Appealing to the ancient Indian tradition of feeling unfairly ostracised wherever they go – and hoping to harvest a massive bloc of votes from them – Carroll told the assembly: “No one has the right to call you outsiders. Not then, not now, not ever. You have every right to belong.”

By “not then”, Carroll was referring to a letter written by a group of Indian gentlemen to Australia’s first Prime Minister, Edmund Barton.

ALIEN

In October 1901, they were objecting to what they called the “Alien Immigration Bill”, which was the first major legislation presented to the new Australian Federal Parliament.

It laid the foundation for the White Australia Policy.

The letter said: “We respectfully ask, ‘What does Alien mean?’ If it means ‘Outsider’, we would ask, ‘Who has the right to call the Indian people Outsiders?’”

The Indians were offended because, as a race, they had always been “obedient and faithful to the British Government”.

The authors were doubly offended about being supposedly lumped in the same migrant category as the Japanese and Chinese, the latter being “a defeated and dying race”.

Department of External Affairs Secretary Atlee Hunt quickly put the whiners in their place.

A careful examination of the bill “will show you that it contains nothing that couples the Indian with the Chinese races, and consequently there is no reason for pain on that score,” he said.

He then pointed out that their entire letter was based on a fallacy.

The bill’s correct title was the Immigration Restriction Bill, and had nothing to do with aliens – “that word does not occur in the bill in its current condition,” he said.

Those were the days.

A politician could talk frankly to members of an uppity minority because, as everyone knew, his job was to build a strong, homogenous nation.

And an immigrant’s job was to fit in, which wasn’t asking much at the time, and is asking even less now.

Times have changed, though, as Carroll’s response illustrates.

“As Premier it is my job to help you and your families succeed,” he said.

“We want Indian students to come here, and my message to all international students in India, is, ‘come to Melbourne, Victoria’; and to their parents, ‘we will treat them as if they’re our own children, they will always be welcome in Victoria’.”

Only trouble is, it’s not Victoria. Whatever place Carroll is welcoming these hordes of Indians to, it’s definitely not the home of Barry Humphries, Weary Dunlop, Ted Whitten or Dickie Knee.

It’s already more like Mumbai, albeit with more machete attacks.

Credit where it’s due – Indians are seldom the victims of those machete attacks, partly because they generally keep to themselves in their own (burgeoning) ghettos.

Indians don’t immigrate to assimilate. They immigrate to recreate, which they do with conspicuous determination.

As this young lady who lives on the Gold Coast says, “I don’t miss home at all.”

To her, “home” is India – and now she can enjoy it without leaving the Gold Coast.

Say what you like about the White Australia Policy, but it’s impossible to argue that 50 years of the Brown Australia Policy has been any better.

DEAD COWS

The way things are going, our waterways will soon be awash with dead cows and sewage, which will make it feel even more like home for that young Gold Coast resident.

It’s unpopular to say it in conservative circles, but young Australians, who will be increasingly alienated as they grow up in what’s left of Australia, are partly to blame for this catastrophe.

Indians and other Third World peasants have flocked to Australia to fill jobs that young Australians these days think are below their status – hospitality, aged care, washing cars, food delivery and so on.

Every previous generation did those jobs as a rite of passage, mostly during the years that Gen Z currently spends racking up debts to earn a useless degree.

By inviting Third World peasants en masse to perform these services, Left-wing politicians discovered an uncanny electoral trick: fill certain electorates with dumb immigrants, and their bloc of collective votes is easily bought with facilities for their “community”.