immigrants - senate - 1970

Contexts in which the word immigrants was used in the Senate during the 1970s

How many immigrants came to Australia from Northern Ireland in each of the years 1968. [More…]
Obviously that is in the interests both of Australia and of the prospective immigrants. [More…]
How many immigrants have entered Australia from Mauritius for the years 1968 to 1971. [More…]
Does Australia have any reciprocal agreement with the United States as regards the reimbursement of fares for the deportation of illegal immigrants to meet a situation which was exemplified by last week’s O’Lear case? [More…]
From which States of the United States of America have immigrants come to Australia during the past 5 years [More…]
How many prospective Greek immigrants have had their applications for entry, to Australia rejected during the past 5 years due to the refusal of the Greek Government to permit their departure? [More…]
Were any prospective French immigrants denied entry to Australia during the past 5 years because of previous association with the French secret army organisation (OAS). [More…]
By this hasty act, taken without consultation with the groups of Australian citizens concerned, the Australian Government has seemingly recognised the Soviet claim that the Baltic immigrants, upon their arrival in Australia, were really citizens of the U.S.S.R., and as such are not entitled to assume the protection of Australian citizenship until released from the citizenship of the Soviet Union. [More…]
How many Spanish South American refugees were sponsored as immigrants by the Australian Government in 1974. [More…]
What guarantee were the immigrants given concerning employment and how many of them are at present unemployed. [More…]
How many of the unemployed immigrants are unable to speak English. [More…]
Were all these immigrants in possession of completed entry forms and had all the necessary formalities been observed before they came to Australia. [More…]
201 immigrants from Chile arrived in Australia between 1 November 1975 and 31 January 1976. [More…]
Immigrants from United Kingdom (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware of a statement in the Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for 1976 that if problems relating to mental health services for immigrants are to be overcome, three approaches should be taken: ( a ) encourage the migration of more bi-lingual professionals; (b) adequate professional interpreter services: and (c) every Australian professional in the mental health field should, as part of that person’s training, undertake a course to provide some appropriate background on this problem. [More…]
1 ) Statistics regarding immigrants from Rhodesia have been recorded separately only since January 1974. [More…]
Does the Minister feel that these present safeguards protect Australia against illegal immigrants who may come to Australia under an assumed name and an assumed nationality? [More…]
1 ) Did a recent report in the Sydney Daily Telegraph state that 38 Australians were deported from New Zealand as prohibited immigrants because of criminal convictions. [More…]
About 100,000 immigrants per annum will have an effect not only on the numbers but also on the content of population. [More…]
Surely it is apparent that in both of the cases that we have been discussing prohibited immigrants are involved? [More…]
I believe that we would all support an immigration policy which provides that people with criminal records should not be admitted as immigrants to our society. [More…]
In view of the substantial influence that the British migrant has had on the balance of Australia’s overall immigration policy will the Minister advise the Senate at the earliest possible opportunity what measures are being taken to ascertain why there is such a large fall-off in the balance of immigrants and at the same time inquire into the cause of the large figure of 27,000 people who emigrated from this country in one year? [More…]
I ask: Has the Australian Government given any consideration to changing Australia’s immigration policies and laws as a result of pressure by Japanese companies with financial interests in Australia to allow Japanese immigrants into this country? [More…]
This item covers expenditure in connection with the repatriation in approved circumstances of migrants, and the cost of deportation of prohibited immigrants, including sustenance while held in custody pending shipping accommodation. [More…]
Tt is not because we will not take Asian immigrants but because we discriminate against them because of the colour of their skins or the country of their origin. [More…]
There are more immigrants going home who will want to return to Australia but the number of other new migrants will be reduced. [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…]
The qualification provided by the words ‘who are ordinarily resident’ in paragraph (b) of subclause 2 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 (I.) [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that last week - on 17th February - 1 sought to elicit information about why Australia did not have a consistent policy in regard to the various people who are not immigrants but who seek permanent residence in this country. [More…]
As immigrants are confronted with the impact of social and economic upheaval they and their children must make a rapid and complete adjustment to a new society, to new attitudes, to new values and to new resources, all of which are different to what they have previously experienced. [More…]
Intending immigrants live in the centre and learn English and Australian cooking, whatever that may be. [More…]
If there is such a thing as Australian cooking, it is taught to intending immigrants at the immigration centre in Athens. [More…]
It teaches immigrants what their future will be like when they get to Australia. [More…]
What will be the breakdown, under the following heads of the 10,000 post-war immigrants who are to participate in the current migration survey: (a) State domicile, (b) country of origin, (c) length of time in Australia, and (d) occupation? [More…]
How many immigrants hare entered Australia from Mauritius in each of the last5 years? [More…]
Do these immigrants enter Australia under the assisted passage scheme? [More…]
A total of 68,000 immigrants were carried by Qantas or its agents or connections last year. [More…]
Also has the Department in mind increasing the amount payable by immigrants under the assisted passage scheme, taking into consideration the fact that this country wants immigrants who are likely to be successful here and not just those who have not been successful in their home country? [More…]
This attitude is understandable when we look at the Government’s behaviour because even in Australia we practise in the case of immigrants a policy which is in essence the same sort of policy that the South Africans impose. [More…]
What has been the intake of Irish immigrants each quarter since September 1970 in the categories listed in the answer received to Senate Question No. [More…]
Those eligible to receive benefits under the scheme are persons in receipt of unemployment, sickness and special benefits under Part VII of the Social Services Act; immigrants during the first 2 months after entry to Australia, and such immigrants must be the holders of entry permits not being temporary entry permits in force under the Migration Act; and low income families as defined in section 82u of the National Health Act. [More…]
How many immigrants were processed for entry to Australia by British Authorities in (a) Poland, (b) Roumania, (c) Bulgaria, (d) Hungary, and (e) Czechoslovakia during the past five years? [More…]
The numbers of immigrants processed for migrant entry into Australia and granted migrant visas by the British Authorities during the past five years in the countries mentioned were: [More…]
How many prospective Spanish immigrants have had their applications for entry to Australia rejected during the past 5 years due to the refusal of the Spanish Government to permit their departure? [More…]
Since Opposition senators from time to time have questioned the exercise of discretion by the Department of Immigration in the operation of its policy, and especially in relation to decisions which affect people who are prohibited immigrants, I should like to take this opportunity to allow the Senate, as a welcome change, to hear me congratulating the Department instead of snipping at it. [More…]
I wish to quote now from the book ‘A Nation of Immigrants’ written by John F. Kennedy, an illustrious United States President. [More…]
The Department has rejected no applications by prospective Greek immigrants for entry to Australia during the past 5 years due to the refusal of the Greek Government to permit departure. [More…]
It is interesting to note I think that, unlike South Africa, a very large proportion of the white inhabitants of Rhodesia are not native born Rhodesians but are quite recent immigrants from Britain, South Africa and Greece in particular and from some other countries as well. [More…]
Who are the ex-officio members of the Social Science Research Council of Australia which is entrusted with the research project on immigrants in Australia, and what stage has this project reached. [More…]
The Immigration Project in which the Council is at present involved began in late 1967 as a 5- year study aimed at assessing the contribution made by immigrants to the Australian community since World War II, and studying the problems associated with this large-scale influx of people. [More…]
Throughout Australia, particularly outside the Australian Capital Territory, there is clear evidence that the most depressed sections of the community - the sections of the community most in need of pre-school education for their children, particularly those children of recent immigrants from countries where the language is not English - are deprived of a very essential advantage in the upbringing of their children. [More…]
During the recess I received correspondence from the United Council of Immigrants on this subject. [More…]
The letter was signed by Dr Untaru, who is the President of the United Council of Immigrants. [More…]
There is no question but that the vast majority of immigrants from Yugoslavia, including most Croatians, accept the Australian way of life. [More…]
overseas immigration officials to check to ensure that no immigrants are accepted for Australia if they are connected in any way with terrorist organisations? [More…]
Are the police records of the proposed immigrants thoroughly checked before they are accepted? [More…]
Are the previous records, if any, of accepted immigrants asked to be forwarded to the Australian authorities to be placed with our records for future reference? [More…]
Have any persons with past records or convictions against them ever been accepted as immigrants to Australia? [More…]
Does not the Minister feel that the methods of checking possible immigrants should be tightened in the future? [More…]
It has said that it is all right for immigrants to pick relatives to bring in, perhaps Great-aunt Agatha or Uncle Egbert. [More…]
But the Government says it is not going round the world, as the previous Government did, choosing immigrants on the basis of skills and craft, and bringing them here so that Australia can benefit by their youth, their health and their skills. [More…]
Immigrants, naturalised or not, are no longer sure of their status in this country. [More…]
We have been told also what fearful things might happen to the immigrants to this country. [More…]
Apparently not only have the Croatian immigrants been terrified by what has been done but all immigrants have been terrified. [More…]
I am not saying that any of our immigrants has been or will be guilty of terrorism but we should have no doubt about anyone; we should be absolutely sure that a migrant has no record of terrorism or acts of violence. [More…]
We have already received a formal Note from the Yugoslav Government conveying the view, which we have of course rejected, that the Australian authorities were ‘acquainted with the organised activity of the Croatian fascist immigrants and were, to say the least, tolerant towards them’. [More…]
He has the power to appoint interpreters, arrange jobs for new immigrants and generally supervise the “settlement” of Yugoslav migrants who constitute the third largest non-English speaking group in Australia.’ [More…]
Firstly, they may be attached to diplomatic services and operate from there, and secondly, they pose as ordinary immigrants and then operate among the migrant population. [More…]
It’s time fellow immigrants . [More…]
I have long counselled that we should be looking for immigrants from this area of the Pacific. [More…]
But paragraph (d) indicates that the functions of the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation include the facilitation of the settlement in the area of immigrants to Australia. [More…]
I acknowledge that the 2 sets of circumstances do not necessarily equate, but I am interested in the fact that the Bill spells out that one of the functions of the Corporation is to facilitate the settlement in the area of immigrants to Australia. [More…]
In the first place, the Bill has been extended to deal with discrimination against persons on the ground that they are immigrants. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration assure the Senate that the decision to impose restrictions on the number of immigrants coming to Australia will not affect the immigration policy of ensuring that the reunion of families holds the highest priority? [More…]
The North Altona Migrant Centre concentrates its efforts on immigrants who are not assisted by other organisations. [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. [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- [More…]
Since the first settlers arrived this country has been peopled by successive waves of immigrants, largely from Europe but also from many other parts of the world, and now, quite apart from any future immigration policy that we may follow, we have a community which is multi-racial. [More…]
These poor people who are living in hamlets have the choice virtually of being turfed out of the country to which they have given 10 or 15 years good service or being on the run as illegal immigrants. [More…]
Even as late as the period after the Second World War vast numbers of immigrants came to this country from Britain, Western Europe and even northern Europe because the conditions of working people in this country were much better than the conditions which could be found in The Netherlands, Belgium, West Germany or, for that matter, Italy. [More…]
One of the reasons they stopped coming here, one of the reasons it became almost impossible to obtain immigrants from Western Europe and one of the reasons the previous Government stretched the White Australia Policy to include Turks was because it could not get people to come here from countries such as Austria, West Germany and other parts of Western Europe. [More…]
I think that with the large number of immigrants in Australia, many of whom speak only a limited amount of English, it is necessary that there should be some sort of interpreter service for them, particularly when they are asking questions which to them can be very complicated and when they are not aware of the laws relating to social security in Australia and what their entitlements are. [More…]
As it has been such a success, it would seem to me to be very important that provincial centres such as Geelong, Ballarat, Wollongong and Newcastle, where there are large numbers of immigrants, should have the same service provided. [More…]
Seven publications in 1 5 different languages used by immigrants in Australia are now in the course of production. [More…]
Does the amnesty recently granted to prohibited or illegal immigrants cover persons who are in Australia legally as visitors and who wish to settle in this country? [More…]
I am not certain whether the amnesty granted to illegal immigrants would apply to visitors. [More…]
Does the amnesty recently granted to prohibited or illegal immigrants cover persons who are in Australia legally as visitors and who wish to settle in this country? [More…]
However, the greatest relief will be experienced in the major cities, since they have absorbed more than their share of natural increase and most of the post-war immigrants. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that the person known as ‘Bluebells’ is not allowed to use the current amnesty extended to illegal immigrants to remain in Australia to avoid her standing trial in the United States of America, so as to determine her participation, or otherwise, in the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four other persons in the actress’ Hollywood home. [More…]
These people have not left Australia and are now prohibited immigrants liable for deportation. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and follows upon the question asked previously about illegal Chilean immigrants. [More…]
Is it correct, as reported, that most Rhodesians do not carry Rhodesian passports; if so, are a fair proportion of South African immigrants Rhodesians; if so, does thc Government make a distinction in its figures. [More…]
However, United Kingdom citizens who enter or remain in Australia in circumstances in which they become prohibited immigrants render themselves liable for deportation. [More…]
In view of the fact that trade unionists and others are constantly leaving the gaols of Santiago and looking for sanctuary, does the Government feel that we have reached a limit with Chilean immigrants in that category or is Australia still in the field to receive them? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware of reports that suggest that Australia might accept up to 100 000 immigrants from Rhodesia following the Nationalist assumption of power in Rhodesia? [More…]
Has the Minister received any approaches by Australian commercial interests seeking to bring such potential immigrants to settle in Australia? [More…]
So we are all immigrants in this country. [More…]
It is apparent that the Government is being hustled, particularly by the Perth land developer Alan Bond, and also by W. D. Scott & Co. and by the Premier of Western Australia, to accept up to 100 000 white immigrants from Rhodesia and, moreover, to accept them under specially privileged conditions. [More…]
He sees would-be Rhodesian immigrants as potential buyers for the abundant supply of land at his Sun City development at Yanchep, in which the commercial buyers of Western Australia have shown considerable disinterest. [More…]
Of course, he takes it for granted that any would-be white immigrants from Rhodesia would be automatically granted entry to Australia. [More…]
Readers of the National Times were served up by Mr Bond, by W. D. Scott and by Sir Charles Court a romantic vision which depicted potential Rhodesian immigrants as rugged frontiersmen and women, and as farmers and miners who possess special skills and enterprise with which they would develop Australia and particularly northern Australia, Queensland and Western Australia. [More…]
I am astounded that Sir Charles Court should fall upon Rhodesian or would-be Rhodesian immigrants to the degree that he has. [More…]
This national problem is aggravated by a fall in the numbers of skilled immigrants and too few Australians undergoing skill training. [More…]
In the event of some substance being found in what this former Liberal Party candidate has been saying, will an apology be issued on behalf of the Liberal Party to those many British and Greek immigrants in Western Australia who no doubt will have been very distressed by Mr Horgan ‘s revelations? [More…]
I refer to the report Immigrants and Mental Health issued by the Australian Council of Social Service on 24 January 1977, which outlined the deficiencies in mental health services available to migrants. [More…]
When we were elected we discovered that the social welfare system of this country, which once had been the envy of the whole Western word, had degenerated to such an extent that it was well behind the social welfare systems of all of northern and western Europe and that the areas from which previously large numbers of immigrants had come to this country had dried up because working people were not prepared to leave the Netherlands, West Germany, France, Austria, Norway or Sweden to come to this country. [More…]
1 ) How long must immigrants to Australia reside in this country before they become eligible for age pensions at the age at which pension becomes payable. [More…]
Do immigrants who are (a) naturalised and (b) not naturalised, who have qualified for and receive an aged pension, continue to receive the pension if they return to their home country. [More…]
Can immigrants who are (a) naturalised and (b) not naturalised, and who have qualified but do not yet receive age pension, receive the pension after they return to their home country. [More…]
Even now in a time of high unemployment the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) produced a list on 3 March 1977 containing over 120 occupations for which immigrants may enter Australia and obtain employment. [More…]
Immigrants must have a firm job offer before they can come to Australia, but there are over 120 classifications for which migration is possible. [More…]
The urgency of allocating more resources to technical education is 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…]
Did the Australian Government, more than a year ago, indicate that there was to be a period of amnesty for illegal immigrants in Australia to allow them to apply for permanent Australian citizenship. [More…]
An undertaking was also given to examine applications from other categories of prohibited immigrants who arrived prior to 31 December 1975. [More…]
as deserting seamen) or who become prohibited immigrants (e.g. [More…]
The Minister knows that our intake of immigrants this year and last year has been a lot less than in previous years. [More…]
How many persons have entered Australia as permanent immigrants from (a) Yugoslavia; (b) Portugal; (c) Spain; (d) Chile; (e) Argentina; (f) Peru; (g) Uruguay; and (h) Brazil for the 12 months ended March 1977. [More…]
I suppose that the nearest one could get to guest workers in Australia is in some selected areas where there has been and is gross exploitation of some illegal immigrants by some unscrupulous employers. [More…]
Sometimes some of the immigrants are relatives of the employers. [More…]
However, people not having resident status and prohibited immigrants may request the Commonwealth Ombudsman to investigate any complaint they may have concerning administrative actions of departments or officials. [More…]
Firstly he spoke on immigrants maintaining a separate identity in a cultural sense. [More…]
The Green Paper states that in terms of the numbers of immigrants that we can accept and can absorb we are not limited by any lack of resources. [More…]
This leads me to query whether we believe immigration should be tailored to the needs of the economy or whether our economic programs should be tailored to the needs of people, including immigrants. [More…]
We must look at the social and cultural problems that confront new arrivals that make it difficult on occasions for the easy settlement of immigrants rather than simply look on the immigrant as an economic statistic. [More…]
Immigrants, legal and illegal, enter Australia unannounced. [More…]
As the Association points out in its letter, some exotic disease could be brought into this country by illegal immigrants. [More…]
Killington, ‘Use of Health Services by Aboriginals’: S. Treloar, D. Petritsi-Jones and C. Kerr, ‘Use of Health Services by Greek Immigrants’; G. Rawson and I. Webster, Health Screening of Homeless Men in Sydney’; in Health Studies of Selected Disadvantaged Groups-Printed copies recently received from AGPS. [More…]
If we are so free in granting entry permits to such immigrants, surely we should be equally as free in granting entry permits to those we have accepted as residents in the past and who, although they have left Australia, wish to return. [More…]
As a consequence of these visits 10 people, comprising nine males and one female, have been taken into custody as prohibited immigrants. [More…]
I understand that the Acting Commissioner of the Commonwealth Police has reported on this matter and has stated that on 18 September officers of the Commonwealth Police and immigration officers in possession of search warrants under the Migration Act visited the clubs which I mentioned earlier and that 45 suspected prohibited immigrants were taken to Commonwealth Police headquarters, of whom 34 were released and 1 1 were lodged at the immigration detention centre. [More…]
We have heard it against the British immigrants who have infiltrated the trade union movement. [More…]
It must be remembered that all the peoples in South Africa are immigrants and, for the most part, they all arrived at about the same time. [More…]
The unemployed are very largely immigrants to this country. [More…]
It is worth while in view of the fact that the debate on the Budget has taken some time to point out that before the Budget- this is to give one example- there was a reference that the interpreter services for immigrants were to be cut severely. [More…]
One newspaper, which for these purposes will remain anonymous, went on to say that the interpreter service for immigrants was to be diminished. [More…]
In fact, those people were engaging in a campaign against the life- styles of the more recent immigrants- the southern Europeans, the eastern Europeans, the Irish Catholics, the Jews, the Latin Americans and various others- who had as part of their culture the use of alcohol. [More…]
The former United States Attorney, whose name was Kaplan, made a similar point with regard to the prohibition of marihuana in the 1960s, that is, that it was a campaign mainly by older, more settled and conservative people against a lifestyle, again to a certain extent that of ethnic minorities, particularly among the socalled Chicanoes- the immigrants from Mexico and other Latin countries, who have taken marihuana traditionally as part of their culture in the same way as people in other parts of the world were smoking tobacco- and also against the young people who had taken up marihuana in the 1950s and 1960s. [More…]
Does the Minister believe that the increase in the number of migrants who are disadvantaged in this way necessitates the reintroduction of mobile vans to distribute multilingual information on these matters in areas with particularly large concentrations of recently arrived immigrants. [More…]
It also disadvantages elderly people and especially immigrants. [More…]
In view of the numbers of refugee immigrants coming into Australia, can the Minister advise whether refugees are accepted irrespective of health and other qualifications and whether it is considered that persons not eligible for immigration under normal causes may endeavour to gain entry as refugees? [More…]
I am sorry it has taken me so long to get these details to you but I wanted to cross-check some of the definitions of the various sorts of immigrants with Foreign Affairs and Labor and Immigration. [More…]
What action does the Minister plan to take to prevent illegal immigrants from coming to Australia? [More…]
I remember complaining in the Senate about the raids carried out by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the Chinese community when searching out illegal immigrants. [More…]
What action does the Minister plan to take to prevent illegal immigrants from coming to Australia? [More…]
The Government’s recently announced decision to adopt a program calling for 9,000 Indo-Chinese immigrants in 1978-79 reflects only its reaction to that particular problem. [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that the Front sees as amongst its main aims the introduction of apartheid for Aboriginals, the repatriation of all non-white immigrants from Australia, and the propagation of white minority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa? [More…]
The Branch is concerned with the development of policy proposals and advice on child migrant education, and on the English language teaching aspects of the Government’s programs of education for immigrants, Aboriginals and overseas students. [More…]
Government noted the comments by Papua New Guinea ‘s former Governor-General, Sir John Guise, concerning blackbirding’; if so, have any investigations been carried out concerning the allegation that illegal immigrants from Papua New Guinea are entering Australia in search of better pay and conditions. [More…]
But it was believed that some of the imported labour, such as the Kanakas in Queensland, would not have come under the classification of immigrants and, therefore, special laws were made and there was special reference in section 5 1 (xxvi) to put the question beyond doubt. [More…]
Nevertheless, there is increasing unease about the possible introduction of disease into northern Australia, given the arrival of illegal immigrants. [More…]
I understand that both men have been sentenced to two months imprisonment as illegal immigrants. [More…]
In fact as long ago as 16 May 1977 Mr MacKellar issued a statement in which he warned prohibited immigrants that they would be satisfactorily dealt with if they approached the Department directly as opposed to using intermediaries who claimed to be able to influence the Department. [More…]
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…]
Yet we are still bringing in doctors as immigrants because we say that in certain country areas we do not have enough doctors. [More…]
Yet we are still bringing in foreign doctors as immigrants. [More…]
I recall that in answer to a question in the Senate on 27 September I confirmed that the two Organisasi Papua Merdeka dissidents to whom Senator Missen refers- Jacob Prai, the self-styled de facto president of West Papua, and Otto Ondawame his so-called minister for defence- were arrested by the Papua New Guinean authorities on 27 September and were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment as illegal immigrants. [More…]
All those people are immigrants to the country and they all arrived at about the same time except the Indians. [More…]
They are handicapped by being immigrants from an impoverished country and even by the standards of their own country they would have received little or no education and no job training. [More…]
It would seem that a full investigation into the occupational position of the Uraguyan immigrants would be in order and everything should be done to assist these people in every way possible. [More…]
when writing about the role of the mass media in helping waves of American immigrants to settle, who said the mass media offered to the immigrant ‘a window on the larger world outside the narrow courts of the immigrant community in which he has been compelled to live’. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Is it a fact that the Minister, during the recent Liberal Party Conference, stated that he did not consider what we have called boat people’ to be illegal immigrants? [More…]
If the appeal concerned a migrant matter- I am reading from clause 43(5)- he would be a member of the community with knowledge of or experience in the needs and concerns of persons who have been immigrants. [More…]
While I am dealing with the subject of Latin Americans, the Minister would be aware that there have been similar cases with Vietnamese immigrants. [More…]
He made the point that 39 per cent of the child population of Australia was made up of immigrants. [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 senators will recall that on 10 August 1978 the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) 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…]
It was found that the net inflow of long term immigrants and settler doctors was higher than anticipated- about 600 a year. [More…]
A total of 58,883 illegal immigrants is now at large in Australia. [More…]
The Greeks are nowhere near the top of the list of those who make up the greatest number of illegal immigrants. [More…]
The greatest number of illegal immigrants come from Britain and America. [More…]
I say to the Government that all immigrants are human beings. [More…]
1 ) Have recent reports suggested that the new points system for selecting immigrants is designed to favour applicants from Rhodesia, South Africa and the British Isles over immigrants from countries such as Greece, Turkey and Lebanon. [More…]
Has a further report indicated that since the points scheme was introduced over 200 South African immigrants have been accepted while one Greek immigrant has been admitted. [More…]
How many immigrants have been admitted to Australia from: (a) South Africa; (b) Rhodesia; (c) the British Isles; (d) Turkey; (e) Greece; and (f) Lebanon, in each month since the points system was introduced. [More…]
However, the new points system for selecting immigrants (NUMAS) is designed to achieve consistency of selection, regardless of country of origin. [More…]
We as parliamentarians know that people argue about the definition of family reunion’, about the trade categorisation of immigrants, and about the definition of ‘political refugees’. [More…]
There is also the disregard for immigrants or potential immigrants to this country. [More…]
I think we should really commend the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Honourable Michael MacKellar, and the Victorian State Minister for Housing and Youth, Sport and Recreation, Mr Brian Dixon, as both of these men have displayed a very humane and sensible attitude towards immigrants, despite strong opposition from the extreme poltical wings of their parties. [More…]
Australia is a country of immigrants and both major political groupings in their policy statements have expressed the view that it is through mutual understanding and tolerance that we can best achieve a socially cohesive society where there is scope for cultural diversity. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that over a period I have insisted that the Government ‘s broad immigration policy needs constant monitoring to ensure that, however we categorise people who are suffering from economic or political suppression and kindred problems, we have an even balance in our intake of immigrants. [More…]
The matter comes down to a consideration of the ratio of immigrants we take from various countries under our evenhanded policy. [More…]
Both sections 13 and 14 refer not to aliens being deported but rather to immigrants being able to be deported in certain circumstances there set out. [More…]
It is well established that, as a matter of Federal constitutional law, persons can continue to be regarded as immigrants if they are born overseas and have come here from overseas, even after they have been naturalised. [More…]
This is because the deportation sections in question, namely sections 13 and 14 of the Migration Act, bite on people as immigrants rather than by virtue of their being aliens. [More…]
Another point raised by Senator Mulvihill regarding prohibited immigrants was a question with regard to the source of the estimate of approximately 57,000 prohibited immigrants- figures which were given, I think, at the Estimates Committee. [More…]
But there is no doubt that our illegal immigrants do number many tens of thousands, and that the number is growing. [More…]
To be brutally frank, I asked a leading question that came partly within the responsibility of the Department of Foreign Affairs and partly within the responsibility of the Department of Immigration about immigrants to Australia who could have been involved in nazi collaboration. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs advise this Senate why, when there is high unemployment all over Australia and especially in the provincial centres, this Government has the Australian Embassy place advertisements such as it did recently with a daily newspaper in Hamburg, Germany, calling for immigrants in such classifications as computer programmers and operators, mechanical fitters, mechanics, turners and fitters, boilermakers, refrigeration mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, butchers, pastrycooks, bakers and ladies hairdressers? [More…]
The Second Front- Jennifer McCallum, Melbourne; the National Front; the Australian National Alliance- ‘Audacity’; the National Resistance- ‘Advance’; the Divine People Movement, Sydney; the Campaign Against Illegal Immigrants, Perth; Awake Australians Campaign to Help Save South Africa; Zimmunism; Rights for Whites- that is a cute one; and One Law for All. [More…]
Migration Act, Sections 12, 13 and 48- Deportation of aliens and immigrants and directions not to act as immigration agent. [More…]
Is he aware that at present large numbers of vacancies are being filled by IndoChinese immigrants? [More…]
It is populated by immigrants who have arrived chiefly since the Second World War. [More…]
Not surprisingly, with a war in progress in Kampuchea only 300 kilometres from the conference room, and the threat of a further influx of Khmer Rouge refugees into Thailand as soon as the rains stopped later in October, the issue of ‘illegal immigrants’ occupied the minds- of delegates above all else. [More…]
ASEAN requests resettlement countries to increase and hasten the intake of the refugees and illegal immigrants from Vietnam, Kampuchea and Laos who have been provided temporary asylum in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore; [More…]
Did the Minister, during the Liberal Party Conference held in Perth in April 1 979, state that he did not consider the boat people’ to be illegal immigrants; if so: [More…]
Refugees who are permitted entry to Australia are not prohibited immigrants for the purposes of the Migration Act. [More…]