Rise of Australia

Chapter 95 European Affairs Director (please subscribe!)
In addition to the M1897 artillery, Butler Hunter also brought good news to Arthur.

After a period of preparation, the Victoria Award has officially entered the solicitation and selection stage.

Because the prize money of any award is as high as [-] pounds, this time the Victoria Award has caused a sensation in almost half of the European scientific research community. Get this pie-in-the-sky bonus.

Because it was the first time to judge the award, Butler Hunter invited many professors and scientists who are recognized by the entire scientific research community as the judges, and each of them will receive at least [-] pounds in remuneration.

Attracted by money, these people were also very happy to be the judges of the first Victoria Awards, and they also specifically asked when the next award would be awarded.

These people are free advertising machines, and Butler Hunter is naturally happy to tell them.

Under the publicity of these professors and scientists, the popularity of the Victoria Award in Europe has spread from one to another, attracting the attention of many people.

Much to the delight of many, the Victorian Awards are awarded every year with no reduction in prize money.

What does this mean?As long as you win the Victoria Award in any year, you can get a bonus of at least [-] pounds.

Many professors and scientists who are not very capable may never have access to such a huge amount of funds in their entire lives.

If you have to talk about the attraction of these funds in the hearts of these people, it is like the attraction of Zhang Xiu and his aunt to Cao Cao.

Under such an irresistible temptation, although the first award has high requirements for the entries and research, it still attracted thousands of entries, research and individual entries.

When Butler Hunter left, the awards had already entered the selection stage, and before the new year came, the specific winners of each award would be selected, and then the awards and announcements would be made in Australia at the beginning of the new year.

In order to prevent and eliminate the occurrence of cheating in the selection, the works and research of all the judges this time cannot participate in the selection.

This undoubtedly disappointed some of the judges, but the reward of [-] pounds was definitely more attractive than the one-in-a-million award.

Arthur is very satisfied with the progress of the Victoria Award.

After being successfully held, the Victoria Awards can bring several high-level talents to Australia every year.

Although it is impossible for all the winners to choose to come to Australia, as long as half or even a small half of them are willing to come, it is acceptable for Australia.

Although the purpose of the Victoria Awards is to attract high-level talents to Australia, the selection of the awards is still very serious and fair.

Those who can win any award in the end are definitely talents who have made full contributions in this regard.

Any such talent can play a major role in a certain industry.If Australia can recruit many such talents, why not worry about Australia's rise?

After Butler Hunter returned home, the main affairs in Europe were handed over to Eric Obom, the Australian ambassador to the Netherlands, and David Martins Simao, the director of European affairs.

David Martins Simao naturally needless to say.As one of the old Duke Arthur's trusted confidantes, he was also Arthur's team.

Ambassador Eric Obom is a talent from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one of the local Australian officials that Arthur is more optimistic about.

David Martins Simao's post of Director of European Affairs, like that of Butler Hunter, was a private official of the Crown.

They only obey Arthur's orders and are people who are absolutely loyal to Arthur.

The Director of European Affairs, as the name suggests, is the subordinate who manages European affairs.

Although Australia is an Oceanian country, dealing with European countries is absolutely indispensable.

In particular, the UK and Germany, one is the home country with a deep relationship, and the other is a partner country with a good relationship.

The Dutch are also quick to move.In the second month after the signing of the Aboriginal Purchase Treaty, that is, in December 1901, the first batch of aborigines from the Dutch East Indies had already been transported over, a total of 12.

Although Australia also paid a purchase fee of [-] pounds for this, compared with the [-] labor force, Australia is definitely the one that earns.

Of course, the Kingdom of the Netherlands is not at a loss.These natives are not easy to manage in the colonies, and rebellions broke out in the Dutch East Indies from time to time.

Half of the [-] aborigines were allocated to steel factories, rapidly increasing Australia's poor steel production.

Half was allocated to the construction of industrial railways.At present, there is a shortage of people for the construction of the railway. As long as there is no shortage of rails and other materials, of course, the more natives who can work, the better.

According to various statistics, Australia currently has more than [-] aboriginal laborers investing in all aspects of national construction, and the number is still increasing every month with a relatively large number.

Among them, less than [-] aborigines are native Australians, and the other more than [-] aboriginals are from New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies.

Australia is an outlier when it comes to Indigenous peoples.Most colonies have a large number of Aboriginal people, especially a colony as large as Australia.

But Australia is different.Even in the colonial period, Australia only had more than 100 million aborigines.

During the long colonial career, a large number of aborigines were tortured to death by the diseases brought by the colonists, and a small number of aborigines were relocated to the barren inland.

Coupled with the increase in immigration leading to the expansion of cities, the living area of ​​Australian Aboriginal people is getting smaller and smaller, and the total number is also getting smaller and smaller.

These Aboriginal people are not included in the government's census, and no Australian official regards them as normal citizens.

According to estimates, there are still more than 70 such aboriginal Australians, and they are decreasing by a small margin.

But this is actually a scene that most Australian officials are happy to see.Even in the early days of Australia's establishment in history, it has been pursuing the so-called White Australia Policy, which is Australia for white people.

Although Arthur was not an extreme racist, he maintained a state of acquiescence to those officials in Aboriginal policy.

This has also led to the occurrence of a phenomenon, that is, some Australian aboriginals will also join the army of aboriginal labor due to various circumstances.

However, this is good news for the construction of Australia. Because of the input of a large number of indigenous people, the speed of various constructions in Australia is much faster than before, and even some places can be said to change every day.

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