LONG-RANGE POLICY
POST-WAR MIGRATION AUSTRALIA'S NEED 17,000 CHILDREN A YEAR (Jiy Toloirraph - Press Assn. —Copyright.) (El a.m.) CANBERRA, Dec. 9 The setting-up of an all-party Parliamentary Committee to formulate an immigration policy would continue irrespective of what Government was in power during the next 10 or 20 years lias been suggested by the leader of the Federal Country Party. Mr. F. A. Fadden. While the Government’s decision to bring to Australia an average of 17,000 children a year was a step in the right direction, Australia was still in the dark in the urgent- matter of a long-range migration policy, he added. A total of 50,000 children is understood to .be the primary objective of the child migration scheme, announced this week.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21583, 9 December 1944, Page 3
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