800 Asiatic Wartime Refugees “Must Be Deported From Aust.”
PERTH, Aug. 10. “All these people must go,” said the Minister of Immigration, Mr. A. A. Calwell, referring to the wartime refugees who are included in the restricted immigration classes.
He added that since 1905 the Immigration Act had precluded the entry of Asiatics into Australia except for temporary residence under certain circumstances.
Since then all Immigration Ministers had insisted on the observance of the law of the land. For some unexplainable reason, a number of persons thought he should make exceptions in the case of wartime refugees who had been granted temporary asylum in an emergency. “We have to enforce the deportation of 800 or so recalcitrants who have overstayed their welcome and refused to leave Australia voluntarily,” said Mr. Calwell.
“I was lenient and gave extension after extension to these people from 1945 onwards. I am faced with the argument that the additional years of residence between 1945 and 1949 constitute the right of permanent residence.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23021, 11 August 1949, Page 5
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