Balder Ex-Libris

Author : McCormack Denis
Title : Asianizing Australia An elite’s long-term project
Year : 1997

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Abstract. The author has long pointed to what he calls a “grand plan” by an Australian elite to Asianize Australia. This change is now well advanced, promoted by the mainstream media and both major political parties even though most Australians naturally prefer to live within a European-centered society. The elite’s program, the author says, is not properly called a “conspiracy” per se, but has reflected a broad consensus among the influential minority who form policy. In this article, the author gives the origins and history of the demographic shift introducing ever-more Asians into Australia. The article includes a republication of his paper on this subject presented at a conference of the prestigious Asian Studies Association of Australia in 1996, thus placing it before an international readership for the first time. Asianizing Australia – An Elite’s Long-Term Project. The author’s 1996 conference paper entitled “The Grand Plan: Asianization of Australia – Race, Place and Power” has become a historically significant document. It brought to the attention of the most relevant peak academic body the roots of today’s now decades-old Asian mass immigration policy. Repeated polls1 verify findings that approximately 70% of Australians remain concerned about immigration policy in relation to both numbers and origins. This anxiety has continued during the years since the 1984 attacks on Australia’s pre-eminent historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC who, in All for Australia (1984), criticized the high Asian immigration which was already known to be running ahead of public opinion (it was in 1983/4 that Asians first outnumbered British immigrants), and also condemned Australia’s multicultural policy. Blainey’s criticisms produced no policy change, however, and since then the traditional, white Australian demographic majority has been declining, although it still remains predominant. ...