Since time immemorial, nations and their laws have recognised the right of refugees to seek asylum from oppression and abuses of power. Notions of protecting legitimate refugees varied from time to time however were codified most famously in the United Nations 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (‘The Convention’), which was drafted to deal with the legitimate refugees of war-torn Europe in the wake of the second world war.
The Convention recognised that a refugee is a person: “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.”
The Convention further states that a person ceases to be a refugee if they “[have] acquired a new nationality, and enjoys the protection of the country of his new nationality” or alternatively “can no longer, because the circumstances in connexion with which he has been recognized as a refugee have ceased to exist, continue to refuse to avail himself of the protection of the country of his nationality” amongst other clauses importantly where the person has committed a serious crime.
Article 31 of the convention notes that countries “shall not impose penalties, on account of their
illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of article 1, enter or are present in their territory without authorization”
Clearly then, on a plain and ordinary reading of the text, the legal rights conferred on legitimate refugees are not applicable to the horde of country-shoppers now on our doorstep and brazenly protesting in our streets. It is the expressly and implied principle of the refugee convention that a person can only bona-fide receive protection in the next closest country which is free from that well-founded fear of persecution.
Had Indonesia suddenly collapsed into a state of civil war and slaughter, there may be legitimate refugees on our doorstep which we would of course lend assistance to as temporary residents, whilst also seeking to restore stability to Indonesia to return them to their homeland.
So-called refugees from far-flung places like Afghanistan, Syria or Bangladesh cannot in good conscience assert a right to residency in our country, particularly when the wedge of their demand is based upon economic opportunity seeking, to ride on the backs of the hard-won industrial and social conditions conferred upon us by the blood, sweat and labour of our ancestors both in the English civil war and the Trade union movement.
The untold billions of desperate Asiatics in the pacific could overwhelm our Commonwealth with less than a single years surplus population, Australia, as we know it, and her heritage stock would be erased from any institutional power and influence, which is fundamental to the virtues of this Commonwealth which make this a land so desirable to live in.
Dr H. V Evatt, who represented Australia at the signing of the Refugee Convention, and was later the President of the United Nations General Assembly stated in July 1954 that “Our policy of restriction is not based on any notion of racial superiority, but on a frank and realistic recognition that there are important difference of race, culture and economic standards which make successful assimilation unlikely. Any other policy would lead to the racial problems which have seriously disturbed the community life in countries where European and Asian cultures have come together. Labor believes that a homogenous population in Australia is essential.”
The long-term solution to the challenge of Asia which was endorsed by the ANA in the 1950s in the Colombo Plan, to abate the desperation of these countries by offering (among other things) higher education to their youngest, to cultivate in them the highest principles of our civilisation, our industry and our way of living to take it home to their countries, to lift themselves up out of adversity as our forebears did many centuries ago without aid from others.
The protestors in Melbourne in recent days, amongst the collective efforts of many so called “refugee-advocates” have shattered any remaining good-will that was naturally held by Australian Nationalists to the principles of the Columbo plan, the disgusting sense of entitlement to the benefits of our soil and sociopolitical heritage shown by the protestors will ultimately lead to their undoing as ordinary Australians in their mass become more conscious of the fact our natural charitable sensibility is being taken advantage of and abused by a combined effort of international finance capital, Trotskyite cosmopolitan activists and country-shopping invaders masquerading as legitimate refugees.
Let the parasites who have shown contempt for our Commonwealth and its founding stock be flung out. Let all legitimate visitors who sojourn amongst us show nothing but greatfulness to the nation who welcomed them. Let us once again, raise the banner of our forebears – for a White Australia, for an ethnically homogenous national community with a shared heritage and destiny. All for Australia
M. K. Grant
National Governor