Black Power and a multi-racial society, by Arthur Calwell

[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

[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

[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 […]