WHITE AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19158, 15 November 1927, Page 9

WHITE AUSTRALIA.

POLICY PRAISED BY MR AMERY. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN 'AND K.Z. CABL* ASSOCIATION.) BRISBANE, November 14. Mr L. S. Amery, speaking at a State banquet,in Parliament House, strongly supported the White Australia policy. Referring to the wonderful productivity of Queensland and the hope foi its development,' he said there was a solution tempting and attractive at first glance to certain minds, namely, by coloured labour. The reasons which had led Australia to reject that solution were very strong. He instanced troubles which had arisen in America through the negro, and in South Africa through the Asiatio problems. Coloured labour might be cheaper, but a white community had higher standard? of efficiency and enterprise and a greater idea of scientific methods of development than a coloured or mixed community could possess. A high standard of Jiving made for a good home market. There was no market like the home market in its immediate effect on development. If Australia wanted to enlarge and strengthen her home market she must .secure a larger population. In Australia's attitude towards migration there was a tendency to regard the migrant as a competitor in the labour market. But the point of view was that any newcomer who found productive work was an employer, because he was also a consumer, and therefore an employer of the labour of the rest of his fellow-citizens. As long as the newcomer was of the right type, and rightly placed,* he was not a competitor, but a helper in the labour market.