Australia
Australia’s natives have been victims of oppression in many ways and for various reasons for nearly 200 years. Their land had been taken over by European settlers, and later on they were forced to assimilate into white society.
AO Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines from 1915 to 1940, inspired by the same eugenics propaganda that informed the Blanqueamiento in Latin America, attempted to use miscegenation to breed the blackness out of the indigenous population. Following the Second World War authorities began a slow shift away from biological assimilation to one of cultural assimilation.
From 1869 until well into the 1970s, thousands of indigenous children under 12 years of age were removed from their families to be absorbed into the white community.
To reinforce attempts to whiten Australia, the Australian government’s first act was to pass the Immigration Restriction Act. Often referred to as the ‘White Australia policy’ this effectively banned non-white migration for 50 years and offered money and jobs to immigrants with European ethnicity.
When the European invasion began in 1788, Australia’s aboriginal population was about 750,000. In 1933, the population fell to its lowest level. By 2014 more than 20 million people lived on the continent, but the indigenous people made up less than 2.4 percent, or about 563,000.
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Afrikaner Politics in South Africa, 1934-1948 By Newell Maynard Stultz
