White Australia (play) explained
| White Australia, or the Empty North |
| Place: | Kings Theatre, Australia |
| Orig Lang: | English |
| Subject: | race |
| Genre: | melodrama |
White Australia, or the Empty North is a 1909 Australian play by Randolph Bedford.[1] It was produced by William Anderson.
The play was popular.[2]
Interest in the play has been revived in recent years because of its example as a piece of racist propaganda.[3] [4]
Premise
The Japanese attempt to invade Australia, with help from some Northern Territory Aborigines and a white traitor, but are thwarted by a Northern Territory squatter. It ends with the Japanese war fleet being destroyed.
External links
Notes and References
- News: KING'S THEATRE. . . 19,637 . Victoria, Australia . 28 June 1909 . 6 February 2024 . 9 . National Library of Australia.
- News: Commercial Success with . The Sun . 1890 . New South Wales, Australia . 18 June 1939 . 6 February 2024 . 11 (Sunday Magazine) . National Library of Australia.
- Rodney G. Boland, 'Bedford, George Randolph (1868–1941)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bedford-george-randolph-5181/text8709, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 6 February 2024.
- Walker, David. “A Sunburnt Country: Reflections on Race, Whiteness & the Geo-Politics of Settlement in Australia.” Health and History, vol. 4, no. 2, 2002, pp. 118–24. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/40111442. Accessed 6 Feb. 2024.
