Australia Stops Landing Permits
(Rec. 2 p.m.) CANBERRA. This Day
Australia has stopped issuing landing permits on purely humanitarian grounds, according to an announcement by the Minister of Immigration (Mr Calwell). He said that in 1946, 34.500 people entered the Commonwealth, of whom only 2 per cent were refugees. Because of the acute housing shortage and other factors, the Australian Government could not sanction the admission of refugees or displaced persons who had no relatives to look after them on arrival.
A few thousand permits were granted for persons who had relatives already settled in Australia. Now the Government felt it had gone as far as could be reasonably expected. The issue of permits on that basis had closed, and in future the approval of applications • would depend more on the intending migrant's ability to contribute to Australia’s economic welfare.
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Northern Advocate, 24 January 1947, Page 3
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