy, relates how the British government interfered with local attempts to keep the hordes of coloured immigrants from flooding into Australia, and praises the policies that established a White Australia. Lang was the Premier of New South […]
W. G. Spence, trade union leader, and Australia’s Awakening
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“True patriotism should be racial.” ~ W. G. Spence [William Guthrie Spence (1846-1926) was one of Australia’s foremost trade union leaders. Reproduced here are various extracts from his book of reminiscences, Australia’s Awakening: Thirty Years in the Life of an Australian Agitator (1909).] Chapter XIII. The Industrial Fight in Queensland. The squatters had cut wages. […]
Black Power and a multi-racial society, by Arthur Calwell
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[In this extract from his autobiography, Be Just and Fear Not, Arthur Calwell mounts a passionate defence of Australia’s traditional immigration policies; opposes non-European immigration; and explains that the creation of multi-racial societies invariably leads to bloodshed and disaster. Calwell was Australia’s first Minister for Immigration (1945-1949), and was leader of the Australian Labor Party […]
Can be no half-measures about White Australia, by Arthur Calwell
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[Arthur Calwell defends the government’s immigration policy in this 1949 article. Calwell was Australia’s first Minister for Immigration (1945-1949), and was leader of the Australian Labor Party (1960-1967).] Can be no half-measures about White Australia By the Hon. Arthur A. Calwell, Minister for Immigration Professor Macmahon Ball in an article in The Argus of October […]
Danger for Australia, by Arthur Calwell
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[In this pamphlet, Arthur Calwell looks at the terrible Blackbirding practices of the past, defends Australia’s traditional immigration policies, and relates how the White Australia policy was being undermined by Capitalists on the right, Communists on the left, and misguided sentimentalists. Calwell was Australia’s first Minister for Immigration (1945-1949), and was leader of the Australian […]
Arthur Calwell, leader of the Labor Party, defender of White Australia
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Arthur Calwell (1896-1973) came from humble beginnings. He was an ardent unionist and a strong advocate for workers’ rights, who was a union leader and a leader of the Australian Labor Party. Calwell started his working life as a clerk in the Victorian Public Service. When the First World War broke out, he tried to […]
