INDONESIAN WOMAN'S CLAIM TO REMAIN IN AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE, Feb. 17.
The Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (Sir John Latham) to-day gave Mrs Anne O’Keefe leave to serve on the Minister of Immigration (Mr A. A. Calwell) an immigration officer named A. H. Priest, and the Commonwealth Government a short notice application for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendants from' deporting hei’ against her will In an affidavit, Mrs O’Keefe said that she was an Indonesian born in Celebes in 1908. She was first married to a school teacher, Samual Jacob. With her husband and the eight children of their marriage she was evacuated to Australia during the war against JapE’.n. Her' husband wen to New Guinea, from, where he wrote asking John O’Keefe to care for her and the children. Her husband was killed in 1944. She married O’Keefe in 1947 after receiving an assurance from the Immigration Department that the marriage would confer the right to remainin Australia.
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Grey River Argus, 18 February 1949, Page 8
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