EMPTY AUSTRALIA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 5

EMPTY AUSTRALIA.

. TFMPTATION TO • THE TEEMING EAST. (By Telegraph.-r-Presfl Associatlon.-Oopyright.). Perth, October 29. The. Anglican Congress discussed the White Australia question. Divergent views were expressed as to the probable result of an.Asiatio overflow into Australia, ■■- • • :.'■'' Archdeacon Whitington, of Hobart, said that, if a Whjte Australia was intended to carefully guard racial purity, he was altogether in favour of it. He was afraid his Labour friends meant a good'deal more, and that the object aimed at was the entire exclusion of coloured races. Ho' suggested that consideration might be given to tho suggestion to.develop tropical Australia by moans of indentured labour. ' : Canon Stephen, of Melbourne, 6aid ft was not ,6n' account of difference of civilisation, but difference of religion apd for the sake of religion; that ,the White Australia policy was the right one. •■■ ' ,' .-'• , ~-.■' Tho Archbishop of Brisbane, Dr. : Donaldson* said ho considered that the White Australia principle was.un-Christiah.,'Tho only alterna : tivo' to; having coloured '. races was an .empty Northern Territory, and.the;attraction of an «npty: north would'be greater than if wo attempted to fill it. ; The only solution of tho trouble'was indentured labour. Ho was heretic enough to believe that tho salvation of tho north, wasi.to: be found in kanaka" labour. :,