[BITList] Australia Day - 1907 Report

[John Feltham]

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> 1907
> PHOTO
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> Perhaps
> this is one email that needs to be forwarded until every Australian  
> with a
> computer receives it.
>
> The year is 1907, over one hundred
> years ago....
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>
>
> READ PRINT UNDER
> PICTURE!
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>
>
> Sir
> Edmund Barton’s ideas
> on Immigrants and being an Australian in
> 1907.
>
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> 'In
> the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes  
> here in
> good faith becomes an Australian and
> assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality  
> with
> everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such  
> man
> because of  creed, or birthplace, or origin.  But this is
> predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an Australian,  
> and nothing but
> an Australian... There can be no
> divided allegiance here.  Any man who says he is an Australian, but  
> something else
> also, isn't an Australian at all. We
> have room for but one flag, the Australian flag.... We
> have room for but one language here, and that is the English  
> language...
> and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to
> the Australian people.'
>
>
>   Edmund
> Barton
> 1907
>
>
> Every Australian citizen needs to read this! KEEP THIS
> MOVING
>
> (For
> those who don’t know Edmund Barton was Australia’s first
> PM)
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>

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