Seriously, our two big-boy best friends have always been China and the US. Now tensions are really coming to a head we're going to side with the failed state of the US? I don't understand anything about foreign policy.

  • ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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    4 years ago

    It was called The White Australia Policy, pretty bad blight on Australian history. It was like the first thing we went against the British on... don’t have a specific source on it atm but here’s wiki:

    The British government in London was not pleased with legislation that discriminated against certain subjects of its Empire, but decided not to disallow the laws that were passed.

    Unfortunately the early labour movement was quite involved in this :( because of cheap foreign labour, although without capitalism there wouldn’t beside strong material causes of racism to begin with.