Talk:Edmund Barton

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that's ridiculous. the fact he was a mason as sourced here [1] should be known widely in his bio. to call it "link-spam" is almost criminal. Rcm 10:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

That's rather a bit of hyperbole. You were systematically adding the same text to successive pages in often irrelevant areas with an external link. I took this to be spam. Please integrate the reference with the article, rather than just tacking it on the end.--cj | talk 04:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Racist?

Would Barton be considered a racist in todays terms? It seems he made quite a number of racist or "racialistic" speaches, namely the need to " secure the future of our fair country against the tide of inferior and unequal asians arriving from the north".AQjosh 01:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Off course he's a racist, calling another race inferior automatically qualify him as suchCanpark 14:50, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to see a source for that quote. Of course Barton supported White Australia, as did virtually everyone in Australia at that time, but that language seems rather more crude than I would expect from Barton. Plus there was no "tide of asians arriving from the north" in 1901. All the colonies had banned Asian immigration years before. The immediate target of the 1901 legislation was the Kanakas in Queensland, not the Chinese. Adam 14:56, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Here's a source, the Parliament Education Office site reproducing the Hansard. The quote is accurate. Contrast with Deakin who argues against Asian immigration on a protectionist basis. Barton does however take a narrower line than Watson and others who were pushing for a complete ban on all "coloured" migrants. --bainer (talk) 15:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to point out that the Protectionists, Free Trade Party, and the Labour Party all supported a white australia as was the social norm at the time. Timeshift 02:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)