New Australia

Great Depression and Aftermath Cold War New Left Contemporary Active Historical New Australia was a utopian socialist settlement in Paraguay created by the New Australian Movement.

Lane recruited many, and the first ship left Sydney in July 1893 for Paraguay, where the government was keen to get white settlers and had offered the group a large area of good land.

[3] Notable Australian individuals who joined the colony included Mary Gilmore, Rose Summerfield, Gilbert Stephen Casey, and George Birks and his family.

The founding of the settlement was of interest to left-wing thinkers worldwide: on the subject, Peter Kropotkin said, The fact that men and women, who have made Australia what it is, are compelled to migrate from it, speaks volumes in itself.

[5]One group of settlers came from the Union movement—John Naphthali "Jack" Dias (11 May 1861 – 13 August 1924) and a handful of followers, dispirited after the failure of the 1890 Australian maritime dispute, 1891 Australian shearers' strike, and the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike, were among those who decided there was no hope for workers in Australia, and under the influence of Lane's oratory joined the cooperative that purchased the ship Royal Tar to take them to Paraguay and "New Australia".

[6] According to Voltaire Molesworth, who was brought to the colony by his father as an infant, a farewell gathering was held at the Sydney Domain prior to the departure of Royal Tar.