“White Australia is not a mere policy as far as Australia is concerned; it is a religion.”
Senator Burford Sampson, 1928.
Australia First Party’s Nationalist Ideal
Australia First Party embraces Australian Nationalism. Australia celebrates a unique history. The Continent was colonised from 1788 first by those evicted from Britain to the antipodes as convicts, many dispossessed of their ancestral lands and otherwise impoverished. It was not colonisation by choice. Free settlement came later. Contrary to some assertions, this settlement widely embraced all European peoples, although assuredly it had a majority British (including Ireland) component.
Australian independence as an ideal organically evolved from the Gold Rush onward and formed the Federation of the Commonwealth of Australia in Melbourne in 1901.
After Federation, Australia remained only semi-independent, without its own armed forces, currency, or right to conduct foreign policy. These things were all achieved over time, the latter usurped only in December 1941, when John Curtin as Prime Minister, unilaterally declared war on Japan and otherwise conducted an Australian diplomacy.
In the long period from Federation until World War Two, Australia had assumed a type of imperial ethno-cultural identity, but one under consistent challenge from those who put Australia first. Today, Australian nationalists look to those Australia firsters for essential definition and examples and see their link to those of Australia’s Cultural Springtime 1880 – 1900 who understood the Vision Splendid of our country.
After World War Two, our nation embraced a mass European immigration program with the vision of the assimilation of these migrants into the Australian culture. It was considered such men and women would contribute where they would, modify elements of our national life where it was progressive and utile, but only to better achieve the country’s advancement.
However, from 1973, successive Labor and Liberal governments have invited incompatible Third World migrants en masse to enter Australia. Separate entities have emerged some of which openly identify with alien belief systems and new imperialisms.
Before the era of globalism, we had preserved and nurtured an English-speaking European nation upon the Continent. This is the traditional Australia with which the majority of traditional (especially native-born) Australians identify. Traditional Australia also goes under the label ‘White Australia’. This is the ethno-cultural nationalism that the Australia First Party celebrates, champions and seeks to restore.
It does not involve, as men like Arthur Calwell clearly stated, hatred or contempt, or aversion to other people. It is merely a statement of position upon which we are called to stand.
We have no criticism of other nations embracing their own version of nationalism within their own territories, so long as they do not see migration or any other tool as a means to expansionism at our expense.
Australia First Party is the only Australian nationalist political party registered in Australia.
Our Eight Core Policies within the Constitution of the Party and within the Party’s political articles of association are entirely consistent with the ethic and pursuit of Australia nationalist outcomes.
- Ensure Australia Retains Full Independence
- Rebuild Australian Manufacturing Industries
- Control Foreign Ownership
- Reduce and Limit Immigration
- Abolish Multiculturalism
- Introduce Citizen’s Initiated Referenda
- Strengthen the Family
- Strive To Rebuild A United Australia
Australia First is to build a new national movement. Practicality is method.
“Whatever will benefit Australia, that we are for; whatever will harm Australia, that we are against.”
– William Lane (1861-1917), Australian Nationalist.
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Visionary Quotes from Australia’s Founders
(now more relevant today than ever!)
“White Australia is not a mere policy as far as Australia is concerned: It is a religion.”
Senator Burford Sampson, 1928
“With the Oriental, as a rule: The more educated, the worse man he is likely to be from our point of view. The more educated, the more cunning he becomes, and the more able: with his peculiar ideas of social and business morality: to cope with the peoples here. The Objection I have to the mixing of these coloured people with the white people of Australia – although I admit is to a large extent tinged with considerations of an industrial nature – lies in the main, in the possibility and probability of racial contamination!”
John C. Watson, Leader of the Australian Labor Party 1901-1907
“It is our duty to preserve this Island continent for all eternity to the white race; irrespective of where they may come from. If the Australian people had only lived in the southern states of America, as I have – and had seen the dire results present mingling of the Africans with the whites, they would put their feet down and say: We are not going to leave such an unholy problem behind for future generations to solve!”
King O’Malley – Australian Minister of Home Affairs
“We ought to preserve our ideal of a White Australia – even if we have to fight and die for that ideal.”
Major-General Granville Ryrie
“The coloured man must be kept out, whether he is Japanese, a Chinamen or an African. This is really a matter of life and death to the Australian people.”
James C. Stewart, Senator Queensland Labor, 1901
“White Australia must not be regarded as a mere political shibboleth. It was Australia’s Manga-Carta. Without that policy, this country would have been lost long ere this. It would have been engulfed in an Asian tidal wave. There would have been no need for the Japanese to invade this country, we would have been swallowed up by the rolling advance of a horde of coloured people.”
John T “Jack” Lang, 23rd Premier of New South Wales
“Ninety-Five out of one hundred Australians reject the very idea of racial equality.”
William “Billy” Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia
“The White population is being driven out of the labour market by an inundation of Mongolians and when the white man is driven to desperation. There will be desperate times.”
Edward “Ned” Kelly
“The White Australia Policy was racial in the best sense of the word; It is based on the belief that by drawing immigrants from races which assimilate readily, we shall produce a stronger and more cohesive people and avoid unhappy racial differences. It is not an attitude of racial superiority, but of facts.”
Robert G. Menzies, 12th and longest serving prime minister of Australia.
“We can only preserve our heritage for our descendants by preserving the homogeneity of our race, and that we must and will do. We cherish no annexationist ideas, we covet no other territory and we have no imperialist ambitions. If Australians are ever foolish enough to open their gates in a significant way to people other than Europeans; they will soon find themselves fighting desperately to stop the nation from being flooded by hordes of non-integratables. The Communists base their appeals on the sympathy Australians feel for the poor and oppressed in backward countries; They preach equality, but ignore the fact that equality does not necessarily mean similarity or the ability to live and work together.”
Arthur A. Calwell, Leader of the Australian Labor Party 1968
“Experience has shown us the awful mistake of the mixing of white and coloured people. The mixture is not a fortunate one. We do not want it in this country, and should endeavour to prevent it for the sake of the white and coloured races alike. History teaches us that the races, are better kept apart in their own countries.”
John MacDonald, Labor Senator for Queensland 1922
“The White Race should come to a common understanding; and present a united front to its potential enemies. We say that the policy of a White Australia is worth defending, and we are prepared to defend it.”
William G. Spence, Founder and leader of the Australian Labor Party and Australian Workers Union
“A White Australia does not by any means mean only the preservation of the complexion of the people of this country. It means the maintenance of conditions of life fit for white men and white women; It means protection against the underpaid labour of other lands; It means social justice so far as we can establish it, Including just trading and the payment of fair wages.”
Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
“Nationalism is necessary as the interests and feeling of different races are too discordant to be harmonised under one single central government.”
Charles H. Pearson
“It is possible to live on the highest terms of mutual respect with ones neighbour whilst recognising that it would be destructive of all harmony to invite him to become a permanent resident in ones household.”
Jack Beasley, Labor Member for West Sydney 1928-1946
“We intend to keep this country white and not allow its people to be faced with the problems that at present are practically insoluble in many parts of the world.”
Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia
