I used to think that the world was so shocked by the crazed persecution and extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany that overt anti-Semitism would have been squashed.
Not so.
The Bulletin, 4 December 1946, p 15, published this cartoon of rat-like Jews arriving as refugee migrants in Australia, with good Aryan types being lost to the nation.
The then Immigration Minister Calwell is depicted as acting as pied piper.
Have a look at the ‘Jewish’ faces in the Bulletin cartoon, then look at this cartoon from Der Stürmer, the disgusting Nazi propganda magazine from May 1934, Issue 18
"Rescue Expedition"
I guess I am still hopelessly naïve about Australia, despite these recent posts: How racist is Australia? and Anti-Semitism in the slip-stream of Gaza
