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Nov 02 2007
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By Gideon Polya   

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White Australia, Anti-Chinese racism & Climate GenocideImage

White Australia suffers from a condition called "politically correct racism (PC racism) which means that it publicly declares its detestation of racism but is nevertheless complicit in race-specific crimes against people of other ethnicities (e.g. Indigenous Iraqis, Afghans and Australian Aboriginals). 

China is one of Australia's biggest trading partners and is now one of Australia's "friends" (notwithstanding 2 centuries of anti-Chinese Australian actions including 19th century  massacres of Chinese gold miners and support for British violence in China; pig iron sales to Japan when it was butchering the Chinese in their millions in the 1930s; the White Australia Policy that excluded Chinese from Australia; and its support of US  non-recognition of "Communist China" for a quarter of a century).

Australia has now adopted a position of "greenhouse racism" in relation to the Chinese that in 2007 amounts to a repetition of the racist Australian Government's  position in 1947  that is summarized in its notorious, racist  assertion:  "Two Wongs do not make White".    

White Australia has an horrendous record of violent racism and involvement in large-scale racist genocide that continues today, as summarized below in rough chronological order:

After the invasion in 1788 the Indigenous Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century due to disease, dispossession and violence. The last massacres of Indigenous Australians occurred in the 1920s.Image

The Aboriginal Genocide continued in the 20th century due to enforced removal  of children from their mothers  (0.1 million children taken in the Stolen Generations),  abusive conditions (enforced slave labour often for pocket money or for unhealthy food rations) and gross denial of basic human rights.

The Aboriginal Genocide continues today through deprivation and shocking living conditions (9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably each year out of a population of 0.5 million; 90,000 Indigenous Australians have died  in the 11 years of the Bush-ite Coalition Government; the Indigenous infant mortality rate is over 3 times that for White Australia; the  "annual death rate" is 2.2% for Indigenous Australians and 2.4% for Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory as compared to 2.5% for Australian sheep and  0.4% (what it should be ).

White Australia continues to be actively linked to British colonialism (1.5 billion Indigenous Indian excess deaths in 2 centuries of British rule in India; 0.7 billion post-1950 excess deaths in countries partially or completely occupied by Britain as a major occupier in the post-war era; Australian involvement in post-war British colonial wars e.g. in Malaya, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan).

White Australia continues to be linked to post-war American imperialism (post-war excess deaths in US Asian Wars total 22 million; 82 million 1950-2005 excess deaths in countries partially or completely occupied by America as a major occupier in the post-war era).

White Australia is actively involved in the Bush Wars against Iraq and Afghanistan and is diplomatically and materially supportive of Apartheid Israel's war criminal violence, occupation and human rights abuses against its neighbors  (the excess deaths in the Bush I plus Bush II Asian Wars involving the violent US or US surrogate occupation and devastation of  Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan now total 8 million; post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories now total 0.3 million, 2.0 million and 3..2 million, respectively) (for details of the above see "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950": http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ).Image

The fundamental causes of the horrendous deaths in the Aboriginal Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide are abusive control and failure to deliver life-sustaining requisites to subject Indigenous people. Thus Indigenous Australians are horribly deprived and their medical services are funded at about half of what they should be. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the "annual total per capita medical expenditure" permitted in Occupied Iraq by the US Coalition is $135 (2004) as compared to $19 (Occupied Afghanistan), $2,560 (UK), $3,123 (Australia) and $6,096 (the US) (see "United State Terrorism. 8 million deaths & media holocaust denial": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17139/42/ ).

However White Australia is involved in what must be described as Climate Genocide. 16 million people die avoidably each year from deprivation and disease; about 3.7 billion people are seriously malnourished; oil and grain prices are soaring. White Australia and Bush America are among the world's worst greenhouse gas polluters on a per capita basis (the US is the worst greenhouse polluter on an absolute basis) and neither will sign Kyoto nor constrain greenhouse gas pollution. Australia is the world's biggest coal exporter. 

The "annual per capita fossil fuel-derived  CO2 [carbon dioxide] pollution" in tonnes CO2/person is 19.2 (for Australia; 40 if you include Australia's coal exports), 19.7 (the US), 18.4 (Canada), 4.2 (the World), 3.6 (China), 1.0 ( India) and 0.25 (for Bangladesh) (see: "War on Terra" on MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15671/42/ ).

Now both the Major Parties in Australia – the irresponsible, governing Bush-ite Coalition and the cowardly, unprincipled poll-driven Labor Opposition – have declared that they will not sign up to a new global greenhouse gas pollution agreement unless India and China commit to greenhouse gas reductions (it is an election year and neither party wants to even be seen to be jeopardizing the coal industry or Australian jobs).

Over 100 years ago years ago, Australia's first Prime Minister Edmund Barton (Father of the 1901 racist White Australia Policy) declaimed that  "The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of an Englishman and the Chinaman."

About 60 years ago Labor Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell (in charge of running Australia's White Australia Policy) stated (1947): "Two Wongs do not make a White" (Wong being a common Chinese name and the name of a Chinese person he was deporting for being chinese).

In 2007, even Opposition Labor's target of 60% reduction of greenhouse gas pollution by 2050 (noting that the governing Bush-ite Coalition doesn't even have a target) means a reduction of "annual per capita fossil fuel-derived  CO2  pollution" from 19.2 to 7.7 tonnes per person, still over twice that presently for China (3.6) - i.e. in the words of racist Australian Immigration Minister Calwell: "Two Wongs do not make a White".

Of course it is not just the Chinese, Indians, Africans and  Bangladeshis who will perish in their hundreds of millions due to White Australian profligacy, selfishness and dog-in-the-manger greed – global warming will affect everybody. Decent people are obliged to (a) inform everybody and (b) act ethically in their avoidable  dealings with climate criminal people, corporations and countries involved in the already commenced Climate Genocide.

Dr Gideon Polya,  MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality ---
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1. 03-11-2007 21:00
Oz anti-Chinese racism
Readers may be shocked by the 1947 "Two Wongs do not make a White" assertion of the then Australian Immigration Minister and thence Leader of the Labor Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell and its resurgence in the 2007 Labor election pledge of "60% reduction in grenhouse emissions by 2050" (yielding over twice China's current annual per capita CO2 pollution ). 
 
However Arthur Calwell had some other things to say with equal nastiness e.g.  
 
“We will not let the yellow hordes contaminate our golden shores.” [circa 1949]  
 
“We can have a white Australia, we can have a black Australia, but a mongrel Australia is impossible, and I shall not take the first steps to establish the precedents which will allow the floodgates to be opened.” [1949] 
 
“No red-blooded Australian wants to see a chocolate-coloured Australia in the 1980s.” [1975]
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2. 04-11-2007 00:23
Oz anti-Chinese racism
MOROCCO  
Mislike me not for my complexion,  
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,  
To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.  
Bring me the fairest creature northward born,  
5 Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,  
And let us make incision for your love  
To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.
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3. 04-11-2007 01:18
Oz anti-Chinese racism
"Mislike me not for my complexion ... To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine" - well said by the Prince of Morocco in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice - and of course, later, by Shylock: "if you prick us do we not bleed?". 
 
There must be zero tolerance for racism - whether that of the KKK, the Nazis, the Racist Zionists (RZs), the Racist Religious Right Republican (R4) Bush-ites or the Racist Bush-ites (RBs) of Racist White Australia.
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4. 05-11-2007 18:34
Oz anti-Chinese racism
John Howard won a third term in Nov. 2001, primarily as the result of his tough policy against illegal immigration.  
 
This policy has also brought him considerable criticism: refugees attempting to enter Australia?most of them from Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq and numbering about 5,000 annually?have been imprisoned in bleak detention camps and subjected to a lengthy immigration process. Asylum-seekers have staged riots and hunger strikes. Howard has also dealt with refugees through the ?Pacific solution,? which reroutes boat people from Australian shores to camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. In 2004, however, the government began easing its policies on immigration.
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5. 05-11-2007 19:52
Bush-ite Oz racism & abuse
Yes, that's right wannabe. About a year ago the Bush-ite Coalition Australian Government "eased" their racist, criminal, human rights abusing policies under pressure from some outstanding DECENT Australians, notably Coalition MP Pietro Giorgio, top lawyer Julian Burnside QC and the late Peter Andren (the thoroughly decent Independent MP for Calare who tragically died several days ago - a great loss to Australia).  
 
Thus, specifically, the racist, human rights abusing Coalition Government decided to stop the indefinite imprisonment without trial of refugee CHILDREN in these Concentration Camps. 
 
Come again, you say? Yes, that's right. Some children were imprisoned without trial for 3 years, some since BIRTH. 
 
However Racist White Australia is variously complicit in the generation of horrendous refugee populations in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories - 7 million, 4 million and 3.7 million, respectively - about 50% being CHILDREN - and in these Occupied Territories roughly ONE INFANT DIES AVOIDABLY EVERY MINUTE with cowardly, racist White Australian complicity.  
 
And this year - with the support of the cowardly, unprincipled, poll-driven racist Labor Opposition - the Oz Government suspended the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act in relation to Northern Territory Indigenous Australians, Australia's most deprived communuity ("annual death rate" 2.4% as compared to 2.5% for Australian Sheep). This means that they are not able to buy, see, read, purchase, transport, possess goods that White Australians can; their Land (Sacred to them) is compulsorily leased for 5 years (perhaps forever) by a proto-Nazi racist Government of either complexion; welfare payments are quarantined; and any one who doesn't like it can leave or can be unilaterally thrown out of their community; hundreds, perhaps thousands, have lost vital employment; communities have lost the right to issue permits to control access to their communities by outsiders (see: Racism in Australia ). 
 
When you next consider purchasing ANY goods or services from Racist White Australia just ask yourself: would you buy soap made in Auschwitz?
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