Little Australian News—

And Even That Depressing

TO-DAY we received our first news paper mail since the “Duntroon” (November, 1946). It came from Lae on a small craft.

A perusal of these papers makes dismal reading for New Guinea Europeans. Aus tralians are apparently so preoccupied with their strikes, stop-work meetings, guessing competitions, lotteries, party ipolitics and tin-pbt local affairs that they are failing to realise their position as a “White” Australia. .

White Australia is a mere speck in the midst of Asia’s teeming millions. Aus tralia has everything to gain in building up a large European population, not only in Australia but in New Guinea. We should co-operate with the Dutch and others in their colonial policies.

Canberra, through its New Guinea Ad ministration, is forcing, or trying to force, Australians in New Guinea to become kanakas—to lose their national consci ousness, and imbibe the anthropological idea that you must become kanaka in order to understand kanaka. No Aus tralian with guts enough to try and pre vent this hideous stupidity is wanted in New Guinea at present. .

This attitude, if Authority only realised it, is only making natives and Asiatic races develop a deeper contempt of us.

I am, etc.,

“Islander”

Rabaul, NG.

Feb. 11, 1947.