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John Monash

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	It was accounted for at the opening of this event, that 1 in 4 adult Jewish males volunteered for the AIF in Australia. Significantly, this is higher rate of recruitment per capita than the remainder of the Australian commonwealth.		It was accounted for at the opening of this event, that 1 in 4 adult Jewish males volunteered for the AIF in Australia. Significantly, this is higher rate of recruitment per capita than the remainder of the Australian commonwealth.


	~~Furthermore, Monash was a supporter of the White Australia Policy, In August 1919, he accounts to the Daily Examiner;~~

	"The outstanding lessons of the war will not be forgotten. Australia must have population, develop every branch of industry and science called into use in modern warfare, to be fully self-sustaining and capable of entire self-defence, to maintain her policy of a White Australia and give effect to her will.

	The rights, priviledges, and advantages which Australians enjoy will certainly need protecting and defending, and they will have to be defended by those who enjoy them. Australia cannot expect other parts of the world to help fight for her ideas which they do not understand and with which they cannot sympathise." (1919 'STANDING ALONE.', Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), 23 August, p. 3. ,)

Isaac Isaacs

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	Isaacs was a prominent member of the Australian Natives' Association and was a stalwart Nationalist.		Isaacs was a prominent member of the Australian Natives' Association and was a stalwart Nationalist.

	One aspect of Isaacs’ nationalism that would be viewed in a somewhat different light today was his ardent support of the White Australia policy. That support was reflected in his judicial approach to questions of immigration. His approach is particularly surprising to contemporary observers, given that his own parents had emigrated to Australia shortly before his birth. As a parliamentarian, Isaacs had argued that the White Australia policy would allow the nation to develop free ‘for all time from the contaminating and degrading influence of inferior races’.[78] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn79)		High Court Justice Kirby recounts, that One aspect of Isaacs’ nationalism that would be viewed in a somewhat different light today was his ardent support of the White Australia policy. That support was reflected in his judicial approach to questions of immigration. His approach is particularly surprising to contemporary observers, given that his own parents had emigrated to Australia shortly before his birth. As a parliamentarian, Isaacs had argued that the White Australia policy would allow the nation to develop free ‘for all time from the contaminating and degrading influence of inferior races’.[78] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn79)

	These values were also reflected in his judicial reasons, such as the reference in Williamson v Ah On to illegal migrants as ‘loathsome hotbeds of disease’ who conspire to ‘defy and injure the entire people of a continent.’[79] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn80) Isaacs adopted an expansive view of the immigration power under s 51(xxvii) (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/s51.html) of the Constitution (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/) and of the right of the Federal Parliament to impose broad and continuing conditions on immigrants, whether of a temporary or even permanent nature. This was reflected in his statement, which does not now constitute the law of Australia, that: ‘Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.’[80] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn81)		These values were also reflected in his judicial reasons, such as the reference in Williamson v Ah On to illegal migrants as ‘loathsome hotbeds of disease’ who conspire to ‘defy and injure the entire people of a continent.’[79] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn80) Isaacs adopted an expansive view of the immigration power under s 51(xxvii) (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/s51.html) of the Constitution (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/) and of the right of the Federal Parliament to impose broad and continuing conditions on immigrants, whether of a temporary or even permanent nature. This was reflected in his statement, which does not now constitute the law of Australia, that: ‘Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.’[80] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn81)

	Isaacs must be regarded as the Justice of the High Court most hostile to non-white migration. He included in his inhospitable views ‘an Italian ... or a Hindoo’.[81] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn82) Isaacs’ emotional appeal to the suggested dangers of ‘activities designed to establish anarchical and terroristic or treasonable societies’[82] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn83) can perhaps help contemporary Australians to understand the feelings that led Isaacs to his unrelenting conclusions on the issue.		Isaacs must be regarded as the Justice of the High Court most hostile to non-white migration. He included in his inhospitable views ‘an Italian ... or a Hindoo’.[81] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn82) Isaacs’ emotional appeal to the suggested dangers of ‘activities designed to establish anarchical and terroristic or treasonable societies’[82] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn83) can perhaps help contemporary Australians to understand the feelings that led Isaacs to his unrelenting conclusions on the issue.

John Monash

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	Monash, was a prominent Australian of Jewish stock. Who noted at the opening of the NSW Jewish War Memorial in 1923:		Monash, was a prominent Australian of Jewish stock. Who noted at the opening of the NSW Jewish War Memorial in 1923:

	"I appeal to the Jews of New South Wales to set before themselves the ideal of service to the country. Nowhere in the world do we have so free and unfettered a life. Let us do loyal service to the country."		"I appeal to the Jews of New South Wales to set before themselves the ideal of service to the country. Nowhere in the world do we have so free and unfettered a life. Let us do loyal service to the country." (New South Wales Jewish War Memorial : banquet in celebration of the opening of the memorial building by General Sir John Monash, Sunday, (Armistice Day), November 11th, 1923.)

	It was accounted for at the opening of this event, that 1 in 4 adult Jewish males volunteered for the AIF in Australia. Significantly, this is higher rate of recruitment per capita than the remainder of the Australian commonwealth.		It was accounted for at the opening of this event, that 1 in 4 adult Jewish males volunteered for the AIF in Australia. Significantly, this is higher rate of recruitment per capita than the remainder of the Australian commonwealth.


			Furthermore, Monash was a supporter of the White Australia Policy, In August 1919, he accounts to the Daily Examiner;

			"The outstanding lessons of the war will not be forgotten. Australia must have population, develop every branch of industry and science called into use in modern warfare, to be fully self-sustaining and capable of entire self-defence, to maintain her policy of a White Australia and give effect to her will.

			The rights, priviledges, and advantages which Australians enjoy will certainly need protecting and defending, and they will have to be defended by those who enjoy them. Australia cannot expect other parts of the world to help fight for her ideas which they do not understand and with which they cannot sympathise." (1919 'STANDING ALONE.', Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), 23 August, p. 3. ,)

John Monash

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Created page with "General Sir John Monash (27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931) was an Australian military commander of the First World War and a civil engineer. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly after its outbreak, became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt, with which he took part in the Gallipoli campaign. In July 1916, he took charge of the newly raised 3rd Division in north-western France and, in May 1918, became commander of the Australian Corps,..."

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General Sir John Monash (27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931) was an Australian military commander of the First World War and a civil engineer. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly after its outbreak, became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt, with which he took part in the Gallipoli campaign.

In July 1916, he took charge of the newly raised 3rd Division in north-western France and, in May 1918, became commander of the Australian Corps, at that time the largest corps on the Western Front. According to historian A. J. P. Taylor, he was "the only general of creative originality produced by the First World War".

Monash was a noted advocate of the co-ordinated use of infantry, aircraft, artillery and tanks. As he wrote in his book "The Australian Victories in France" in 1918,

... the true role of infantry was not to expend itself upon heroic physical effort, not to wither away under merciless machine-gun fire, not to impale itself on hostile bayonets, nor to tear itself to pieces in hostile entanglements—(I am thinking of Pozières and Stormy Trench and Bullecourt, and other bloody fields)—but on the contrary, to advance under the maximum possible protection of the maximum possible array of mechanical resources, in the form of guns, machine-guns, tanks, mortars and aeroplanes; to advance with as little impediment as possible; to be relieved as far as possible of the obligation to fight their way forward; to march, resolutely, regardless of the din and tumult of battle, to the appointed goal; and there to hold and defend the territory gained; and to gather in the form of prisoners, guns and stores, the fruits of victory.

Monash, was a prominent Australian of Jewish stock. Who noted at the opening of the NSW Jewish War Memorial in 1923:

"I appeal to the Jews of New South Wales to set before themselves the ideal of service to the country. Nowhere in the world do we have so free and unfettered a life. Let us do loyal service to the country."

It was accounted for at the opening of this event, that 1 in 4 adult Jewish males volunteered for the AIF in Australia. Significantly, this is higher rate of recruitment per capita than the remainder of the Australian commonwealth.

Isaac Isaacs

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	These values were also reflected in his judicial reasons, such as the reference in Williamson v Ah On to illegal migrants as ‘loathsome hotbeds of disease’ who conspire to ‘defy and injure the entire people of a continent.’[79] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn80) Isaacs adopted an expansive view of the immigration power under s 51(xxvii) (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/s51.html) of the Constitution (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/) and of the right of the Federal Parliament to impose broad and continuing conditions on immigrants, whether of a temporary or even permanent nature. This was reflected in his statement, which does not now constitute the law of Australia, that: ‘Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.’[80] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn81)		These values were also reflected in his judicial reasons, such as the reference in Williamson v Ah On to illegal migrants as ‘loathsome hotbeds of disease’ who conspire to ‘defy and injure the entire people of a continent.’[79] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn80) Isaacs adopted an expansive view of the immigration power under s 51(xxvii) (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/s51.html) of the Constitution (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/) and of the right of the Federal Parliament to impose broad and continuing conditions on immigrants, whether of a temporary or even permanent nature. This was reflected in his statement, which does not now constitute the law of Australia, that: ‘Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.’[80] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn81)

	Isaacs must be regarded as the Justice of the High Court most hostile to non-white migration. He included in his inhospitable views ‘an Italian ... or a Hindoo’.[81] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn82) ~~Today’s readers may be shocked by such attitudes. However, these were probably shared by the majority of Australians at the time. Indeed, they endured well into my adult lifetime.~~ Isaacs’ emotional appeal to the suggested dangers of ‘activities designed to establish anarchical and terroristic or treasonable societies’[82] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn83) can perhaps help contemporary Australians to understand the feelings that led Isaacs to his unrelenting conclusions on the issue~~. The mixture of fear and a sense of superiority affords a potent alchemy~~.		Isaacs must be regarded as the Justice of the High Court most hostile to non-white migration. He included in his inhospitable views ‘an Italian ... or a Hindoo’.[81] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn82) Isaacs’ emotional appeal to the suggested dangers of ‘activities designed to establish anarchical and terroristic or treasonable societies’[82] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn83) can perhaps help contemporary Australians to understand the feelings that led Isaacs to his unrelenting conclusions on the issue.

Isaac Isaacs

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Created page with "Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs (6 August 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge who served as the ninth governor-general of Australia, in office from 1931 to 1936. He was both the first Australian-born and the first Jewish Governor-General of Australia. He had previously served on the High Court of Australia from 1906 to 1931, including as Chief Justice from 1930. Isaacs was born in Melbourne and grew up in Yackandandah and Beechworth. He be..."

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Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs (6 August 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge who served as the ninth governor-general of Australia, in office from 1931 to 1936. He was both the first Australian-born and the first Jewish Governor-General of Australia. He had previously served on the High Court of Australia from 1906 to 1931, including as Chief Justice from 1930.

Isaacs was born in Melbourne and grew up in Yackandandah and Beechworth. He began working as a schoolteacher at the age of 15, and later moved to Melbourne to work as a clerk and studied law part-time at the University of Melbourne. Isaacs was admitted to the bar in 1880, and soon became one of Melbourne's best-known barristers. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1892, and subsequently served as Solicitor-General under James Patterson, and Attorney-General under George Turner and Alexander Peacock.

Isaacs entered the new federal parliament at the 1901 election, representing the Protectionist Party. He became Attorney-General of Australia in 1905, under Alfred Deakin, but the following year left politics in order to become a justice of the High Court. Isaacs was often in the minority in his early years on the court, particularly with regard to federalism, where he advocated the supremacy of the Commonwealth Government. The balance of the court eventually shifted, and he famously authored the majority opinion in the Engineers case of 1920, which abolished the reserved powers doctrine and fully established the paramountcy of Commonwealth law.

In 1930, Prime Minister James Scullin appointed Isaacs as Chief Justice, in succession to Sir Adrian Knox. Later that year, Scullin nominated Isaacs as his preferred choice for governor-general. The selection of an Australian (rather than the usual British aristocrat) was unprecedented and highly controversial. King George V was opposed to the idea but eventually consented, and Isaacs took office in January 1931 as the first Australian-born holder of the office. He was the first governor-general to live full-time at Yarralumla, and throughout his five-year term was popular among the public for his frugality during the Depression. Isaacs was Australia's first Jewish High Court Justice and the first Jewish Chief Justice of Australia, in addition to being the first Jewish Governor-General of Australia.

Isaacs was a prominent member of the Australian Natives' Association and was a stalwart Nationalist.

One aspect of Isaacs’ nationalism that would be viewed in a somewhat different light today was his ardent support of the White Australia policy. That support was reflected in his judicial approach to questions of immigration. His approach is particularly surprising to contemporary observers, given that his own parents had emigrated to Australia shortly before his birth. As a parliamentarian, Isaacs had argued that the White Australia policy would allow the nation to develop free ‘for all time from the contaminating and degrading influence of inferior races’.[78] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn79)

These values were also reflected in his judicial reasons, such as the reference in Williamson v Ah On to illegal migrants as ‘loathsome hotbeds of disease’ who conspire to ‘defy and injure the entire people of a continent.’[79] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn80) Isaacs adopted an expansive view of the immigration power under s 51(xxvii) (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/s51.html) of the Constitution (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/) and of the right of the Federal Parliament to impose broad and continuing conditions on immigrants, whether of a temporary or even permanent nature. This was reflected in his statement, which does not now constitute the law of Australia, that: ‘Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.’[80] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn81)

Isaacs must be regarded as the Justice of the High Court most hostile to non-white migration. He included in his inhospitable views ‘an Italian ... or a Hindoo’.[81] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn82) Today’s readers may be shocked by such attitudes. However, these were probably shared by the majority of Australians at the time. Indeed, they endured well into my adult lifetime. Isaacs’ emotional appeal to the suggested dangers of ‘activities designed to establish anarchical and terroristic or treasonable societies’[82] (https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2005/27.html#fn83) can perhaps help contemporary Australians to understand the feelings that led Isaacs to his unrelenting conclusions on the issue. The mixture of fear and a sense of superiority affords a potent alchemy.