In addition to the M1897 gun, Butler Hunter also brought Arthur a piece of good news.

After a period of preparation, the Victoria Prize has officially entered the call for submissions and selection.

Because the prize money for any award is as high as 50,000 pounds, the Victoria Prize has caused a sensation in almost half of the European scientific community, even if not the scientific research community, in vain to invent something in a short period of time, so that they can get this pie-in-the-sky prize.

Because this is the first time to award the award, Hunter Butler has invited many professors and scientists who are recognized by the entire scientific community as judges, and they will each be paid at least £2,000 or more.

Attracted by money, these people were also very happy to be the judges of the first Victoria Awards, and even 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 Prize in Europe has spread by ten, ten, and hundreds, and has attracted the attention of many people.

What makes many people excited is that the Victoria Prize is awarded every year, and the prize money will not be reduced.

What does this mean? Winners of the Victoria Prize in any given year will receive a minimum of £50,000.

Many professors and scientists who are not very capable may not have access to such a large amount of money in their lifetime.

If you have to say that these funds are attractive to these people, it is like Zhang Xiu's aunt's attraction to Cao Cao.

Under such an irresistible temptation, although the first award was very demanding for the entries and research, it still attracted thousands of works and research, and individual candidates.

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

In order to prevent and eliminate the occurrence of cheating in the selection, all the works and research of the judges will not be allowed to participate in the selection.

This was undoubtedly a slight disappointment for some of the judges, but the £2,000 reward was definitely more attractive than the one-in-a-million prize.

Arthur was pleased with the progress of the Victoria Prize.

Each year, the Victoria Awards bring several high-level talents to Australia.

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

Although the purpose of the Victoria Award is to attract high-level talent to Australia, the selection of the award is very serious and fair.

In the end, the people who can win any of the awards are definitely talents who have made full contributions in this area.

Any such talent can play a significant role in an industry. If Australia can amass a lot of such talent, then why can't Australia rise?

When Hunter returned home, the main business of Europe was handed over to the Australian ambassador to the Netherlands, Eric Obum, and the head of European affairs, David Martins Simao.

David Martins Simão, of course, needless to say. As one of the trusted henchmen of the old Duke Arthur, he is also Arthur's team.

Ambassador Eric Obum is a talent in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one of Arthur's more optimistic Australian officials.

David Martins Simão's position as Steward of European Affairs was, in fact, the same as that of Hunt's Butler, a personal official subordinate to the royal family.

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

As the name suggests, the director of European affairs is the subordinate who manages European affairs.

Although Australia is an Oceanian country, it definitely has to deal with European countries.

In particular, the United Kingdom and Germany, one is a home country with deep relations, and the other is a cooperative country with good relations.

The Dutch also acted quickly. In December 1901, the second month after the signing of the Indigenous Purchase Treaty, the first natives of the Dutch East Indies arrived, 20,000.

Although Australia also paid 100,000 pounds for this purchase, compared to the 100,000 workforce, Australia is definitely the one who earns it.

Of course, the Kingdom of the Netherlands does not lose much. These natives were not easy to manage in the colony, and there were occasional rebellions in the Dutch East Indies.

Half of the 20,000 Aboriginal were allocated to steel mills, rapidly increasing Australia's meagre steel production.

Half was allocated to the construction of industrial railways. At present, the construction of the railway is due to the shortage of people, and in the absence of a shortage of rails and other materials, the more such indigenous people who can work, the better.

According to various statistics, Australia currently has more than 50,000 indigenous laborers engaged in all aspects of nation-building, and the number is increasing every month.

Of these, less than 10,000 are native Australians, while more than 40,000 others are from New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies.

Australia is an outlier when it comes to the indigenous side. Most of the colonies had large indigenous populations, especially those as large as Australia.

But Australia is different. Even during colonial times, Australia had just over a million indigenous people.

During the long colonial career, a large number of natives were tortured to death by diseases brought by the colonists, and a small number of natives moved to the barren interior.

Coupled with the expansion of cities due to the increase in immigration, the area of Aboriginal living in Australia is getting smaller and smaller.

These Aborigines are not included in the government's demographics, and none of the Australian officials see them as normal citizens.

It is estimated that there are more than 700,000 such indigenous Australians, and they are declining slightly.

But this is actually a scene that most Australian officials are happy to see. Even in the early days of history, Australia has been pursuing the so-called White Australia policy, that is, Caucasian Australia.

Although Arthur was not an extreme racist, he maintained a state of acquiescence to the officials when it came to indigenous policies.

This has also led to the occurrence of a phenomenon that some indigenous Australians will also join the indigenous labor force due to various circumstances.

However, this is good news for Australia's construction, because of the large number of indigenous inputs, the pace of various construction in Australia is much faster than before, and some places can even be said to be changing day by day.

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