Sounds like China had been in your country for far longer than we suspected.

this is referring to the 1916 conscription vote btw

Kalgoorlie

oof

what's that @snake ? genetic relatives?

Yeah, Chinese came to mine gold.

@Jeremy the whole reason we had the White Australia Policy was because in the 1850s they flooded our country

In the gold fields.

FST map @Greasy

Yesterday I posted two captions of BKP posting 51 messages twice and calling the mods' attention to modding deficiencies as well.

That explains the poster, @[NWFLT]Leonidas Ceasar.

to the point that nearly 1 out of every 6 Aussies were Chinese

It’s basically just a kinship model, showing how related members from these ethnic groups are genetically.

So yeah genetic relatives

In a sense

Conscription sucks anyway.

yeah, that's what I was inferring. I don't often remember technical terms

You get lower quality soldiers.

> he filled the "debate" channel with his own ideas about lesbians interfering in politics or something like that... just drowning out all other voices with sheer volume @Jeremy
@Greasy

Paranoid schizophrenic?

You want mates who want to fight with you.

Not boys who were selected randomly and want to be at home.

```The Barton Government which came to power following the first elections to the Commonwealth parliament in 1901 was formed by the Protectionist Party with the support of the Australian Labor Party. The support of the Labor Party was contingent upon restricting non-white immigration, reflecting the attitudes of the Australian Workers Union and other labour organisations at the time, upon whose support the Labor Party was founded.```

once again proving the old Labor party was based

It was affiliated with a workers union.

There's nothing based about it.

to be fair, conscription made a lot of sense with the tactics of world war 1. What didn't make a lot of sense was the tactics themselves...

UnIoNs BaD

Yes, extremely bad.

fucking workers organizing for higher wages smh

Trillions of dollars bad for the US economy.

It's not the 1800s anymore, where markets are no longer connected.

Get over it.

fucking workers organizing to prevent the influx of cheap migrant labour

Everyone has fucking cars now.

we're talking about the old labour party here

Labor mobility is at its highest ever in human history.

```The new Federal Parliament, as one of its first pieces of legislation, passed the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (1 Edward VII 17 1901) to "place certain restrictions on immigration and... for the removal... of prohibited immigrants". The Act drew on similar legislation in South Africa. Edmund Barton, the prime minister, argued in support of the Bill with the following statement: "The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman."``` <:powerful:595334910764515338>

what even is an australian?

unions now? fucking trash, jail the leaders and disband them. Unions then? maybe they had a point - they seem to at least have understood the threats to their livelihoods

someone of Anglo-Celtic heritage @Camera Obscura

at the bare minimum

@Greasy Unions now are bullies and commies.