There have been a number of incidents of violence against Chinese students in the 1966 community of Woden in the Australian Capital Territory of (ACT), and the official response to the series was startling at the beginning of the period.
It was reported that, in the process of seeking help from the students concerned, Ms. Lovgren (Carolyn Lovgren), Deputy Director of the International Education Department of the Ministry of Education of the ACT, had merely placed access guards on the racially targeted violence in the student`s host family. Students are forbidden to travel after six o`clock in the evening. On Oct. 26, however, less than a week after the incident, school girl was beaten by a youth group at the same Woden station, indicating Canberra`s lack of a mechanism to respond to such violent emergencies.
Threats to Chinese students have been repeated in Australia, but the violence is the worst organized and racially targeted. In July, posters were posted on Melbourne`s high-school campuses with the traditional Chinese characters "Chinese people are forbidden to enter or prosecute deportation."
The repeated incidents against China have an inseparable relationship with the notorious "White Australia policy" that has lasted for more than 70 years in Australia. In the 1850s, the gold rush attracted a large number of Chinese immigrants to Australia. Many British Australians are dissatisfied with the decline in wages caused by the influx of workers, and there have been a number of outbursts. In 1888, Australia officially declared that it would not accept Chinese immigrants. The first Governor, Edmond Patton, declared that "Human equality applies only between the British and the Chinese."
The word "Yellow Peril" was very popular in Australia at the time, showing Australia`s attitude towards Chinese at that time.
The collapse of the policy was not a two-day project. In 1950, the Colombo Plan said students from Asian countries could attend Australian universities. In 1957, non-white people who had lived in Australia for more than 15 years were eligible for citizenship. The 1958 Immigration Act abolished hearing tests and replaced them with simpler tests. In March 1966, Immigration Director Hubert O`Perman suggested that non-European applicants who were immediately integrated into Australian culture and were of benefit to Australia`s development could emigrate to Australia in 1973. The Wheatland Labour Party has added a series of amendments to the Immigration Act to prevent the reinforcement of racial views, ensuring that all immigrants, irrespective of origin, have the right to citizenship after three years of residence. In 1975, the racial Discrimination Act was formally established. All racially colored rules are outlawed.
The Woden community, founded in 1966, was one of Canberra`s earliest established communities, at the time of Hubert O`Perman `s open immigration policy, which was still in a transition period of consciousness. Many Australians were denied the white Australians they accepted as a child in their middle-aged old age, which is undoubtedly an insult to the "stolen generation" of Nazism guardians who are stubbornly obsessed with this idea, like cancer. More or less, it affects the views of the next generation about people of different complexion. The exploration of the world by modern Australian young people is no longer the same as that of the 19th century Australian miners, who are more dependent on the Internet and more vulnerable to misguided history. The orphan of the last century, this century is still alive in the network.
Men are combative creatures, especially bloody Australians, who fought for justice in Asia and Europe, and the beacons of the army are still shuttling through the world for human civilization today. In a highly civilized day, even as the victims, we still believe that this is only the "stolen generation" left behind the ideological orphan. After all, although there will be thin clouds in Australia`s night sky, Southern Cross still shines. (by Han Huaiqing)
