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publication The Daily Telegraph (Sydney NSW)

We won’t fool Asia [31 January 1949]

24 February 2025 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article, regarding Arthur Calwell, the O’Keefe case, and the White Australia Policy, was published in The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW), 31 January 1949.] We won’t fool Asia Mr. Calwell is going to deport an Indonesian woman, married to an Australian, and … [Read more...] about We won’t fool Asia [31 January 1949]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: 500x500, Arthur Calwell (1896-1973) (subject), Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (Australia), O’Keefe family (immigration issue), propaganda as a neutral term, publication The Daily Telegraph (Sydney NSW), SourceTrove, White Australia Policy, year1949

House of Representatives: Post and Telegraph Bill: White labor question [6 September 1901]

20 February 2025 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article, which refers to the Post and Telegraph Bill, is an extract from a report on proceedings in the Australian parliament, published in The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW), 6 September 1901. When it became law, the Post and Telegraph Act played a minor role in the … [Read more...] about House of Representatives: Post and Telegraph Bill: White labor question [6 September 1901]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: 500x500, Post and Telegraph Act 1901 (Australia), publication The Daily Telegraph (Sydney NSW), SourceTrove, White Australia Policy, year1901

Undesirable immigrants: The Natal Restriction Bill: Approved of by Mr. Chamberlain [23 September 1897]

23 January 2025 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article, regarding the Natal Immigration Restriction Bill, was published in The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW), 23 September 1897. The Natal Immigration Restriction Act was subsequently used as the basis of the Australian Commonwealth’s Immigration Restriction Act, … [Read more...] about Undesirable immigrants: The Natal Restriction Bill: Approved of by Mr. Chamberlain [23 September 1897]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: 500x500, colonial White Australia policies, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) (subject), Natal Immigration Restriction Act, publication The Daily Telegraph (Sydney NSW), SourceTrove, year1897

Publisher indicts the state of our culture [4 April 1936]

31 July 2020 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This review of The Foundations of Culture in Australia (by P. R. Stephensen) was published in The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW), 4 April 1936.] Publisher indicts the state of our culture Mr. P. R. Stephensen, whose courageous flights into book-publishing in … [Read more...] about Publisher indicts the state of our culture [4 April 1936]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: 500x500, Australianism, book reviews, P. R. Stephensen (1901-1965) (subject), publication The Daily Telegraph (Sydney NSW), SourceTrove, year1936

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