immigrants - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the word immigrants was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

How many immigrants from non-European countries have been admitted to Australia over each of the last 10 years and from which countries did they migrate. [More…]
Does the assisted passage scheme apply to immigrants migrating from non-European countries. [More…]
How many social workers are employed by his Department in the Australian Capital Territory to perform the work of advising and giving assistance to immigrants. [More…]
Does his Department publicise the fact that it offers a welfare service to immigrants in Canberra; if so, what form does that publicity take. [More…]
What methods does his Department usetokeep under surveillance the health of immigrants after their arrival in Australia. [More…]
What incentives does his Department provide to encourage (a) doctors employed to screen overseas the health of prospective immigrants and (b) other officials employed by his Department overseas to undertake formal study of the language of the country in which they are to be posted both prior to departure for overseas and during their overseas posting. [More…]
In which countries have Australian doctors been engaged in screening the health of prospective immigrants since 1965? [More…]
How many doctors engaged for screening overseas the health of prospective immigrants (a) applied for and (b) undertook courses in foreign languages at the expense of his Department in each year from 1965 to 1971 inclusive. [More…]
Which languages spoken by prospective immigrants in their native lands have not bean taught in language courses. [More…]
Is it a fact that immigrants cannot receive social service benefits until they have been resident in Australia for a number of years. [More…]
Will he end this situation which brings the great majority of immigrants into disrepute? [More…]
The figure of 18,000 was based on a departmental estimate of the number of persons who since 1 January 1965 had either entered or remained in Australia in circumstances under which they had become ‘prohibited immigrants’. [More…]
Did his predecessor state on 30 March 1974 that the Labor Government had inherited 18,000 illegal immigrants from the previous government. [More…]
1 ) How many immigrants entered Australia in 1 973. [More…]
Has any limitation been placed on political activities of immigrants from Chile who supported the Allende Government, similar to those imposed on immigrants who supported the former South Vietnamese Government; if not, why not. [More…]
Does the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs know of any person or organisation giving advice to illegal immigrants not to come forward and seek permanent resident status during the current amnesty as this would lead to deportation? [More…]
In view of the continuing conflict occurring in Lebanon, can the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs say what action is being taken to process more rapidly the thousands of applications his Department is holding on behalf of prospective immigrants from Lebanon? [More…]
The fol-from 1965 to 1975 and the sub-sections of section 16 under lowing table shows the numbers of deportation orders which the persons concerned became prohibited immigrants. [More…]
How many Lebanese immigrants have arrived in Australia since hostilities commenced in Lebanon. [More…]
How many immigrants have been assisted by the Fairbridge Society during each of the years (a) 1974-75, (b) 1975-76 and(c) 1976-77? [More…]
Can he say if there is a fanning property owned, rented or otherwise occupied by the Fairbridge Society or its officers or agents, in Western Australia; if so (a) do any of the immigrants or members of their families live at the farm (b) for what periods have they lived there, and (c) what duties do they perform at that farm? [More…]
Statistics of illegal immigrants detained who have had in their possession forged passports and/or identifications are not maintained. [More…]
1 ) For what programs and policies concerning immigrants has his Department been responsible in each year from 1970 to date. [More…]
Insofar as the power of deportation is limited to aliens and immigrants, the only persons upon whom a deportation order can have a deterrent effect are, of course, aliens and immigrants. [More…]
(a) Expatriates - Under the Papua and New Guinea Migration Ordinance 1963-1969 all immigrants (the term includes all persons not born in the Territory, whether entering for short visits or for longer term stay) other than members of the Defence Forces of Australia, certain diplomatic and consular officials and members of the crew of certain vessels during the stay of their vessels in Territory ports, are required to be in possession of entry permits. [More…]
There are no restrictions under the Migration Ordinance on the exit of immigrants from the Territory except in relation to the taking of children out of the Territory if they are the subject of certain court proceedings. [More…]
However, since carrying companies are subject to heavy penalties for carrying persons who, by not holding entry permits, become on entry to the Territory prohibited immigrants, in practice all people entering the Territory are issued with entry permits to facilitate their travel. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration: Is it a fact that immigrants are encouraged to believe that naturalisation will entitle them to all the privileges of Australian citizenship? [More…]
I suppose the reason is that we are scavenging around the world for factory fodder; we are looking everywhere for immigrants. [More…]
I ask: In view of the expected decrease in housing approvals, has the Minister modified his stated target of 175,000 immigrants for the year 1970? [More…]
The title includes the words ‘for Immigrants and certain other persons’. [More…]
The term ‘immigrants’ is intended to relate to persons who have been admitted to or allowed to remain in Australia indefinitely for residence. [More…]
of clause 4 excludes from the intended meaning of the word ‘immigrants’ those persons who do not have resident status in Australia. [More…]
The term ‘certain other persons’ is intended to include naturalised Australians and the Australian-born offspring of immigrants who require instruction in the English language, as well as those who are immigrants under the definition already described. [More…]
Non-English speaking immigrants are not specified because English speaking immigrants and their children as well as their non-English speaking counterparts are to be provided with courses in citizenship education which are referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-clause (1.) [More…]
Has the present situation resulted in (a) Australian trained speech therapists being excluded from higher appointments in Australia which go to members of the profession from overseas holding university degrees, (b) general retardation of the profession in Australia including a lack of research due to a deficiency of persons with a basic degree conducting research studies for higher degrees, (c) inability to accommodate students from Asian countries seeking speech therapy qualifications with universal acceptability and (d) insufficient trained personnel to properly treat polyglot immigrants, bilingual children, multi-lingual children, persons with a brain injury, speech, voice and hearing defects of Aborigines, and other more orthodox forms of speech therapy. [More…]
A couple of weeks ago the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) claimed great credit and announced with a very great flourish that the Government would be bringing in about 180,000 immigrants a year. [More…]
Persons entitled to enter Australia are those who may not be regarded as immigrants in the legal sense because Australia is their home through prior residence. [More…]
The article concluded by quoting representatives of migrant organisations who publicly welcome the inquiry announced recently by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) but who in private are said to be ‘incredulous, scornful, angry and disgusted’ by what they regard as an attack on immigrants. [More…]
Our reasons for bringing immigrants from Europe are said to be for Australia’s economic self interest. [More…]
In the meantime, however, continuing waves of immigrants will nurture these European cultural communities in the major capital cities of Australia for the reasons I have just stated. [More…]
Does he intend to apply a political test to prospective immigrants and visitors to Australia so that entry will be permitted to only those who agree with the Government’s Vietnam policy? [More…]
I do not quite know to which matter the honourable gentleman is making reference, because he spoke about the general question of immigrants. [More…]
in consultation with and as required by the Department of Immigration, to prepare or assist in the preparation of general publicity and information material to serve as a background against which specific campaigns to attract and inform immigrants can be carried out. [More…]
Is it a fact that many irrigation projects have resulted in types of production that cannot find remunerative markets, whereas Sydney beaches provide greatly appreciated amenities for between 2 million and 3 million people and a powerful attraction for both tourists and immigrants? [More…]
All of us in this House, are either immigrants ourselves, or descendants of immigrants, so that we might say that Australia’s growth and economic strength have been founded on its immigration policy. [More…]
In the past, the numbers of immigrants coming to Australia has varied with wars, disasters, booms and depressions. [More…]
They were Australia’s first immigrants. [More…]
Some of the immigrants came from the finest families. [More…]
The others were carefully selected for their qualities and the selections were confirmed by some of the finest judges in England, litis planned immigration policy continued for a number of years with the immigrants being housed in cosy little migrant hostels at Port Arthur in the south, at Botany Bay on the east coast and Moreton Bay in the north. [More…]
In my electorate I have a very large percentage of families who came to Australia as immigrants. [More…]
This must not be a one-way process though, as there is still a tremendous need for the Australian community as a whole to gain a more knowledgeable attitude and fuller appreciation of the problems immigrants face and the ways in which migrants* contributions to this country’s future can be realised. [More…]
Only in 1949-50 did the net intake of immigrants to this country exceed 2 per cent of the national population. [More…]
There are demographic problems illustrated by the loss of overseas immigrants and members of the 15 to 25 years age group to other States. [More…]
In what ways are immigrants disadvantaged under law in Australia either before or after naturalisation. [More…]
The loss suffered by the British ex-serviceman has been suffered through no fault of his own and it seems to me that there is at least a prima facie case for some compensation, especially for those British immigrants who have taken out Australian citizenship or otherwise evinced an intention to settle permanently in Australia. [More…]
the problem of increasing the skilled work force ‘will not be solved by- raising the immigration target in order to acquire more craftsmen from overseas, although anything that can be done to increase the proportion of skilled persons among immigrants will be useful’. [More…]
Those honourable members seem to forget that Australian history is one of immigration and that the honourable member for Boothby is a descendant of immigrants, as 1 am and as is every other member who sits in this House. [More…]
In my electorate there is a tremendous number of Greek immigrants who are splendid people. [More…]
Tan, in analysing the assimilation process, has interestingly pointed out that ‘the popular belief is not correct that knowledge of English is a prerequisite for the satisfaction and identification of non-British immigrants. [More…]
Then we have to import at additional expense immigrants to provide labour for the industry which provides the employment and so on in never decreasing circles - a feeling which honourable members opposite are no doubt familiar with. [More…]
In America, a nation made up entirely of immigrants, the crime rate is about 10 times higher than it is in our mother country Great Britain. [More…]
One should not allow himself to think that in Great Britain or even in Australia crimes are committed mainly by immigrants. [More…]
We in Australia should be grateful for the contribution that large sections of immigrants have made to our society. [More…]
I was amazed to learn recently that at the hospital for the criminally insane at Morisset which is in my electorate - formerly it was in the electorate of Robertson which now is very worthily represented by Mr Cohen - 50 per cent of the criminally mental inmates are immigrants to Australia. [More…]
The IPC found that our social services were so poor - and the Minister should mark this - that we could not attract immigrants from the countries covered by the OECD. [More…]
This work has involved the director of the Committee and various members of it in visiting Europe, discussing the situation with governments and appropriate bodies in the countries concerned, obtaining information about the courses undertaken by immigrants with professional qualifications in the countries concerned, and then bringing that information back and making contact with the appropriate bodies in Australia. [More…]
The work force at Whyalla is made up mainly of post-war immigrants to this country, mainly from various parts of the United Kingdom but also from many other countries. [More…]
I mention the number of people who are immigrants to this country, who have wanted to build a good life here for themselves, who have become naturalised, who have put in 10, 12, 15 or 20 years hard work building the Snowy Mountains scheme and bringing about its completion, who have helped to construct Canberra. [More…]
Today, immigrants go back to Europe because it is no good growing old in this country. [More…]
He says that some of the immigrants in Canberra would prefer to go home to their own countries and not retire in Australia. [More…]
Naturally enough, some of the immigrants who come here, after staying for a number of years and qualifying for an Australian pension by living here and paying taxes as good citizens, might decide to go home and live with their families in their years of retirement. [More…]
The only persons who have a right to entry to Australia are those who may not be regarded as ‘immigrants’. [More…]
Furthermore, as Mr O’Leary and his family now appear to be illegal immigrants will the Minister state the full facts of the case and what action, if any, is being taken by his Department in relation to this remarkable one-man unassisted mass migration programme? [More…]
The result would be to cut assisted migration from Britain by more than 60 per cent and virtually to eliminate migration from Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, France, Switzerland, the United States of America, the countries of Latin America and other sources of what are, by any standards, first class immigrants. [More…]
How would Australia have provided employment for all the immigrants who have come here in the last 15 years if we had not built the factories which employ them? [More…]
Last year 116,000 marriages were contracted and the number of immigrants increased to about 185,000. [More…]
Lately the more ambitious under the influence of Paul Ehrlich, the Billy Graham of the zero population growth movement - add world overpopulation, exhaustion of resources and pollution of the biosphere - have come up with a unique explanation for Australia that if we do not have immigrants we do not have pollution, traffic hold-ups and urban congestion. [More…]
What we want, of course, is not necessarily fewer immigrants but positive plans for lessening pollution, traffic problems and urban congestion. [More…]
They will remain so whether we have immigrants or not and only a change of government is likely to produce the plans and alter the priorities. [More…]
As I said in the Estimates debate last year I believe that the broad lines for selection of immigrants should be on quality, not quantity. [More…]
If one does a little arithmetic one sees that the Government’s policy is to have a non-European population content of 500,000 immigrants by the year 2000. [More…]
This number is required because of the fact that approximately half of the immigrants who come to this country are British. [More…]
1 ask: Why is the Commonwealth housing authority, in co-operation with the States, not used to purchase already existing terrace housing in inner suburban areas, particularly the inner suburban areas of Sydney and Melbourne, for renovation and letting, leasing or sale to immigrants or other people? [More…]
But there is perhaps evident some slight falling off in demand and this is probably due to the underlying factor that we have invested such a huge proportion of the national income in housing in the last 20 years that we have caught up very largely with the huge stream of immigrants and at the same time have greatly increased standards. [More…]
How many (a) doctors and (b) other ancillary medical staff were employed by his Department in each of these countries to screen the health of prospective immigrants. [More…]
Many people in metropolitan areas, including many thousands of our immigrants, are much worse off and are in much more dire trouble than even some of the unfortunate people in the countryside. [More…]
Unfortunately for Australia today, the Menzies Government did not realise that encouraging secondary industry and immigrants was only half the story. [More…]
30% or more immigrants (DES definition) on their roll. [More…]
Schools with more than 20% immigrants receive a lump sum of 5.5 for every 10% immigrants in excess of 20%. [More…]
Immigrants in schools (criterion 6 above) [More…]
Children unable to speak English involves considerable judgment on the teacher’s part, and therefore the percentage of immigrants was considered a more satisfactory measure. [More…]
For one criterion, in particular, this gave distorted results, namely immigrants: the national average percentage of pupils who are immigrants (DES definition) is2.5 per cent, the ILEA average is 15.8 per cent and certain schools have 65 per cent. [More…]
Therefore using the method of scoring outlined a school with 25 per cent immigrants would score 1,000, one with 50 per cent 2,000. [More…]
Finally, certain help is already provided for schools with a high proportion of immigrants, and, therefore, it would be unwise to overweight this criterion. [More…]
Some of the criteria by which that organisation works in relation to schools are the social class of the personss in the vicinity, the housing stress, the number of large families, the question of poverty, the number of immigrants, the number of handicapped pupils, teacher stress, the hours that teachers have to teach, the subjects and the class sizes, pupil turnover, parental interest and the adequacy of school buildings. [More…]
The Minister and the Government which he represents have a complete contempt for immigrants. [More…]
Liberals do not care where immigrants come from as long as they do the labouring work. [More…]
A meeting was called by the United Council of Immigrants in the Paddington Town Hall on 23rd January 1972. [More…]
They sent apologies, but in the 2 months in which they could have arranged for somebody to stand in for them they were unable to get anyone to attend this meeting of the United Council of Immigrants. [More…]
The Minister for Social Services normally is the sort of person who loves to go to meetings organised by the groups involved in the United Council of Immigrants. [More…]
Let us consider what the United Council of Immigrants has said relevant to the sort of legislation that we have introduced and the criticisms it has made of the proposed legislation of the Government. [More…]
‘How many immigrants, who came to Australia with assisted passages, returned to their homeland during the last 5 years. [More…]
In what ways have improvements been made in the screening and selection of immigrants as stated by a spokesman for his Department in ‘The Age’ of 15th October 1971. [More…]
Where these investigations indicate that further changes should be made, new procedures will be implemented to ensure that the methods and standards employed by the Department of Immigration for the selection of immigrants are up to date, adequate and appropriate to Australia’s needs. [More…]
What questions are asked and what other procedures are used to screen the mental health of prospective immigrants. [More…]
Tuition in all languages spoken by prospective immigrants in their native lands is available and may be taught in language courses. [More…]
The argument on reciprocal agreements is well expressed by a letter which my colleague the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) received last month from the President of the United Council of Immigrants. [More…]
I have also quoted the letter which my colleague the honourable member for Grayndler had received from the United Council of Immigrants. [More…]
We know from our own observation that this inadequacy causes feelings of insecurity in the minds of immigrants from the Netherlands, often leading to a decision to return to their country of origin, where the returnees find a system of social services, that is much further developed, that keeps in step with the rising cost of living and that knows no means test. [More…]
My colleague, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), has referred to the contentions made by the United Council of Immigrants. [More…]
I remind honourable members that when we talk of the United Council of Immigrants, the Council whose policy has been embraced today completely and unambiguously by the Australian Labor Party, we are speaking of the Central Council of Croatian Associations in Australia, the Italian Welfare Centre Co., the Netherlands Society of Sydney, the Association of Australian Slovaks, the Swiss Club of New South Wales, the Ukrainian Society of New South Wales, the Federal Council of Polish Associations, the Estonian Society in Sydney, the Hungarian Council of New South Wales, the Maltese Community Council of New South Wales, the Latvian community in Sydney, the Lithuanian community in Sydney and the Australian Romanian Association. [More…]
The Minister and the Government he represents have a complete contempt for immigrants. [More…]
They invite us once again to become party to the abandonment of the interests of many immigrants. [More…]
How many immigrants have been repatriated for all reasons at the expense of the Commonwealth hi (a) each year and (b) all years from and including 1960. [More…]
What were the categories of grounds on which these immigrants were repatriated. [More…]
and (2) The number of immigrants repatriated and the cost to the Commonwealth each year during the period 1960 to 29th February 1972 were as follows: [More…]
It is comprised of men of religion and well meaning people who are trying to do something not only for the age pensioners and immigrants but also for the part-Aboriginal people who live in my electorate. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government, when it came to power in 1949, was happy to inherit part of Labor’s policies, but did not realise that encouraging secondary industries and immigrants was only half the story. [More…]
Australia is a nation of immigrants. [More…]
Today there is no necessity to embark upon a policy such as that enunciated by the Treasurer a few weeks ago to increase the number of immigrants coming into Australia. [More…]
Probably, of the immigrants who come here, a greater percentage will be lost than has been lost in the last 2 years. [More…]
The Government is wasting the financial resources of the country by bringing immigrants here when it knows damn well that almost one-third will return to their own country. [More…]
But the Government knows darn well that 30,000 immigrants will go back to their own country. [More…]
If he picks up any migrant paper that has been published in this country, particularly in the last few weeks and reads the public opinion polls that have been taken amongst immigrants he will find that 80 per cent of them say that the Government ought to be sacked. [More…]
The great majority of immigrants find themselves in the automobile industry, assembling vehicles for General MotorsHolden’s Pty Ltd, Chrysler Australia Ltd and Ford Motor Co. of Aust. [More…]
Then he did not have the courage to advertise among the immigrants that the scheme was available to them. [More…]
What is the position of schools in my electorate where 70 per cent of the children are immigrants? [More…]
So far we have relied on the scheme for nominated immigrants from the United Kingdom. [More…]
However, no system of nominated immigrants could possibly be sufficient to handle the number of new settlers we now anticipate, and a development in the near future will be the arrival of unnominated people from the United Kingdom. [More…]
It is obvious that there must soon be a big development of the flow of unnominated British immigrants, who will have initial accommodation provided jointly by the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
During the years of our massive immigration programme we were not very selective in terms of quality as long as the immigrants were white. [More…]
As humanitarians, in the state of the world today - I am not talking about Australia and its needs 20 years ago - we should take immigrants only at the rate at which we can absorb them, and not to depend on them for cheap labour. [More…]
Dr KLUGMAN (Prospect)- by leaveEarlier tonight the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) made the point that if the Australian Labor Party’s proposals were implemented we would not get any good Nordic or Aryan immigrants which he prefers. [More…]
Has he received an application from Vladimir Andreyevich Kolesnik and his family, formerly of Kiev, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and now of Vienna, Austria, to enter Australia as permanent immigrants. [More…]
Under the Migration Act, I have the authority, as Minister, to order the deportation of aliens and immigrants in certain defined circumstances. [More…]
It is also obviously essential that we try our utmost to remove the general misconception on the part of many British immigrants already here that by long residence they have automatically become citizens. [More…]
I refer particularly to the United Council of Immigrants. [More…]
It is interesting to note the types of organisation which make up the United Council of Immigrants. [More…]
He was always very happy to send anyone from Mr Les Irwin to Mr Douglas Darby to any of the meetings of those organisations when it only meant attacking the Labor Party, but when it meant actually doing something for the immigrants involved who were represented by the organisations he squibbed it. [More…]
Mr J. J. Quilkey’s (Latrobe University) Immigrants in the Automobile Industry’: Commenced 1970; to be completed 1973. [More…]
1 believe that it is abundantly clear to those with an eye to see that in the Bill there are no disincentives to immigrants from Great Britain. [More…]
No possible objection can be made to the proposition that all Australian citizens, whether natural born Australians or immigrants, should be equal before the law. [More…]
The patrol boats and Nomad aircraft which we are supplying will help Indonesia in the detection, interception and deterrence of smugglers, pirates, illegal fishing and illegal immigrants. [More…]
I have never believed immigration to be inflationary, but on the other hand I believe that the numbers of immigrants who have come to Australia together with their dependants have provided a steadily increasing local market for our primary and secondary industries. [More…]
I believe that its practical approach to immigration, by curbing the number of immigrants to Australia to 110,000, was long overdue and should have been adopted by the previous Government. [More…]
They are now able to do so whether they are immigrants or Australian born. [More…]
The honourable member for Wide Bay has done a service to all of us in his efforts to contain this most undesirable of immigrants that Australia has had recently. [More…]
Following the great immigration intake, the great bulk of those immigrants went to the over-centralised cities of Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
We have seen the present Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) terrorising a number of immigrants to Australia by threatening them with deportation for actions which probably were not crimes at all and telling the communist country that he would see that they were deported. [More…]
Over the years there have been some gaps in the establishment of trade criteria for immigrants. [More…]
To make sure into which category immigrants fell we had to have photographs. [More…]
Labor’s platform does exclude race, colour, or nationality as a criterion in the selection of immigrants, but Mr Whitlam would have been wise to tell the South-East Asians that it contains another criterion of selection - [More…]
The ‘Age’ of 15 September 1973 carried this headline ‘ “The future for Australia is black or multi-coloured …. if our people don’t realise it and stop Mr Grassby’s enthusiasm for coloured immigrants” ‘. [More…]
Those visits have done much to allay the fears that people had for so many years that they were not regarded as equals by Australians and that they were not welcome to our shores either as visitors or, more importantly, as immigrants. [More…]
In chapters 3 and 4 the problems of Aborigines, ethnic groups and immigrants are faced. [More…]
It operated in the areas of Surry Hills and Parramatta and advised on matters of marriage guidance and matters relating to immigrants. [More…]
The honourable member for Swan (Mr Bennett), who is in the chamber, was there, as were various departmental people and certainly a number of immigrants who formerly had lived in Eastern European countries. [More…]
The chopping and changing in the estimated number of immigrants to come to [More…]
At today’s Caucus meeting I was asked by a Western Australian senator to say how many illegal immigrants were in Australia working in fulltime employment without any right to be here. [More…]
My evidence for this comes from a Chilean from my own electorate who happened to be at the Department of Immigration in Adelaide where he had to help to interpret for a large group of immigrants who arrived from the Adelaide airport. [More…]
I have strong evidence from Foreign Affairs sources pointing to the fact that these immigrants to Australia were improperly screened and I strongly doubt the statement made by Senator Murphy in clause 18 of his paper where he says: [More…]
I maintain that the pool of immigrants seeking asylum would be in the majority of cases those of the acute left wing persuasion and members of Allende ‘s party. [More…]
I am quite sure that unionists, non-unionists and other sections of the Australian community would agree with my attitude when I say that we do not want to feel that any government, in particular the present Government, is guilty of being biased politically in the selection of immigrants who come into this nation. [More…]
The National Committee consists of an independent Chairman, one representative each of the Australian Government, the ACTU and the central employers ‘ organisations, and three other members, one each with special knowledge of the employment problems of women, immigrants and Aboriginals. [More…]
368, in which he advised me that statistics of immigrants arriving in Australia in 1973 who had relatives already resident in Australia were not available, does he intend to record this type of information in the future, or is it something in which he is not interested. [More…]
Feasibility studies, allied with the recent introduction of computer facilities, have indicated that statistics of immigrants arriving in Australia who had relatives already resident here can be efficiently collected. [More…]
The Commonwealth in the area of housing has to rely upon the provision of housing being incidental to its power to make laws with respect to: Family allowances; the Aboriginal people of Australia; immigrants, and Commonwealth employment. [More…]
d ) for the purpose of the provision of housing for the aboriginal people of Australia, immigrants to Australia, persons employed in or by Departments or authorities of Australia and persons engaged in work for Australia or an authority of Australia; or [More…]
for the purpose of the provision of housing for the aboriginal people of Australia, immigrants to Australia, persons employed in or by Departments or authorities of Australia and persons engaged in work for Australia or an authority of Australia; or [More…]
The sub-clause then states that the Corporation may perform its functions in a territory; for the purpose of the provision of housing for members and former members of the defence force; by way of, or as incidental to, the provision of family allowances- that is the matter about which the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) had a small altercation a moment ago- for the purpose of the provision of housing for the Aboriginal people of Australia, immigrants to Australia persons employed in or by departments or authorities of Australia and persons engaged in work for Australia or any authority of Australia. [More…]
Is he prepared to broaden the eligibility criteria of those who are in essence not immigrants but refugees? [More…]
The Government maintains that Australia, at the present time, is incapable of sustaining an increase of more than 40 000 immigrants a year, despite the opinion of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation that the present capacity of Australia’s food energy resources is sufficient to support 37 million people immediately- three times our present population. [More…]
Immigrants from Chile: Limitation on Political Activities (Question No. [More…]
That this House expresses its serious concern and deplores the action of the Government in its implementation of the Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants’. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: In respect of the amnesty for illegal immigrants presently in operation, how many illegal immigrants have come forward as a result of the amnesty? [More…]
Does the Minister’s Department have any information on how many further illegal immigrants are likely to be in Australia but have not come forward? [More…]
The failure of the Government to establish adequate provisions for the implementation of the amnesty for illegal immigrants. [More…]
All these people are affected by the current offer of an amnesty for illegal immigrants, an amnesty that I believe needs modification if it is to work. [More…]
The real reason that the amnesty seems doomed to failure is that the people directly affected, the illegal immigrants and their community spokesmen, were not consulted before it was introduced. [More…]
Much of our electorate work is taken up with the problems of illegal immigrants. [More…]
Further, offences related to the status of these people as illegal immigrants should not be regarded as crimes in the sense of disqualifying them from the amnesty. [More…]
He called on the new Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to clarify the election promise of amnesty for illegal immigrants. [More…]
Mr Ted Innes (ALP, Victoria) said he knew of a hundred immigrants who are in Australia unlawfully. [More…]
Significantly, it is in the area of Melbourne the city in which the honourable member resides, the city in which he made the statement that he had told illegal immigrants to hold off; in fact the city with the most migrants that the numbers are not as high one would have hoped. [More…]
There were 2 criteria for illegal immigrants to become permanent residents: health and police record. [More…]
At this stage, it was advised that all illegal immigrants working under their own or an assumed name contact the Taxation Department and rectify their form. [More…]
The Neos Kosmos accepts the guarantee and asks all illegal immigrants to report to the Department of Immigration without delay. [More…]
This will mean that at the end of the 3 month period for which an amnesty has been declared those illegal immigrants who have not come forward might be deported if they are found. [More…]
If at the end of 3 months illegal immigrants have not taken advantage of the amnesty I sincerely believe that we have an obligation to every Australian, whether he be a recently arrived Australian or one who was born here, to set about systematically to deport them. [More…]
I applaud the amnesty this Government has granted for illegal immigrants, but what about those who wish now to come to this country by legal means? [More…]
I also welcome those aspects of the Governor-General’s Speech relating to immigrants as being essential to any successful and humane immigration program and I also urge the Government to give serious consideration to the suggestions in the Henderson report directed at eradicating some of the deficiencies and prejudices which our social welfare system presently contains regarding migrants. [More…]
Under this Scheme, now administered by the Department of Social Security, a voluntary welfare agency may, if it meets certain criteria, be given a direct grant for the employment of a social worker to work among immigrants. [More…]
I refer to the answer given by the Minister to the honourable member for Sydney on Wednesday last on the subject of Lebanese immigrants. [More…]
Total landed immigrants in Canada in the years 1973, 1974 and 1975- the 1975 figures are provisionalwere 184 000, 218 000 and 218 000 respectively. [More…]
There are major problems of identification and extreme difficulties of obtaining necessary checks of potential immigrants including health checks. [More…]
The Labor initiatives in the social welfare field at one stage made Australia attractive to immigrants but the Government has now, I believe- I think we can be critical of this-attempted to dismantle the Labor initiatives in that social welfare area. [More…]
For instance, one of the major characteristics of Australia in terms of immigration is its highly industrialised nature and the roles that immigrants are expected to play within the work force. [More…]
I am not denying for one moment that there was little difference between a Labor government in the past and the present Government or little difference perhaps in the debate that ensued over the years over the source countries of our immigrants. [More…]
The position simply is that the Minister will, I imagine, indicate the willingness of the Australian Government to receive immigrants from the United Kingdom as from other countries. [More…]
I put the proposition to the House and to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that when the final scheme comes into practice we will see a program that serves very well people purchasing their first homes; whether they be in the country or the city; whether it be through a Commonwealth or State program; whether they be immigrants or Australian born; whether they be young or middleaged. [More…]
This national problem is aggravated by a fall in the numbers of skilled immigrants and too few Australians undergoing skill training. [More…]
Specifically, they seek to persuade them that, politically speaking, there are no poor, no aged, no sick, no Aborigines, no immigrants, no people seriously squeezed by inflation, not many for whom unemployment is a major issue, no one whose health, education, food, shelter, protection from economic abuse or exploitation, or even survival, depends on the services of Government. [More…]
In particular I want to refer to the Government’s population policy and its announced intention to bring 70 000 new immigrants to Australia when our already high unemployment rate continues to rise. [More…]
I accept what the honourable member for Deakin (Mr Jarman) had to say and I accept some of what the honourable member for Prospect had to say, namely, that these immigrants will not of themselves increase unemployment. [More…]
The other point I touch on briefly is the administration of the amnesty for illegal immigrants. [More…]
Of further concern to the Committee is that illegal entry of drugs, pornography and immigrants may also be involved. [More…]
The only people who would grieve for us would be a few relatives in Italy and Greece of recent immigrants. [More…]
This compared with approximately 52 500 immigrants who arrived in 1975-76. [More…]
This national problem is aggravated by a fall in the numbers of skilled immigrants and too few Australians undergoing skill training. [More…]
We would welcome these people as suitable immigrants. [More…]
On a lesser scale there are situations or threats leading to threats to sovereignty short of violence, infringement of territorial waters, of future maritime economic interests, such as fishing, mining, espionage activities, infringement of our coastline by smugglers, illegal immigrants and so on. [More…]
No cases are known of people losing their lives attempting to enter the GDR illegally, although many arrests of ‘ illegal immigrants’ have been made by the GDR authorities. [More…]
How many prohibited immigrants were arrested in the raids? [More…]
Eligibility of Immigrants to Settle in Australia (Question No. [More…]
How many illegal immigrants applied for and were granted permanent residence in Australia during the amnesty period earlier this year. [More…]
What was the estimated number of illegal immigrants in Australia (a) prior to the amnesty period and (b) at 31 August 1976. [More…]
The latest statistics available indicate that: as at 31 December 1975 an estimated 39 500 prohibited immigrants were in Australia, as at 31 August 1976 an estimated 54000 prohibited immigrants were in Australia. [More…]
1 ) How many immigrants under the ‘South African and Other African’ classification have entered Australia since 13 December 1975. [More…]
) Those still in Australia are prohibited immigrants and their deportation was ordered on that basis. [More…]
Many of the people already in Cyprus were category A immigrants, that is, mothers, fathers or dependent children of Lebanese people living in Australia. [More…]
A restricted intake of immigrants of 40 000 persons per annum would boost this growth to a total population of 1 7.5 million persons by 200 1 . [More…]
The Paper suggests that there would have to be possible concessions to immigrants in order to encourage them not to go to the traditional stamping grounds of Sydney and Melbourne and the large cities. [More…]
The people who arrive here as immigrants are people who are entitled to be treated as people. [More…]
Since 1788 the population has been added to by immigrants. [More…]
He talks of the European situation and says that no new attempts to integrate settler immigrants as manual workers are likely in Europe but that there will be increased hirings of deliberately short term migrant workers. [More…]
I place on record that the immigrants who came into this country made a great contribution. [More…]
About a month ago I was privileged to be present when the Lithuanian immigrants of Western Australia, now Australian citizens, observed their national day on Sunday, 20 February. [More…]
Post-war migration to Australia reached a peak of 185 000 immigrants under the LiberalCountry Party Government in 1969-70. [More…]
The Whitlam Labor Government reduced the inflow of immigrants because it believed that migrants coming to this country would add to its economic problems by increasing unemployment. [More…]
Constantly in this place he shows nothing but contempt for the immigrants who come to this country and who are struggling to learn English. [More…]
It is very important that we supplement our population with immigrants. [More…]
They are the zero population growth advocates, those sceptical of economic growth for its own sake, others concerned with conservation and environmental issues and those who fear, quite simply, that the country needs time to digest the postwar influx of immigrants. [More…]
Immigration levels should be sufficiently flexible to take account of Australia’s short term domestic economic problems, our manpower needs and our changing capacity to absorb immigrants after giving full examination to the social consequences of large, constant intakes. [More…]
However, in conjunction with proper training schemes for our present Australian population, I believe that immigrants with special skills and employment prospects should be given special consideration. [More…]
Immigrants have tended to locate in the inner city areas of our larger cities, where amenities are already overstretched. [More…]
If we are to regard Aborigines as immigrants we really are going to have an absurd debate. [More…]
The Green Paper reports that in the main immigrants to this country choose to concentrate themselves in the cities and that they choose to congregate quite often near persons of the same ethnic origin. [More…]
The Green Paper also canvasses the source of our immigrants. [More…]
This means that although population will not be stationary because of past high levels of fertility and high inputs of young immigrants we have produced at the moment an age structure with a high proportion of young in child bearing ages. [More…]
1 ) How many illegal immigrants applied for amnesty in the electoral division of Capricornia during 1 976. [More…]
Were any illegal immigrants arrested who had not applied for amnesty. [More…]
The urgency of allocating more resources to technical education in underscored by the facts that we can no longer count as much as in the past on the skills brought in by immigrants, on the strong belief that the young in Australia are in for prolonged periods of unemployment, that the demand for skills and for the upgrading of existing skills will increase, and that our technical education facilities have long been starved of funds for capital equipment . [More…]
During discussion of an item dealing with ‘Methods Used in the States for consultation with the Ethnic Communities’, the New South Wales Minister, Mr Jackson, circulated to Ministers an extract from a High Court judgment that in regard to immigrants the Commonwealth had constitutional responsibility and power and that the States do not have it. [More…]
Situations arise from time to time in which people such as those who enter Australia illegally - for example, deserting seamen- or who become prohibited immigrants- for example, by the expiry of temporary permits- claim to be refugees entitled to the protection of the Convention and in consequence request permission to remain permanently in Australia. [More…]
The only powers that it has are incidental and relate to people such as Commonwealth public servants, immigrants, social service beneficiaries, students and servicemen, in respect of whom it can legislate. [More…]
I wish to raise in the Parliament tonight a matter which I consider to be a great exploitation of people who are commonly called prohibited immigrants. [More…]
I have spoken with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr McKellar) in regard to this case and I am raising the matter so that I can place on public record the extent to which people who are in the unfortunate situation of being in Australia and classified as prohibited immigrants are being exploited by people who should know better. [More…]
Secondly, the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin) brought up the question of exploitation of prohibited immigrants and he mentioned a particular solicitor in Sydney. [More…]
I should like to draw to his attention and to the attention of the House a Press statement I issued on 16 May 1977 headed ‘Exploitation of Prohibited Immigrants’. [More…]
At least one body which receives substantial contributions from its ‘clients ‘ continually makes representations on behalf of visitors, some of who have become prohibited immigrants by overstaying their authorised period of entry. [More…]
1 ) Can he say how many refugees from South Vietnam were accepted as immigrants by (a) Australia, (b) Canada, (c) the United States of America and (d) any other country since April 1975. [More…]
Can he say how many refugees from South Vietnam were accepted as immigrants by (a) Australia, (b) Canada, (c) the United States of America, and (d ) any other country. [More…]
For each country that has accepted South Vietnamese refugees, what percentage of its immigrants have been from South Vietnam since April 1975. [More…]
I have no doubt that in the annals of human endeavour the achievements of Israel will be seen as a demonstration of the power of man to overcome insurmountable problems, to achieve the right to exist and to establish a state which, in the Middle Eastern context, remains to this day one of the most unified and one of the most prosperous, despite the fact that Isreal is facing a rate of inflation of some 30 per cent, that over 40 per cent of her gross national product is directed at defence and over recent years she has had to absorb nearly 2 000 000 immigrants. [More…]
-The Minister for Immigration will remember that at the first question time of this Parliament he encouraged all illegal immigrants who were covered by his amnesty offer to come forward. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he will comment on that apparently more flexible scale of numbers of immigrants. [More…]
He said that his discretion related to the cancelling of temporary entry permits and the question whether, therefore, persons were prohibited immigrants. [More…]
The amnesty for prohibited immigrants foreshadowed by the Government may be sought by all visitors. [More…]
There would be no reason for the reader to suppose that the amnesty would be confined to a single category of prohibited immigrants who had entered Australia under temporary entry permits namely, those who originally held visitors’ visas and had overstayed. [More…]
He has sought, by appealing to my discretion, by seeking through the High Court to restrain me from applying the law to him, by misrepresenting his activities in Australia to people of goodwill in the community and by orchestrating appeals from members of parliament of a certain persuasion and by enlisting representatives of the community and of left-wing trade unions to sign petitions on his behalf, to restrain me from applying to him the rules that apply to many thousands of other prohibited immigrants. [More…]
In this context his legal representative’s pleadings to the High Court misquoted the amnesty offer as applying to people who entered Australia as visitors and had become prohibited immigrants, and not, as I had announced, to people who were, at a very specific date, 31 December 1975 overstayed visitors. [More…]
The numbers of unemployed are being added to both by immigrants and by school leavers. [More…]
We have provided an amnesty for illegal immigrants who overstayed as visitors as at 31 December 1975. [More…]
During this debate on these important funds which are being allocated to bring immigrants to Australia, I ask the honourable member whether he is prepared to state clearly in what areas he would run down our immigration program. [More…]
Homicide Squad detectives believe that three Indians, all illegal immigrants, may have murdered missing Griffith businessman Don Mackay three months ago. [More…]
All these possibilities may be accepted with equanimity by some people such as the zero population growth advocates, those who are sceptical of economic growth for its own sake, others who are concerned with conservation and environmental issues and those who feel quite simply that the country needs time to adjust to the post-war influx of immigrants. [More…]
It is my belief and it is the belief of many informed people that immigrants, rather than increasing unemployment, actually stimulate demand and hence employment. [More…]
It would have a dual role of effectively policing fishing operators who might be exploiting the waters, and policing what is quite apparently a prolific trade in drugs coming into the northern areas of Australia and the immigrants who seem to be bobbing up in northern areas every now and again. [More…]
I believe that it is appropriate to recall that the percentage of immigrants from the British Isles has decreased by 24 per cent in a 10 year period whilst the number of immigrants from non-white nations has increased. [More…]
I find it very difficult to accept that we can allow in non-white immigrants, yet we discriminate against white Rhodesians. [More…]
I refer to things such as illegal incursions, whether they involve fishing, smuggling or immigrants. [More…]
The suggestion that Australia owes Malta assistance because of the contributions made to our development by large numbers of Maltese immigrants I find hard to accept. [More…]
1 ) Does the Government agree with the statement in the Green Paper on Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population that approximately 9 per cent of all immigrants between 1 945 and 1 976 were refugees or people from refugeetype situations. [More…]
It would seem most important that further debate should take place in the Parliament, and in Australia, before any decision is taken to change the rate of migration to Australia or the definition of categories of immigrants. [More…]
In many cases people who came into Papua New Guinea were treated as illegal immigrants and consequently were held under the relevant sections of the Immigration Act until their residential status could be determined. [More…]
Clause 6 goes on to spell out some particular categories of persons for whom special arrangements should be made such as immigrants, Aboriginals, the young and the handicapped. [More…]
What were the five major source countries of permanent immigrants as at (a) 31 March 1978 (b) 31 March 1975 (c) 3 1 March 1970 and (d) 3 1 March 1 965. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Does he appreciate the embarrassment suffered by honourable members on both sides of the House when they are approached by illegal immigrants who have overstayed their visas in Australia and been directed by his Department to leave? [More…]
In view of the continuing flow of illegal immigrants from Vietnam, will the Minister consider allowing another brief amnesty to illegal immigrants now in Australia who meet normal immigration qualifications? [More…]
In Australia, as in all other countries, there are at any one time a number of people who come into the category of illegal immigrants- they have overstayed their visas or they may have entered illegally- and a number of them seek the advice of members of parliament. [More…]
However, leaving that aside for the moment, let me make one thing absolutely clear: The people who have made trips to Australia in small boats are not illegal immigrants. [More…]
They have made unauthorised trips to Australia but as soon as they arrive they are processed in the normal way and are given valid entry permits, so they are not illegal immigrants. [More…]
The most vulnerable persons in a difficult labour market are the immigrants, especially the young and the women, because of their dependence on the manufacturing sector, their low levels of skill and their language difficulties. [More…]
With the time lags involved, with immigrants on the way and therefore not counted- they do not arrive overnight, it might take six or nine months to organise for them to come- the result could well be an over-supply in some categories. [More…]
In other words, there is no direct relationship between the number of immigrants recruited and the number of known vacancies or vacancies likely to occur in the foreseeable future. [More…]
For example, in 1976-77 immigrants from Britain and Ireland formed 62.4 per cent of total departures, and those are countries from which Australia traditionally has obtained most of its skilled migrants. [More…]
Because there are idle resources and stockpiles of goods at present, any increase in demand for, say, consumer durables or housing by newly arrived immigrants is unlikely to require increases in production which would lead to a greater demand for labour. [More…]
Once again, the statistics are not very definite, but there seems to be a very firm suggestion that new immigrants have a far higher incidence of unemployment than people who have been here for longer periods. [More…]
In other words, it is more difficult for the new immigrants to find jobs and often they have to depend upon our social welfare system. [More…]
1 ) What was the total expenditure on advertising for prospective immigrants in each of the last six years. [More…]
What was the total expenditure on advertising for prospective immigrants in the six months to December 1977. [More…]
1 ) How much capital was brought into Australia by immigrants in (a) monetary terms and (b) per capita terms in 1976-77. [More…]
How much capital was remitted overseas by former immigrants to Australia in 1976-77. [More…]
Figures for outward transfers include funds transferred not only by former immigrants but also by Australians emigrating or intending to reside overseas for 1 2 months or longer. [More…]
1 ) What is the percentage breakdown of the nationalities of immigrants who arrived in Australia during the period 1 July 1971 to31 December 1977. [More…]
This hits only immigrants and former immigrants and their families. [More…]
One of the things that is spoken about in this paper is the fact that at the bottom of the trade cycle when there is an excess capacity immigration in the first instance tends to use up only that excess capacity, so the increased demand from the new immigrants will not add so much to employment levels and, therefore, may add to unemployment. [More…]
1 think it would be fair to say that the previous Labor Government was an anti-immigrant party, despite the fact that the propaganda it has managed to create in some of the ethnic radio programs would appear to have convinced many immigrants that the Labor Party is on their side. [More…]
We still have plenty of problems with the number of illegal immigrants to this country. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs who, in April was advocating 1 10,000 immigrants a year and whose Department has an interest in the highest possible figures, is clearly in conflict with the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations who has an interest in the lowest possible figures. [More…]
It is nearly 200 years since Australia received its first immigrants and because of the nature of our first colonisation, Australia became less of an Aboriginal community and more of a British or European community over those 200 years. [More…]
The experience with the early Chinese immigrants was one of success so far as enterprise was concerned, irrespective of the difficulties of the terrain, the cUmate, or whatever they had to face at that time. [More…]
Exercising my fine wit to the customs officer- I do not think that he appreciated it- I simply made the comment: ‘You know, it astounds me that we have bloody illegal immigrants in this country when a Federal member of Parliament has so much trouble getting back into it’. [More…]
The Migration Act 1958 confers in Sections 12, 13 and 1 4 power to the Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to order the deportation of ‘aliens’ and ‘immigrants’ provided certain defined pre-conditions exist. [More…]
-On 24 October 1978 (Hansard, page 2174) the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) asked me a question, without notice, concerning pensions from the Federal Republic of Germany for German immigrants to this country who have become naturalised Australian citizens. [More…]
However, the numbers of prohibited immigrants (including people who entered Australia illegally) deponed during the years 1975, 1976 and 1977 and from 1.1.78 to 3 1.3.78 are given in the attached table (B). [More…]
as many recent immigrants have a moral obligation to support dependants, mainly parents, left behind for various reasons including Australia’s immigration laws, will he reconsider the decision to abolish the rebate. [More…]
What action has his Depanment taken to alert immigrants of the dangers of using products containing asbestos? [More…]
Are any steps taken to identify immigrants who may be affected by asbestos-caused diseases before and after entry into Australia? [More…]
1 ) Immigrants have not been alerted directly by my Depanment to the dangers of using products containing asbestos. [More…]
Medical examinations are carried out on all immigrants and chest x-rays taken of those sixteen years of age and over before entry into Australia. [More…]
These measures identify any immigrants affected by asbestos as well as any other significant disease. [More…]
After entry into Australia immigrants can be required to have further chest x-rays mainly for identification of possible reactivation of tuberculosis but also for identification of other relevant conditions. [More…]
If we do not populate this vast empty land mass with suitable migrants, then we and our descendants may find that we do not have the choice as to our immigrants. [More…]
Is it a fact that illegal immigrants entering Australia now represent 10 per cent of the total planned annual net immigration rate? [More…]
First it is not correct to say that there has been a 10 per cent increase in the number of illegal immigrants entering Australia. [More…]
Those people would make ideal immigrants to Australia, despite the fact that we have seen in the newspapers comments to the effect that, because of the racist policies of such countries, such people would be undesirable. [More…]
One thing that we can say with certainty- the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has referred to it- is that the great influx of immigrants to Australia in the post-war years has broadened and enriched this nation immensely. [More…]
How many illegal immigrants detained by his officers during each of the years 1975-76 to 1977-78 have had in their possession forged passports and /or identifications. [More…]
Indeed, there are those in the community who actively encourage people to break the law and evade controls and who find prohibited immigrants a lucrative source of income. [More…]
It is estimated that there are approximately 57,000 prohibited immigrants in the country at this time. [More…]
The third significant measure dealt with by the Bill is the introduction of offences for temporary entrants and prohibited immigrants who engage in employment in Australia without authority. [More…]
Most prohibited immigrants apprehended by departmental officials in the course of their investigations are either working or have been in employment in Australia. [More…]
In addition, there is little doubt that many of the approximately 57,000 prohibited immigrants in Australia are working partly in order to sustain themselves. [More…]
The Bill also introduces three new penalties, two of which I have already referred tonamely, when carriers convey people to Australia without proper documentation and when temporary entrants and prohibited immigrants work without authority. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that on 10 August 1978 the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs announced that from that date prohibited immigrants who had been deported from Australia for any reason would be barred from re-entering Australia for a period of five years, except in the most compelling circumstances. [More…]
How many illegal immigrants, i.e. [More…]
The Minister has made it quite clear that there should be no suggestion that more refugees means fewer official immigrants. [More…]
Though the romantic attraction of the bright lights has to be offset against the intense discomfort, insecurity and difficulty of the shanty towns that await most immigrants, it cannot be entirely discounted as a motive for migration. [More…]
We recognise that the same special attention should be paid to the problems of immigrants, immigrant workers and refugees. [More…]
The effect of this action was that in the first year immigrants had to pay an extra $20m. [More…]
People have gone into higher tax scales and therefore immigrants will be paying even more tax. [More…]
Immigrants are paying more tax because they are unable to claim these rebates on the funds that presumably they are still trying to send overseas to their relations. [More…]
The truth is that the additional expenditure allocated so magnanimously by this Government via the Galbally report, in fact, on balance, represents a robbery of the immigrants because they are paying more than the extra funds being allocated to them for services as recommended by the Galbally report. [More…]
Up to that time the claims and the rights of immigrants were largely ignored. [More…]
When the Labor Party was in power from 1972 to 1975, there was a burst of activity in all areas relating to immigrants and the services that hey required. [More…]
They were based upon needs that had arisen by virtue of the fact that for the first time in over 20 years when the Labor Party came to power immigrants recognised or began to recognise that they had rights, and they began to ask for those rights. [More…]
Receipts- charges usually made against immigrants or, in this case, also overseas students; the money we are taking from the people whom we are supposed to be helping- have risen from $1.4m last year to $9.4m this year. [More…]
Weighing that amount against the increase in the departmental expenditure, surely the only honest conclusion one can come to is that in real terms the Government has reduced the funding allocated to immigrants, migrant services and so on. [More…]
Bearing in mind that proportionate to immigrants’ representations in the community, there are many more immigrants or children of immigrants who are unemployed and untrained than there are other members of the community, ordinary Australians, in a sense this cut will hit immigrants and their families more than the rest of the Australian community. [More…]
I think it is a very cynical exercise because when immigrants come to Australia we hear a lot about the need to bring in skilled workers and we encourage them to come, but of course we forget that usually they have families also- wives and children. [More…]
Most immigrants with skills are underemployed in terms of their skills. [More…]
The point I wish to make is that we expect the children of immigrants, who do not understand English, to sit in classrooms where lessons are conducted in English and to get on- not be demoralised, appear dumb or become discipline problems. [More…]
We can no longer say that they are immigrants; they are Australians. [More…]
In more recent times there have been intakes of immigrants from other areas including Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. [More…]
On the day I was there there were some 68,000 Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong in addition to the illegal immigrants from China. [More…]
1 ) For what programs and policies concerning immigrants has his Department been responsible in each year from 1 970 to date. [More…]
It is frequently said that Australia is a country of immigrants. [More…]
An enormous proportion of this funding is really for the emergency services necessary to cater for these refugees, who will prove to be far more expensive than the usual run of immigrants. [More…]
But, of course, again given that we have had this problem- that is how we have looked at it- of immigrants to this country for many more years than the last two or three and even longer than the three years that the Labor Government was in power, far too little has been done and far too little is being done at this stage. [More…]
Given that it was totally inadequate for professionals, I wonder what the real value of it is to all the other multitudes of immigrants not highly skilled people, not used to study - [More…]
For 23 years before Labor came into office, when we had an enormous influx of immigrants, nothing was done about that. [More…]
1 ) For what programs and policies concerning immigrants has his Department been responsible in each year from 1970 to date. [More…]
The Government boasts of significant increases in expenditure in various areas of immigrant welfare, but the truth of the matter is that it is the immigrants themselves who will now be paying for the services the Government has appeared to offer so generously on the prompting of the Gal bally report. [More…]
Not only are immigrants now asked to pay for the administrative costs they incur at a time when they are least able to pay for them, but they are the ones from whom money is to be taken to pay for the supporting programs designed as immigrant welfare- the props and supports designed to give immigrants greater equality with other Australian citizens. [More…]
Insofar as there is now a significant component in the immigration welfare program which is really directed at and for refugees, one could claim that immigrants generally will be paying for their own postarrival welfare and for that of refugees. [More…]
Is the purpose of the test to assess work adjustment or, social and economic potential, of the potential immigrants? [More…]
Evidence in our possession shows that NUMAS is biased in favour of rich, white English-speaking middle class immigrants from Rhodesia and the USA, while at the same time significantly weakening the family reunion aspect of the immigration program. [More…]
The general evidence from Australia ‘s own history as well as the post-war histories of European countries which absorbed vast numbers of guest workers and immigrants, is that immigration does not - [More…]
The general evidence from Australia’s own history as well as the post-war histories of European countries which absorbed vast numbers of guest workers and immigrants, is that immigration does not increase unemployment. [More…]
Have the examinations for admission to the Public Service been modified in any way, bearing in mind that these examinations have been an effective barrier against immigrants and their children from non-Commonwealth countries entering the Public Service, in addition to the legal discrimination against them? [More…]
What proportion of the cost of maintaining migrant centres, providing food services, temporary accommodation assistance, building and equipment for migrant centres, can be attributed to (a) caring for refugees (b) caring for immigrants in the family reunion category and (c) caring for independent immigrants arriving under the occupational eligibility category. [More…]
Mr Kalnins also advised the SubCommittee that for every birth in Latvia there are four or five immigrants arriving from other parts of the USSR. [More…]
The birthrate among the Russians is also falling and gradually it is becoming less easy for them to flood the other republics with Russian immigrants. [More…]
So too the Institute of Multicultural Affairs ought to be investigating the community welfare needs of immigrants. [More…]
Although they often came initially as forced immigrants to Australia they remain Australia’s forgotten people. [More…]
For what programs and policies concerning immigrants has the Department of Education been responsible in each year from 1 970 to date. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: ( 1 ), (4) and (5) The programs and policies concerning immigrants for which the Department of Education has had responsibilities in each financial year from 1970 to date are set out below. [More…]
My colleague pointed out that for years the Government has relied on bringing immigrants into the country to fill these vacancies. [More…]
For years the Government has been using immigrants to fill these positions. [More…]
But when the immigrants have been here long enough to learn the language and the ropes, they too learn that it pays them better to get out of these skills and to go somewhere else. [More…]
For what programs and policies concerning immigrants has the Department of Social Security been responsible in each year from 1970 to date. [More…]
Repatriation of immigrants to their former countries [More…]
What assistance is made available to Vietnamese immigrants. [More…]