澳英关系与19世纪80年代新几内亚归属问题——兼论澳大利亚联邦运动的内涵

The Australia-Britain Relation and the Ownership of New Guinea in the 1880s——Also a Comment on the Connotation of Australia’s Federation Movement

澳英关系的变化是 19世纪 80年代新几内亚归属问题之争中的重要环节之一 ,也被视为澳大利亚联邦运动中的一大内容。这场纷争显示出英属殖民地的身份愈加无助于澳洲的发展 ,因此 ,原本建立在母国与殖民地基础上的澳英关系逐渐变化。这种变化的趋势不是澳洲的顺服 ,而是澳洲各殖民地之间的联合以及澳洲与英国的分离。这正是澳大利亚联邦运动的内涵。

The change in the Australia-Britain relation was a key link to the debate about the ownership of New Guinea in the 1880s, and a vital issue of Australia’s federation movement as well. The debate showed that the status of a British colony was becoming more and more helpless to the development of Australia. Consequently, the Australia-British relation originally established on the basis of relation between the mother country and the colony was gradually changing. The tendency of this kind of change was not the obedience of Australia, but the unity between colonies and the separation of Australia from Britain. That is the connotation of Australia’s federation movement.