‘Heavy pressure’ for passports
NZPA correspondent Australia’s top internal security organisation brought heavy pressure on the Australian Government to have passports introduced for Tasman travel, according to the “National Times” in Sydney. The newspaper has reported that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation warned that it could not safeguard the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference at Melbourne in September because of the ease with which terrorists could enter Australia undetected from New Zealand.
A confidential report on protective security services, commissioned after the Hilton bombing at the regional Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sydney in 1978 and presented to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in May, 1979, had criticised the system of free travel without documentation, according to the “National Times.”
It said that in an unpublished section of his report, Mr Justice Hope had said: “The arrangement. offers large scope for criminals, terrorists, and others to travel unnoticed. Many criminals, some of whom have been deported several times, are known to travel between Australia and New Zealand under false names.”
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