Civic Multiculturalism and the Myth of Liberal Consent

In 1881 Sir Henry Parkes, the premier of New South Wales and later to become one of Australia's founding fathers, called for an intercolonial conference on the Chinese threat to Australasia. His call reached the sympathetic ears of Richard Seddon in New Zealand, who would become premier in 1893 and preside over the country when it was hailed as the most democratic country in the world for granting women and Maori the vote and for developing programs like old-age pensions. Seddon had developed his anti-Chinese sentiments at the gold mines in Victoria, when at 18 he migrated to Australia in 1863 from Lancashire, in England. In 1866 he, with others, including Chinese, sailed across the Tasman Sea to participate in New Zealand's first gold rush on the South Island. In the legislature in 1880 he responded to a colleague's comparison of the Chinese's plight to that of the Irish with: "To compare the Irish with the Chinese was an insult to every Irishman in the colony.... There is as much distinction between a European and a Chinaman as that between a Chinaman and a monkey." 1

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