MASS MIGRATION
AUSTRALIA’S POLICY MR MENZIES CRITICAL (.9 a.m.) CANBERRA, Dec. G. Australia should go to great pains to attract migrants, said Mr. R. G. Menzies, leader of the Federal Opposition, to-day. lie contested the idea that there must bo no immigration while any Australian lacks employment. This point of view, he said, failed to appreciate that migrants were consumers as well as competitors. Nothing was so calculated to maintain employment as an increasing local mar-, ket for the products of Australian farms and factories.
11 was time Australians grasped the basic fact that without mass migration the Commonwealth would have no more than 8,000,000 people ifi 1980.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 6 December 1944, Page 4
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