John Howard proclaims an Asian future

Prime Minister John Howard has declared that Australia's future is one of Asianisation. In a recent speech in Vietnam, Howard placed importance on having Asian communities in Australia, emphasised how Chinese languages are the biggest foreign languages spoken in Australia, and spoke of our “future” in the Asian region. The Treasurer, Peter Costello, has already proclaimed his belief in Asianisation. He said in October 2002 that “Australians are part of Asia”, and also spoke of how many Asians there are now in Australia. Both men placed emphasis on Australia's trade relationship with Asia, and this fits the anti-Australian economic doctrine of politicians and big business that thinks “the more we Asianise Australia, the more we can enmesh ourselves with the Asian economies”. What kind of person would sell off Australia's future for Asian money?

Like past Prime Minister Paul Keating, Howard and Costello are committed to the Asianisation of Australia; they may be less strident in their calls for an Asian future than Keating was, but they are committed nonetheless. The major difference seems to be that Howard's Liberal government wants to carry out Asianisation with more stealth than Keating's Labor government. Liberal-Labor have demonstrated their commitment in practice to Asianisation by the importation of huge numbers of Asians and other Third Worlders into Australia.

Howard and Costello, and sometimes Labor leaders like Kim Beasley, make pro-Australian noises about how Islamic extremists aren't fitting into Australia, or suggesting that we make migrants sign a document pledging allegiance to our values, but it's only grandstanding and political hot air - to fool Australians into believing that Liberal-Labor are pro-Aussie when, in fact, they are not. These politicians are using a smokescreen when they discuss our national identity and mutter noises about Muslim extremists; it is all a part of fooling fair dinkum Aussies that they are really on-side, really “true blue”; they “talk the talk” but never “walk the walk”, they make seemingly pro-Australian comments to fool the people, and then they turn around and import literally millions of Third World immigrants into Australia.

Asian countries have a right to stay Asian, African countries have a right to stay African, and European countries have a right to stay European. To mix them all up in some kind of massive multicultural experiment would bring an end to cultural, ethnic, and racial diversity in the world. Nations of ethnically European background (a minority; about 8% of the earth's population) are being flooded with millions of Third World immigrants. What is going on is the obliteration of an entire race of people; this is a crime against humanity. To quote a previous article: “It's a lot easier to commit genocide by immigration and assimilation, rather than by bullets and bombs, and it's a lot less controversial. Asianisation will lead to the genocide of both the Aboriginal and Australian peoples. Why are some people so full of hatred and loathing for the very existence of diverse peoples and cultures? Each people, each nation, has a right to exist.”

Australians have a right to survive as a people; we have a right to defend ourselves against immigration-led genocide. True-blue Aussies don't want an Asian future - we demand an Australian future!

The comments of John Howard and Peter Costello are quoted at the end of this article, but first - in stark contrast - we offer the words of Graeme Campbell, an Australian nationalist and visionary:

It is up to concerned people to organise, not only in opposition to these nihilists and opportunists, but also with a positive vision of the Australia of the future - an independent and united Australia which relies upon its own people and resources. High on the priority for that vision is ridding ourselves of the millstones of multiculturalism and mass immigration and the delusion that we are part of Asia.

While that contention may have been useful once to force us to recognise our proximity to Asia it has become one of the big lies of the elites. We are no more part of Asia than England is part of Africa. Our continent is unique in the world and our history and culture are unique. We have to have the courage to accept that and we have to learn our history to understand more about ourselves, in order to value the country more. If we take Australia for granted, it will be taken from us. We should be proud of our heritage and be prepared to stand up against those who would efface it for illusionary gains

We make no bones about our ethnic identification. We say that Australia is populated mainly by people of European descent, but that identity encompasses Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Old and New Australians. While we extend equal respect to Australians of non-European descent, the fact is that Australia is predominantly European and since Australia is a democratic country, our ethnic interest is a European one. This is accepted and indeed welcomed by many minority groups who accept that the status quo is more tolerant than any of the conceivable options.

Australia must remain a pre­dominantly white society as was the national will to federa­tion in 1910. The introduction of a balanced zero net migration policy (15,000 to 30,000 per annum) in combination with a constitutional change to incorporate Citizens Initiated Refer­enda are both urgent and neces­sary prerequisites to that outcome.

The bilateral relationship between Vietnam and Australia ... Our bilateral trade was over $5 billion in 2005-06, that's a 33 per cent increase over the previous year. Our people-to-people links, so fundamental to any bilateral relationship, are very significant ... most importantly of all there are almost 200,000 Vietnamese or Australians of Vietnamese heritage.
... Australia is a nation that, for many years now and for an indefinite period into the future, will always see its immediate interests and concerns as being tied up with the Asian-Pacific region. Our trade, our strategic responses, a significant part of our investment, they are very much bound up with this part of the world.
... when I meet many Asian leaders, I tell them that 15 per cent of the electors enrolled in the division of Bennelong, which I represent in the national parliament, are of Chinese ethnicity. Sydney of course is now the home to a very significant Chinese population, it's not the only Asian population in Sydney, but it's certainly the largest. And the combination of Mandarin and Cantonese is now the most, if you can combine them, is now the most widely spoken foreign language in Australia ... And it's just an illustration of the way in which we are naturally and comfortably and permanently part of this region and see our future in it.

Leave aside the geographic question about where Asia starts and finishes. The point here is that Australians are part of Asia.
... Asia is economically and strategically important in world terms. ... Asia as a whole accounts for a third of world output; East Asia accounts for the bulk (85 per cent) of this. Fifty-five per cent of the world's population lives in Asia (60 per cent of whom are in East Asia). Of course East Asia is our main regional trading partner. Around 58 per cent of our exports of goods and services go to East Asia (including NZ and PNG). ... our major source of imports is the East Asian group of economies (47 per cent of our imports). ... These figures highlight the importance of Asia to Australia.
... Our many interactions with the region have also changed who we are. More than 1.3 million Australians claim Asian ancestry. According to the 2001 Census, more Australians now describe themselves as of Asian background than of Greek, Italian and Maltese background combined.
...Some officials and commentators in the region have argued that regional economic cooperation should aim for an exchange rate mechanism and, ultimately, a common currency along the line of the European Monetary Union. This is an ambitious objective. ... our ambitions for greater economic integration need to be realistic. We believe those ambitions should start with trade. Here NAFTA could provide a more realistic model for Asia than the European Union. And the region has already set itself the goal of free trade in the Bogor declaration. Delivering the Bogor commitment would be an enormous advance toward closer integration.
... Our links to date with Asia have been deep and complex in economic terms. I have no doubt these will continue to deepen to our mutual benefit. Given our geography and the intensity of our economic relationships with East Asia, we see ourselves as an integral member of the East Asia region
... Australians are enmeshed in the rich tapestry of Asia, as Asia is an increasingly important influence on Australia.