Talk:New Australia

A fact from New Australia appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 July 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that New Australia was a utopian settlement founded in Paraguay in 1893 by former members of the Australian labour movement?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2006/July.

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Merge with Nueva Londres page?

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

New Australia changed its name to Nueva Londres. Here is a very recent article regarding Nueva Londres from July 7, 2015, with a lot of information: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/nueva-londres-paraguay-australia-great-britain

"It was founded as Nueva Australia in 1893 by a handful of families" "When Juan Kennedy, her uncle, wrote to Australia to rename the town Nueva Canberra, the letter was never answered – so they went for London instead.

As it was founded as Nueva Australia shouldn't that page (Nueva Londres) be merged with this?Nickm57 (talk) 12:21, 5 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Mention book about New Australia

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello there. I'm feeling too lazy to do it at present but maybe something could be added to the page about the new book (well 2012) by Ben Stubbs, Ticket to Paradise, about New Australia. Roosters93 (talk) 13:08, 24 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Location....

Latest comment: 20 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I had a look on google earth, going off the maps from http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/rare/newoz/ issue 7 number 1. It seems the location of the main settlement (matching with the maps geography, and about 15km NE of 'Villarica, paraguay') is around 25°36'58.41"S 56°19'37.95"W. This isnt what is said on the main page (150km SE of asuncion), but about 82.5miles E of asuncion. Maybe Cosme is the settlement further south? I dont know. It seems from http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~brianj/Gabalah/history.html that it still exists as a farming village.

Anyone more sure of this than I am? Im a bit hesitant to update the main page without sureness.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Miscreant (talk • contribs)

Thanks, It was me that put that distance from Asuncion and I believe that you're correct. My distance was based on a rough look at the map/s without too much science (being slack!) and was done before I realised that Cosme was 62 km further south than N/Aust. I've removed the distance entirely from the map caption to avoid any further confusion. I suggest that the coords (and if possible, exact distances) would be a good addition to the article. -- I@n 01:34, 30 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

why is this referred to as a utopian socialist colony when it seemingly is based on racism?

Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

it seems misleading to call this a "utopian socialist colony" when it could be better described as a white separatist one based on the rest of the article... I will do more research but in the meantime someone who knows about this please consider- as a new visitor to this article I felt that the header paragraph misrepresented the body. ~2026-34620-52 (talk) 20:26, 11 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Readers interested in this issue will find Gavin Souter's book; A Peculiar People and Anne Whitehead's Paradise Mislaid helpful. Shorter online accounts worth reading include the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry on William Lane and Queensland Archives article "utopia-in-paraguay". Stephanie Mawson's article for Labour History - "The ‘Workingman’s Paradise’, White Supremacy and Utopianism: The New Australia Movement and Working-Class Racism," can be found on JStore. Nickm57 (talk) 03:27, 12 June 2026 (UTC)Reply