by Ganesh Sahathevan
Students' Representative Council, 1955-56, wearing academic gowns. Photo mounted on grey card with title above the photo and names listed below the photo (including titles of key office bearers). Filed as BWP/7330 is a different view of the same group, labelled 'Proof II'. Both photos taken outside a building. T. Krishnan, F. Horwill, B. Levant, T. McClelland, J. Martin, T.F. Acheson, J. Lester, J. Drennan, D. Welsh, P. King, R. Sehgal, G.I. Opat, M. Watkins, M. Meyer, M. Murphy, M. Moschetti, P. McKenna, J. Morgan, J. Lesh, Miss N Wagner, R. Morris, Previous Control Number: UMA/I/1515 Previous Control Number: OSBA/288
The photo above of the Melbourne University SRC was taken in 1955.At the top left is Malaysian Colombo Plan scholar T.Krishnan, aged 17. Being of Ceylon Tamil descent he was, as the photo shows, almost black. He later went on to become president of the SRC.
The White Australia Policy was very much in force in 1955, and the history Australians are taught today states unequivocally that those were days of unmitigated racism. Conditions today are said to be much improved for "people of colour "..
Nevertheless there are a number of "whites" who make a good living championing the right of "people of colour" to be "respected", "heard" and "included" in what is regarded the "most successful multiracial society in the world".
These champions of humanity are invariably of the Left. Many are civil servants, and get very annoyed when informed by "people of colour" that their assistance is not required. That annoyance is understandable, for their livelihoods depend on "people of colour".
In 1986 Lee Kuan Yew warned Australians that they were fast becoming the white trash of Asia. Nothing exemplifies white trash more than this lot; we who are Ceylonese, Indian, Malay, Chinese and various others should be wary of them. It is they who coined the term "people of colour" to deny us our identity and intellect. Unlike Australians of the 50s, 60s and 70s, they cannot accept that we are their equal, and more.
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