Prime Minister John Curtin Supported White Australia policy , saying " This country shall remain forever the home of the descendants of those people who came here in peace in order to establish in the South Seas an outpost of the British race . " Prime Minister Stanley Bruce was a supporter of the White Australia Policy , and made it an issue in his campaign for the 1925 Australian Federal election.It is necessary that we should determine what are the ideals towards which every Australian would desire to strive . I think those ideals might well be stated as being to secure our national safety , and to ensure the maintenance of our White Australia Policy to continue as an integral portion of the British Empire . We intend to keep this country white and not allow its people to be faced with the problems that at present are practically insoluble in many parts of the world . Labor leader H. V. Evatt said in 1945 at the United Nations Conference on International Organization : You have always insisted on the right to determine the composition of your own people . Australia wants that right now . What you are attempting to do now , Japan attempted after the last war the First World War and was prevented by Australia . Had we opened New Guinea and Australia to Japanese immigration then the Pacific War by now might have ended disastrously and we might have had another shambles like that experienced in Malaya . Another leader of the Labor Party , Arthur Calwell ( 1960-1967 ) supported the White European Australia policy . This is reflected by Calwell 's comments in his 1972 memoirs , '' Be Just and Fear Not '' , in which he made it clear that he maintained his view that non-European people should not be allowed to settle in Australia . He wrote : I am proud of my white skin , just as a Chinese is proud of his yellow skin , a Japanese of his brown skin , and the Indians of their various hues from black to coffee-coloured . Anybody who is not proud of his race is not a man at all . And any man who tries to stigmatize the Australian community as racist because they want to preserve this country for the white race is doing our nation great harm ... I reject , in conscience , the idea that Australia should or ever can become a multi-racial society and survive . He was the last leader of ALP and Liberal parties to support it
United Nations Conference on International Organization
United Nations Conference on International Organization
Multiculturalism in Australia