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Segregation in Queensland – a lesson from history

Stephen Andrew statement on Segregation in Queensland

Those who believe that the “segregation” of legally designated outgroups in Australia, could NEVER happen, clearly know nothing of history. Because it already has – on a number of occasions in fact. Australian South Sea Islanders were subjected to great suffering, hardship and adversity for most of the twentieth century, due to discriminatory laws passed on the State and Federal level.
The laws relegated them to ‘second class’ status and legally prevented them from enjoying any of the same rights and freedoms as other Australians. In 1902, they became the only victims of a mass deportation order in Australia’s history. Between 1904 and 1909, almost 10,000 of them were torn from their homes and families and forcibly deported to islands few could remember. Those who remained, did so on sufferance, and ongoing discrimination by law.
Until 1967 they were banned from:
1. Voting;
2. Buying alcohol;
3. Taking out loans;
4. Opening a savings account;
5. Buying or renting a house;
6. Leasing a business; or
7. Owning land.
Their movements were restricted and many were forced to live in shanties and camps erected in the bush, or along riverbanks. Then there were the regular ‘scare’ stories in the press, linking ‘Kanakas’ to outbreaks of disease and influenza. It was a time when anyone with a black skin was considered as less than human, and few people spoke out on their behalf.
Worst of all, they were legally prevented from working in agriculture, the only industry they knew. If they tried to work elsewhere, trade unions picketed the businesses that employed them. Any farmers who took pity on them and gave them labouring or gardening work, they were reported to authorities and prosecuted.
Long after ‘Kanakas’ ceased to be a threat to white workers, unions refused their union membership applications, preventing them from being employed in jobs covered by industrial awards. It wasn’t until 1964, that the prohibition of ‘black’ labour in the agricultural industry was finally abolished.
In 1991, the Call for Recognition reported on the plight of the South Sea Islanders, and recommended special measures be introduced to help right some of the many wrongs of the past. To this day, the recommendations contained in this report have not been actioned by any government in Australia, State or Federal.
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Global supply chains imploding

Stephen Andrew statement on supply chains
The world’s supply chains are imploding and the global elites couldn’t be happier. The global shipping industry is in chaos, beset on all sides by government restrictions and regulations, surging fuel costs, ongoing labour change issues, and costly port delays. The result has been a stratospheric rise in freight rates.
The cost of shipping a container on popular trading routes like the one between China and Europe has soared 840%, with the cost of containers from China to the US jumping from $US1,500 to $US25,000.
In Australia, shipping companies are charging $8,000 per container for shipping to Australia, against $1,370 a year ago.
As one industry forum said “shippers are facing a “meltdown” with rates in the stratosphere, slots up for auction and service performance in the trash”.
“What none of the industry metrics show are the huge numbers of shipments not being moved – boxes left on the quay, stacked in the terminal or stockpiled in export warehouses awaiting a slot”.
Last month, the carrier ONE announced a string of port omissions for Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, citing the need for schedule recovery, and costly port delays. Australian meat exporters are reporting 10 day delays to secure containers for their shipments. Australian grain farmers are even worse off, with many failing to meet contractual obligations, due to schedules being regularly cancelled by shipping lines.
According to the F&TA, “three of our members collectively paid in excess of $US117,000 in contract breaches in the past three months alone … because low-paying cargo, such as grain, is getting bumped-off vessels at transhipment ports for higher-paying priority cargo”.
There is no incentive for the shipping carriers to move grain which could lead to bottlenecks next harvest, with farmers potentially having no way to unload grain. The flow-on effect means Australian retailers are waiting months for stock to arrive.
Key stock is down more than 40%, and what they can get, is costing them an absolute fortune in shipping rates. All these extra costs are being passed down the line with the price of food, clothing, shoes, toys and computers all rising steadily. Things are much worse across Europe and the US, with widespread reports of rampant inflation, empty store shelves and crippling fuel and food shortages.
Many ‘experts’, however, seem almost gleeful at this wholesale destruction of the world’s supply chain. Instead of reassuring the public they will fix it, they are saying empty shop shelves and shortages are now “permanent” – all part of the ‘New Normal’.
The Food and Drink Federation boss told a UK industry event last week, that the days of people being able to “find any product they want on the shelves” are gone. “That’s over. And I don’t think it’s coming back”. From now on, he said, people must simply learn to ‘prioritise’ – ‘rationing’?
Our broken supply chains are starting to sound more and more like a ‘managed demolition’ by our self-appointed ‘chosen ones’, as they frogmarch humanity down the ‘Great Reset’ Road to a greener, more sustainable future.
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