DEPORTATION

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 7

DEPORTATION

MR. LANG'S ATTACK

"BARTERING CITIZEN'S EIGHTS."

SYDNEY, 28th August.

Mr. Lang, commenting on the appointment of the Deportation Board, said the board would have power to deport any citizon of the Commonwealth. "The Federal Government has power over immigration and emigration, and now claims the right to deport citizens under any pretext it chooses to raise. I do not believe any Court in the Empire would sustain any such claim. Certainly the States were not aware that their citizen rights would be so bartered when they voted for the Federation." He concluded by saying that had Mr. Bruce left the matter alone, ho (Mr. Lang) would venture to say everything would have been satisfactorily settled at an early date. The steps Mr. Bruce threatened to take would only aggravate the situation and lead to an extension of the industrial turmoil. Mr. Bruce could hardly expect the co-operation of the States when his policy was so manifestly crude and disruptive.

Previous cable messages have stated that the deportation proposals affect only those who are not Australian-bom.

The Federal Government's"' special steps in regard to deportation are reported under a separate heading, "New Police force."