MINISTERS STAGGERED
VAST IMMIGRATION PLAN MASS MOVEMENT TO AUSTRALIA Rec. 8 p.m. SYDNEY, Apl. 15. A quarter of a million migrants are to be brought to Australia within the next 12 months in the greatest organised mass ' population movement in Australia’s history, says the Canberra correspondent of the Sydney Sun. Of these, 140,000 are to be displaced persons and 110,000 Britons with free or assisted passages. Ministers were staggered when the Prime Minister, Mr Chifley, announced the vastness of the project, which _is to be completed before June 30, 1950. It is understood that considerable uneasiness was expressed by individual Ministers who fear that Australia cannot absorb such numhers without serious dislocation. One Minister suggested that Mr Chifley had made a mistake about the total, but Mr Chifley’s reported reply in Cabinet was: “There is no mistake about it. It is what Mr Calwell (the Minister of Immigration) and I are aiming for.’’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 7
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