Australian Prime Minister Edmund Barton introduced the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 into the Australian House of Representatives as the Federation's first legislation to further the "White Australia policy", the policy that came into being to preclude people of non-European ethnic origins, Asians and Pacific Islanders, from immigrating to Australia. The goal was to create a "White/British" country.
The policy remained in effect until well after World War Two, although in the post war period, starting in 1949, it began to be dismantled. By 1973 it had been completely.
On this date, Barton stated: "We are guarding the last part of the world in which the higher races can live and increase freely for the higher civilization. I place before the House a measure of definite and high policy."
The policy is, frankly, pretty much what National Conservatives and MAGA imagine to be ideal now, but for different reasons. Indeed, National Conservatives would imagine it ideal for Australia as well as the US, where as MAGA can't spell Australia. The racist nature of it, in contemporary National Conservative circles, would be thought of in cultural terms, which is why they tend to lecture Europeans on that continents immigration policies. The more racist ones are why MAGA freaks out about things like Moroccans crossing into a Spanish North African city.
Higher civilization in the form of the British Army, through Field Marshal Kitchener, issued a proclamation giving all Boer soldiers until September 15 to surrender, or to be exiled permanently from South Africa if captured and to have their property confiscated at war's end.
It had no effect.
The RMS Oceanic rammed and sank the Irish vessel Kincor off of Tuskar Rock.
The U.S. Navy gunboat Machias was dispatched to Colon, Panama, Colombia to be on standby during the war between Colombia and Venezuela..
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