Chapter 95 European Affairs Manager (please subscribe!)
In addition to the M1897 artillery, Butler Hunter also brought Arthur a piece of good news.
After a period of preparation, the Victoria Awards has officially entered the solicitation and selection stage.
Because the prize money for any award is as high as 50,000 pounds, this Victoria Prize has caused a sensation in almost half of the European scientific research community. Even people who are not in the scientific research community are trying to invent something in a short time to make themselves Get this pie-in-the-sky bonus.
Because this is the first time to evaluate the award, Hunter Steward invited many professors and scientists who are recognized by the entire scientific research community as the award judges, and each of them will receive at least two thousand pounds in remuneration.
Attracted by money, these people were very happy to serve as judges for the first Victoria Awards, and specifically asked when the next grand prize would be awarded.
These people are considered free advertising machines, and Butler Hunter is naturally happy to tell them.
Thanks to the publicity of these professors and scientists, the Victoria Prize's popularity has spread from ten to ten in Europe and has attracted the attention of many people.
To the heart of many, the Victoria Prize is awarded every year and the prize money does not decrease.
What does this mean? Anyone who wins the Victoria Prize in any year will receive a bonus of at least £50,000.
Many professors and scientists with less than outstanding abilities may never have access to such huge funds in their lifetime.
If we have to talk about the attraction of these funds in the hearts of these people, it is like the attraction of Zhang Xiu's aunt to Cao Cao.
Under such an irresistible temptation, even though the first award had very high requirements for works and research, it still attracted thousands of works and research, as well as individual entries.
When Hunter Butler left, the awards had already entered the selection stage, and before the new year came, specific recipients of each award would be selected, and then awards and announcements would be made in Australia at the beginning of the new year.
In order to prevent and eliminate cheating in the selection, all the works and research of the judges this time will not be included in the selection.
This undoubtedly disappointed some judges, but the reward of two thousand pounds is definitely more attractive than the one-in-a-million award.
Arthur is very satisfied with the progress of the Victoria Award.
After a successful run, the Victoria Awards brings 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, Australia will be able to accept it.
Although the purpose of the Victoria Awards is to attract high-level talents to Australia, the award selection 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 area.
Any such talent can play a major role in a certain industry. If Australia can recruit many such talents, then why worry about Australia not being able to rise?
After Butler Hunter returned home, the main affairs in Europe were handed over to the Australian ambassador to the Netherlands, Eric Orbum, and the director of European affairs, David Martins Simon.
David Martins Simao goes without saying much. As one of old Duke Arthur's trusted confidants, he is also Arthur's teammate.
Ambassador Eric Oboom is a talent from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one of the local Australian officials that Arthur is more optimistic about.
David Martins Simon's position as Steward of European Affairs was actually the same as that of Hunter's Steward, a private official affiliated with the Crown. They only obey Arthur's orders and are absolutely loyal to Arthur.
As the name suggests, the European Affairs Director is the subordinate who manages European affairs.
Although Australia is an Oceanian country, it is absolutely indispensable to deal with European countries.
Especially the United Kingdom and Germany, one is a mother country with deep relations, and the other is a cooperative country with good relations.
The Dutch also moved quickly. In the second month after the signing of the Aboriginal Purchase Treaty, that is, in December 1901, the first batch of Aboriginals from the Dutch East Indies had been transported, a total of 20,000 people.
Although Australia also paid a purchase fee of 100,000 pounds for this, compared with these 100,000 laborers, Australia is definitely the profitable party.
Of course, the Kingdom of the Netherlands does not suffer much either. These natives were not easy to manage in the colonies, and rebellions broke out from time to time in the Dutch East Indies.
Half of these 20,000 Aboriginal people were assigned to steel plants, rapidly increasing Australia's meager steel production.
Half was allocated to the construction of industrial railways. At present, the construction of the railway is short of people. As long as there is no shortage of rails and other materials, the more such capable indigenous people, the better.
According to various statistics, Australia currently has more than 50,000 indigenous laborers engaged in all aspects of national construction, and the number is still increasing every month.
Among them, less than 10,000 Aboriginal people are native Australians, and the other more than 40,000 Aboriginal people are from New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies.
Australia is an outlier when it comes to indigenous people. Most colonies had large indigenous populations, especially ones as large as Australia.
But Australia is different. Even during the colonial period, Australia only had more than one million indigenous people.
During the long colonial career, a large number of indigenous people were tortured to death by diseases brought by the colonists, and a small number of indigenous people even moved to the desolate inland.
Coupled with the expansion of cities caused by the increase in immigration, the living area of Australia's indigenous 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 officials regard them as normal citizens.
According to estimates, there are still more than 700,000 such indigenous Australians, and they are decreasing at a small rate.
But this is actually a scene that most Australian officials are happy to see. Even in the early days of Australia's history, it has been pursuing the so-called White Australia Policy, which is an Australia for white people.
Although Arthur was not an extreme racist, he maintained acquiescence to those officials on Aboriginal policies.
This has also led to the occurrence of a phenomenon, that is, some Australian indigenous people will join the army of indigenous labor due to various circumstances.
However, this is good news for Australia's construction. Because of the large amount of indigenous input, Australia's various construction speeds are much faster than before, and some places can even be said to change every day.
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