Hello. Lets turn to Australia. In 1938, the Australian govt said...

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    Hello. Lets turn to Australia. In 1938, the Australian govt said about Jewish immigration: "as we have no real racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vian_Conference

    The Kimberley Plan was a failed plan by the Freeland League to resettle Jewish refugees from Europe in northern Australia before and during the Holocaust.
    A 1944 opinion poll found that only 53% of Australians supported the scheme, with 47% against the plan. Opposition was primarily based on concerns that the settlers would inevitably drift away from Kimberley and begin migrating to the cities in large numbers.[3] On 15 July 1944 the scheme was vetoed by the Australian government and Labor Prime Minister John Curtin (with bipartisan support[3]) informed Steinberg that the Australian government would not "depart from the long-established policy in regard to alien settlement in Australia" and could not "entertain the proposal for a group settlement of the exclusive type contemplated by the Freeland League".[2][6]In 1948 Steinberg published a book on his experience, titled Australia – the Unpromised Land: in search of a home.[7][8]However, even after Israel was created in 1949, Steinberg tried once more – unsuccessfully – approaching the newly re-elected Robert Menzies in 1950. But Menzies replied that the idea ran contrary to his government's policy of assimilation aimed at achieving "the ideal of one Australian family of peoples, devoid of foreign communities.


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