IMMIGRATION PROGRAMME
Lessening Ties With Britain (NJi. Press Association—Copyright) CANBERRA. July 30. Australia’s immigration programme would lessen the ties with Britain, the Immigration Minister (Mr A. Downer) said tonight. This would be one of the major effects of the European content in migrant intake, he said. Mr Downer, in a lecture in Canberra, said: “I believe our immigration programme will, in the course of time, attenuate our British ties and place our Commonwealth membership more on a basis of practical self-interest. "To those of us who are fond of England and proud of our British institutions and Commonwealth association this conclusion may come as a surprise, but it is better to recognise these tendencies now than to remain unaware of them.” Mr Downer said that to him, advantages of what Australia was doing with Immigration, outweighted whatever difficulties and changes that might arise from the presence of people of alien stock. If Australia was to survive in the form which most Australians would like, it could only do so paradoxically by undergoing alterations in outlook and customs which European migrants would bring.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29271, 1 August 1960, Page 17
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