immigration - senate - 1970

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

My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration refers to a report in today’s Canberra Times’ which says that Lady Crawford, the wife of a former Governor of Uganda, was refused permission to stay in Britain when she flew in for medical treatment last night because her husband, Sir Frederick Crawford, had his British passport confiscated in 1967 by the British Government on the ground that he supported the Smith regime in Rhodesia. [More…]
It is right and proper that he should do so, but I think it is also right thatI should take that case to the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch). [More…]
We have discussed this point previously, either in a debate on the adjournment of the Senate or during debates on immigration matters. [More…]
As I said earlier, I will ensure that the points raised by the honourable senator are placed before the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration give me any indication of the position prevailing at the Bonegilla migrant centre? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
If the Minister still accepts the concept of a bi-partisan approach by the major Australian political parties to immigration, why were Opposition parliamentarians excluded from functions convened by the Minister and other ministerial colleagues to honour the visiting Yugoslav Minister for Labor, Mr Anton Polajnar. [More…]
In Canberra, the Minister for Immigration was host at a State Luncheon on 12th February and in Melbourne the Minister for Labour and National Service was host at a luncheon on 13th February. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
[10.43] - I have listened with great attention to the points that the honourable senator has raised relating to matters which are the concern of the Postmaster-General (Mr Hulme) and the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) whom I represent. [More…]
I wish to inform the Senate that the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) left Australia on 16th May for Europe. [More…]
After the meeting in Paris the Minister will visit Britain, Eire, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Malta, the United States of America and Canada to discuss with the governments concerned problems and other matters relating to the immigration programme. [More…]
During his absence the Minister for Housing, (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) will be Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
1 direct a question to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
In view of the changing status of Fiji will the Australian Department of Immigration be adjusting its thinking as regards applications from citizens of Fiji for permanent Australian citizenship? [More…]
Minister for Immigration indicate what action has been taken to accelerate the processing of applications from Australian wives of non-Australian husbands who desire their offspring to be registered as Australian citizens under clause 7 of the Citizenship Act 1969? [More…]
My question, which I direct lo the Acting Minister for Immigration, concerns our existing policy for assisted passages of migrants, ls it true that a European male migrant to Australia, if married to a non-European, is denied an assisted passage although he and his wife could enter Australia by paying the full cost of their fares? [More…]
Yesterday I asked the Acting Minister for Immigration a question about an agreement signed by our Minister for Immigration, and by Dr Tabone on behalf of the Maltese Government. [More…]
My question is directed to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Immigration a question. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration a question. [More…]
In view of the decision of the Department of Immigration relating to Mrs Taylor will the same decision apply to some other people who 1 recollect came to this country under assumed names? [More…]
I desire to ask a question of the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Has the Acting Minister for Immigration examined the possible future in England for Mrs Barbara Taylor and more particularly her 2 innocent children as a result of the Government’s enforcing an order for her deportation? [More…]
Will he consult with the Minister for Immigration on a matter which is causing great concern to migrants in Australia? [More…]
In any event, will the Minister take up this matter with the Minister for Immigration with a view to giving all possible aid to migrants? [More…]
My question is directed to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I would again like to ask the Acting Minister for Immigration a question. [More…]
Has the Australian Government any proposal before it or any intention to change Australia’s immigration laws by legislation or regulation because of pressure from Japanese companies who, it is claimed, speak of the possibility of greater mineral purchases from Australia if we relax our immigration laws and allow a greater number of Japanese into Australia? [More…]
I know of no proposal to relax our immigration laws. [More…]
My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and relates to the same subject as the one which I raised earlier with the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
1 ask: Has the Minister expressed any concern to the Minister for Immigration about the refusal to grant a visa to Gregory under these conditions? [More…]
In directing my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration I refer to the Government’s refusal to grant a visa to United States negro entertainer Dick Gregory, ls Australia no longer a free country? [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration tell the Senate how many Americans have been refused visas over the past 2 weeks and the names of those persons? [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration assure me that no ban will be imposed on the entry into Australia of Mr Leo Mates, Director of the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade, who is scheduled to deliver this year’s Dyason lecture for the Australian Institute of International Affairs? [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration noted a Press report that a Jamaican engineer and his wife, residents of the United Kingdom, were declined assisted passages to Australia? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
In view of the Prime Minister’s reported statement at the weekend that Australia’s immigration policy is morally unjust and the possible harm to Australia which may result from criticism of his statement, I ask: Will the Minister consult with the Minister for Immigration on the possibility of conducting an intensive publicity campaign overseas, particularly in those countries whose immigration laws ure more rigid than Australia’s but whose criticism of Australia is the strongest, on Australia’s immigration laws? [More…]
My question related to the reported statement of the Prime Minister that Australia’s immigration laws are morally unjust. [More…]
In view of the Prime Minister’s observations on our immigration policy and the moral values aspect, how do we justify restrictions on visits to Australia by New Zealand citizens of nonEuropean and non-Maori origin who are members of the British Commonwealth? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I shall see that they are placed before the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) for his consideration. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration elaborate on the plight of British migrant Dennis Turner who is picketing the Northern Territory office of the Department of Immigration to pinpoint his current difficulties? [More…]
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I only wish to speak rather briefly on the subject of non-European immigration. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration give any further details of the background and work classification of United Kingdom migrant Turner, who is at present domiciled in Darwin, who claims that he was grossly misled in regard to his successful integration into the Australian work force? [More…]
Will he give a firm assurance that, in conjunction with the Minister for Immigration, steps will be taken to improve screening methods in West Germany to ensure that such people do not enter Australia and add to the previous bombing incidents against foreign consulates for which in the main no perpetrators have been apprehended? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration comply with my request of 25th February last and make an authoritative statement on the British Immigration Act, with particular reference to the definition of patrials’? [More…]
Furthermore, does the Minister for Immigration contemplate further con sultation with the British Home Secretary on this very complex situation? [More…]
(11.0) - I have noted the point raised by Senator Mulvihill and I will inform .the Minister for Immigration of his wishes. [More…]
I want to take only about 60 seconds of the Senate’s time to make a request to the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin), who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch). [More…]
When the Senate reassembles next Tuesday week I would be grateful to have from the Minister for Immigration his Department’s interpretation of the British Immigration Bill. [More…]
take the matter up with her colleague the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I wish to ask a question which may be answered by either the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs or the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I shall convey his question to the Minister for Immigration and ensure that he receives a reply. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I am sure that the honourable senator will appreciate that I merely represent the Minister for Immigration in this place. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Can the Minister for Immigration now supply me with details of the air carriers who participated in the transport of 60 per cent of Australia’s migrant intake? [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The overall position is that, where people make inquiries before coming to Australia as to the likely prospects of employment, the Department of Immigration takes steps to inform them to the best of its ability as to what the situation is in this country. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration aware that a considerable number of migrants are deliberately using our immigration policy to obtain a free trip to Australia and a holiday? [More…]
Estimates Committee E - Attorney-General’s Department, Postmaster-General’s Department, Department of Immigration, Department of Social Services, Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971, I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30th June 1971. [More…]
I am informed by the Minister for Immigration that Australia does not have any such agreement with the United States or with any other countries. [More…]
The cost of Mr O’Lear’s deportation from Australia was met by the Department of Immigration, but the question of the cost of the repatriation of Mrs O’Lear and the 1 1 children on Friday next is still under consideration with the American authorities. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
If the answer is yes, why are there not ministerial conferences between the Minister for Immigration, the New South Wales Minister responsible for immigration matters and Ministers responsible for education to settle the problem of standards? [More…]
Acknowledging the right of the United Kingdom Government to devise its own immigration policy, I ask the Minister: Does he not think it reasonable to expect a statement early next week on the current British legislation in view of the last minute changes in certain facets of that legislation, with particular reference to the patrial clause? [More…]
Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
How does the Acting Minister for Immigration reconcile the rejection of an assisted passage to Mr Nigel Joseph and his family with the reiteration by Dr Forbes of an immigration policy that places heavy emphasis on the reuniting of families through normal immigration processes? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration received any progress reports on 2 research projects, one a population study and the other Professor Wilson’s costbenefit study, and will he make public the contents of these reports? [More…]
By way of preface I point out that although the question has immigration overtones I was advised to direct it to the Leader of the Government. [More…]
I rise- merely to enable the spokesman on immigration for the Australian Labor Party to continue his remarks, drawing his attention, as 1 do so, to the fact that the Senate, the Government and the people of Australia would be interested to hear his reconciliation of 2 paragraphs in his Party’s platform. [More…]
Minister representing the Minister tor Immigration enlighten the Senate on ;he apparent muddling of metal trades classifications involving Mr Etheridge in Victoria? [More…]
I shall convey the honourable senator’s suggestion to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration explain his and the Prime Minister’s continued silence on the future status of Australians in Great Britain under the United Kingdom Immigration Act and the long-term effects of common Market membership, particularly since the Prime Minister had lengthy discussions with the British Prime Minister, Edward Heath? [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Does the PostmasterGeneral contemplate having discussions with the Minister for Immigration about the migrant members of the PMG work force who, due to the lack of Australian citizenship, have the granting of permanency unduly delayed? [More…]
Would the Minister for Immigration be prepared to use his discretionary powers to assist the affected members to obtain job security by granting them permanency? [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration make a statement clarifying both the future of Mr Martin Niklas and the general position of migrants with stateless backgrounds? [More…]
However, I want to appeal to the Minister for more effective liaison with the Department of Immigration in the capital cities where passports are issued. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Department of Immigration utilise the services of only one doctor to medically examine intending migrants to Australia from the town of Messina in Italy. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Australia’s ‘established immigration policy’ has been discussed by the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council on the following occasions: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Has there been any discussion of Australia’s established immigration policy’ or Australia’s restricted immigration policy’, as it is also known, since the inception of the Immigration Advisory Council or its Standing Committees: if so, (a) on what occasions, and by which Committee or Council was the matter so discussed, and (b) what was the general nature of the discussion as minuted. [More…]
Will the Minister inquire why the provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act are not applied to publications emanating from the Immigration Control Association whose authors shelter behind the meagre detail of ‘Box 322, Crows Nest Post Office, New South Wales’? [More…]
I have certain information from the Minister for Immigration which, as I understand it, gives total figures. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Air: Has he seen Press statements by Mr Foster, the Federal member for Sturt in South Australia, criticising the Minister for Immigration for using a VIP aircraft in the course of the recent oil strike? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
How many applications have been received by the Department of Immigration for working permits to be issued to foreign entertainers to perform in Australia in each of the last three years and how many have been approved. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I wish to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, ls the Minister aware of the concern that has been expressed and is being expressed by Australian citizens that individuals with criminal records have been admitted to Australia? [More…]
Can he say what screening process is adopted by immigration authorities in countries such as Yugoslavia with regard to ensuring that prospective migrants do not have criminal records? [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971, I present the, annual report on migration education for the year ended 30th June 1972. [More…]
I am unaware whether there have been responses but I shall again approach the Minister for Immigration to see whether he has further information. [More…]
What action has been taken to ensure that, with the closure of migrant hostels at Smithfield and Glenelg and the construction of self-contained flats for migrants in South Australia, catering staff of Finisbury Migrant Hostel will continue to be employed by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
J should mention that the letter is signed by the Honourable A. J. Forbes, Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Has Professor J. R. Wilson, of the University of Sydney, appointed any assistants to help him prepare a report on the cost benefit analysis of immigration commissioned by the Department of Immigration; if so, on what dates were the assistants appointed. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD - The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
In the meantime reports on individual sections of the project are being forwarded, as completed, to the Department of Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Have consultations been held recently between the Department of Immigration and the State Health authorities, in an endeavour to determine Australia’s intake of overseas nurses; if so, how was the decision made to institute deportation proceedings against double certificated Sister Paeatonga Talia. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
In the light of bias shown against Australian citizens holding valid Australian passports seeking to enter the United Kingdom by certain British immigration officials, will the Prime Minister obtain a guarantee from the British Prime Minister that incidents, such as that involving Mr Taylor, will not be repeated. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister for Immigration has had any opportunity to consider them. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minster for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD - The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Why was the Minister for Immigration bypassed in this selection of a Minister in the House of Representatives. [More…]
and (2) I was in the fortunate position at the time of arranging representation for the Primary Industry portfolio in the House of Representatives of having two extremely competent men in the field of agriculture to choose from the Minister for Northern Development, Dr Patterson, and the Minis ter for Immigration, Mr Grassby. [More…]
I will refer the honourable senator’s question to my colleague the Minister for Immigration for a reply. [More…]
Did the Minister for Immigration state that the Labor Government would provide $500m for primary producers at an interest rate of 3 per cent per annum; if so, when will the funds become available. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLAND - TheMinister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question: [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/senate/1973/19730501_senate_28_s55/#subdebate-80-0)
This matter comes within the responsibility of the Minister for Immigration, whom I represent in this place. [More…]
I am unaware of the statement made by the Minister for Immigration yesterday. [More…]
My understanding is that records are kept by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
The Department conducts certain procedures on behalf of the Department of Immigration and other departments and computers are used in these procedures. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Would the AttorneyGeneral be at all surprised to know that the cancellation of the passport of the Croatian leader, Srecko Rover, was signed by the former Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The admission of persons to Australia is, however, a matter falling within the jurisdiction of the Minister for Immigration, not the Attorney-General. [More…]
-This question was addressed to me in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
But, in any event, I will refer the question to my colleague the Minister for Immigration in another place in order to obtain the correct answer for the honourable senator. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, or any other Minister who is responsible for this matter, the following question: Is any Australian citizen who is a civil servant prohibited from visiting Taiwan in a private capacity? [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Immigration, has now provided me with some details in reply to the honourable senator. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I will refer them to my colleague, the Minister for Immigration, to see whether he can provide the honourable senator with an early reply. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971, I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1 973. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, on behalf of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), I table a statement on the Government’s citizenship and settlement policy. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Is it a fact that both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Immigration have stated in South-East Asia that the white Australia policy is officially dead? [More…]
Are there officers of the Department of Immigration in South-East Asia to implement the Government’s policy. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Environment and Conservation; Social Security; Immigration (to be re-allocated); Overseas Trade; Primary Industry; Attorney General; Aboriginal Affairs; Capital Territory; Defence; Northern Development; Manufacturing Industry; Education (awaiting delivery). [More…]
However, I think it may be best to get a considered reply from the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), and I will do so. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I have been advised that the Minister for Labor and Immigration has asked his officers to make urgent investigations into the findings and the status of the people involved in that organisation. [More…]
The position, as the honourable senator knows because it has been stated previously in this chamber and in the other place by the Minister for Labor and Immigration, is that the Government and the Minister are committed to a policy of wage indexation. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I ask: Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration committed to a policy of endeavouring to alleviate unemployment, to restrain inflation and to restrain wage increases which would lead to higher costs? [More…]
Is it a fact that the Minister for Labor and Immigration has intervened in support of that claim before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission? [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-Whatever happens in the field of employment, the honourable senator can be certain that no unemployment will be caused by the actions of the present Minister for Labor and Immigration who is bending his every effort towards creating a prosperous society in which there will be full employment. [More…]
I think everyone would recognise that not only the Minister for Labor and Immigration but also the whole Government is endeavouring to achieve that objective. [More…]
The question of the possible employment effect of variations in motor vehicle registration figures is, of course, outside the responsibility of the Transport portfolio and falls within the jurisdiction of the Minister for Labor and Immigration and the Minister for Manufacturing Industry. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/senate/1974/19741002_senate_29_s61/#subdebate-42-3)
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate who represents the Acting Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Minister for Labor and Immigration said in Adelaide on 1 3 August that he would rather go out of office than be responsible for having 250,000 people out of work. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What action, if any, was taken following upon the visit made to Italy by the then Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, on the issue of entry permits to persons in that country who had been previously refused entry into Australia; if action was taken, how many entry permits have been issued to such persons. [More…]
I rise on this Division only because I asked a question of the Minister (Senator Bishop) yesterday in his capacity as representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration in regard to the criterion by which it is decided whether or not some people who are unemployed are to get the ordinary unemployment benefit, which I think is $3 1 a week, or whether they are to get the unemployment benefit which the Government has said is available to those who are affected by Government tariff cuts. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Is it a fact that more approvals have been announced under the regional employment development scheme? [More…]
I can only undertake to draw to the attention of the Minister for Labor and Immigration the references made by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]
My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and follows the Prime Minister’s assertion that his mini-budget will provide a breathing space for wage demands lasting until December and the assertion of the Minister for Labor and Immigration that the breathing space will last until April. [More…]
Mr President,I inform the Senate that the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, will be absent for the rest of this week. [More…]
In his absence, the Postmaster-General, Senator Bishop, will be the Acting Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My Department has been informed by the Department of Labor and Immigration to the effect that: [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration able to say whether the Minister responsible for the Regional Employment Development Scheme has this week considered new areas in South Australia as being eligible to participate in the Scheme? [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
It is in that context that I ask for an early conference between the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron, and the Attorney-General, Senator Murphy, to see that there will be no appeasement of people like Suljak who appeared before a committee of this Senate as martyrs but who will be proved by events to be wrongdoers? [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I think that it affects more than the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I said that I wanted the Chairman of the Public Service Board to be leaned on to ensure that extra staff is provided at the immigration offices in all capital cities so that Australians will get a much speedier service in the processing of their passport applications and so that people awaiting citizenship, which involves their permanency in employment, are also speedily dealt with. [More…]
I repeat that what I have said has the backing of both the Immigration staff and many Australians who are complaining. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-1973 I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1974. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration a question in relation to the Government’s Regional Employment Development Scheme which is now gathering impetus. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: 1 refer the honourable senator to the answer given by the Prime Minister, through his representative in the Senate, to question number 302 on 3 1 October 1974 (Senate Hansard, page 2 198). [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
That force responds to requests by the Department of Labor and Immigration for character checks of applicants but there would be not more than two or three weeks delay at any time in carrying out these checks. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to earlier action I took by which I was able to ensure a higher staff intake at the Department of Labor and Immigration in Sydney to take up the backlog of citizenship applications. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Following the visit of Mr Clyde Cameron, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, to Brisbane last weekend for discussions with Brisbane’s Lord Mayor and Mr Cameron’s achievement, which was a feather in his cap, as the architect of a scheme which will provide over 1000 jobs for unemployed workers in Brisbane, can the Minister give any indication of the extent of the various Regional Employment Development scheme proposals for Brisbane? [More…]
Officers of the Attorney-General’s Department, my Department and the Department of Labor and Immigration were involved in discussions on this matter last year. [More…]
It is true that my Department, the Attorney-General’s Department and the Department of Labor and Immigration are working on the matter. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration give any information as to what action is contemplated by the Government following the release of the Borrie report? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I direct a question to Senator Bishop in his capacity as the representative in this chamber of the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to the decision of the Minister for Labor and Immigration to extend the charter of the Borrie inquiry. [More…]
It was only yesterday, I think, that the Minister for Labour and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) stated that the actual rate of unemployment has already begun to decline. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration now supply me with an answer to my question of mid-February in which I sought an investigation into the circumstances of the dismissal of 6 Chilean female factory operatives from the tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills (Aust) Ltd in Sydney? [More…]
-The Department of Labor and Immigration has investigated the facts and has found no discrimination against the Chilean women. [More…]
-On 13 November 1974, Senator Mulvihill asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration the following question without notice: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following information: [More…]
-The Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration will know the commitment of the Australian Labor Party through its platform to the establishment of a Bureau of Industrial Research to develop and co-ordinate research into manpower and industrial relations. [More…]
-The only information I can give to the honourable senator at present is that I know the Minister for Labor and Immigration is aware of the situation. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Is it a fact that the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, conferred with the New South Wales Teachers Federation recently on the action of the New South Wales Government in compounding teacher redundancy in that State by seeking to usurp the role of the Australian Government by engaging in migration excursions overseas for teachers, a function which should be solely that of the Australian Government? [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I am informed that an updated final immigration table for the financial year 1973-74, as outlined in the answer given on 26 November 1974 to House of Representatives’ Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Will the Minister provide an updated immigration table for the period beyond the financial year 1 973-74, as outlined in the answer given on 26 November 1974 to House of Representatives Question No. [More…]
I can only refer the question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Postmaster-General, representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, and refers to the operation of the Australian Government’s Regional Employment Development scheme. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1) to (3) I reject completely any inference in the honourable senator’s question that I, as Minister for Labor and Immigration, should exercise surveillance over the proceedings of meetings of the ACOA or any other trade union- or for that matter any employer organisation. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The United States immigration authorities have no record of any approaches seeking curtailment of Father Marstin ‘s current visa. [More…]
Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware that many applicants for assistance under the National Employment and Training Scheme seeking tertiary training have not been advised of the outcome of their applications even though they applied at the beginning of this year and have already commenced their courses? [More…]
I wish to refer to the comment of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) on interest rate charges. [More…]
-This is properly a question for my colleague Senator James McClelland who, as the Minister for Labor and Immigration, deals with the question of employment. [More…]
-I tried to get the attention of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) by way of interjection earlier so as to save time. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Matters Relating to the Public Service, upon notice: [More…]
It has already dismissed one Treasurer and relegated a Minister for Labor and Immigration to the Ministry of Science. [More…]
-Could I ask you this question then, to discover what is a formal question and what is not: You will be aware that the present Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) tabled in this Senate a document which is generally known as the Larkin minute. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration: When is an agreement which is made between an employers body and a trade union a sweetheart agreement and when is it not a sweetheart agreement? [More…]
During his absence the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland, will act as Attorney-General. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Labor and Immigration recently initiated action on behalf of the Australian Government with a view to settling by negotiation the strike by members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which has disrupted restoration work on the damaged Hobart bridge for more than 10 weeks? [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
As to the administration of REDS, State Committees (on which State Governments are well represented as well as the Australian Government) have played a key role in the approval of projects; they have had complete autonomy to recommend approval direct to the Minister for Labor and Immigration of all projects not exceeding $100,000 (approximately 90 per cent of all projects). [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
While it may be true that it is the considered opinion of all parties that this Bill ought to pass, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) need not think for one moment that we are not prepared to postpone it until we come back after the 2 weeks recess if we cannot get information which honourable senators are entitled to seek. [More…]
Senator Sir MAGNUS CORMACK (Victoria) (9.22)- I asked earlier in my intervention during the Committee stage whether the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) who is in charge of the Bill could inform the Senate of the quantitive cost involved? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Does he agree that if reasonable wage restraint is not achieved in Australia inflation could destroy the Australian economic system? [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration, who no doubt will recall participating in a debate on the Government’s overseas loan transactions in this place on 12 June 1975. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in matters relating to the Public Service, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
(New South Wales- Minister for Labor and Immigration) For the information of honourable senators I present the findings of a national shopping basket survey conducted on 16 and 17 October 1975. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Matters Relating to the Public Service, upon notice: [More…]
This is because of the considerable success achieved by the Department of Labor and Immigration in finding alternative work opponunities for the employees who otherwise would have been retrenched on 10 March 1975.I must acknowledge the considerable assistance and co-operation of the company and the unions concerned in carrying out the Agreement. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Can the Minister for Labor and Immigration indicate to the Senate and to me whether in his view the Opposition is suffering from a condition of malfunction, malpractice or just plain Mai Fraser? [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
-Mr President, I should have indicated earlier that Senator James McClelland, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, will not be able to attend the Senate today. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-1973 I present the annual report on Migrant Education for the year ended 30 June 1 975. [More…]
l ) to (3) The Department of Labor and Immigration has no provisions in the 1975-76 Budget for direct untied grants to the States for distribution as the States see fit to local government bodies, nor for tied grants to the States for distribution to local government bodies on terms set out by the Federal Government. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What amounts have been provided for by the Department of Labor and Immigration in the 1975-76 Budget for direct untied grants to the States for distribution as the States see fit to local government bodies. [More…]
What amounts have been provided for by the Department of Labor and Immigration in the 1975-76 Budget for tied grants to the States for distribution to local government bodies on terms set out by the Federal Government. [More…]
For the information of honourable Senators I present the report of the conference of Ministers for Immigration held in Perth on 4 April 1975. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
This consideration will involve other Ministers such as the Foreign Minister and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I simply refer to the acceptable occupations list which I am sure Senator Mulvihill is aware does exist in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
On the facts that Senator Mulvihill has given, his applicant does fit within the occupational test and I can say only that I will refer the specific application to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and endeavour to have some assistance given to the applicant in the manner that the honourable senator has outlined. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister can elucidate upon this point for me: During the hearings of Senate Estimates Committee E last year, the then Secretary of the Department of Labor and Immigration, Mr McKenzie, indicated that the then Government was creating an authority of nine persons more or less to ensure and protect the professional recognition of translators and interpreters. [More…]
I am aware that my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, breathes down my neck hourly in relation to the need to get these people and to get them on the job. [More…]
Those courses were funded initially by the then Department of Labor and Immigration on the understanding that the funding would be picked up in the education triennium and funded forward. [More…]
I am happy to say to the honourable senator that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has found the necessary money. [More…]
Whether the other one had a normal passport or a diplomatic passport is something about which I will have to ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and that I will do. [More…]
I doubt very much whether anybody possessing a passport and no visa would be allowed past the immigration officials at any airport in Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
Will the Minister permit three Filipino housemaids who exposed domestic conditions existing in a diplomatic residence in Melbourne to stay in Australia, in view of permission granted for Filipino female clothing workers in Sydney to stay in Australia when they were placed in a similar situation by a former Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The matter of visas was fully dealt with by my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and his answer to a question from the honourable leader of the Opposition (Hansard, 3 March page 477) and in a personal explanation the following day (Hansard, 4 March page 552). [More…]
If the assertions made in (1) and (2) are correct, can the Government call upon Embassies and Consulates in Australia to follow such a principle and correct the situation to which the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs admitted to in an answer to Senate Question No. [More…]
When will the Migrant Community Services Branch of the Department of Social Security be transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer: [More…]
According to the records of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, none of these persons had been released from prison recently for political activities. [More…]
The information I have received from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) is that a general waiver or postponement of return home obligations for visitors from Angola and Mozambique is not contemplated. [More…]
With regard to the Portuguese people, the information which I have from the Minister is that a submission on the size and composition of the immigration program for 1976-77 is presently being prepared and will shortly be considered by the Government. [More…]
But on Monday, 12 April, the Minister will meet with the Immigration Ministers from the States. [More…]
That meeting will provide an opportunity for the States to set out their own requirement which will be seriously considered by the Commonwealth Government before determining the immigration program for 1976-77. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
I shall refer the matter to the Minister for Immigration and see that the honourable senator gets an early reply. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
Has the Minister examined the concept originally expounded by a former Minister for Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, M.P., which visualised the co-ordination of the operation of voluntary relief organisations in their component role in Australia ‘s future intake of all categories of refugees. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has indicated that in line with the Liberal and National Country Parties’ policy statement on immigration and ethnic affairs, the Government is committed to the active encouragement of immigration at a level and of a pattern which best suits Australia ‘s national interests. [More…]
Within this commitment provision exists for the entry of refugees and the concept originally expounded by a former Minister for Immigration, the Honourable C. R. Cameron, M.P., has been closely examined. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
Immigration: Refugees from Angola (Question No. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The answer was released today by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
Many remarks were made by Senator Mulvihill tonight concerning the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
and (2) The arrangements for travel between Australia and New Zealand which, except for minor variations, have been in existence since 1920, were examined by the New Zealand Minister for Immigration, Air Commodore, the Honourable T. F. Gill, and myself during discussions which we had in February this year. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I will refer the matter to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for his considerations. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present a report by the Australian Population and Immigration Council entitled A Decade of Migrant Settlement: Report on the 1973 Immigration Survey. [More…]
Let me inform the Minister that in 1974, after the Labor Government was returned, as Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council and with the concurrence of the then Minister, the Honourable Clyde Cameron, I talked to the Taxation Commissioner. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Which statutory authorities come under the control of the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
As to the last part of the question, I think that I ought to ask not only my colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs but also my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as to whether the allegation is valid. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
How many journalists were employed in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and in commissions and statutory bodies under the Minister’s control, at 1 September 1976. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
I have taken note of the matters raised by Senator Mulvihill in regard to immigration. [More…]
I shall refer those matters to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
I will refer the question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and obtain an answer for the honourable senator. [More…]
In spite of my background I took it upon myself to approach the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) early this year and to beg him to recognise that in the Lebanon there was a refugee situation of major proportions and that our response should be, as it has been, to recognise the reality and to open this country again to people who may need to come here. [More…]
My question relates to the joint statement made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications on 9 September dealing with ethnic radio. [More…]
The actual level of funding is still to be discussed by the Treasurer and the Ministers for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Post and Telecommunications. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present a review of activities of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for the year ended 30 June 1 976. [More…]
-I will seek that information from the Prime Minister and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I will refer them to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for his reply. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
I will have the subject of the comments made by Mr Syd Hutchinson with regard to the Villawood Hostel referred to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1 976. [More…]
Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, I present the first annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1976, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs relating to that report. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
What is the projected staff ceiling for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as at 30 June 1 977. [More…]
He made great play of the fact that during his period of office as Minister for Labour and Immigration in 1975, he brought to the attention of the then Government the need to reduce the pressures of inflation on this community. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs explain the apparent easy visa that Mr Vincent Teresa, alias Mr Santana, seemed to acquire on his current visit to Australia? [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I lay on the table a paper entitled Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population’. [More…]
I will draw the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) to the matters that have been incorporated in Hansard and the subject of discussion this evening. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in the House of Representatives on 30 March 1977 [More…]
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
I shall refer the matters raised in the question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and obtain an answer as soon as possible. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]
1 ) In what trades have apprentices been employed in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs since 1 July 1970. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 ) The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has not employed any apprentices since 1 July 1970. [More…]
I shall refer his question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for reply. [More…]
The establishment of the Pacific Affairs Co-ordinating Committee was announced by the New Zealand Minister for Immigration in April last year. [More…]
This Committee of officials was established to help co-ordinate New Zealand’s activities in various fields as they affect their Pacific island neighbours, particularly in fields such as trade, economic co-operation, immigration, health, defence and transport. [More…]
I will refer the matters raised to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and seek information for the honourable senator. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
I have not any information on the matters that have been raised but I will direct them to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and see that an early answer is given to them. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 1 8 August 1 977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the Commissioner’s statement that almost half of all immigration repatriation cases were on psychiatric grounds. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The primary approach to problems of mental illness amongst migrants lies in effective medical screening of prospective migrants. [More…]
Nevertheless, the specific matters referred to by the honourable senator arc among those which are in the process of being followed up by the new Ethnic Affairs Branch of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in consultation with the appropriate Commonwealth departments and other professional authorities. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present a review of the activities of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to 30 June 1977. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 25 August 1977: [More…]
I have no information as to how the situation has been dealt with by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 4 October 1977: [More…]
That is a question on which I think I should obtain a precise answer from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The interpreter service works closely with my Department and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs which now has within it a migrant services section which has the responsibility of advising migrants on the matters referred to in the honourable senator’s question. [More…]
I will refer the matter to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and ask that attention be given to the question asked by Senator Primmer. [More…]
I will refer that question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to obtain the information that has been requested. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 28 February 1978: [More…]
Has the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs within the last three years engaged the Institute of Cultural Affairs as a consultant. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 ) The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has never engaged the Institute of Cultural Affairs as a consultant. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs does not have an officer located in Mount Isa and it is not expected that an officer will be appointed in that city in the foreseeable future. [More…]
Mount Isa comes within the responsibility of the Townsville Regional Office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
A social worker from the Brisbane office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs visits Mount Isa whenever necessary to’ deal with individual cases. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
Is there an immigration office in Mount Isa; if not (a) who performs work for the Department of Immigration in Mount Isa; and (b) when is it anticipated that an immigration officer will be appointed in that city. [More…]
Did the Minister state, in reply to a question without notice on 25 August 1977 (Senate Hansard, page 524), that the Ministerial Document Service is provided only for Press releases and speeches by Ministers and Opposition office holders; if so, why did the Ministerial Document Service distribute a press release, dated 30 January 1978, entitled Australians ‘Risk Losing the Future’, by the Chairman of the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council, on the letterhead of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Has the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs called for a report from his Department on the organisation? [More…]
I shall seek information from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or the Minister for Foreign Affairs and see that he is advised of whatever information is available. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 21 February 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
for how long has this system operated; (b) under what legislation is it possible for information provided to the Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Department to be sent to State Special Branches; (c) to what use is the information put by Special Branches; (d) how long is the information retained by Special Branches until it is destroyed; (e) do Special Branches provide information on persons seeking passports to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs; if so, what are the details; and (f) what efforts are made to safeguard the privacy of persons applying for passports. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 21 February 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]
Senator Mulvihill raised a matter concerning Peruvian immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 24 May 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 9 June 1978: [More…]
The comments by Senator Robertson about the Northern Territory will be conveyed to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr Michael MacKellar. [More…]
My question is: Where is the link between the National Advisory Committee and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
If the Committee is to look at our manpower policy to assess the number of people from overseas related to the number of people unemployed in Australia, why do we not have somebody from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on this committee- that would be employer assessment- or, conversely, a representative of ethnic employees? [More…]
Perhaps the Minister can explain the link between the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations in regard to overall planning on manpower needs. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Government share the concern that has been expressed with regard to refugees from Lebanon. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
There are no statutory corporations under the control of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
I will need to refer that question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to seek the information required by Senator Cavanagh. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications will be arranging an extensive program of consultation on these and other matters to ensure that all ethnic communities have the opportunity to contribute to the planning of ethnic television services. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 22 August 1 978: [More…]
I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs a question which is based on the points system for immigration which was announced in the Press this morning. [More…]
I will need to refer to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to check the facts as stated by Senator Button. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
As a corollary of what the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) said about the assessment of people, I ask: If the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs gets what appears to be a fairly clear-cut assessment from the region in which the application is made, where do security considerations come in? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 20 September 1 978: [More…]
I do not think those speeches require a response except that I would say that the most difficult job in the Commonwealth must be that of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present a review of the activities of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for the year ended 30 June 1 978. [More…]
I will refer Senator Elstob ‘s request for a review of the policy with regard to citizenship to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and seek a response from him. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 1 present the report on the operation of the Act for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following information in answer to Parts ( 1 ) and (3). [More…]
1 ) The personnel of the Immigration Task Force referred to comprises a Senior Migration Officer Grade 2 (Clerk Class 9) and a Migration Officer Grade 2 (Clerk Class 6) from the Canberra Office of my Department. [More…]
In the course of visits to Thursday Island and other islands in Torres Strait in 1978, the Immigration Task Force located a number of Papua New Guineans resident in the area without documentation or proper authority. [More…]
How many and what personnel comprised the Immigration Task Force, referred to in the Minister’s answer to Question No. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer for the honourable senator: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 22 November 1978: [More…]
I think that the first two parts of the question relate to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security and Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 24 November 1978: [More…]
I rise tonight simply to try to establish the missing link in the utterances of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in justifying the return to the Bartons of their Australian passports. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1 979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1 979: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 8 March 1 979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 27 February 1 979: [More…]
I will need to refer that matter to the Minister for Health and possibly to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to seek a response for Senator Tate. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: 1 (a) and I (b)- [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1 979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 1 present a report on provisions for child migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1 978. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 28 February 1979: [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present the text of a Budget statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) on: [More…]
Charges for immigration services. [More…]
The issue raised by Senator Robertson will be referred to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 28 February 1979: [More…]
The Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has suggested the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 22 August 1 979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 1 August 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 23 November1 978: [More…]
I gave that lady some information and the overseas student concerned, acting on that information, wrote to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Melbourne seeking the required forms with which to apply for permanent residence. [More…]
On the Monday prior to the delivery of the Budget, purely by accident, because nothing had happened- no correspondence had been received from the Department- that student drove to Melbourne, placed himself before the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, told his story and asked for the requisite forms, which were supplied. [More…]
I rang the office of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and said to the Minister’s secretary: ‘What is the cut-off point? [More…]
That officer had to read the Minister’s statement on the matter and to consult with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs before he knew the cut-off point. [More…]
At this stage I will content myself with moving that motion because I find myself in a position similar to that of Senator Grimes, in that we are on the verge of considering the estimates for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I simply ask that there be conveyed to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) a request for a stay of proceedings on a deportation order against a Bolivian citizen, Roger Guttierrez, until the union and I can prepare a case to submit to the [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 27 August 1 979: [More…]
Will the Government give consideration to the suggestion of the Minister for Labour and Immigration in the Whitlam Government, the Honourable Clyde Cameron, M.P., supported by his New Zealand ministerial counterpart, that a cheap identity card, as distinct from a passport, be introduced, which would prevent entry of undesirable persons on both sides of the Tasman Sea. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, will act as Minister for Foreign Affairs until Mr Peacock’s return from overseas on 9 October. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 22 August 1 979: [More…]
I will see that those views are brought to the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
I do not wish in any way to confine the adjournment debate to one speaker, but I want to respond to Senator Mulvihill and to assure him that I will bring these two cases to the notice of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 6 June 1 979: [More…]
1 ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) when he replies to clarify for me the division of roles between the Department of Foreign Affairs in its custody of overseas travel documents and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on those rare occasions when a foreign seaman might seek sanctuary- not so much internal sanctuary as aid under the Refugee Seamen’s Convention. [More…]
Do our passport authorities issue him with a document or is it an immigration operation? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 30 August 1979: [More…]
received letters from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs refusing their applications on the grounds that they did not have an adequate knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges of Australian citizenship; and [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Meetings with Lobbyists (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]
What sort of work is envisaged by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), the Government, or the Department, when it writes in such a complicated subclause in order to modify the Act in that way? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 23 August 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 8 June 1979: [More…]
Did the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs issue a press statement on 13 January 1979 indicating that he would be making certain inquiries concerning Ananda Marga; if so, what has been the outcome of those inquiries. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 30 August 1979: [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration Education Act 1971, I present a report entitled ‘Child Migrant Education 1978-79’. [More…]
I rise to speak about clause 6 because it touches on the Immigration Act. [More…]
On 17 August 1977, Senator Guilfoyle explained to the Senate which alleged injustices under the Immigration Act could go before the Ombudsman and which ones could go before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
My prime purpose for raising this matter is to say that although these amendments are innocuous they may not be so innocuous when taken in conjunction with recent amendments to the Immigration Act. [More…]
In effect, will the people with resident status or Australian citizens who are alleging that there have been immigration injustices have access to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, whereas the illegal migrant or the person who has overstayed will have to go to the Ombudsman? [More…]
I know that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, implemented deportation orders against five people and that in one case the Administrative Appeals Tribunal disallowed the recommendation. [More…]
I understand that, notwithstanding the enlargement of the holding processes, there is nothing in this Bill that will stop the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs going to a higher body- in effect, the Federal Court of Australia- so that even if a person feels that he has vindicated himself under the legislation before us there is nothing to stop the Minister from having another bite of the cherry and going to the Federal Court of Australia. [More…]
I know that sections 12, 13, and 14 of the Immigration Act provide for this but to me, as a layman, it seemed to be part of a jigsaw puzzle in that when one gets to the last piece and tries to force it in one finds that the whole lot comes asunder. [More…]
Leaving aside some of the more involved issues which I probably cannot comprehend, I have raised this matter to be sure that the position in relation to the eligibility of people in the immigration field- that is, the division between clients of the Ombudsman and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal- has not been changed. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Review for 1 978-79. [More…]
I think it is an immigration matter. [More…]
If it should be referred to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs I shall refer it. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
These refer, in the main, to procedures laid down by the Convention for dealing with offenders, and cover such matters as the detention of offenders, ihe conducting of enquiries, reporting to governments concerned, and the application, for purposes of deportation, of our immigration laws to offenders. [More…]
The agreement was signed in Canberra on the 12th February by Mr Anton Polajnar President of the Federal Council of Labour of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia, on behalf of the Yugoslav Government and by my colleague the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) on behalf of the Australian Government. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Immigration has been assured by the Yugoslav delegation that these formalities will be put in hand immediately and that migration under the agreement should commence shortly thereafter. [More…]
Preliminary discussions leading up to the agreement were held in Canberra and Belgrade between representatives of the two governments, including a thorough discussion on main principles by my colleague, the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Snedden), when as Minister for Immigration, he visited Belgrade in December 1968. [More…]
The Australian delegation comprised representatives of the Department of Immigration, Department of External Affairs, Attorney-General’s Department, Department of Labour and National Service and the Department of Social Services. [More…]
In accordance with the usual practice on agreements affecting immigration the text of the Agreement was referred to all six State governments and each signified that it had no objection to the signature of the agreement as proposed. [More…]
It has always been basic to Australia’s post-war immigration policy that the right to determine who may be admitted to Australia for permanent settlement rests with Australia. [More…]
As with all countries from which migrants are taken, Yugoslavia has a legitimate and reasonable interest in the number and occupational categories of those moving to immigration countries. [More…]
Speaking in my capacity of Chairman of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council, I would like to say - 1 am sure that the Leader of the Opposition knows this - that the Department of Immigration has set up a committee of considerable ability to go into the whole matter of the recognition of professional qualifications and trade abilities. [More…]
Speaking recently at the Australian Citizenship Convention, the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) pointed out that the committee set up by the Government has already made considerable progress. [More…]
I hope to discuss this situation with the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) and I hope to be reassured by him that the fears which these people have expressed to me may not be justified. [More…]
I commend the Government upon this immigration agreement. [More…]
Of course, the agreement imposes a responsibility upon us as Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin, who represents the Minister for immigration (Mr Lynch) in this chamber, well realises. [More…]
After all, we are dealing in immigration matters with people, and the sooner we can re-unite families the better it will be. [More…]
I rather feel that the Minister for Immigration and other people should show a greater sophistication towards this problem. [More…]
Also I have received from the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) information on the numbers of Maltese citizens who have entered Australia as settlers during the years 1965 to 1969. [More…]
1 direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
In addressing a question yesterday to the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin), who represents in this chamber the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch), I pointed out that this matter was raised as long ago as January 1968. [More…]
We are continuing and perhaps improving on the immigration policy started by a Labor government under the guidance of the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell) in 1947. [More…]
It is significant that, in mentioning this case, I am fortified by two communications from the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) that are germane to this case. [More…]
In a communication to me dated 24th February 1970, the Minister for Immigration states that the Minister may grant or refuse an application for naturalisation. [More…]
In one of the letters to me, the Minister quotes the first Minister for Immigration - an illustrious Minister - the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell). [More…]
In the second communication from the Minister for Immigration, dated 2nd March 1970, which was in reply to a series of questions whichI asked him about Spanish migrants and the protection of their rights, he pointed out: [More…]
This is the point that I pose to the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) who represents here the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
But a number of groups have protested on various domestic matters which the Minister for Immigration says, in the second document that I have incorporated in Hansard, are not matters for the Australian Government. [More…]
In fairness to the Minister for Immigration, I should say that, when interviewed on that programme, he answered: I have only been Minister for a little while. [More…]
My point about this case is that the Minister for Immigration states in his letter: [More…]
When I looked at a general screed on the functions of the Department of Immigration, I found that the Minister for Immigration was responsible for alien registration. [More…]
I am not criticising the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Immigration. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration a question. [More…]
In reading the notice paper I am intrigued to see that two questions do not appear on it - one that I asked the Minister for Housing as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration three or four days ago, and another one that I asked the Leader of the Government on Thursday last, I think it was, in regard to the cost of liquefied petroleum gas in Victoria. [More…]
As to the question which I addressed to the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, I know that in that instance I handed to the Clerk a written question. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Department of Immigration is responsible for making travel arrangements and for meeting the cost of fares of delegates invited to attend the Citizenship Convention. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
In the light of the decision of his colleague the Minister for Immigration to transport the bulk of future European migrants to Australia by air, I ask: Will Qantas Airways Ltd share the increased charter flights with various European airlines? [More…]
Does the new immigration policy mean that further efforts will be made to enact reciprocal airline agreements with additional European airlines, including YAT. [More…]
Did the Minister for Immigration confer with the Attorney-General concerning the assassination threats made against visiting Yugoslav Minister for Labour, Mr Anton Polajnar. [More…]
and (2) The Minister for Immigration had informed me of Mr Polajnar’s intended visit to Australia well before the proposed visit was made public. [More…]
One of the problems is that jumbo jets carry a tremendous complement of passengers, and facilities for clearing passengers through customs, health and immigration areas naturally are not as advanced in some airports as they are in the major centres. [More…]
I am not directing my indictment now against Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin or the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I think that Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin knows that I have always been pretty charitable to the Department of Immigration and have said that sometimes we are saddled with inept State authorities. [More…]
The representations that the honourable senator made on the motion for the adjournment of the Senate last week were duly conveyed to the Attorney-General, who has already advised me that the matters to which he directed attention are the responsibility of the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
[ think my colleague Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin, the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, is ready to make a statement to the honourable senator. [More…]
I repeat that when I have some grievance - whether it concerns immigration or some other question - to ventilate 1 will do so, and that is a privilege which I will fight to maintain. [More…]
This also affords the answer to the question which the honourable senator addressed to my colleague, the Minister for Immigration, on the same subject without notice on11th March 1970. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
We have immigration offices operating in 28 countries, and in addition, the Department of External Affairs acts for the Department of Immigration in a number of other countries. [More…]
I desire to direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The editor of its bulletin is Captain Rudi Dezelin who has done much in the immigration field in New South Wales. [More…]
This is a matter for the Postmaster-General and the Minister for Immigration whom she represents in this chamber. [More…]
Australia’s need to develop, to grow and to expand caused us to venture on a programme of immigration and expansion which before 1946 we had not even dreamed about. [More…]
-I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
As I understand that an answer has been given in another place by the Minister for Immigration advising of a Cabinet decision to refuse Dr Mandel permission to speak in Australia, can the Minister now inform the Senate, in view of the urgency of this matter, when the Senate may expect to get an answer to my question, which was asked earlier than a similar question was asked in the House of Representatives? [More…]
This question was asked in a slightly different way last week when it was directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
That is not a policy which has originated with this Government; it is a policy which has been in existence ever since our immigration programme started. [More…]
I direct a question to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Does she have to sign them personally in the absence of the Minister for Immigration? [More…]
There is to be additional expenditure of $4.4m on immigration which was not envisaged previously. [More…]
Senator Rankin, who is the acting Minister for Immigration, will appreciate what I am now about to say. [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
I preface ray question, which I direct to the Acting Minister for Immigration, by referring to an answer that I received on 5th May to question No. [More…]
Acting Minister for Immigration whether she is aware that Australia and Malta have signed an agreement designed to aid Maltese emigrating to Australia. [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
With the developments in immigration, with the developments in diversity of occupation and with the developments in the educational sphere, there will be a widening sphere of requirements, a widening diversity of appreciation and a widening diversity of needs as far as the total film world is concerned. [More…]
I direct a question to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Has the Minister read the statement attributed yesterday to the Vice-President of the Yugoslav Assembly that, despite (he ratification of the immigration agreement between Australia and Yugoslavia, some very important questions have still to be covered? [More…]
Can the Minister indicate the nature of these points of conflict, and docs she intend conferring with the Yugoslav Vice-President on this issue or, alternatively, will the Minister for Immigration, Mr Lynch, while in Europe, be conferring with the Government concerned? [More…]
1 repeat what 1 have said on other occasions, that officers of the Department of Immigration will say that if they had from other industries the same co-operation in finding employment for migrants that they have had from the printing industry their task would have been much easier. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to efforts made by the Department of Labour and National Service, in conjunction with the Department of Immigration, to induce the New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australian Governments to improve their State compensation Acts to include coverage for overseas dependants of migrants in receipt of State workers’ compensation Act payments. [More…]
I direct a question to the Acting Minister for immigration. [More…]
The Department of Immigration, like the passport and immigration authorities of other countries, is continuously studying means of preventing malpractice in the issue of passport and Other matters, lt is necessary however to avoid subjecting the great majority of innocent travellers to unreasonable precautions and inconvenience for the sake of increasing marginally the chances of detecting the malpractice of a few. [More…]
I direct a question to the Acting Minister for Immigration because I want to find out the modus operandi that is followed when a Minister acts for another Minister who is overseas. [More…]
Since the Minister is the Acting Minister she has available to her all the facilities of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
So manufacturing industries are not, as we have been led to believe, the biggest employers of labour, and they do not absorb the whole of our immigration intake. [More…]
1 direct to the Acting Minister for immigration a question in relation to the impending deportation of the British migrant, M rs Barbara Taylor, for breaches of section 16 of the Migration Act. [More…]
On 3 J st October 1969 the then Minister for Immigration announced that he would allow Mrs Biggs to remain under a temporary entry permit. [More…]
The honourable senator asked whether the Department of Immigration had had discussions with Woolworths concerning this matter. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Acting Minister for Immigration, is related to the question asked by Senator Mulvihill concerning the Taylor case. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether normally the Department of Immigration would not deport a person for misrepresentation such as occurred in that case. [More…]
They equally may be assured that in all negotiations for flying rights into and out of Australia all the considerations that have to be taken into account are taken into account - immigration, ability to earn overseas exchange, the maintenance of a growing tourist industry and the viability of the Australian air carrier. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Immigration a question in regard to the Taylor case. [More…]
My question is directed to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Surely, from what she has already said the action of the Department of Immigration is largely influenced by considerations as to what has happened between the husband and the wife and the position of the children, and not merely by the misrepresentation and entry. [More…]
J ask a further question of the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
My question is directed to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Is it not time the Department of Immigration refrained from using discretionary powers to make decisions of this nature that ought to be made by the courts nf the land which are the guardians of the children? [More…]
My question to the Acting Minister for Immigration is in relation to the Taylor case. [More…]
My question is directed to the Acting Minister for immigration, and I trust that it will be acknowledged as a lay question. [More…]
I ask a question of the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
But in the field of immigration the Commonwealth could do more. [More…]
With immigration flowing strongly, there should be a further large addition - more than 3% - to the work-force. [More…]
It was learned from the Department of Immigration office in Darwin that this gentleman had telephoned from Athens to his wife in Darwin and had said that he had been detained for 24 hours, that his room had been ransacked and that his passport was missing. [More…]
He had asked his wife to get in touch with the Immigration office and fix everything up. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration consider that the separation of nonmigrant and migrant mothers in the public maternity wards of the King George V Memorial Hospital in Sydney reeks of racialism? [More…]
I am informed that the Department of Immigration is currently considering proposals to further extend its integration facilities, including an expansion of its interpreter services. [More…]
1 direct a further question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
What salaries and allowances, if any, are payable to the Chairman and members of: (a) the Commonwealth ImmigrationPlanning Council, (b)the CommonwealthImmigration Advisory Council, (c) (he Commonwealth Immigration Publicity Council, and (d) the Qualifications Committee. [More…]
Fees and allowances paidto members of the Immigration Planning Council, the Immigration Advisory Council, the Immigration Publicity Council, andthe Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications, are determined by the Higher Salaries Committee of Cabinet. [More…]
Members of the Immigration Planning Council receive an annual honorarium of $800 per annum (Chairman $1,550) and travelling allowance at the rateof $21 per day when an overnight slay is involved. [More…]
The Chairmen and members of the Immigration Advisory Council, the Immigration Publicity Council, and the Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications, receive fees at the following rates: [More…]
The total anticipated expenditure for the Immigration Planning. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
In these days of great movement of people and the tremendous immigration that has taken place persons who may be in the Third and Fourth Divisions and transfer from the lower to the higher grade may come to the Commonwealth Public Service endowed with a multiplicity of qualifications from an enormous number of institutes of learning in all parts of the world - perhaps different language institutes from one country or another - and it is a question whether the qualifications of the technical institute of education in X city and Y country are comparable with those of a similar level of education in Australia and whether they could properly be accepted in this country. [More…]
With the immigration of skilled workers, and with new developments to increase the work force by the greater use of married women, the Government is doing its best to cope with a work force situation which is, in the words of the Treasurer (Mr Bury) during the course of his Budget Speech becoming ‘very tight’. [More…]
What will be the situation of an honourable senator who wishes to interview a particular segment of the trade union movement or an immigration group? [More…]
The letters could refer to an urgent social services case, an urgent immigration case, any other domestic matter or perhaps a matter of national importance. [More…]
Normally such a question would be referred to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Therefore I think the question should be directed on notice to the Minister for Immigration, who no doubt will examine it and through his representative in this place, the Minister for Housing, give a considered reply. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I desire lo ask a further question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration concerning the subject I raised earlier. [More…]
I desire to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration whether she can confirm the Press reports, before the announcement of the Government’s decision yesterday not to admit Mr Gregory, to the effect that he has been convicted 5 times of offences arising out of his partcipation in street demonstrations in the United States of America. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
How many officers deal with immigration applicants in the Indian cities of Bombay and Calcutta. [More…]
Do immigration inquiries in these cities emanate mainly from Anglo-Indians and people in possession of Portuguese passports. [More…]
Is the same doctor still performing duties on behalf of the Commonwealth Immigration Department. [More…]
Immigration matters in Bombay and Calcutta are dealt with by the Office of the Australian Deputy High Commission in those cities. [More…]
The establishment of each office includes an officer of the Department of Immigration and locally engaged staff. [More…]
and (S) Neither the Department of Immigration nor the Australian Deputy High Commission, Calcutta, has any recollection of a complaint that a doctor performing medical examinations al Australia’s request, has taken undue liberties with a female teenage applicant. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: ls it a fact, as stated in an article by journalist Margaret Jones, that a Canadian-Chinese woman was asked to have a cervical cancer test before being able to join her fiance in Australia. [More…]
Neither the department nor officers in Canada dealing with immigration matters have been able to identify the case in question. [More…]
Within the last 48 hours I have approached the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) on another matter regarding naturalisation rejections in company with a deputation. [More…]
I enter into this debate mainly to discuss the reasons which were given by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) for his refusal to allow Mr Gregory to enter this country. [More…]
The article quotes the Minister for Immigration as having said that people were not prevented from entering Australia just because their political views differed from those of the Government. [More…]
The article quotes the Minister for Immigration as also saying: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has refused to allow a man to come here to talk to Australians because he would disturb the morale of the Australian troops in Vietnam. [More…]
I believe that Australia has a proud record in the immigration field. [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…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) has clearly indicated the basis upon which the Government has refused admission to Mr Gregory. [More…]
The Australian position is, and has been for many years, that the Minister for Immigration has a right to say who may enter Australia and who may not. [More…]
The power which the Minister for Immigration possesses is a power which is exercised - and I suspect it is exercised far more frequently - in the United Stales of Australia. [More…]
I have been supplied with a statement made by Mr Gregory after he was told by the Office of the Australian High Commissioner in London what was said about him by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch). [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration enlighten the Senate regarding the participants in the Barry McKenzie kidnapping case by answering the following questions: (a) Did Mr and Mrs McLean and Mrs Joan Smith conspire to circumvent passport regulations when they took Barry McKenzie to Europe? [More…]
(e) Does the Department of Immigration propose to cancel such passports? [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration explain the refusal to provide a visa to a Mr R. Meier of Southern Rhodesia? [More…]
In Tasmania the Department of Immigration spends 1.11 per cent of its total expenditure; AttorneyGeneral’s Department 1 per cent; Department of the Interior 1.25 per cent; Department of Customs and Excise 1.81 per cent: Department of the Navy .128 per cent; Department of Trade and Industry .144 per cent; Department of Air .032 per cent; Department of the Army .98 per cent; Department of Works .74 per cent; Department of External Affairs .45 per cent; and Department of Supply 1 per cent. [More…]
In effect, it has not recognised the existence of families; rather it has tended to place importance on large scale and expensive immigration programmes and deprive Australia of the best source of population - that is the children born in this country. [More…]
I turn now to consider 2 areas in which 1 have been interested in recent years - our tariff and immigration policies. [More…]
We are told that because of immigration our population increased last year by 185,000. [More…]
Only a few years ago - I am not too sure how many- our annual intake through immigration was as low as 120,000. [More…]
Leading economists say quite openly that our intake through immigration, added to our natural increase, while contributing to economic growth involves tremendous expenditure in the fields of education, housing, transport and health. [More…]
We are trying to obtain them through immigration because not enough Australians are willing to shoulder responsibility. [More…]
Today we are seeing one of the greatest confidence tricks ever played on the States by the Commonwealth, namely, its immigration policy. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Will the Minister make a comprehensive statement on discussions he had with Canadian Immigration Minister, Mr Allan MacEachen, on their renewed gentlemen’s agreement not to poach settlers from one another. [More…]
During my recent visit to Canada I had wide ranging confidential discussions on immigration matters with the Canadian Minister for Manpower and Immigration, Mr MacEachen, and his officers. [More…]
There was a very useful exchange of ideas and experience on methods of improving immigration reception and settlement, with particular reference to housing, language training, technical courses, employment assistance, financial assistance and associated research. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
lt is significant that the Minister opposite, the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) represents in this chamber the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch). [More…]
When is it going to charge the Department of Immigration and the Department of Health for the facilities provided for them at international airports? [More…]
Minister representing the Minister for Immigration advise when the immigration agreement discussed by the Australian [More…]
Minister for immigration and the Maltese Government some months ago will be made available to this Parliament? [More…]
I direct a further question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Why should the application of Mrs Biggs receive more sympathy from the Department of Immigration than another United Kingdom deportation dispute in which the Department is embroiled which is based on an affair of the heart’ issue? [More…]
I will take only 5 or 6 minutes of the time of the Senate to refer briefly to what I believe are some approaching scandals, if they are not already scandals, in the administration of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Recent figures issued by the Department of Immigration have disclosed that the best part of half a million dollars has been spent in sending people back to their home country from Australia because they did not like this country. [More…]
I’m sure the Immigration Department won’t, and my wife wouldn’t be able to. [More…]
Immigration (Mr Lynch) to re-investigate this case in spite crf the fact that my representa-: tions on behalf of the Bould family have been rejected by the Department on several occasions. [More…]
The Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin), on behalf of the Minister for Immigration, answered in these terms: [More…]
My present position here is Promotions and Public Relations Manager for Brunswick Far East Inc., but, if this position will not apply in the Immigration Laws, then, I would be very grateful if you would bring up the matter in the next reading of the Immigration Bill, bearing in mind that I spent a considerable time from the age of fourteen until I was twenty three in Brisbane, where ] completed my education. [More…]
Mr Lim, as is mentioned in that particular communication - there are other communications in this file which I will make available to the Department of Immigration if it is anxious to look at it again - spent a number of years in this country, has reached a standard of education well in excess of matriculation standard, holds down a responsible job, has a brother in this country married to an Australian girl, has a home to which he can come, has a job to which he can come, and yet he is refused entry to Australia. [More…]
But because he is of Chinese descent, the white Australia policy and all the immigration bars that one could think of are applied to him.I respectfully request that each of these three cases be reviewed and justice granted to each of the three persons concerned. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Here are the words of the Minister for Immigration and Minister assisting the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) who handled the Bill in the House of Representatives on behalf of the Treasurer: [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration seen a report that a British advertising agency is being employed on an account of $856,000 a year from the Department of Immigration and that its 2 executives are regarded as the hidden persuaders behind Australia’s campaign for more British migrants? [More…]
I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Does the Department of Immigration make surveys of such restaurant requirements and balance them against applications lodged in Hong Kong for replacements? [More…]
Australian Immigration officers in Hong Kong? [More…]
Mr Ho does not have the level of qualifications required for settlement in Australia under immigration policy as reviewed in 1966. [More…]
asked the Minister representingthe Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration to an answerI. [More…]
Until the sister in charge of the Fitzroy creche, Margaret Paine, rang the Immigration Department and reported the parents. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
By way of preface I point out that over the weekend a Press report spoke of a considerable fall-off of 15 per cent in the number of British migrants - described as the cornerstone of the Australian immigration policy - coming to Australia in the last 10 months. [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…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [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…]
The Minister representing the Minister for Immigration will recall that last week I directed a question to her about the decision of the Department of Immigration to appoint a British advertising agency, on an account of some $830,000, to sell Australia to prospective British migrants, and that I asked why an Australian advertising agency was not given the opportunity to undertake this work. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Geelong is a city that in proportion to its population, attracts an extremely high percentage of migrants; I think that at one stage of our immigration programme Geelong was attracting the highest proportion of migrants in the Commonwealth. [More…]
I think that I should mention first that the section of the Department of Housing concerned with this matter is associated closely with the Department of Immigration and the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
I think it is quite likely that representations were made to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The Senate will recall that I asked the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) who represents the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) the following question: [More…]
The Minister representing the Minister for Immigration today provided the following answer: [More…]
The Government has claimed frequently that its immigration policy is not based on racial grounds. [More…]
I think very properly, pointed out that this is the very basis on which our immigration policy operates. [More…]
The Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) will recall that I raised 3 different points on immigration in one evening. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) has replied to only one of them, and I will quote his reply at the end of the comments I propose to make first. [More…]
I believe that it will back up my submission that the Australian policy on immigration is still a White Australia policy. [More…]
In order to get the record straight - and I think this ought to go into Hansard so that a lot of people can see the disgraceful way in which this Government runs its immigration policy - I shall quote from the letter. [More…]
There is provision in immigration policy for ihe admission of persons not of European descent, who as well as having the capacity to integrate into the Australian community, have qualifications which are in demand and of positive value to this country. [More…]
In the main, I believe that is the attitude of officers of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I am happy with it but 1 should like to know whether the Department draws a distinction between people who come back to Australia like this and who are debited against the Department of Immigration and those who return and are debited to the Department of External Affairs. [More…]
I shall not give the name of the man involved because the Department of Immigration is handling the case in another State. [More…]
This was intended to differentiate between returning Australians for whom provision was made under item 08 of subdivision 4 of Division 330 and distressed Australians who are not assisted by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Immigration (Mr Lynch) himself. [More…]
For that reason I think it is sufficiently important on these estimates to say something about it, because the question that was answered by the Minister tonight makes quite apparent the reason why we are now becoming once again very misunderstood in other parts of the world with our controlled immigration policy. [More…]
1 would like to assure the Minister that he need have no worry about support for a common sense policy of controlled immigration from either the politicians or the people of this country. [More…]
That is the purpose of a controlled immigration policy. [More…]
I can well understand the fear of the English Government today about persisting with an assisted immigration policy in a community which itself has been permeated by a large number of people who, culturally and economically, are not capable and were not capable of being smoothly inducted into the British community. [More…]
A most expert examination has to be made on behalf of the Minister for Immigration before public servants, who have only the general rules to guide them, can advise that such a person should be rejected. [More…]
What is a nation of 12 million people afraid of in regard to cases such as these which confront us in a controlled immigration policy? [More…]
1 want to emphasise to the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) who represents the Minister for Immigration that this is not the policy of the Australian people. [More…]
The intention of a controlled immigration policy is not to convey this impression. [More…]
Our immigration programme is the cornerstone of the future of this nation, if it is to have a future. [More…]
We must have a positive and everbroadening approach to immigration policy. [More…]
However, we must never allow our immigration policy to go to the extent that the answer conveyed to us tonight indicates. [More…]
Most of these people are fairminded enough to accept our policy of controlled immigration but not if we allow these individual cases to give a distorted picture which will predominate in the publicity that is given overseas to our immigration policy. [More…]
I object to the expression which Senator Poyser used: ‘I am filled with disgust at our immigration policy.’ [More…]
We have a controlled immigration policy as was referred to by Senator Little. [More…]
If you have a controlled immigration policy it means that you limit the immigration of people into this country,I do not know of any country which does not have a controlled immigration policy of some description. [More…]
I have before me the official platform of the ALP and I think it is wise thatI should read this becauseI do not think there is any significant difference between the official policy of the ALP and the official policy of the Government with regard to immigration matters. [More…]
This policy states that the Labor Party believes in an expanding immigration programme administered with sympathy, understanding and tolerance. [More…]
We have a controlled immigration policy which says that no person, whatever his colour or race, or whatever be his creed, is to be denied entry. [More…]
Vet because we have a controlled immigration policy there must be some people who would wish to enter but will not be able to enter. [More…]
I appreciate that the difficulties he feels are the difficulties which the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) has to recognise and to determine in the decisions that he makes. [More…]
Firstly, I suggest that the Minister might send the answer that the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) supplied this morning to question number 794 asked by Senator Poyser back to the Department because it is obviously inaccurate. [More…]
He talked about the Government’s policy and the policy of the Australian Labor Party on immigration being the same. [More…]
Let us clean the position up by the Minister for Housing making sure that the answers given in the debate on this matter are reviewed by the Department of Immigration and the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
1 refer to the Government’s immigration policy and its application to . [More…]
It is true that the Australian Labor Party believes in a controlled immigration policy. [More…]
I have no condemnation of the Government’s immigration policy; my concern is with the administration of the policy. [More…]
It is not a question of the Government’s immigration policy but its application, and I think it is to be deplored. [More…]
The honourable senator’s interpretation of the immigration policy of this country coincides exactly with that already enunciated by the Nazi Party. [More…]
The Minister also failed to reply to my query about Papuans who do not come under any sort of immigration policy at all. [More…]
During the debate on last year’s Estimates I raised with the then Minister the matter of the recruitment of staff for our embassy at Belgrade in Yugoslavia and the planned expansion - although some of it is in the immigration category - of our activities in that country. [More…]
Item 13 - Department of Immigration - calls for an explanation. [More…]
If other Ministers are not ready to comment on the Department of Customs and Excise, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Immigration, then we can come back to that later on. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh referred to item 13 ; Department of Immigration. [More…]
Turning to the question of job opportunities, we have heard the story of the troubles we are experiencing with immigration. [More…]
Money could be diverted from the vote provided for immigration so that theseAboriginal people could be trained. [More…]
By way of preface to my question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, I refer to a case last year involving a part Aboriginal boy named McKenzie who disappeared into East Germany and was then returned. [More…]
I rise tonight to direct some remarks to the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) who is represented in this chamber by the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin). [More…]
M.P., Minister for Immigration, House of Representatives. [More…]
Might I state that without endeavouring to be dogmatic or to question the role of the Immigration Department, 1 do have ample material to raise with your colleague, the Minister for Shipping, certain aspects of foreign ships engaged in the lucrative oil tanker traffic creating situations which encourage desertion. [More…]
Director of Immigration a copy of this communication so that he will be aware of the current situ hi ion as regards the seamen concerned. [More…]
I immediately phoned, the Department of Immigration and said that I had these 2 boys with me and that the members of the Lebanese community did not want to be breaking the law. [More…]
I emphasise that these are facts that our Minister for Immigration should have realised, instead of treating this as just a simple desertion case and nothing else.. [More…]
I want to make a point about the rather rigid attitude of our Minister for Immigration. [More…]
They gave me chapter and verse of cases in which the Home Secretary, who has functions equivalent to our Minister for Immigration, exercises clemency. [More…]
No doubt Mr Lynch has not bothered to look closely at the situation, if he -has not time to look at these matters in- person, he should create an immigration appeals tribunal such as I suggest. [More…]
I should like it to be conveyed to Mr Lynch, the Minister for Immigration, that in my view sitting in Canberra and looking at this thing at long range is not good enough. [More…]
I commend to him the conduct of a former Canadian Minister for Immigration. [More…]
If Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin who represents the Minister for Immigration can give me chapter and verse covering seamen and others who have been given sanctuary in Australia, I will say that the Minister is adopting a balanced attitude. [More…]
He gave me a similar answer in a previous case in which he probably was right, but this case is different, ff he would only emulate the practice of the British Minister and set up an immigration appeal tribunal there would not be the miscarriages of justice that have occurred in the past. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) very correctly said in his written reply to Senator Mulvihill: - The essential feature in these cases is that illegal entry by deserting seamen is very frequent and must therefore bc discouraged in every way possible. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill, in bringing this matter before the Senate, expressed his concern for people who -desert for a. variety of reasons, and he asked that the Minister consider the establishment of an immigration appeals tribunal. [More…]
expressed his concern for people in special circumstances, before the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration a question with regard to yesterday’s announcement by the Minister that Australia’s immigration intake, will be reduced by 10.000. [More…]
This Bill provides legislative basis for the comprehensive programme of migrant education which was announced in the House of Representatives on 23rd April 1970 by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch). [More…]
The short title - Immigration (Education) Act 1970 - indicates that the source of power for the Bill derives from the immigration provision in the Constitution. [More…]
The committee will include representatives from State Education Departments as well as the Department of Immigration and the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Clauses 8 provides authority for the conduct of such research, which will be undertaken by the Department of Immigration and the Department of Education and Science in conjunction with the research units of the State Education Departments and of appropriate tertiary institutions. [More…]
be provided under the annual appropriations for the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Another matter which I wish to mention briefly is the pressures placed on the economy by immigration. [More…]
( am delighted that the Government is to have a review of our immigration policy. [More…]
This has been brought about to a great extent by our very successful immigration policy, in saying this I am not being critical of our past immigration policy. [More…]
What 1 am saying is that I support the idea of a review of our immigration policy because 1 believe that the time has come for us to decide whether it is in the interests of the economic welfare of Australia to continue the rate of immigration at the same high level as it has been in the past. [More…]
asked the Minis ter for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Employment and Welfare, on behalf of the Maltese Government and by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) on behalf of the Australian Government. [More…]
Minister of Labour, Employment and Welfare, on behalf of the Maltese Government and the Minister for Immigration on behalf of the Australian Government initialled agreed draft texts of the proposed new Migration and Settlement Agreement and related Arrangement dealing with assisted passage provisions. [More…]
In formulating these texts, the Department of Immigration had the advice of the Departments of Foreign Affairs, the Treasury, Labour and National Service, Social Services. [More…]
The Minister for Social Services and the Minister for Immigration have already had initial discussions on social services reciprocity with Dr Tabone. [More…]
In returning to the attack tonight I again direct my remarks to the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin), who represents the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) in this chamber. [More…]
On the last occasion 1 raised the matter the Minister for Housing read a reply from the Minister for Immigration in which he more or less sheltered behind the policy of adopting a rigid attitude to what he called a high degree of ship desertions. [More…]
In her reply on behalf of the Minister for Immigration she said it was correct that as a general rule seamen who deserted overseas ships were deported. [More…]
Apparently this was the basis of the rejection by the Minister for Immigration of the request by these 2 Lebanese seamen for political asylum in Australia. [More…]
I do not criticise the Minister for Immigration for the decision he has made in these cases, but I think that it is interesting to refer to them. [More…]
1 have been unable to ascertain from the Minister for Immigration any case in which seamen such as the Lebanese seamen have been, as it were, taken into the bosom of this country and given sanctuary. [More…]
I was happy to have them back but it seems to me that we have a rather peculiar attitude if our own Treasury has to pay the fares and then we bring the people back through the other door to meet an outmoded concept of an immigration programme. [More…]
The Department of Immigration is unable to give any information about conditions for crew members on Greek ships but I think Senator Cotton, who represents the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon) will have some information for the honourable senator. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration believes that this kind of malpractice clearly has to be discouraged or it will become more prevalent in the future. [More…]
It is true, as Senator Mulvihill has said and as I have said on previous occasions, that the Minister for Immigration exercises discretion to allow deserters to remain on humanitarian grounds, but obviously if shipboard conditions are bad the remedy lies elsewhere, not in condoning the practice of desertion by seamen from their ships in Australia. [More…]
It would be improper for me, without consulting the Minister to give an answer concerning 2 people because I do not know enough about the case, but the overall picture is that deserting seamen deported from Australia are not prevented from migrating to Australia subsequently if they can meet normal immigration requirements. [More…]
I would not know whether they could meet normal immigration requirements or not. [More…]
Some notes were passed to me late this evening because it was felt that they might aid Senator Mulvihill and Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch). [More…]
Will it consider launching an immediate inquiry into the huge savings to be made by drastically curtailing the immigration programme which was recently estimated to be costing us about S 1,400m a year? [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration elaborate on the question I asked some days ago in relation to ethnic percentages? [More…]
We know full well that overall there, generally has been a bipartisan attitude to the fundamentals of our immigration policy, but we feel that in this very vital matter of the attainment of a reasonable form of communication between all Australians and a better appreciation of the English language by certain sectors of the migrant community, something further should be done. [More…]
As I go along I hope to indicate to the Senate that when this legislation was before the other place the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) left a number of things in the air. [More…]
In winding up the debate in the other place the Minister for Immigration, when referring to remarks about encouraging the participation of employers in allowing employees time to attend classes, made one admission. [More…]
In the absence of anything specific when the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin), who represents the Minister for Immigration, is replying to the debate. [More…]
Whilst I am on this subject I wish to pay tribute to the officers of the Department of Immigration in Sydney and their counterparts in the other States for the manner in which they handle the crash programme of higher grade English classes. [More…]
1 know that Australia’s immigration policy is under scrutiny at the present time. [More…]
I believe that this will answer some of the unfounded criticism which has been made of our immigration policy. [More…]
In the field of immigration where there have been some other problems these committees have been created to advise the Department. [More…]
I think this Council has its place in the immigration firmament but I believe that in the main it is preferable to have people under 45 who have made good in open competition. [More…]
The Immigration (Education) Bill which is before the Senate today is a comprehensive one. [More…]
The Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) said during the second reading speech that the Bill related to the total area of migrant education. [More…]
Although the measure comes from the Department of Immigration and was introduced by the Minister in the Senate representing the Minister for Immigration, it is also affiliated with the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
The Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council is one of the institutions associated with the Department of Immigration whose special task and assignment is the integration of new settlers into the Australian community. [More…]
For these and many other reasons it has been the policy of the Government, ever since the beginning of our large scale immigration programme, to provide in varying and expanding degrees English language instruction to nonEnglishspeaking migrants. [More…]
In 1968, on the initiative of the then Minister for Immigration, Mr Snedden, arrangements were made with the New South Wales Government for a division of research and planning within the New South Wales Department of Education, lt was arranged that the division should work in cooperation with the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science and with the Commonwealth Department of Immigration. [More…]
Obviously it was only a pilot survey, but it was complemented by other surveys undertaken by the Department of Immigration into the whole matter of language problems at that time. [More…]
Looking briefly at the adult education field, and referring again to the surveys and to the Government’s programme, the provision of an education service to enable adult migrants to learn the English language goes back as far as the beginning of the post-war immigration programme in 1947. [More…]
These were reflected in the speech of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) in another place on 23rd April 1970. [More…]
In Turkey, Greece, Italy, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Yugoslavia and elsewhere a variety of classes and courses dealing with the English language are conducted, some by ICEM, some by the Department of Immigration and others in association with various agencies and instrumentalities. [More…]
In total immigration is an area of national activity which is undergoing a series of changes and studies at present. [More…]
A cost benefit analysis could enable the Government to structure an immigration programme in accordance with population considerations. [More…]
The many efforts made over the years in our immigration programme are reflected in the Bill. [More…]
I think we should say that the Bill is concerned not only with either education or immigration policies as such but also with fundamental social rights These rights have been set out in the United Nations Universal Declarations oi Human Rights. [More…]
In reference to the amendment moved by the Opposition, I refer honourable senators to the speech of the Minister for Immigration when concluding the debate in another place. [More…]
He referred >o the fact that expenditure on immigration education has been mounting progressively through the years, and with it the services provided. [More…]
But it is obvious to mc that Parkinson’s law is being allowed to operate in the Department of Immigration. [More…]
He could cut by half the staff employed by the Department of Immigration in London as well. [More…]
Another little clause in the Bill provides that the Minister for Immigration may arrange for the conduct of research projects designed to improve the content of courses. [More…]
So I have the feeling that there will be a tremendous increase in the sub-section of the Department of Immigration involved wilh education of migrants. [More…]
Knowing how the Department of Immigration works, gaining approval to be a migrant to Australia is not a rapid process. [More…]
It seems to me that we are about to build up another subdepartment, in which case there must certainly be a First Assistant Director-General (Art of Living), Department of Immigration. [More…]
In Athens the Department of Immigration had a very good system. [More…]
When I was there I visited the immigration centre. [More…]
If there is such a thing as Australian cooking, it is taught to intending immigrants at the immigration centre in Athens. [More…]
It would have been a dreadful thing for our immigration programme if we had rejected many of the fine families which have come here and which are now successfully integrated because perhaps the mother - in most cases it would be the mother - did not have a knowledge of the English language when she came here and did not. [More…]
This is one of the difficulties brought about by immigration. [More…]
The Bill accepts what should be a Commonwealth responsibility, lt is the Commonwealth that has implemented the immigration programme and is responsible for it. [More…]
As a representative of the State of Victoria, I suggest that too much of the responsibility for the subsidiary problems that emanate from the immigration programme has been placed upon the States as an added burden. [More…]
If we want to persist with our immigration programme - there are those of us who feel that Australia has no future without an immigration programme - and if we are spreading our net much wider now, problems will certainly arise. [More…]
The points raised by Senator Little are of great importance and I will ensure that they are brought to the notice of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch). [More…]
Nevertheless the Department of Immigration has had useful discussions with representatives of employer federations and the trade unions. [More…]
When the sitting was suspended I was replying to questions raised earlier by honourable senators relating to the Bill now before the Senate, and I had promised to refer to .the Minister for Immigration those questions which I felt I was not able to answer or which it was not proper for me to answer. [More…]
As has been stated already in this House and by the Minister in another place, in February 1960 a special committee of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council submitted a report on the progress and assimilation of migrant children in Australia. [More…]
It was the Department of Immigration, I remind the honourable senator, which took the initiative again in 1962 in conducting a survey of abandonment from migrant education classes in Victoria. [More…]
It is wrong to say that nothing has been done because there has been continuing work, a continuing review and continued appreciation of what is required in our immigration programme. [More…]
First let me say that immigration is not totally a Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]
While the States have had the responsibility for bearing the costs of the social infra-structure resulting from immigration, they have not called for any halt in the programme. [More…]
Government spending provide further support for the view that immigration funds should not be used to finance capital works in the States. [More…]
The work that is being done by the Department of Immigration, by the people who are teaching migrant children and by the people who are assisting adult migrants in the great difficulties which confront them in a new land is of tremendous importance. [More…]
1. direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Estimates Committee B covers those 2 subjects as well as the Department of Housing, the Department of Immigration, the Department of Health and the PostmasterGeneral’s Department. [More…]
asked the Minis ter for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Although a number have requested asylum, their cases were resolved on the basis of normal immigration considerations. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to an earlier request by me for a statement by the Prime Minister on the full effects on Australians entering the United Kingdom of the British Immigration Bill. [More…]
Will the Minister also inquire whether it is true that the same journalist’s position had been in jeopardy because of revelations he made in relation to immigration which had greatly embarassed the Government and the Department of Immigration? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
In view of the recent statistics produced by the Minister for Immigration on the number of Asians with professional qualifications granted permanent domicile in Australia, how does he account for the rejection of 2 applications mentioned by the Sydney ‘Sun’ and 2GB columnist Anne Deveson concerning, firstly, a Chinese girl born in Malaysia who has qualified as an accountant and, secondly, a Chinese microbiologist who finds that there are no outlets for his professional talents in Hong Kong? [More…]
Officers within the Department of Immigration are attempting to do so. [More…]
When the Prime Minister makes his statement on the effects of the British immigration law on Australians entering Great Britain, will that statement be tabled in the Senate so that, if needs be. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration now outline the reason why the [More…]
The Department of Immigration has made inquiries and it has been confirmed that there is a positive effective demand in Malaysia for persons with chartered accountancy qualifications. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Which Australian Government Immigration Office processed the entry applications of Nikolai Vordanoff Daskaloff and Peter Nicoloff Petroff. [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
I direct a ques tion to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Occasionally inquiries made by the Department of Immigration have shown that there has been no demand in Malaysia for particular qualifications which have been obtained by students in Australia, and favourable consideration has then been given to a grant of resident status. [More…]
But I understand from the Department of Immigration that this is not the case. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Notwithstanding a very comprehensive reply I received from the Prime Minister outlining the Commonwealth Government’s interpretation of the status of Australian citizens under the new United Kingdom Immigration Bill, will the Minister now say that the recent action of Enoch Powell in having a British parliamentary committee delete the patrial clause makes much of the Prime Minister’s advice null and void? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
It is the object of the survey to test basic assumptions about the pattern of immigration and to obtain data by which to improve further immigration procedures. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
It is staffed by Department of Immigration officers and locally engaged personnel located there for migration activities. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Vast sums have been spent by Australia on immigration. [More…]
The figures represent something of this character: Taking 1964-65 as a base year, the annual expenditure for immigration was about S38m. [More…]
In that period there has been virtually a 100 per cent increase in the national financial appropriation for immigration but only about a 16 per cent increase in the appropriation for child endowment. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration say what differences there are between the Government’s present policy on immigration and that of Mr Daly, the shadow Minister of the Australian Labor Party, taking into account the differing views expressed by Mr Whitlam, the Leader of the Australian Labor Party? [More…]
1 have always understood that the policy adopted by the Government and the Australian Labor Party with regard to immigration is essentially a bipartisan policy. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs: What form of condolence was extended to the Yugoslav Government by the Commonwealth Government following the assassination of the Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden by Croatian terrorists, in view of the late ambassador’s association with senior Australian Cabinet Ministers during the signing of the Yugoslav Immigration Agreement? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The major deterrent available to the Minister for Immigration is deportation of deserters, if they can be found. [More…]
The situation of these Filipino seamen does not seem, prima facie, to have any relationship to the Refugee Seamen’s Convention, and the Department of Immigration has not been involved in this matter. [More…]
There newspapers gloated over the fact that the Government lost the seat because they felt strongly about the then Minister for Immigration (Mr Opperman), who had sincerely tried to deal with certain of these people, who then decided to abstain from voting. [More…]
The point I am making is the same clemency is never given by the Department of Immigration, the AttorneyGeneral’s Department or any other Commonwealth department to the anti-Fascist people as is given to what are termed the anti-Communists. [More…]
Before Australia had an immigration agreement with Yugoslavia some honourable senators opposite used to gig me about my attitude to eastern Europe. [More…]
As these problems have been exacerbated by Commonwealth policies on immigration, growth and the emphasis on pollution - [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I rise to question the immigration policy being practised by this Government as portrayed in a publication called the ‘Evolution of a Policy’ produced by the former Minister for Immigration, Mr Lynch. [More…]
The only criticism I have in that respect is that while the Minister is entitled to take full credit and I pay homage to the then Minister for Immigration, Mr Hubert Opperman I think the publication might have referred to the statesmanlike attitude of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party, Mr Whitlam, who stood shoulder to shoulder on the rostrum with the Minister when that policy was announced. [More…]
Early this year she received a letter from the then Minister for Immigration, Mr Lynch, in which he used the standard phrases that the overseas student programme under which Miss Lau was admitted to Australia meant that she had acquired a certain professional skill and that she had to go back to the country of her origin so that the skill she had obtained could lift the conditions of that country. [More…]
I have a high regard for the New South Wales immigration officers. [More…]
Senator Greenwood and Mr Forbes, the Minister for Immigration, are aware that J have already raised the problem of another group of Asian men and women who have qualified in accountancy. [More…]
My second point is that Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson was good enough to give me a very lengthy statement on our attitude to the United Kingdom Immigration Act. [More…]
Some years ago the Government announced that there would be a liberalisation of our immigration policies in regard to non-Europeans. [More…]
For some years a liberalised policy was operated by the Department of Immigration, but in the last 2 years or so I have noticed a hardening of the attitude of the Department or of the administration, whichever it may be. [More…]
I have spoken to other members of the Parliament belonging to the Liberal Party, Australian Country Party, my own Party and the Australian Labor Party and have found agreement that there has been a hardening of our immigration policies against Asians and non-Europeans over the last couple of years. [More…]
I receive, as other members do, long letters from the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I simply say once again that we ought to have a good hard look at our immigration policies. [More…]
If we want to be friendly with Asia, as we say we want to be, our immigration laws ought to be implemented with humanity and reason. [More…]
Undoubtedly the force of their views will be considered by the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]
She has had many representations made to the Minister for Immigration on her behalf, and I am assured that the various Ministers for Immigration have given all these applications and requests the deepest consideration. [More…]
The immigration policy of the Government has been relaxed to permit the bringing in to this country of people who have particular skills that the community needs. [More…]
Australia’s immigration policy could not be termed a racist policy in this respect; it is a policy of selective immigration in thai only those people who have skills which would enable them to be readily absorbed into our community are permitted into Australia. [More…]
But if the information which has been given is correct the deportation of Miss Lau could be’ only on racist grounds because she complies with all the requirements of the relaxed immigration policy of the Government. [More…]
The Government has relaxed its immigration policy to attract to Australia people who have the same skills as Miss Lau. [More…]
The Government’s immigration policy is from time to time contested. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The records held in the Department of Immigration of passengers leaving Australia, which date from 1st January 196S do not contain the name of Alan Cameron Charles Stewart up to 31st January 1971. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Expenditure brought to account by the Department of Immigration is not dissected to show the administrative cost of bringing each migrant to Australia. [More…]
However, an assessment of $66 per migrant has been made on the basis of estimated expenditure directly associated with overseas recruitment, en route services and reception in Australia in respect of the revised 1970-71 immigration programme of 170,000. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
How many officers of the Department of Immigration were stationed in Asia (excluding Turkey), Africa, North America, South America, Great Britain and Eire and Continental Europe (including Turkey and the Mediterranean area), during each of the past 5 years? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has supplied the following answer: [More…]
The following table shows the number of Australia-based Department of Immigration officers stationed overseas during each of the past 5 years: [More…]
The figures in brackets represent Department of Immigration officers included in the total who are or were temporarily on the establishment of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Why is it necessary for the Department of Immigration to bring migrants to this country by ship at a dearer rate than that for which they can be brought here by air - naturally using Qantas Airways Ltd? [More…]
I will convey the question to the Minister for Immigration and endeavour to get a reply for the honourable senator. [More…]
the Minister for Immigration, I refer to the need for more effective liaison between him and the Minister in the other place. [More…]
I seek an explanation as to why the Minister for Immigration gave an answer to a question identical to one asked by me yesterday to which I could not receive an answer. [More…]
The question related to methods to be used in relation to our immigration cutback from various countries and I had alerted the Minister in this place several hours before the Senate convened. [More…]
The first question he asked was why I was not able to give him an answer to a question which he asked yesterday when the Minister for Immigration who, of course, is in another place, was able to give an answer to a similar question when it was asked in the other place. [More…]
I inform him, however, that the major part of the reduction in the immigration programme for 1971-72 will be in the field of assisted migration. [More…]
Summarised, the information which has been supplied to me indicates that, where the bookings have been made by the Commonwealth Department of Immigration, roughly 56,500 in 1970-71 were booked through Qantas Airways Ltd and approximately 1,000 were booked through other airlines. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Considering the position in which Qantas finds itself and the fact that it is to carry 30,000 fewer passengers to this country because of reduced immigration, one would have thought that the Government would have ensured that newcomers to Australia would have travelled by air because, firstly, as I said I am informed, it is cheaper and, secondly, Qantas would not have been placed in a position in which it was not operating the number of flights which it could operate. [More…]
One aspect which was raised by honourable senators opposite is immigration. [More…]
It has been said - honourable senators opposite have raised this matter on a number of occasions - that there have been changes in our immigration policy and that further changes will occur. [More…]
Department of Immigration Bookings. [More…]
At the moment Australia probably is tapering off its immigration intake. [More…]
I pay tribute to the very effective field staff we have handling immigration matters throughout the world. [More…]
I believe that the Immigration Ministry is the logica] one to take over matters relating to Australians who will go to England now that the United Kingdom has introduced new immigration measures. [More…]
If the Government wants to do something about reconstruction, all it would have to do would be to hand this ministerial chore to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to an earlier answer I received from the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration in relation to the ratification of the Refugee Seamen’s Convention. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration seen an article in last Sunday’s Brisbane Truth’ in which it was stated that a senior immigration officer in Sydney had revealed that if a person comes to this country for $10 under the assisted passage scheme and then decides to return to his motherland before the contracted 2-year period has expired, there is nothing the immigration officials at airports can do about it except to take the person’s name, address and passport number and then allow him to proceed on his way? [More…]
I am sure that the policy of the Department of Immigration is to ensure that migrants who come to Australia are prepared to settle permanently in Australia. [More…]
However, I will take steps to ensure that his question and the concern that he has expressed are brought to the attention of the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration seen a Press report that a black American citizen has been refused permission to remain in Australia for another year despite the fact that he is reported to have special skills and guarantees of employment? [More…]
I also ask the Minister whether he has seen the following statement purported to have been made by his colleague the Minister for Immigration: [More…]
Will the Minister inform the Senate of the precise nature of the rules to which the Minister for Immigration referred in that statement or, failing that, will the Minister table a complete set of these rules, for the information of all honourable senators, before the Senate rises for the winter recess? [More…]
All I can do is refer the text of his question to the Minister for Immigration to obtain a reply. [More…]
Minister representing the Prime Minister allay any existing fears that, as a consequence of the new United Kingdom Immigration Bill and that country’s probable Common Market membership, Australians entering that country in the near future could have less freedom of movement as regards employment in the United Kingdom than citizens of Common Market nations? [More…]
But, be that as it may, I indicated in answer to the honourable senator on 30th March this year that Australia’s High Commissioner in London has been in touch with the British Home Secretary on the British Immigration Bill. [More…]
On his behalf I therefore ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: [More…]
I have received an answer from the Minister for Immigration which runs into 3 pages. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
At least one change in the last year has taken place in the Ministries of Housing, Navy, Interior, Trade and Industry, Primary Industry, Shipping and Transport, Supply, Immigration, Labour and [More…]
I could reflect upon the position of the spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on immigration matters. [More…]
My question is directed to Senator Greenwood in his capacity as Attorney-General and the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Another item in the business paper relates to the immigration and settlement of Maltese citizens. [More…]
On 4th May this year in company with my colleague Senator Cavanagh, and supported subsequently by Senator Hannan and Senator McManus, I raised a few points on how our immigration policy was being operated. [More…]
Apart from the odium of the Australian Minister for Immigration of the day in some instances having to order deportation consideration must be given to another product of these systems. [More…]
As a matter of fact, in one or two of the subsequent rejections I received from the then Minister for Immigration and subsequent Ministers in that portfolio the point seems to be that if the people tried hard enough when they returned to their own countries they would be able to find employment. [More…]
I sum up my submissions tonight by saying that the time is opportune for the Minister to do more than pay lip service to immigration in his news releases. [More…]
Whilst I have deliberately quoted only 1 case tonight - I know that Senator Greenwood will convey it to the Minister for Immigration - I have 4 other cases. [More…]
I think it would be wrong for the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) to act in any way other than one which is consonant with the overall objectives. [More…]
We find that not only in relation to health but also in relation to immigration and social services there is frequent repetition of the same type of problem. [More…]
I am fully aware that there are many other important subjects warranting the attention of this Parliament, such as immigration, foreign affairs, health and education and I hope that at a later stage I will be given an opportunity to canvass them. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Legal proceedings were not instituted against Mr Petrovsky by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer tothe honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I think it is significant that in addition to being the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Senator Greenwood happens to represent in this chamber the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]
In speaking for the Opposition I said that by and large it was a step forward, but in doing so I quoted the criteria that was applied by the late President Kennedy when, as a senator who specialised in immigration matters in the United States Senate, he pointed out that any immigration policy should be one that is generous, fair and flexible. [More…]
Senator Dame
Annabelle Rankin, who represented the Minister for Immigration, said that of course citizenship is a matter of privilege. [More…]
But if he is looking at this matter from the immigration attitude as distinct from that of Attorney-General, he will agree that on numerous occasions we go to various functions and talk about Australia’s virtues and vices. [More…]
1 repeat that I have no doubt that when the Attorney-General confers, as he no doubt will, with the Minister for Immigration, the Minister for Immigration will tell him that this is something which has been raised persistently. [More…]
I am not aware that the practice of using Australia’s immigration programme as a means of obtaining a holiday is widespread, though from time to time experience has indicated that persons have sought in a variety of ways to use the migration provisions in order to obtain benefits other than those which Australia hopes to receive from that programme. [More…]
I can only say to the honourable senator that I shall refer his question to the Minister for Immigration who, I am sure, will provide a full answer to the other points that I have not covered. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
What is the background of the following members of the Immigration Planning Council, and what claims did (hey have to active work in the field of immigration: D. M. Cullity, H. Cuthbertson, W. Gerard, D. H. Laidlaw, Sir Cecil Looker, Sir Robert Norman, L. M. Perrott, J. F. Rich, T. Walker and D. R. Zeidler? [More…]
Was consideration given to my remarks at a recent Citizenship Convention that membership of the Immigration Planning Council should be conferred on post-war migrants in the trade union movement in addition to Australian Council of Trade Unions personnel? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Members of the Immigration Planning Council are chosen for their individual ability to advise (he Government through the Minister for Immigration on economic, social, environmental and related matters bearing on immigration. [More…]
and (3) Qualifications based on ‘active work in the field of immigration’ are more relevantto membership of the Immigration Advisory Council, which deals with matters concerned with migrant integration. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration give the Senate any information on the denial of entry to United Kingdom migrant Mrs Moore, with particular reference to the rating of asthma symptoms as a rejection factor? [More…]
I have been informed by the Minister for Immigration that Mrs Moore, whose case was referred to in the Press this morning, has not been refused entry to Australia. [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
It would appear that the Australian Labor Party takes the view that there should be a reduction in our natural birth rate and we should break down on our immigration policy. [More…]
asked the Minister’ representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
This was announced by Mr Lynch who was then Minister for Immigration. [More…]
This report showed a population of about 18 million in Australia by 2001, exclusive of immigration. [More…]
This projection was based on assumptions that the basic figure of 18 million would rise to almost 23 million if immigration were assumed to bring in 100,000 persons per annum. [More…]
As far as Australia is concerned any study of population growth must of necessity include some reference to immigration. [More…]
The Government’s immigration policy and record arc well known to honourable senators. [More…]
It would be undesirable for us to place ourselves in a position of underpopulation unless we are prepared to change our attitude to race and immigration and are prepared to accept in far greater numbers people from the over-populated and under-privileged nations of the world. [More…]
Through the Department of Immigration the Government has set up a sudy in relation to the settlement process of migrants, based on a sample of 10,000 newly arrived migrants. [More…]
From this study we can work out what is the effect on our economy, what absorption capacity we have, the retention of living standards for our population and so on, then study the costs and benefits of immigration. [More…]
Has the fall in the profitability of Qantas Airways Limited been due to the cutback in the immigration programme? [More…]
Will the Minister for Civil Aviation, who is to be the Acting Minister for Immigration, arrange to provide for the Senate next Tuesday a statement of the existing policy of the Department of Immigration in relation to people who are entering or passing through Australia in possession of New Zealand passports? [More…]
As will bs appreciated, my state of knowledge on this subject is perhaps not as good as one might hope it will be in 6 weeks time when, 1 am told, I will give up the job of being the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
In the absence of the Leader of the Government in the Senate 1 direct a question to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I relate a reference in the Department of Immigration’s News Release 40/71 dealing with the Immigration Advisory Council’s study targets to notice of motion No. [More…]
The question is directed to a combination of the portfolios of Immigration, Social Services and Health. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General: Why is it that no such action was taken by Commonwealth Police against Mr Ron Waishing, a New Zealander of Chinese descent, who publicly defied the immigration laws? [More…]
Can the Acting Minister for Immigration give any further information on the visa problems encountered by New Zealand citizen Mr Waishing during his Australian visit? [More…]
Those who preach brotherhood and some kind of liberalisation of immigration, and talk of the absence of creed and colour, will stand up and be counted not when they mouth words but are they prepared to go alongside their brothers and say to them: ‘You are different from me in colour, creed, language and religion. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I address my question to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Notwithstanding Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Committee surveys that arc now under way on certain aspects of migrant community integration, does the Minister contemplate a crash programme involving a corps of social workers to enter the area pinpointed by the Melbourne Children’s Hospital’s recent report and apparently defined as a domestic disaster area? [More…]
The other matter that I raise, again on this theme of British-Australian relations, is the rather undue silence being maintained by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) as to our attitude to the future impact of the United Kingdom Immigration Bill. [More…]
I desire to direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
First, is it true that the present Government parties, when in opposition, adopted a bipartisan approach to Australia’s post war immigration programme, whose architect was Mr A. [More…]
Secondly, do recent tumultuous events in the Australian Labor Party, leading to the disappearance of the Opposition’s spokesman for immigration, mean, the end of an agreed and intelligible policy on immigration? [More…]
If so, will the Minister inform the House whether he will approach the Opposition and suggest that it appoint several spokesmen who will bc prepared to explain the varied and differing views on immigration which the ALP is publicly proclaiming? [More…]
One such policy through the years has been the concerted view of immigration as it has been presented to the outside world by the Australian attitude practically across the board. [More…]
I think one also ought to pay respect to the work that was carried out 21 or 22 years ago by the Right Honourable Arthur Calwell, who will retire fairly soon and whose work in immigration in this country, I think, was quite notable. [More…]
Minister for Immigration outline the extent of liaison which exists between his Department and the New South Wales Department of Education as regards the acceptance of United States and West German migrant teachers? [More…]
As far as the Department of Immigration knows, West Germany has not been a source of teachers for New South Wales but the United Kingdom and North America have been. [More…]
The New South Wales Department of Education and the Department of Immigration have worked very closely together on the matter of recruitment. [More…]
In regard to the last part of the honourable senator’s question I do not agree with his general observation made to the Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, that Asian teachers should be given permanent domicile here. [More…]
The figures that I have in relation to the extensiveness of medical health coverage more than prove what was set out in the 1971 immigration planning report. [More…]
Is the Acting Minister for Immigration satisfied that the screening procedure which was applied to United Kingdom migrants following the Biggs episode has proved effective in the light of the revelation which occurred during the recent Qantas Airways Ltd robbery trial? [More…]
Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Was consideration given to the Inclusion of a post-war immigration trade unionist in the trade union representation on the present Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council, when the members of the Council were appointed? [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Appointments to the Council are made by the Minister for Immigration on the basis of nominations sought from representative organisations.In relation to the trade union representation, the Australian Council of Trade Unions was invited to submit 3 nominations. [More…]
Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
In what way can immigrant ethnic groups make submission to Committees to be set up by the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council to study aspects of immigration integration, as announced in the Department of Immigration News Release’ No. [More…]
In accordance with the expressed wish of the Minister for Immigration, it is the intention of Committees of the Immigration Advisory Council to consult ethnic groups on aspects of migrant integration which they, are to study. [More…]
Any written submissions which immigrant ethnic groups may wish to make to the Committees should be addressed to the Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council, Senator G. S. Davidson, c/o The Executive Officer of the Council, Department of Immigration, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2600. [More…]
1 direct to the Leader of the Government in the Senate a supplementary question in regard to the effects of the United Kingdom Immigration Bill on Australians. [More…]
How does he justify his earlier answer that the matter should be referred to the Australian Minister for Immigration when the Australian High Commissioner in London is responsible to the Prime Minister’s Department? [More…]
Alternatively, does he mean that when asking questions on the Estimates I should direct such questions to the representatives of the Department of Immigration rather than to the representatives of the Prime Minister’s Department? [More…]
The fact of the matter is that any matter coming within the portfolio of the Minister for Immigration in Australia must essentially be one in which he will be involved. [More…]
When there is some matter on which the Prime Minister’s intervention is sought, the first thing he does is to call upon the advice available to him, whether it be from the Department of Health, which is my own Department, the Department of Immigration or any other department. [More…]
The question will be referred, very properly, first of all to the Department of Immigration and the Minister for Immigration, who will have to react to it. [More…]
Is the Acting Minister for Immigration in a position to give a reply to the detailed criticism of our migrant education programme contained in the Melbourne Brotherhood of St Laurence extensive survey which, in the last 72 hours, has been largely substantiated by comments made by the New South Wales Department of Education and the Sydney Catholic Education Office? [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Will the Minister provide a statement by 5th October 1971 of Department of Immigration policy towards persons, having New Zealand passports, who enter or transit Australia. [More…]
Briefly, they may be granted migrant visas if they are the spouses, dependent children, fiancees, fiances or aged parents of residents of Australia; or if they have qualifications at the level required by the Government’s policy decision of March 1966 concerning non European immigration (usually professional qualifications); they may readily obtain visitor visas (tourists, businessmen, etc. [More…]
Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral, in conjunction with his colleague the Minister for Immigration, initiate discussions with the Law Institute in New South Wales for the purpose of inculcating into a minority - fortunately - of Sydney law firms an attitude of being more accessible to migrant clients? [More…]
It is very difficult for me to give any indication of what my attitude might be either in discussions with the Minister for Immigration or in discussions with the law firms to whom the honourable senator has referred. [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Information available to officers of the Department of Immigration indicates that the three people mentioned in the newspaper reports were not offered teaching appointments in New South Wales before their departure from the United States. [More…]
In one case, enquiries had been instituted in Australia by the Department of Immigration to assess the teacher employment prospects. [More…]
The Department of Immigration co-operates closely with the State Education Departments in the recruitment of school-teachers. [More…]
Thus, officers of the Department of Immigration are not required to counsel applicants in relation to employment opportunities in State Education Departments. [More…]
My question, addressed to the Acting Minister for Immigration, arises from the question asked by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]
1 direct a further question to the Acting Minister for Immigration: As he has informed the Senate of the reason for the refusal of an assisted passage to Mr Nigel Joseph, why could not the reason have been given to Mr Joseph when he requested it? [More…]
The honourable senator raises matters of policy that have a marked effect on the administration of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Although 1 would like to help Senator Cavanagh, I do not feel I should take it upon myself to make policy judgments on behalf of the Minister for Immigration who is absent. [More…]
1 ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration whether it is a fact that twice in the past 18 months the Minister has rejected an application for Australian citizenship from Mr Felipe Ysmael. [More…]
I direct a question to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
What control does the Minister for Immigration exercise in ensuring that private employers such as the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd do not distort migrant intake targets determined by the Commonwealth Government by virtue of their own overseas migrant recruiting compaigns. [More…]
My understanding is that there is no prospect of private employers distorting the immigration programme by overseas migrant recruitment campaigns. [More…]
The campaigns themselves take place within the framework of the assisted passage programme, and this is carefully controlled in size and structure by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
One could observe equally that there is an Immigration Advisory Council which is most notably chaired by a member of the Senate, lt does remarkably good work. [More…]
Represented on the Council are the employers and the unions, and from time to time it examines the overall immigration programme. [More…]
I direct a question to the Acting Minister for Immigration. [More…]
1 did not see the article in the Press in time to contact the Department of Immigration and obtain further information about it. [More…]
Some difficulty seems to be experienced from lime to time in relation to the Commonwealth immigration programme - in which the honourable senator takes a great interest - in getting the States to recognise the qualifications of Commonwealth people whom immigration authorities feel are desirable to have in this country. [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Has the New South Wales Department ul’ Education discontinued nearly SO migrant education classes because of a request from the Department of Immigration to restrict spending in this area? [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Department of Immigration is in consultation with the State Education Departments in regard to the action which has been taken to date in rationalising the continuation class programme, with a view to ensuring that the interests of those migrants whose needs are best met by the long-term course are safeguarded so far as possible. [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The following information therefore relates only to assisted migrants who travel on bookings made by the Department of Immigration or by the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. [More…]
Department of Immigration Bookings [More…]
I have referred this question to my colleague the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
What procedure does the Department of Immigration adopt to determine whether an applicant for Australian citizenship possesses an adequate knowledge of English. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The ability of an applicant to satisfy the requirement of an adequate knowledge of English is assessed in conversation at an interview the applicant has in connection with his application with an officer or representative of the Department of Immigration [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Will he examine the immigration laws to determine whether action can be taken to restrict entry into Australia of people who come here with the sole purpose of making a quick underhand profit and who leave ruin and hardship in their wake? [More…]
I will refer the comments contained in the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Immigration for his consideration. [More…]
Having said that by way of comment, I will refer the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Immigration for elaboration if he wishes so to do. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Will he also confer with his colleague, the Minister for Immigration, to see what restrictions can be placed on the entry into Australia of people of such poor reputation and obvious motives as Mr Turner? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
What consultation, if any, and subsequent supervision will be exercised by the Department of Immigration in relation to a scheme for female migrants apparently sponsored by the Australian Tourist Commission? [More…]
I am assured that the Minister for Immigration has no knowledge of such a scheme. [More…]
His predecessors have expressed the view that they do not favour anysuchscheme and I am assured that the present Minister for Immigration adheres to the views of his predecessors. [More…]
To that extent they are exceptions to the general rule.I am assured by the Minister for Immigration that he has no knowledge of the scheme referred to and that it would he contrary to the policy which his Department has followed over the years. [More…]
Is the Minister representng the Treasurer aware of the great concern being felt by representatives of local government at the increasing cost burden which is being placed on the local councils in providing recognised municipal facilities due in some instances to the Commonwealth Government’s immigration policy? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: (1)How many social workers are employed by the Departmentof Immigration, and where are they located? [More…]
(3)Which non-government social work agencies receive assistance from the Department of Immigration, and what is the level of assistance in each case? [More…]
The Minister for immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
At 3lst October 1971 the Department of Immigration was employing 16 social workers. [More…]
One is serving as a special counselling officer in the Immigration Office in [More…]
Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
What is the current establishment of the section of the Department of Immigration which deals with public relations and publicity in Australia? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
We encourage their immigration. [More…]
in its policy on immigration, must add greatly to the problems of the States in their attempts to find housing money. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration aware that during the recent building boom in Australia hundreds pf migrant tradesmen were brought into Australia, particularly Western Australia, to relieve the shortage prevalent at that time? [More…]
Does the Minister consider that the increasing numbers of unemployed in Australia warrant a very close look at our immigation policy, perhaps with the object of suspending all immigration until such time as the numbers of unemployed are considerably reduced? [More…]
It appears to me that the general tenor of the honourable senator’s question is that the immigration programme is too large and ought to be reduced. [More…]
This is a matter to which the Government has given close attention over the years and recent announcements indicate that the projected immigration intake for this year is approximately 30,000 fewer than the intake of other years. [More…]
But it should never be forgotten that the development and growth of Australia and the material standards in which all Australians have shared have been made possible over the last two or three decades by an immigration programme in which all parties have participated and shared. [More…]
But the honourable senator can be assured that the Government does pay attention to the needs of particular areas in the administration of its immigration programme and is conscious of the need to be able to maintain a proper immigration programme for what appears to be Australia’s likely growth in the future. [More…]
1592 that I have placed on the notice paper which seeks clarification of the statues of Australian citizens in the United Kingdom following the enactment of new immigration legislation in that country. [More…]
1 ask him as an interim measure: In the event of wishing to intervene in a complaint received from an Australian involved in a dispute with the British Home Office in this regard should 1 use the avenue of the Prime Minister’s Department or the Department of Immigration? [More…]
If the honourable senator wishes to intervene in a case of this nature, my advice to him would be to approach the Department of Immigration because the Prime Minister’s Department would have to get the relevant facts from the Department of immigration anyway. [More…]
I have asked this question because Sir Alec Downer is the representative in London and he is not directly responsible to the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Nevertheless, I think it would be much better if the honourable senator were to approach the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Quite clearly the Prime Minister’s Department would have to get from the Department of Immigration the background to the case and the relevant facts about it. [More…]
Yesterday I asked a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration about the possibility of stopping migration until the unemployment situation in Australia eased. [More…]
I do not think I can add anything to what I said yesterday except to re-assure the honourable senator that immigration is necessary because of the type of development which has been occurring in Australia and which the. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
In submitting this motion to the Senate, I look back over 22 years of immigration policy. [More…]
Considering what has happened in the era from Arthur Calwell to Dr Forbes, honourable senators will concede the dedication of the officers of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Notwithstanding past debates on immigration matters, even with my most inquisitive mind I could not cavil at the detailed answers That T have received. [More…]
Present immigration policy has existed for a long period. [More…]
I refer first to the 1969 edition of the ‘Senate Manual’ of the United States, which states that a Joint Congressional Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy has been established to investigate the problems of aliens and nationality. [More…]
Having made that point, I turn to another document which is produced by the Office of the Minister of Manpower and Immigration in Canada. [More…]
It is dated 1 2th September 1967 and is a complete review of Canadian immigration policy. [More…]
1 know that the officers of the Department of Immigration maintain a close liaison with this office in Canada with regard to policy matters. [More…]
The significance is that on page 2 of what is a lengthy statement the Minister, Mr Marchand, refers to the ‘Parliamentary Committee studying the White Paper on Immigration’. [More…]
I might say in passing that I know that the United States had some inbuilt immigration problems between 1924 and the Second World War that Australia did not exactly experience. [More…]
I know that spokesmen for the Department of Immigration will talk about the series of advisory committees that filter various ideas, and also about the Australian Citizenship Convention. [More…]
Let me say clearly, speaking for Senator Murphy in this Committee and Mr Whitlam in another place, immigration is a matter of people and not statistics. [More…]
To substantiate that comment, I refer to a lengthy statement, dated 20th September 1971, by the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]
I feel that even when that evaluation has been carried out by officers of the Department of Immigration, sufficient scrutiny will not have been given to the matter. [More…]
I do not think that our immigration programme has been geared to anticipate problems. [More…]
They are not big problems but they are indicative of the weaknesses of our immigration filtering system and of the advisory committees. [More…]
The point I am getting at is that the Department of Immigration and its Ministers have always had the problem of balancing relations between trade unions and employer groups and the State governments. [More…]
At those meetings the State Ministers who have immigration within their responsibility parade in a sort of semi-camera attitude. [More…]
Speaking for myself, it is not a question of stopping the immigration programme. [More…]
1 say respectfully lo Senator Greenwood, who is representing the Minister for Immigration, that there is nothing to be lost in this regard. [More…]
I commend the officers of the Department of Immigration for bringing to my attention a lengthy analysis or rebuttal of the report on education by the Brotherhood of St Lawrence. [More…]
I agree that immigration is an important subject on which today there are wide differences of opinion. [More…]
I congratulate Senator Mulvihill not only on his great interest in and knowledge of immigration but also on the way in which he presented his case. [More…]
I believe that much research is being done now through the Department of Immigration and the Government sponsoring research in:o immigration, which is a matter into which, of necessity, much research has to be done. [More…]
I think really that we should consider the importance of the investigation since we are now facing the necessity to alter our immigration programme. [More…]
In altering our immigration programme we should be careful that we do not bring into operation any decision which has not been properly researched or thought through. [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…]
On my representation the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) and his officers exercised their discretion to allow Mr Anthony to leave the country for 5 days and lo return and rejoin his family. [More…]
I suggest that we conduct this discussion on immigration as Australians talking about the things that are of interest to Australia, not as members of a particular political party. [More…]
But I am getting away altogether from the subject of immigration. [More…]
I do not think that such an inquiry would contribute as much to a solution of its problem as research by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
After all, immigration is a matter which must be inevitably reflected in Government policy, irrespective of what we as Australians and members of the Parliament think and what advice we give to the Government. [More…]
It should be remembered that without immigration there would be no growth at all in Australia today. [More…]
The birth rate is not high enough for this nation to grow at all without immigration. [More…]
I think it is a mistake to think that any of the economic pressure* of all problems which exist today can be solved completely by restricting immigration. [More…]
Those people who think that the unemployment problem in this country today can be solved by stopping immigration should turn back the clock to what happened in the 1930s. [More…]
Any businessman or trade union official who is worth his salt knows what would happen if the immigration programme were stopped entirely overnight. [More…]
I have a lot of respect for the Department of Immigration I have a lot to do with it. [More…]
Lots of people come to me with immigration problems. [More…]
I can understand the tremendous difficulty there would be in trying to run an immigration programme if too much looseness were permitted. [More…]
I agree in the main with its philosophical approach to immigration. [More…]
Cases of this nature did not seem to occur before the decision to cut back the immigration programme was taken. [More…]
1 think that the grounds of rejection are patently not what, in my experience, has been the normal approach of our Department of Immigration. [More…]
1 wonder when the Government proposed the expenditure for the Department of Immigration whether it really looked into the matter seriously or whether it looked at last year’s figures, increased them a little, and put them down for this year. [More…]
Yesterday the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Greenwood) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) said that the Government is cutting down the migration programme by 30 per cent. [More…]
The Government and its Ministers should be quite capable of looking at immigration in the correct light and of producing the right result for the Australian people. [More…]
I am an ordinary Australian and I do not profess to be an expert on immigration but I feel this is like buying tyres for a motor car before you have a car. [More…]
Perhaps we should adopt an immigration policy somewhat similar to that which the United States has had for some years. [More…]
What I am trying to impact is that the Government should look very carefully at its migration policy and decide whether Australia should spend this much money on immigration at this stage. [More…]
In other words he did not reject the concept, as T understood him, of at least having an all Party committee to look at the problems that have arisen in the immigration field and to try to map out something for the future. [More…]
That, of course, is different from what we have put forward regarding a joint committee to deal with immigration. [More…]
Obviously in any consideration of the question of immigration we want the widest experience we can get. [More…]
It is quite stupid, I suggest, to say that the only people who have knowledge of immigration problems are members of the Senate, not members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
I think members of the House of Representatives would get much more immigration work in their electorates. [More…]
Why is it that on this occasion the Aus-, tralian Labor Party has suggested setting up a joint committee to look at the whole question of immigration? [More…]
If we read the entire history of immigration we will get involved in all sorts of phrases over the last 100 years, but if we look at its recent history - I do not want to belabour this point because it is self-evident - the situation which attracts migrants to Australia today is vastly different from .the days immediately after World War 2. [More…]
Quite a few contributions on immigration have been given to me. [More…]
The Government itself has reduced the immigration intake. [More…]
In July the Government set up 3 committees to examine the immigration set-up. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration of the day, Mr- [More…]
Phillip Lynch, said that it would examine the important population and demographic studies financed by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
A completely separate committee was set up: Associate Professor J. Wilson of the University of Sydney had begun work on cost benefit analysis of immigration under current Australian conditions. [More…]
1 asked yesterday a question on (his matter of the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Greenwood) who represents in this chamber the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) but he did not know the answer. [More…]
These reports should be made public because they would be fascinating studies and because of the tremendous interest in immigration not only in this chamber but by just about everybody. [More…]
1 suggest to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration that he should bend over backwards to do this because the contribution of such studies to learning about immigration would be absolutely immense. [More…]
Because of the fast moving pres sures on immigration we suggest today that all of these matters could be examined by the Parliament. [More…]
Some people say thar the immigration should be doubled. [More…]
Some people say that we should not have any immigration at all, while other people say that the number should be cut down. [More…]
All we are asking is that we add to the committees that the Government has set up under its own initiative, and that immigration be brought into the” public gaze and the preview of a committee of this Parliament. [More…]
I am heartened by the fact that in the debate today nobody has argued that studies on immigration ought not to be made. [More…]
Senator Willesee provides an instance where the Leader of his Party felt there was merit in having a senator speak on immigration matters rather than a member of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Senator Willesee suggested that there was merit in spreading the area of inquiry into these immigration matters by having a joint select committee. [More…]
I can only regret that the traditional bipartisanship which has characterised the approach to immigration of this country is not surviving as well as it did in the past. [More…]
I would hope, as far as the Government is concerned, that it will always accept the responsibility for determining what immigration intake Australia .can afford. [More…]
Maybe I say that because I am aware of the far ranging inquiries which are already taking place under the auspices of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
The Government in the national interests has adopted over a period of years the broadest possible approach in formulating immigration policies and giving effect to those policies through annual immigration programmes. [More…]
I ‘ cannot emphasise sufficiently that the immigration programme has been, as an honourable senator said earlier, a bipartisan approach in previous years. [More…]
In recent times the Government has developed extremely comprehensive consultative’ machinery on all aspects of immigration. [More…]
It has established the Immigration Planning’ Council which deals primarily with economic matters. [More…]
There is also the Immigration Advisory Council which deals with administrative and social matters. [More…]
I mention also the Immigration Publicity Council which is concerned with publicity and information activities in Australia and overseas.Recently, there was a widening of the’ functions of the Immigration Planning [More…]
Comprehensive reports are supplied periodically to the Department of Immigration, lt is a programme which has been successful and it is continuing because there is recognised to be merit in what is being done. [More…]
In addition, the Government has sponsored research into aspects of immigration which dates back more than a decade. [More…]
Attention has been given to a tremendous number of facets of the whole immigration programme. [More…]
This work is being carried out by the Australian National University and is financed by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
The second area of inquiry which is under way is the costbenefit analysis of immigration under current Australian conditions. [More…]
This work is being carried out by the University of Sydney and is also financed by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Now, late in 1971, the Australian Labor Party seeks to have a joint committee of the Parliament established to inquire into the financing and all other aspects of the immigration programme. [More…]
What I have outlined, of course, is only a small part of a body of research which has been completed into various aspects of immigration over the years. [More…]
To mention another study, only recently the Austraiian National University published a bibliography and digest on Australian immigration. [More…]
That is substantial and impressive evidence of the scope and depth of the research into immigration in Australia. [More…]
f say that at present there is nothing to be gained from establishing a joint committee of the Parliament to inquire into and report upon the financing and all other aspects of the immigration programme. [More…]
I see no reason why our annual immigration programme should not continue to be shaped directly and controlled by the Government in the light of our current national needs, the availability of suitable settlers and own capacity to integrate them, against the background of containuing inquiry and research of the character 1 have outlined. [More…]
I believe that the time has arrived for a joint select committee of the Parliament to examine all aspects of immigration in this country. [More…]
I think I hat one matter which should be examined is the fact that 200,000 people, according to the statement of the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) last week, who are eligible to become Australian citizens have not applied to accept that responsibility. [More…]
Greenwood), who represents in this chamber the Minister for Immigration, to bring before the Minister the inhumane manner in which he and the Department are handling some of the applications for assisted pas sage’s and also the inconsistency that the Department is showing in some cases. [More…]
That a joint select committee should be appointed to inquire into and report upon the financing and all other aspects of the immigration programme. [More…]
The senator passes each case on to the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]
He has a continuing, deep and abiding interest not only in the programme of immigration but also in the people who make up the immigration programme and policy. [More…]
Therefore, it is fairly natural that he should call for a study in depth of the financing and other aspects of the immigration programme. [More…]
I merely wish to say, in support of what the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) said a little earlier this afternoon, that there is a continuing study not merely on the financing but on all other aspects of the immigration programme. [More…]
I refer in the first instance to the Immigration Planning Council which has been established for a considerable number of years. [More…]
The Immigration Advisory Council, over which it is my privilege to preside, was set up by the first Minister for Immigration in the post-war period, Mr Arthur Calwell, and its work has continued ever since. [More…]
So all backgrounds of political thinking and political philosophy on immigration are brought to bear upon the deliberations of these 2 councils which, as the Minister has said, are meeting constantly. [More…]
So month by month, through each year, continuing inquiry into the financing and all other aspects of the immigration policy occurs. [More…]
I refer also to the fact that the whole programme of immigration not only is constantly under review but also is related to the additional studies to which the Minister has referred and which are in effect outside the councils. [More…]
I conclude by saying that I am very disappointed at the reference that was made by the last speaker to inhumanity within the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Along with other honourable senators, and more especially because I am so closely involved with immigration, I have had the opportunity to study the work of officers of the Department of Immigration, lo study closely the work of the Minister, to study closely the work of the selection officers abroad and of those who are here in Canberra and who make decisions in relation to various migrants. [More…]
As a result of this work, a programme that, is so diverse and so large as the immigration programme of Australia has been able to proceed with success. [More…]
John Boyle O’Reilly, referring to immigration and objecting to patronage, used these words: [More…]
I appreciate that Senator Little was not simply saying that the country has to develop - it is for a good cause.I referred to difficulties in rural areas and Senator Little said that anyone knows that immigration has no relevance to the rural position. [More…]
The Department of Immigration has agencies to meet all sorts of contingencies, but they do not. [More…]
About 12 months ago, before the scandal broke of car insurance in New South Wales, I referred problems of Lebanese people in that field to Mr Lynch, the Minister for Labour and National Service, who was then Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I have always been a supporter of our immigration programme. [More…]
Ohe of the post-war successes of Australia has been the immigration system. [More…]
There have always been people in this country who have been opposed to immigration. [More…]
When he was leaving to go back to England immigration was a hot issue. [More…]
I can remember Albert Monk, who was probably the most respected figure in trade unionism over the last 20 years, about 10 years ago at a conference on immigration, when the move to reduce the number of migrants was just as powerful as it has been in recent months, saying straight out: You cannot turn off and turn on immigration like a tap’. [More…]
Above all, our immigration programme has given to people who came from countries where they did not have a place in the sun an opportunity to have a place in the sun. [More…]
It appeared to me that the object was to centralise in Canberra the administration of immigration procedures in regard to these people. [More…]
The remarks of the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), who represents in this chamber the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes), have prompted me to raise a couple of matters which I did not have the opportunity to raise during the sittings of Estimates Committee B. I say that with due deference to Senator Rae, the Chairman of the Committee, who gave the members of the [More…]
I appreciate that there could bc occasions when the Minister for Foreign Affairs would influence the decisions of the Minister for Immigration, but I am still not satisfied that some of these graduates from Australian universities have been able to go back to Malaysia and do full justice to their professional qualifications because Malaysia has to try to rationalise its people of Chinese stock and those of Malay origin. [More…]
Secondly, I would like the Minister for Immigration to consult with the State Ministers for education as to ways of overcoming the teacher shortage which exists in Australia by bringing in Asian teachers with the necessary qualifications. [More…]
I query whether a stab is made at the requirements of the Department of Immigration and whether this sometimes results in an appropriation of far in excess of the amount it is within the capability of the Department to spend in the ensuing 12 months. [More…]
I have been reading through the reports of the Public Accounts Committee I noted in the 1 13th report of the Committee severe criticism of the Department of Immigration over an appropriation for the building of a migrant office in the Kingdom of Greece. [More…]
On 13th October the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Colton) when acting as Minister for Immigration issued a statement denying the criticism that there was a curtailment of or lack of appreciation of the necessity for such classes. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) who in this Chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) whether the position in South Australia can be examined to see whether the attendance at evening classes in that State justifies the abandonment of the classes. [More…]
I shall refer briefly to the reply which the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) gave in relation to the case I brought before him of a mixed marriage family seeking to obtain an assisted passage. [More…]
I believe that this fact is clearly established by a reply which I received from the then Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch), on 2nd November last year when I asked the following question: ls it a fact that Government policy prevents assisted passages being granted to coloured persons: if so, does this same policy apply to a person of European blood and colour, who is a British subject and has an Indian wife and 3 children who are all British subjects? [More…]
I think he should refer it to the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) for examination. [More…]
There is no question - f did not seek to put it in any other way and the former Minister for Immigration did not put it in any other way - thai assisted passages are confined as a matte of policy to persons of European descent. [More…]
I regret that Senator Poyser chose to introduce this element into a debate on immigration. [More…]
if there is one political group in this country which makes quite clear where it stands on the immigration issue, it is the Government parties. [More…]
But so far as Labor’s immigration policy is concerned, the conference raised a great question mark over where the Party stands. [More…]
But this year the Labor Party made a simple addition to its immigration platform by adding the words: [More…]
As we now have the Labor Party spokesman on immigration in this chamber, let him indicate whether Senator Poyser speaks on behalf of the Labor Party. [More…]
That particular head of policy coincides with the general approach always followed by the Government, lt was the approach which so often enabled the former Labor Party spokesman on immigration, Mr Daly, to indicate that there was a coincidence of the views on these troublesome matters of the Government and the Opposition. [More…]
The policy which the new Labor spokesman on immigration, Senator Willesee, espouses has not been staled. [More…]
It is true, as Senator Poyser has said, that this Government through its immigration policies has consistently exercised a racial bias over a long period of time. [More…]
We do not even have to look at its immigration policy to see this. [More…]
It calls this a tolerant immigration policy. [More…]
I believe to be the unfair criticisms made by the AttorneyGeneral who represents the Minister for Immigration and who is handling this debate on behalf of the Government. [More…]
You will recall, Mr Chairman, that the Minister, in his criticisms of Senator Poyser, quoted out of context one aspect of the Australian Labor Parly’s immigration policy. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party supports an immigration policy administered with sympathy, understanding and tolerance. [More…]
We claim that the Government is not doing at the present time what constitutes the very basis of our policy.It is contained in the preliminary section of the statement of our immigration policy: that is, an immigration policy administered with sympathy, understanding and tolerance.I think this was very forcefully pointed out by the Minister when he tried to turn the vehicle of propaganda against the members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Utterances like that from the Country Parly make me feel rather ill. Its members’ main interest in immigration in this country is to obtain slave labour for some of their run-clown sheep and wheat farms. [More…]
I am not blaming the officers in the Department of Immigration. [More…]
The Minister has tried to turn it around in the other direction and say that under a Labor government there will be no immigration restrictions at all. [More…]
So, a real argument exists today for a restriction to be placed on immigration. [More…]
one can understand why suddenly he finds himself with a very conservative and restricted attitude in regard to immigration. [More…]
That Senator Keeffe rose to speak in this debate on the estimates for the Department of Immigration and said that Queensland is a hillbilly State should be known throughout Queensland so that the people know that when he comes here he is not prepared to fight for his own State of Queensland. [More…]
I was very interested in the statements made about the Government’s immigration policy. [More…]
I am not one who believes that the immigration policy should be kept at a peak and that we should take anybody who offers himself. [More…]
I feel that we should have an intensely selective immigration policy so that wc get the best migrants for the country. [More…]
I think that the general selective policy of immigration is something of which the average Australian would approve. [More…]
It is all right being idealistic about this subject, but I am quite positive that the great majority of Austraiian people do not want an immigration policy that opens the doors of this country to anybody who wants to come here. [More…]
1 make no apology for standing here and saying that I approve of the selective immigration policy at present adopted by the Government. [More…]
Therefore we have the right to have a selective immigration policy. [More…]
I can -recall that on that, occasion the then Minister for Immigration and Mr Whitlam were more or less on the same wave length on the need for an adjustment of our thinking on Asian migration. [More…]
It does not matter whether the topic is education or immigration. [More…]
When the immigration policies of both Parties are examined, we see that the position of the Minister is a dangerous one because the policy of the Labor Party is preferred by the average elector when it is explained other than in the way in which Senator Wood explained it tonight. [More…]
The Attorney-General read portion of Labors immigration policy. [More…]
As has been said, what was read represents the guidelines of Labor’s policy on the question of immigration. [More…]
But so that there would be no misinterpretation of this policy, the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Whitlam, in a Press conference before television cameras, together with the shadow Minister for Immigration, explained in the shadow Minister’s home State Labor’s policy on immigration, lt was stated definitely that there would be no discrimination on the ground of race or colour. [More…]
Labor makes no apology for its immigration policy. [More…]
Wc believe in a selective immigration policy in that we want those people who would best be assimilated here, who would no’ be a threat to our cultures and our way of life. [More…]
We will go to the hustings on our immigration policy. [More…]
The Minister by his diversion has prolonged the debate on the estimates of the Department of Immigration possibly by 2 hours. [More…]
But the Minister was too eager to criticise Labor’s policy even to justify the activities of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Immigration, like war and peace and a few other matters, is an emotional subject. [More…]
Quite obviously people have a tendency to be a little carried away when discussing immigration matters, but I do not think anybody should be carried away to the regrettable extent that Senator Wood was carried away in this debate. [More…]
Senator Wood challenged the ALP to go to the people on its immigration policy. [More…]
If it becomes a case of balancing our immigration policy against the racially oriented policy of the Government, the Labor Party will not be routed but Government supporters will. [More…]
I want to emphasise that we have preached incessantly that there ought to be tolerance in the administration of the Government’s immigration policy. [More…]
We want to emphasise that Australia’s immigration policy should not be based solely on colour. [More…]
You are advocating a pure white immigration policy. [More…]
its immigration policy. [More…]
For some strange reason the present Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) refuses to grant an assisted passage in this case. [More…]
I have allowed several speakers to stray beyond the strict limits of a discussion on the subject of immigration. [More…]
I rule that the Attorney-General is in order if he confines his remarks to the context of defending his criticism of the immigration policy of the Australian Labor Party, but it is not in order for him to go beyond the matter of the immigration policy of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It arose because Senator Poyser, a member of the Austraiian Labor Party, accused the Government of having an immigration policy which was based on racial discrimination. [More…]
1, as the person representing the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) denied that we had a racial policy. [More…]
It is the policy enunciated by Mr Daly, the Labor Party’s spokesman on immigration for man) years, ft is the policy on which the Labor Parly went to countless elections. [More…]
In that way we arc no different from Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia - all the other countries which have a similar immigration policy. [More…]
But we have people like Senator Poyser and Senator Keeffe aided of course by the silence of Senator Willesee, who is the Labor Party’s spokesman on immigration, and people like Senator Cavanagh and others, getting up and taking the view that the Government’s policy is wrong because it is racialist, when all we are saying is that we will not give assisted passages to people wanting to come here if they are not of European descent. [More…]
We have not heard that from Mr Daly, albeit he has been dismissed from his position as shadow Minister for Immigration. [More…]
This afternoon, Senator Mulvihill, on behalf of the Australian Labor Party moved, without heat or recrimination, for an all-part)’ committee to have a look at the Australian immigration situation. [More…]
The Minister - he is not the Minister for Immigration but merely the Minister representing the Minister - chose to revert to type in this debate instead of dealing with the estimates. [More…]
You would have been the first to say that this had nothing to do with the immigration situation. [More…]
Labor’s platform on immigration and on every other issue, both at the Launceston conference and every other conference, is discussed in open session. [More…]
If we are talking about the question of coloured immigration - you talked about homogeneity in Australia - would you explain to me why the former Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, when he was in Singapore, which is a very receptive place to make this sort of statement, said that we were moving towards a multiracial nation in Australia? [More…]
There was merely an announcement made in 1966 by the then Minister for Immigration that there would be some changes that we would not be so racial in the future, and everybody applauded that. [More…]
So we wrote into our policy as an instruction, as a guideline to a Labor Minister for Immigration, whoever he might be and whether he is a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, the following: [More…]
But, as I say, one can almost bet that, if a quarter passes, when the Minister for Immigration is not under pressure in regard to these matters, without our being written up in the South East Asian Press, something has gone wrong. [More…]
But the moment we try to amend something, to take the racism out of our policy or to make any suggestion that this great white god of immigration can be touched, it is claimed that we will let down the floodgates, or that we will let all sorts of people enter Australia. [More…]
It does not want anybody to come to this country and not be happy here, lt does not want a system of immigration under which one in every 4 people are returning to their homeland because they become disgusted and disgruntled with this country. [More…]
They are some of the reasons why the Australian Labor Party wants to do something to examine the whole of the immigration policy. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration tried to pounce on him. [More…]
I wish the Minister would look at the Canadian situation where virtually a rule of law is laid down, lt is not a rule of some immigration officer looking at a case. [More…]
Although Senator Greenwood is only the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, I regret the way in which he handles this sensitive portfolio. [More…]
The Government will always have difficulties in administering the Department of Immigration because the Department is not handling lumps of wood, it is not in the post office parcelling items and saying: ‘Put them in a bag and send them here or there”. [More…]
That is why I have such a tremendous admiration for the employees of the Department of Immigration, lt is not an easy Commonwealth department to run. [More…]
There are very few countries which have no limitations whatever on immigration. [More…]
It was that common cause which made our immigration policy so acceptable. [More…]
We are considering the estimates for the Department of Immigration. [More…]
We have just heard one of the best explanations of Labor’s immigration policy. [More…]
We believe in a selective immigration policy by which Australia has the right to select its migrants. [More…]
Therefore a distinction is drawn as to benefits received from our immigration policy on the basis of colour of skins. [More…]
From the figures given during the Press conference held by our Leader and our shadow minister for immigration we find - and this is by coincidence only, I think - thai this policy will bring fewer Asian migrants in I he immediate future than have entered under the policy of the present Government. [More…]
When the Minister commenced his tirade of abuse this evening, the general idea was: The Labor Party has virtually had an alliance with the Government on immigration matters for 22 years; suddenly the new leaders of the Party are virtually on a path to treason. [More…]
But the remarkable thing is that the whole of the argument that the Minister has advanced tonight is that the Labor Party has some weird approach to the matter of immigration. [More…]
Minister is prostituting this immigration cause for blatant electioneering purposes. [More…]
Next weekend the New South Wales Council will be issuing releases about interim matters concerning immigration, current campaigns, and trade union attitudes. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite will remember when Mr Opperman, a former Minister for Immigration, made his historical utterance in Canberra about 3 years ago. [More…]
To me immigration means people. [More…]
At an earlier stage Senator Cavanagh asked the reason why the Department of Immigration underspent approximately $4m in 1970-71. [More…]
I should like to know to which line of the estimates the Minister relates a query that he makes of the Australian Labor Party so far as its policy on immigration is concerned. [More…]
I was under the impression that the Committee of the Whole was here to investigate the estimates of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Mr President, as I do not know how closely you have followed the debate this afternoon and evening on the estimates for the Department of Immigration, I think I should indicate that everything seemed to go along smoothly until just prior to the suspension of the sitting for dinner, which is when SenatorPoyser brought up the question of whether there was racial discrimination against a particular type of migrant. [More…]
The reply of the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes), to the comments of Senator Poyser was not in any way in explanation of the Government’s policy but in criticism of the Australian Labor Party’s policy on immigration. [More…]
Since that time we have had nothing else but talk about the policy of the Australian Labor Party on immigration. [More…]
A point of order was raised as to whether reference to Don Dunstan had any relationship to the estimates for the Department of Immigration. [More…]
In response to a point of order, the Chairman of Committees ruled that this matter was relevant to the debate on the estimates for the Department of immigration. [More…]
A point of order was raised as to whether the Attorney-General’s speech was relevant to the matter which was before the Chair, namely, the estimates for the Department of Immigration. [More…]
After a rather wide-ranging debate tonight the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), who represents in this chamber the Minister for Immigration (Dr [More…]
It related to a particular line in the estimates for the Department of Immigration. [More…]
night, to question the Opposition - without any reference being made to any line of the estimates for the Department of Immigration - in connection with paragraphs (c) and (f) of the Australian Labor Party’s policy on immigration. [More…]
However, my tolerance was stretched to the limit this evening by the actions of the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), who represents in this chamber the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) and who, in trying to get through this chamber the estimates for the Department of Immigration, had been ranting and raving for the hour before the suspension of the sitting for dinner and for the 21 hours after dinner about the Australian Labor Parly’s policy. [More…]
Included in those Estimates are the estimates for the Department of Immigration - not the estimates of Labor Party policy, not whether one paragraph is in conflict with another paragraph of Labor Party policy, not whether Mr Dunstan agrees with Mr Daly, whether Mr Daly agrees with Mr Whitlam or whether Mr Whitlam agrees with Senator Willesee as we have been hearing from the Minister for the last 2 hours. [More…]
The matter under consideration is the estimates of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
If the Government wants to bring a motion to discuss immigration it is open to it to do so. [More…]
They have raised points of order against the Minister on the basis that on each occasion when the Minister rose to speak he talked about matters concerning the Australian Labor Party machine and not about matters of immigration or matters relating to the estimates. [More…]
I feel that what happened this afternoon and this evening has been, from the point of view of the Labor Party, an entirely slanted approach to the estimates for the Department of Immigration and to the approach of the Government. [More…]
I have asserted time and time again throughout the course of this debate this evening that the Government’s immigration policy is one which not only is acceptable to the people of this country but also is a policy which this Government will not disavow and which it will be proud to assert, given the opportunity. [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Postmaster-General’s Department effectively co-operate with the Department of Immigration in the selection of British migrants who are eligible for assisted passages; if so, what is the explanation for allegations made by Mr Richard Stanley and reported in ‘The Herald’ of 30th September 1971. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Where specific recruitment is involved, primarily professional classes, there is close co-operation between the Department of Immigration and the Postmaster-General’s Department and also the Public Service Board representative in London. [More…]
Mr Stanley and his family arrived in Melbourne on 1st May, 1971 and the Postmaster-General’s Department has informed the Department of Immigration that they cannot locate any record of Mr Stanley, having called to apply for work in the Post Office. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
What agreement has the Department of Immigration withthe New South Wales Railways Department relating to the provision of facilities under the Adult Migrant Education Programme. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Department of Immigration has no agreement with the New South Wales Railway Department relating to the provision of facilities under the Adult Migrant Education Programme. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Are there other Chilean migrants at the Villawood Migrant Hostel, apart from those mentioned in Department of Immigration News Release 48/71, who are experiencing difficulties in obtaining employment due to non-recognition of their professional qualifications? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
From his reference to News Release 48/71 by the Minister for Immigration I assume that the honourable senator is referring to Mr Silva.Mendoza and his family. [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
However, close liaison with the universities involved is maintained andI am kept informed of the progress of the studies through the Department of Immigration and the Immigration Planning Council. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question [More…]
The Department of Immigration provides a migrant education service to most migrants travelling to Australia by sea. [More…]
Shipboard Education Officers are officers of the Department of Immigration and are recruited both from within and outside the Commonwealth Service. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (i.) [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The position is that experienced officers with suitable industrial backgrounds are employed in Britain by the Department of Immigration to assess the trade qualifications of migrant applicants and to provide a counselling service as to the qualifications necessary for recognition in the metal and electrical trades. [More…]
Mr Etheridge was classified by the Department of Immigration Technical Advisers in London as a machine setter operator which is not a skilled occupation in terms of the Tradesmen’s Rights Regulation Act 1946-1966. [More…]
The proposition 1 wish to put to the Senate, and I do not wish to speak at great length on it, is that it is time we forgot about the stories of gunboats of foreign powers coming into the Indian Ocean; that it is time we had a look at the peoples of the Indian Ocean themselves; that it is time we had a look at our immigration policy; that it is time we had a look at our aid programme; that it is time we had a look at the policies we adopt on colonialism in South Africa, Rhodesia and the Portuguese colonies; that it is time we ceased to find in reports of the United Nations General Assembly or in conferences which take place elsewhere that there is a hard core of three or four countries such as South Africa, Portugal and Australia supporting the position of the South Africans and the Portuguese. [More…]
On 4th November last year I addressed a question on notice through Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) asking for a clear-cut exposition of the United Kingdom Immigration Act with respect to its effects generally on Australians entering Britain. [More…]
Honourable senators may recall that on that occasion there was some doubt in the minds of Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, who represents the Prime Minister in this chamber, and Senator Cotton, who represents the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes), as to who would be responsible for securing an answer for me. [More…]
We want to know why it has taken 9 weeks to get an explanation of this facet of the United Kingdom Immigration bill. [More…]
He knows that the Citizenship Act requires that the Minister for Immigration must be satisfied as to a number of matters before a person who has applied for citizenship can be granted citizenship. [More…]
I can suggest only that if Senator Mulvihill supplies me or the Minister for Immigration with the details of the particular cases he has in mind those cases will be given attention. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration amplify the details of the reduction in Australia’s 1972 immigration intake with particular reference to the categories and nationalities of prospective migrants, and the staggering of applications from the various countries where Australia operates immigration offices? [More…]
by Mr Wilson and by the Department of Immigration of the overall intake of migrants and the economic effects of immigration on the economy? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
One other major point I should put in outlining the significance of the Slates is that although the Commonwealth - and here I pay tribute to a Labor man - largely due to the initiation of Mr Arthur Calwell commenced an immigration programme which 1 hope that this Government will go on to maintain and to expand- [More…]
The situation is that the immigration programme is designed to the point of the migrants being brought, here by the Commonwealth but the full implementation of integrating them into our society is a State and local government matter. [More…]
I have said with respect to the immigration situation that the States have a great job indeed to develop the needs in this respect. [More…]
1 particularly instance my father because 1 shall deal with the matter of immigration and make a comparison between the attitude of the Australian Labor Party in 1948-49 and the present position because it relates to job opportunities. [More…]
I wish now to refer to the question of immigration. [More…]
1 can recall my father’s reaction when Arthur Calwell introduced an immigration scheme. [More…]
That is the reason why the immigration scheme was successful. [More…]
When Government senators ask at the last minute what is the Labor Party’s attitude on immigration at the moment, let us be realistic on 2 points. [More…]
I could not but make comparisons between that hostel and the hostels that I went into in the 1950s as a sub-branch official of the Australian Railways Union and as a member pf the Sydney Labour Council’s immigration committee. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 remember that this Government appointed an immigration planning committee. [More…]
Not so long ago, Senator Greenwood, as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, gave me a most detailed answer on the backlog of migrants in Europe and the procedures that are followed, lt was a good answer and I complimented him and the Ministry on it. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the statement attributed to the former Leader of the Australian Labor Party Opposition and former Labor Minister for Immigration, Mr Calwell, in which he is alleged to have said that there are some people in the Labor Party today who are quite prepared to allow 27,000 coloured migrants into Australia each year? [More…]
I imagine that there is no person better qualified in the Labor Party to have a real appreciation of what Labor Party people think about immigration and whether or not there are people in the Labor Party who hold that view. [More…]
That bi-partisan policy in regard to immigration had been followed since Mr Calwell initiated the programme in 1948 and until there was a change in policy in the last year or two. [More…]
What liaison exists between the Commonwealth Employment Service in the Northern Territory and the Department of Immigration in order to control movement of recently arrived migrants to the Territory. [More…]
There is very frequent liaison between the Commonwealth Employment Service in the Northern Territory and the Department of Immigration, but not for the purpose of controlling the movement of migrants. [More…]
I rise to ventilate 2 facets of immigration in which I feel that either the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) or the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) should have taken a more positive role. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that at the instigation of the Professional Musicians’ Union of Australia I sounded out the Minister for Immigration to see whether there was any truth in the assertion that the relative labour employment codes of the United States and Australia were such that undue preference or privileges accrued to American musicians or non-Australian musicians in Australia when compared with the treatment given to Australian musicians overseas. [More…]
Mr McQuaid went on in his letter to point out that he had had correspondence with the Australian Minister for Immigration and the United States Consulate in Australia. [More…]
date of a letter from the present Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Either the Minister for Immigration or the Prime Minister should deal with the United States on questions such as this. [More…]
I can only say that there was no discussion between the Prime Ministers of Australia and Fiji on the respective immigration policies of their countries. [More…]
I do not know whether the attention of the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) has been drawn to the matter concerning Mr Maas. [More…]
Certainly Mr Maas himself has not raised the matter with the Department of Immigration or with the Minister. [More…]
In those circumstances, whatever views one might have of the respective immigration policies, the case of an individual person will not - I think it is a reasonable attitude to take - be taken up by the Minister unless there is some indication that the gentleman himself is complaining. [More…]
According to the records of the Department of Immigration relatively few overseas film technicians have been granted visas for temporary residence in Australia. [More…]
If film technicians are travelling to Australia from the United States ostensibly as visitors but in reality for employment, the Department of Immigration is certainly not aware of it. [More…]
On the information available to me the Department of Immigration is not aware that these people have come in under the guise of tourists but in reality for employment. [More…]
I am sure, from the character of the notes I have, that the Department of Immigration would welcome any information which would suggest that persons are coming in in a guise different from the purpose for which they sought visas. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Ambassador, Counsellor (Immigration) and another Embassy official. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I understand that he made application to work in Australia and that, in accordance with the policy which the Department of Immigration follows, consultations took place with the Department of Labour and National Service and with the particular organisation - I think it was the Actors Equity Association of Australia - concerned and that on an examination of all the facts it appeared that there was no particular reason why this person should be preferred in terms of employment over Australians who were able to take the position. [More…]
In the meantime, he reports regularly - I think once each week - to the Department of Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: 1 am informed by the Minister that Mr Palmer’s case is considered sub-judice. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Did the Department of Immigration examine the statements of both Miss Fujishima and Mr and Mrs Dillon which, as reported in the Sydney Daily Mirror’ of 22nd January 1972, implied that the Lions Club concerned did not fully honour the commitments it entered into; if so, what action has the Department taken to ensure that Lions Clubs and similar bodies avoid the apparent mistakes of the Fujishima episode. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Department of Immigration has carefully examined the statements as reported in the ‘Sydney Daily Mirror’ and other newspapers. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
How many Immigration offices has Australia in India and where are they located? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Department of immigration does not have separate offices in India but has officers attached to the Australian High Commission in New Delhi and to the Deputy High Commissions in Bombay and Calcutta. [More…]
Two Australian immigration officers are located in New Delhi, one in Bombay and one in Calcutta. [More…]
Immigration officers have been stationed in India since June 1967 when the first officer commenced duty in Bombay. [More…]
In August 1968 an immigration officer commenced duty in Calcutta. [More…]
An immigration officer was posted to New Delhi in September 1970 and a second in January 1971. [More…]
Prior to the posting of immigration officers to India immigration functions in New Delhi were performed by officers on the establishment of the Department of Foreign Affairs and in Calcutta and Bombay by officers of the Department of Trade and Industry. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senators question: [More…]
Various aspects of the work of the Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications, including the question of the uniformity of State recognition of overseas qualifications, were discussed by Commonwealth and State Ministers for Immigration at their Conference on 25th February 1972. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Good Neighbour Councils, apart from certain administrative and financial controls exercised by the Department of Immigration, are independent bodies responsible through their executive committees for the conduct of their own affairs. [More…]
Each Council is included in my Department’s overall mailing list and therefore receives automatically copies of all Press releases issued by the Minister for Immigration or by the Department, including speeches by the Minister. [More…]
In the past 2 years 2 speeches by the Minister for Immigration at the time (the Hon. [More…]
The members whose speeches were circulated following addresses given by them to the Councils concerned were- Mr E. M. C. Fox, M.P., (Chairman of the Immigration Planning Council), Mr K. C. P. Enderby, M.H.R., (a member of the Opposition), the Hon. [More…]
and Senator G. S. Davidson (Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council). [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Department of Immigration maintains a small section to administer the Grants-in-Aid, to provide guidance for each of the State Good Neighbour Councils and to co-ordinate their activities. [More…]
They also assist Councils with advice and guidance on matters of immigration procedure. [More…]
The recognition of overseas qualifications is of particular importance and, indeed, a committee working within the Department of Immigration is looking at that matter. [More…]
Two topics readily come to mind - immigration and labour, and national service. [More…]
If we want to argue about the need for an equal sense of justice I have a file of correspondence between myself and the former Minister for Immigration, Mr Lynch, which relates to a Spanish migrant whom the Department would not naturalise. [More…]
Discussions are also continuing with the Department of Immigration in an endeavour to facilitate migrant participation. [More…]
I wish to be fair to the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) to this degree: When this report was prepared - my reservations on it were drafted, I think, about a fortnight ago - I had been waiting for certain answers from Dr Forbes dealing with a number of people, including the major figure in the attempted extortion from Qantas. [More…]
I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard that letter from the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Minister for Immigration [More…]
I have ascertained from the Minister for Immigration that the position is as follows: The power to authorise or to prevent entry into Australia is conferred by the Migration Act upon the Minister for Immigration or upon officers of his Department who are authorised by him. [More…]
The Government decides upon the broad policies and the Minister for Immigration interprets and implements them. [More…]
Successive Commonweath Ministers for Immigration have taken the firm view that entry into Australia of Asian children whom Australian residents wish to adopt is not prohibited by an immigration policy but that it is clearly and essentially in the interests of the children that the adoption plans have the approval of the expert child welfare authorities in the States concerned. [More…]
It is obviously not appropriate that the Commonwealth Minister for Immigration should intervene in matters beyond his responsibility. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration studied the plea of Mr Alan Matherson of the Ecumenical Migration Centre that the supply and availability of competent interpreters for migrant services is not geared to the ethnic groups with the greatest needs? [More…]
However, I am informed by the Minister for Immigration that there is an extensive translation and interpreter service provided by 3 official sources: firstly, by the Department of Immigration, which provides interpreters at the State branch offices; secondly by the Department of Labour and National Service employment offices in areas of high migrant density; and thirdly, by Commonwealth Hostels which have a number of non-English speaking migrants. [More…]
Recently the Department of Immigration expanded its translation service to form a nucleus which would be available to meet routine departmental requirements, as well as emergency situations. [More…]
In 1971 the Department of Immigration completed an Australia-wide survey of interpreter needs in the community. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Is it a fact that a statement has been made by the former Australian Labor Party shadow minister for Immigration, Mr Daly? [More…]
Mr Daly, of course, is a former shadow minister for Immigration in the Labor Party and it is commonly believed that if the Labor Party were ever to form a government within the next 10 years he would be a minister in any such government. [More…]
I think the significance of what Mr Daly said is that after a change in the Australian Labor Party’s immigration policy at its Launceston conference last year, Mr Daly was dismissed from his position as shadow minister. [More…]
The statement which he made was that there was some doubt on the Labor Party’s policy on immigration. [More…]
He said it was time - and he repeated the fact that it was time - that a statement was made on behalf of the Australian Labor Party indicating precisely Labor’s policy on nonEuropean immigration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The Government’s position has been made clear by successive Ministers for Immigration. [More…]
I was very interested to hear some of the questions asked and the answers given on the subject of immigration at question time today. [More…]
I think also of the times when, in my association with the Immigration Advisory Council, I have had negotiations with the Good Neighbour Councils and between us we have sought to work out solutions to the problems of certain migrants who are in need. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2), (3) and (4) Mr Peter Leopold Clyne was in possession of an Australian passport at the time of his departure from Australia on 18th September 1971. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Did a Melbourne businessman, Mr Strecho Rover, recently have his passport seized in Canada on instructions from the Department of Immigration? [More…]
I understand that the seizure was made on the instructions of the Minister for Immigration, who has a discretion under the relevant legislation to cancel the passport. [More…]
The Australian Minister for Immigration, acting under the powers granted by the Australian legislation, cancelled the passport and arranged for Mr Rover to have a document of identity which would enable him to return to Australia. [More…]
As to the balance of the honourable senator’s question concerning the reasons why this was done, I will ask the Minister for Immigration to give him a considered reply. [More…]
As to whether there is any link between the actions taken here and in Canada, I will refer that question to the Minister for Immigration because the decision which was made in this case was the decision of that Minister. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration aware of a document published in the name of the Immigration Control Association and forwarded to many members of the community, including members of Parliament? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that that document claims that figures published recently by the Department of Immigration show that the total intake of people of non-European and mixed descent for the year to June 1971 is 9,055? [More…]
Will the Minister comment upon the apparent racialist basis of the Immigration Control Association’s publications, the nature and extent of its membership and the circulation of its newsletters? [More…]
I am aware of the publication to which the honourable senator has referred and of the ready impression which one can draw as to where the interests of the Immigration Control Association lie. [More…]
I feel that I should draw to the attention of the Minister for Immigration, whom I represent, the other matters to which the honourable senator has referred - the nature of the publication, the people who publish it as well as the particular statistics to which he has referred - and leave it to the Minister to make such statement or to give such advice as he considers appropriate. [More…]
That passport was cancelled on the authority of the Minister for Immigration under the powers vested in him. [More…]
I direct my question to the Attorney-General who also is spokesman in this chamber for the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
In those circumstances what was said about Mr Rover is a matter essentially within the ambit of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I shall refer the honourable senator’s questions in that respect to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
During his absence the Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, will be Acting Minister for Health. [More…]
My question, which is asked of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration is: Where the passport of an Australian citizen travelling abroad has been cancelled, has that Australian citizen the right to see the allegations which have been made about him? [More…]
In a Sydney newspaper yesterday Mr Sharp of Blue Metal and Gravel Pty Ltd was reported as saying that continued immigration would add to the inflationary trends in Australia. [More…]
If it says that the trade union movement should keep out of that field, I take the point to the next stage: If the trade union movement is involved exclusively with its own affairs, the Government will come to it and say: ‘We need your assistance in the immigration field’. [More…]
Recently I received a communication from the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) dealing with Greek migrants. [More…]
It may be rather egotistical to quote one’s own speeches, but last Sunday I had the honour of participating in an immigration seminar at which the Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, was present. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Mr W. J. Dunne (Director, State Immigration Office) [More…]
Mr T. R. Keig (State Immigration Officer) [More…]
Dr A. Richardson (Immigration Advisory Council) [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I understand from the Department of Immigration that some action is being contemplated as to his authority to remain in Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: Because of the reduced intake of migrants into Australia are there some unoccupied apartments at migrant hostels? [More…]
If so, could those apartments not now required for immigration purposes be made available for the housing of some of the pensioners in the capital cities who are at present paying exorbitant rents for slum hovels? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Are working visas issued from time to time by the Department of Immigration to overseas artists to come to Australia for the purpose of performing in social and/or sporting clubs which are specified in their contracts? [More…]
I seem to recall that I was able to supply to the honourable senator on behalf of the Minister of Immigration an answer to a question in this general area not so long ago. [More…]
In the light of the manner in which the honourable senator has asked his question I think the Minister for Immigration will be interested to provide a reply. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
the Vietnamese orphans adoption issue with the earlier statement of the Minister for Immigration that in all such cases the initiative had to come from the States? [More…]
In the current case relating to the young Vietnamese children the position is that the Minister for Immigration had taken the view that they ought not to be admitted or could not be admitted into Australia until he was satisfied that proper steps were being taken to maintain their welfare in Australia, and that required the consent or some indication of likely consent from the State authorities that an adoption would be recognised. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: In view of the lack of jobs available for Australian graduates, as revealed by the number of applications for graduate employment recently refused by the Public Service, which is typical of the rest of the community, will the Minister say whether the Government intends to continue to allow overseas graduates access to Australia or can some more sensible restriction be applied to graduate immigration until the present Australian graduate surplus is employed? [More…]
I say at the outset that I will refer this question to the Minister for Immigration to enable him to give a considered reply to the honourable senator. [More…]
But I should also amplify what I have just said by indicating that the Minister for Immigration has made it clear in times past that the reduction of the immigration intake for this year is effected by taking account, among other things, of whether there will be employment opportunities for persons seeking to come into Australia having regard to the local demandsupply situation in this country. [More…]
I seek information from the Department of Immigration on 2 counts. [More…]
In it I sought statistics on immigration from both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic for the first quarter of 1972. [More…]
What is the link between the Bureau of Census and Statistics and the Department of Immigration? [More…]
We have had plenty of fireworks in the Senate in the last few days so I will be content to get an assurance from the Attorney-General who as he said the other days wears several hats, being the Attorney-General and the spokesman on immigration. [More…]
Turning now to the other matter he raised, I trust that he appreciates that the question of whether or not a person is allowed entry into Australia is one which has to be resolved by the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]
I would not like him to believe that the Minister for Immigration does not neek advice on issues about which he has some doubts or upon which he feels advice is prudent from other departments, including the AttorneyGeneral’s Department, and officers for whom he is responsible. [More…]
It is difficult to say in advance what the attitude of the Minister for Immigration would be. [More…]
1 have a copy of the minutes of a European conference on immigration held in central Europe in April and attended by christian socialists, social democrats and communist trade unionists. [More…]
If the Attorney-General is determined, as stated in the Press, that no overseas crime syndicates should be allowed to operate in Australia, what is happening in the Department of Immigration that entry visas are being or would be issued to these criminals? [More…]
The Commonwealth, through its immigration controls, can endeavour to keep a watch on persons who come into this country. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, who is the Attorney-General. [More…]
Immigration that there has been no jettisoning of security screening as the honourable senator suggested in his question. [More…]
On the question directed to me with regard to persons with known criminal records or believed to be implicated in criminal activities in another country coming to Australia, the general policy which is pursued by the Department of Immigration is not to allow those persons to enter into Australia. [More…]
Will the Minister also confer with his colleague, the Minister for Immigration, to examine closely applications for entry to Australia from overseas people applying for professional shooters’ licences to ensure that they have no connection with organised criminal activity in the United States of America? [More…]
However, I will seek information for him from the Minister for Primary Industry, and I shall also make inquiries through the Minister for Immigration on his behalf. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration whether he was correctly reported as saying, in a recent statement he made on American crime syndicates, that overseas entertainers visiting Australia had been connected with criminal operations. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s statement last weekend about criminal operations on the part of overseas entertainers visiting Australia, what specific action is being taken by the Department of Immigration to police the permits that are issued by the Department to foreign artists? [More…]
With regard to the other matters, which relate to the portfolio of the Minister for Immigration I think I should ascertain the position as accurately as I can. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minis ter for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
In view of the recent statement issued by the Minister concerning South American women resident in Australia, will the Minister give an assurance that officers of the Department of Immigration and Commonwealth Police have not been used in a sordid battle of call-girl cartels in Sydney. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD - The Minuter for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD - The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
During his absence the Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, will be Acting Minister for Health. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration whether a request has been received from the British Government for Australia to accept as migrants some of the Asians whom the Government of Uganda is to expel from their homeland? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: Is it a fact that 5 Australian citizens, McLeod, Van Moorst, Lehane and 2 others recently visited Hanoi? [More…]
Three months ago I asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration the following brief question: [More…]
I assume that Senator McManus’s statement was in the form of a question and a request to me as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I atn able, to inform the honourable senator that the matter is under the current attention of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Indeed, if the margin were not artificially maintained by immigration, we would have already reached the stage of being a disappearing nation and unable to sustain development at all, because a nation cannot develop if it has a receding population. [More…]
On 4th July 1 received an application from the Minister for Immigration who wanted to go to Ceduna and return by VIP aircraft on 3rd August. [More…]
I also know that when there is a problem with translation use is made of officers of the Department of Immigration who have similar ability to translate. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration aware of the statement made by Mr Tonkin, the Labor Premier of Western Australia, that his Government would encourage the Commonwealth Government specially to admit a number of Asian refugees from Uganda and that his Government would co-operate in settling them in Western Australia? [More…]
I now ask whether the Minister will consider Commonwealth participation in the existing nationwide legal aid schemes by providing an appropriate contribution in respect of legal aid services arising under Commonwealth legslation, such as bankruptcy, matrimonial causes, immigration and customs cases, broadcasting and television, marketing schemes, Commonwealth employees compensation cases and the like, thereby enabling the legal aid means test to be raised to make it available to a wider section of the community. [More…]
That factor is immigration. [More…]
Immigration at this time must not be increased. [More…]
The 1972-73 immigration target provides the best possible evidence that the Government has totally abandoned the policy of full employment. [More…]
After 23 years of sustained growth in immigration programmes which were carried on with great enthusiasm to build a greater Australia, to hear this remark at this late hour of the day by a dying Opposition is fascinating. [More…]
The Government’s immigration programme for 1972-73 provides for 140,000 migrants, the number initially programmed for last year. [More…]
I find great difficulty in lining up what is Labor philosophy when Mr Tonkin in Western Australia and the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, are attempting to throw open the gates in those 2 States to immigration. [More…]
The responsibility for the withdrawal of passports is exercised by the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I have asked the Minister for Immigration to provide an answer as soon as possible. [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I suggest that the easiest way of obtaining complete and accurate information is for the question to be placed on the notice paper so that the Minister for Immigration may give it his attention. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minis ter for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
As a result of a 3 year review of the Department’s advertising policy in the United Kingdom, has the Department switched its immigration advertising account to another advertising agency; if so (a) which advertising agency handled the account previously, and (b) which advertising agency now handles the work, (c) are either of these advertising agencies Australian owned, (d) bow many Australians are employed by the new advertiser, (e) what is the total amount to be expended on Immigration advertising in the United Kingdom this financial year, and for bow long are the present advertising arrangements to continue, (f) how many advertising agencies indicated their interest in the account, and how many of these (received consideration, (g) was the agency appointed on the basis of lowest tender received, or on what basis, (h) did any Australianowned agencies indicate their interest in the account; if so, which agencies, and (i) who was responsible for making the decision. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
A new advertising agency was appointed to handle the Department of Immigration advertising account in Britain from 1st January 1972. [More…]
Thirty advertising agencies indicated interest in the Immigration advertising account when tenders were called in January 1971. [More…]
Matters considered included the size of each agency and its capacity to handle accounts of similar size to that of the Department of Immigration, its existing clients, possibilities of conflict of interest, terms of business, Australian associations (including Australian staff) and associated companies in Australia; but the over-riding concern was the quality of the agencies’ work and their approach to advertising Australia’s immigration programme. [More…]
This is provided to the agency by senior officers of the Department of Immigration in London. [More…]
1 direct a further question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
There were representatives of State Education Departments, the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science, the Catholic Education Offices of Melbourne and Sydney, the Commonwealth Teaching Service, teacher registration authorities in Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria, the National Council of Independent Schools and, of course, the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Defence and immigration are to be maintained at their present high level. [More…]
The immigration decision is particularly significant as being diametrically opposed to the ALP policy on population. [More…]
We are to assist to increase our population by a sane, intelligent immigration policy which will maintain in essence the homogeneity of our population. [More…]
The members of the ALP want to open the floodgates to foreign immigration and at the same time restrict our natural increase in population. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration seen reports of the court case involving Mr Mirek Mynar of Bankstown, New South Wales? [More…]
If it be that as a result of this case steps can be taken to improve the screening procedures, I am sure the Minister for Immigration will be most anxious to take those steps. [More…]
Attorney-General a question which has certain immigration overtones. [More…]
Is the Minister satisfied with the way that Commonwealth police and officers of the Department of Immigration were used at the behest of the New South Wales Government in the case of allegations of call-girl activities against certain Latin American migrants in Sydney? [More…]
To remove the unfair stigma that was placed on all Latin American female migrants, will the Minister consider the creation of an immigration inquiries tribunal similar to that which has operated in Canada for the past 5 years so that an accused person facing deportation may produce a witness to refute allegations? [More…]
He asked also whether we should have immigration inquiries legislation. [More…]
That, of course, is a policy matter, initially for the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I rise at this stage simply to request the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator DrakeBrockman) to convey to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) the need for a clear statement when we resume in about 10 days time on the situation of travellers, in view of the recent United Kingdom immigration legislation. [More…]
He argued initially that it was a matter for the Minister fo Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]
Both Sydney and Melbourne termimals are designed to handle mass flows of passengers and new processing techniques have been adopted with excellent results and with the full cooperation of customs, health and immigration authorities. [More…]
The Department of Civil Aviation in conjunction with the other authorities - customs, health, immigration and the airlines - is reviewing the problems shown up last Sunday in an endeavour to ensure that if this happens again passengers will move through the terminal without so much delay. [More…]
The High Commissioner and the previous Home Secretary, Mr Maudling, have had several talks during the last 2 years about Australians entering the United Kingdom, particularly when the British Government’s immigration legislation was being drawn up. [More…]
The High Commissioner wrote to Mr Maudling about the treatment accorded to various Australians by immigration officers at the port of entry. [More…]
This Government’s immigration,, policies and programmes have been of great, assistance in the building of houses. [More…]
Indeed, immigration has assisted Australia’s development in many ways. [More…]
Australia’s broad immigration policy has been supported by all political parties in Australia. [More…]
In this respect the Budget’s immigration proposals take note of the extent to which migrant supported population growth serves some of the country’s physical needs. [More…]
As a great Australian economist, Sir Douglas Copland, pointed out, immigration has resulted in a ‘younging’ of our population. [More…]
Immigration has helped to provide both impetus and means for the continued sound growth of the Australian economy in the face of widely varying and often adverse events in the world markets so important to us. [More…]
The immigration programme for 1972-73 takes full account both of our immediate needs and our longer term national interests. [More…]
At no time during the past quarter of a century has immigration been regarded as an end in itself. [More…]
To achieve this overall rate of growth an immigration target of one per cent was set. [More…]
The population studies foreshadowed by the then Minister for Immigration in July 1970 are now well under way. [More…]
The Government has also commissioned a cost-benefit analysis of immigration under current Australian conditions. [More…]
A major study into the actual experiences of migrants in Australia is being developed by the Department of Immigration in conjunction with the Bureau of Census and Statistics. [More…]
In the Immigration Advisory Council, for example, we are deeply involved in work relating to migrant integration. [More…]
The work of the Advisory Council and its committees has provided much of the information on which the Government has based its immigration policies and programmes. [More…]
Directly and indirectly, the Government has sponsored and initiated a considerable breadth of research into all aspects of immigration and population policies. [More…]
For example, the Department of immigration, in addition to undertaking its own research has subsidised studies of the Australian Council of Educational Research and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. [More…]
Australia’s immigration programme for 1972- 73 is, therefore, in harmony both with our present needs and our future aspirations. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration a question which has no political overtones. [More…]
I understand from the Minister for Immigration that no visa applications were received with regard to the 2 Rhodesian golfers whom the Press has reported as being ineligible to come here, but a decision has been made to refuse approval for a Rhodesian team to come here to compete in the golf tournament if an application should bc made. [More…]
I am informed by the Minister for Immigration that the decision has been taken on that basis. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration by referring to a minority report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment on crime in which I advocated that passport control place greater emphasis on criminal than on political activity. [More…]
I have some information from the Minister for Immigration regarding that report and I think it comprehends the question which has been asked. [More…]
The records of the Department of Immigration show that he departed from Australia on 30th May this year. [More…]
The Department of Immigration has not at any time been informed by the police or by other authorities of any charges against Mr Ford. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has said on numerous occasions that the reason why Mr Rover’s passport was withdrawn while he was in Canada was that it was not in the national interest for him to be able to travel under an Australian passport. [More…]
Australia, through the Minister for Immigration, has made its position plain that on its ordinary basis of admission, applicants among the expellees who come within the criteria that have been applied for entrance to Australia- [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
The latter part of the honourable senator’s question as to what additional or other measures are to be taken is something which I must leave to the Minister for Immigration to answer because it is unquestionably an area to which he is giving his consideration. [More…]
I am not sure whether it is in the public interest to provide the details of precisely what is done by way of screening, but I know that the Minister for Immigration has said previously that the screening procedures are regularly checked to ensure that we do not have persons with known criminal records coming into this country. [More…]
I feel I should forward the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Immigration so that, if he can add to what I have had to say, he will be able to do so. [More…]
Both under the Immigration Act and the Crimes Act there is power for persons to be deported from Australia. [More…]
It is also quite clear - Senator McManus dwelt on this and I am grateful to him for doing so because some of the things he revealed shocked me - that the immigration screening, as I have been saying and suspecting for a long time, has been faulty. [More…]
Thank heavens, even though it has taken 23 years and we are on the eve of an election, the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) has brought down some new methods regarding both education and screening of migrants, and I agree with those methods. [More…]
I revert to the field of immigration. [More…]
The point I am making is that the Minister for Immigration knew that this sort of thing was going on but never sought to discourage it. [More…]
Some years ago Mr Lynch as Minister for Immigration belatedly conceded that some of the people who were refused naturalisation were connected with a certain organisation. [More…]
This is the way I approached the matter with the predecessors of the Attorney-General and with Ministers for Immigration. [More…]
I would like to know what successive Ministers for Immigration have done about the files on these cases. [More…]
Is Senator Greenwood prepared to come clean and say to me: ‘Some inflamatory statements were made to Ministers for Immigration by one or two chaplains who mixed their religious beliefs with their political views’? [More…]
And I would ask whether the Minister for Immigration is permitting the leaders of some of these groups to come into this country - and I include Fabian Lovokovic and Mr Rover. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Opposition in the other place, to visit Woomera in South Australia on 3rd and 4th August, and that used on 3rd August by the Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, to open an aged persons home complex at Ceduna in South Australia, whose flight was criticised by the honourable member for Sturt, Mr Foster, at that time. [More…]
I address a question to Senator Greenwood in his dual capacity as Attorney-General and Ministerrepresenting the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
How does he explain the earlier decision of the Department of Immigration, as shown in its statistics on people who have been declined citizenship, where the term ‘Ustasha activities’ is used? [More…]
It is essentially a matter for the Minister for Immigration to ascertain this information from his records. [More…]
This has been further confirmed by the announcement of the migrant education programme by the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]
I visited Endeavour House and other hostels in Victoria with the Labor Party’s immigration committee. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
How many persons are employed as Senior Immigration Representative overseas and bow many are women? [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Department of Immigration has 22 Senior Representative overseas and, at present, there are no women in this category. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Department of Immigration, either itself or through the Committee on Overseas Qualifications, maintain a blacklist of colleges and universities in Britain and the United States of America which award sub-standard degrees; if so, will the Minister make that list public so that potential migrants will know where they stand in relation to the acceptance of their qualifications in Australia. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Neither the Department of Immigration nor the Committee on overseas Professional Qualifications maintains a ‘blacklist’ of colleges and universities in Britain and the United States of America which award sub-standard degrees. [More…]
To safeguard the interests of migrants with professional qualifications, the Department of Immigration encourages them to have their qualifications assessed by the appropriate Australian authority before committing themselves to migration. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Have 200,000 aliens failed to register with the Department of Immigration as they are required to do every September under the Aliens Act? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minster for Immigration. [More…]
Whether that means that there should be a change in the endorsement is, of course, a matter for the Department of Immigration. [More…]
In spite of what we are told today, our immigration programme and our natural increase will never, on present tendencies, ensure that we will have a rate of growth sufficient to develop this country and to maintain th: standards that exist today. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
How many women and how many men are serving on the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council and the Commonwealth Publicity Council. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Members of the Immigration Advisory Council are, in the main, representatives of community organisations and the 5 women members presently serving on the Council represent a large crosssection of the Australian community - including 3 major women’s associations with a combined membership of more than 940,000. [More…]
A similar situation exists with the Immigration Publicity Council which currently has no female members. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
An Australian immigration officer is currently in Kampala processing applications by Ugandan Asians to migrate to Australia. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
On 12th September the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) supplied me with an answer to a question about the number of applications that had been received by the Department of Immigration for working permits to be issued to foreign entertainers to perform in Australia in each of the last 3 years and as to the number that had been approved. [More…]
The Party that cynically brought in this motion today is dedicated to the complete destruction - the dismantling - of the immigration system. [More…]
Even on the recent say so of its own leader (Mr Whitlam) it is dedicated to the abolition of the assisted immigration programme as such. [More…]
It will do so by the very destruction of 2 things - by the destruction of the immigration programme which will slow down immensely any expansion of the steel or other industries, and its own platform which says that it aims to establish an integrated iron and steel industry under public ownership and control. [More…]
That is the protection we have for both employment, by the destruction of the immigration system, and industry, by the nationalisation of the steel industry so that we will have one monolithic industry and no business methods at all. [More…]
The Labor Party will destroy employment by the destruction of the immigration system and by bringing in a heterogeneous collection of people, as it has said it will. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
1 divert from this point to refer to the lack of planning that has occurred in respect of our immigration policy. [More…]
When they arrive on our shores they are handed nice little brochures by the immigration authorities and are dispersed to the States. [More…]
I hope that with this type of legislation under which we are sort of a generous godfather giving handouts to the States, there will be a much more reasonable distribution and that better facilities will be provided to the States to enable them to bear the growing burden of responsibilities that are being handed on to them both in tennis of the repayment of interest charges and in coping with Commonwealth policies such as the immigration policy, which should be the responsibility of the Commonwealth. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I have a letter dated 5th October from the Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, in which mention is made of Greek citizens. [More…]
Senior officers of the Department of Immigration pointed out to me that the British Government does the job in a reluctant way, apparently because it is regarded as something which does not rate very highly. [More…]
Two policemen guarded him to see that he did nol leave the airport until such time as the Greek director-general of immigration arrived to interview him. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
What was the backlog of applications from persons seeking to enter Australia as (a) assisted migrants and (b) non-assisted migrants, at the end of the 1971-72 immigration programme, from the following countries: Great Britain, Ireland (Eire and Ulster), Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Malta, Lebanon, United States of America, Chile, Finland, West Germany and Mauritius. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
No Australian officers are based there and visits are made to the island by officers of the Department of Immigration each year. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Department of Immigration provide, either directly or indirectly by grants to the Slates for the purpose, interpreters to provide a service for those migrants who are hospitalised; if not, will the Minister give urgent consideration to providing interpreters in major public hospitals as a contribution to the health and well-being, both physical and mental, of those migrants who are not yet proficient in English. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Department of Immigration does not either directly or indirectly provide funds to the States for the employment of interpreters. [More…]
The special need has been discussed at meetings of Commonwealth and State Ministers for Immigration. [More…]
Whilst the Department of Immigration has a responsibility for providing interpreter services to meet needs arising directly from its specific functions, we do not believe that interpreter services should be solely the responsibility of government, and it is significant to note the extent to which commerce and industry is already active in this regard. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Has every alien complied with the requirements of the Aliens Act 1947-1966 that he notify the Department of Immigration annually of his residential address and marital status. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD - The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Have 200,000 aliens failed to register with the Department of Immigration, as they are required by the Aliens Act to do every September; if so, have any prosecutions been launched against aliens for failing to register. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
By way of preface to my question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, I refer to a letter from the Minister for Immigration in which the concluding paragraph mentions further action to assist people whose country of their birth claims dual nationality. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
After a comprehensive examination of the longitudinal type study of migrants being conducted in Canada and after consultation with the Commonwealth Statistician and the Immigration Planning Council, it was decided that a crosssectional survey wouldbe more appropriate to Australian conditions. [More…]
The Labor Party would be honest and say that there had to be some distinction between the manner in which sums provided for education, immigration and so on were cut up. [More…]
One of them is an appendage to the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Years ago my Party, before anybody else thought of doing so in this country, abandoned the concept of a controlled immigration policy being known as a white Australia policy. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Has the Minister, or the Department of Immigration made any request to the Treasurer or the Bureau of Census and Statistics to cease publication of such a break-down of migrant unemployment figures. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD - The Minister for Immigration has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Comparable information for those privartely sponsored - whose sponsors undertake to arrange employment for them - is not available to the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Commonwealth channel has not been manned at the time, or to help in expediting the clearing of passengers from the immigration control point. [More…]
1 ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
If not, I do not mind if the question goes to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
In view of the new immigration rules published in Britain which have the effect of treating Australian citizens in the same way as aliens, does the Government intend to alter its treatment of British citizens who come to Australia? [More…]
These departments were External Territories, Immigration, Interior, Labour and National Service, National Development, Trade and Industry and the Treasury. [More…]
The Department of Immigration has centralised its overseas printing in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom; the Department of Trade and Industry arranges its overseas printing in all continents; while the Australian News and Information Bureau has its printing for overseas distribution done mainly in Australia. [More…]
From recollection that amount would represent approximately the total annual vote for the Department of Immigration which is an example of the normal run of department in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
I have 2 matters for the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]
How many meetings of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Committee were held in 1970, 1971 and the first 2 quarters of 1972. . [More…]
As the Minister will know I am not indicting the Department of Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
How many meetings of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Committee were held in 1970, 1971 and the first two quarters of 1972. and what were the venues of the meetings. [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
and (2) Meetings of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council are held twice a year. [More…]
He was a member of the executive of the Queensland branch of the Industrial Relations Society, a member of the Brisbane Regional Panel of the Australian Frontier and a member of the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
I think a question was asked by my colleague Mr Hayden in another place of the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) who represents in that place the Minister for Health. [More…]
We are looking to increase our population by large scale immigration. [More…]
Whilst it adopted and carried forward the immigration policies of the Federal Labor Government ot the preceding period it rejected that Government’s propositions relating to decentralisation and regional development. [More…]
A very big proportion of that growth came about as a result of the immigration policy. [More…]
The Commonwealth is responsible for the role of immigration and for trade, for industry and for shipping. [More…]
Unfortunately the immigration programme that has been in operation for the last 25 years has not benefited Tasmania to the same extent as other States. [More…]
I think that officers of the Department of Immigration should advise migrants from countries such as Greece that have compulsory military service that irrespective of whether they are naturalised in Australia they retain their former nationality and on returning to their former country, irrespective of how long they had been away from it, will be required to undergo military training. [More…]
I would like the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), who represents the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes), to advise Greeks in Australia who contemplate going to Greece even if for only a visit of the dangers. [More…]
I hope the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration will take up this matter with the Minister for Immigration and also with the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
I respond in my capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]
As far as the Department of Immigration is concerned, I am surprised that the honourable senator should suggest that persons who are going overseas to countries such as Yugoslavia or Greece are not informed of the fact that they should before they leave Australia ascertain whether they may not be required to do national service if they go to those countries. [More…]
Department of Immigration that there is a procedure whereby these people are advised to check this out before they go. [More…]
However, I undertake to refer what he has said to the Minister for Immigration so that the matters which I have raised can be confirmed as I believe from my recollection they will be confirmed and elaborated in terms which indicate what the Government will do. [More…]
I will refer all these matters to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill also asked me further questions which were in large part directed to me as Minister repesenting the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
the action taken by Commonwealth Police and officers of the Department of Immigration with respect to a group of South American prostitutes who had gained entry as visitors and who were required to leave Australia following their activities becoming known; and [More…]
whether consideration should be given to the creation of an immigration inquiries tribunal before which an accused person facing deportation could produce a witness to refute allegations. [More…]
I had previously dealt with the first matter when in response to a question placed on notice on 11th May 1972 by Senator Mulvihill, I gave an assurance that Commonwealth Police and Immigration officers had not been used in a sordid battle of call-girl cartels and that the records of the women concerned, who were not residents of Australia, made it quite clear that they should not be granted extensions of stay (Hansard, page 137). [More…]
The second matter, in accordance with the undertaking I gave to Senator Mulvihill, I referred to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
For details of compliance by aliens with the requirements of the Aliens Act 1948-1966 see the answers to Question Numbers 2441 and 2466 provided by the Minister for Immigration (Hansard pages 1552 and 1585). [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
In view of the announcement yesterday by the Minister for Immigration that his Department has expended in excess of $4m in the last 5 years on advertising for migrants in overseas countries, will the Minister tell the Parliament the names of the advertising agencies engaged to handle this advertising and the amounts paid to each of these agencies? [More…]
I can only say that I will convey the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Immigration for him to make such reply as he thinks proper. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The consideration of Mr Silver’s application included the aspect of his connection with Scientology as well as the other normal considerations on which immigration decisions are normally based, and his application was refused. [More…]
Our recommendations cover aspects of foreign policy, trade, Australian natural resources, investment in Australian industries, immigration, the need for greater understanding between the peoples of both countries, and comments on proposals which have been voiced for a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between our 2 countries. [More…]
Why was the Minister” for Immigration bypassed in the selection of a Minister to represent the Minister for Primary ‘ Industry in the other place? [More…]
There are immigration overtones involved in this case because when you read this correspondence you will see that some of the Western Australian mining employers, not all but a few of them, have not been averse to using labour which they could exploit. [More…]
I already have used any influence that I am able to wield with Al Grassby, the Minister for Immigration, to have blacklisted certain mining companies engaged in using ch”ap migrant labour. [More…]
Fortunately the Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, intervened and did the sensible thing and let them stay. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: In view of the reservations expressed by the honourable Peter Shore in the House of Commons about the advantages to Commonwealth citizens contained in revisions to the British immigration laws, can the Prime Minister’s Department provide an early evaluation of the new British laws as they will apply to Australian nationals? [More…]
I have been looking at the composition of one or two immigration bodies.I find that the ratio is 5 employer representatives to 2 trade union movement representatives. [More…]
Minister representing the Minister for Immigration aware that in February of this year there appeared in the ‘West Australian’ the following headline: ‘Ord may get a Little Pakistan’? [More…]
Can the Minister advise how many Pakistanis have been allowed into Australia, under our immigration scheme, up to this time? [More…]
I understand that my colleague the Minister for Immigration in another place said that there is no possibility - to use the article’s words - of any little Pakistan being set up on the Ord. [More…]
On 1st March Senator Mulvihill asked, without notice, that the Prime Minister’s Department provide an early evaluation of the new British immigration laws as they apply to Australian nationals. [More…]
The revised Immigration Rules which were approved by the House of Commons on 21st February 1973 lay down the practice to be followed in the administration of the Immigration Act 1971. [More…]
Prior entry authority is not required but, on arrival in the United Kingdom, a person must produce a valid national passport and furnish the Immigration Officer with such information as may be required to determine his eligibility to enter and on what terms leave to enter may be given. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration say whether Press reports are correct that a Mr and Mrs Bonfield of Elizabeth South in South Australia are returning to England at the expense of the Immigration Department, as agreed to during the Christmas period of this year. [More…]
After more than 20 years of an immigration program, which we introduced and which previous Liberal-Country Party governments followed for a considerable time, the State governments were still very sluggish. [More…]
My colleague the Federal Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, intends to set up in the near future in Perth a citizens committee which Mr Joe Berinson, the member for Perth, will chair to try to energise that State Government. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I have not had an opportunity to discuss the matter with my colleague, the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I will refer the question to my colleague, the Minister for Immigration, and ask him for a detailed reply. [More…]
I refer to a recent statement by the Minister for Immigration that the Government’s policy is to abandon the oath cf allegiance at naturalisation ceremonies. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: Has this policy been implemented by any ministerial diktat or does the Government intend to give Parliament an opportunity of debating this important change in policy? [More…]
I think that this matter was first drawn to the attention of the Government by the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
Shortly after the election of the Labor Government it was discussed, among other matters connected with immigration, and the Labor Government decided to adopt it as its policy. [More…]
I am reminded by Senator Cavanagh that at the time such recommendation was made Senator Davidson was chairman of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
I am further given to understand that the advice forthcoming from the Attorney-General to the Minister for Immigration about this matter - the Attorney-General can correct me or indicate otherwise - was that a constitutional question was involved. [More…]
The Department of Immigration looked at the criteria that it applies, and some families and some diplomats were allowed to stay. [More…]
the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) referred to the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council and to myself as its chairman. [More…]
The Minister said that the words were included in advice and recommendations received from the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council of which, he said, I was the Chairman. [More…]
I think the Minister knows that the chairman is an appointment made by the Minister of the day, therefore my appointment as .Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council -.ceased with the advent of the new Government. [More…]
The new Minister for Immigration may have referred this matter to that sub-committee for examination and advice. [More…]
He said that at one time Senator Davidson was Chairman of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
The honourable senator may recall that the President of the Senate did not calf upon me as the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration in the Senate to stand and reply to the question. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration nevertheless has power to make an order declaring that a particular Aboriginal does not require a permit to leave Australia even though he is subject to control; and [More…]
Its leader in Germany is one Ante Vukic whom our Commonwealth Police considered such a dangerous man that they advised the Department of Immigration against granting him a permit to visit Australia in May 1972. [More…]
Among the voluminous documents on Suljak and the Australian branch of the terrorist organisation UHNj which I have tabled today is a letter dated 30th May 1972 from Mr Davis, Commissioner of Commonwealth Police, to the Department of Immigration. [More…]
A brochure produced by the Special Reports Branch of the Department of Immigration in August 1972 on Croatian extremist activities makes special reference to the UHNj, its organisation in Australia, its activities and its members. [More…]
On 18th October 1972, the AssistantDirector of the Special Reports Branch of the Department of Immigration recommended Marincic’s deportation. [More…]
In a long and carefully argued submission to the Minister for Immigration dated 1 2th November 1972, Senator Greenwood reversed the priorities as between the interests of Australia and those of an obvious Croatian terrorist in favour of the latter. [More…]
The chief law officer of Australia must have been familiar with the decision of the High Court in the case of Znaty v. The Minister of State for Immigration and Another (1972 Argus Law Reports page 545). [More…]
Judgment in this case was delivered on 25th February 1972, that is, some 9 months prior to the letter to the Minister for Immigration urging him not to deport Marincic. [More…]
If we assume that he was familiar with this decision and surely he would not undertake to advise the Minister for Immigration without familiarising himself with the uptodate state of the law regarding immigration matters, we can only reach one conclusion about his conduct in this matter: In order to protect a terrorist from deportation, he misinformed the Minister responsible for the issuance of a deportation order about the legal consequences for the terrorist of such an order. [More…]
Fortunately, the Minister for Immigration did not grant Marie’s application. [More…]
For example on 3rd December 1969, the Honourable Philip Lynch, then Minister for Immigration, wrote to the then Attorney-General Hughes expressing: . [More…]
In a letter addressed to the AttorneyGeneral and the Minister for Immigration dated 6th January 1964, he wrote, in part: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration makes the necessary orders. [More…]
Document A.8 - Letter by Mr Lynch, when Minister for Immigration to the then Attorney-General dated 3rd December 1969. [More…]
Document A.20 - Letters by Senator Greenwood, when Attorney-General, to the Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, dated 29th June 1972 (passport application by Josip Bogut) and 12th November 1972 (deportation of Marincic). [More…]
to Department of Immigration. [More…]
Document A8 is a letter dated 3rd December 1969 from Mr Lynch, when Minister for Immigration, addressed to the Attorney-General. [More…]
Both ASIO and the Commonwealth Police had recommended to the Department of Immigration against the issue of a passport to Marie. [More…]
Nonetheless the Minister for Immigration did not grant the application. [More…]
Document A20 consists of 2 letters by Senator Greenwood, when Attorney-General to the Minister for Immigration dated 29th June 1972 relating to a passport application by Josip Bogut and 12th November 1972 relating to the deportation of Marincic. [More…]
I use the expression ‘physical persecution’ in the sense in which it has been interpreted in section 243 (h) of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act of 19S2 under which the AttorneyGeneral of the United States of America is autho rised to withhold deportation of an alien to any country in which, in his opinion, he would be subject to physical persecution. [More…]
Minister for Immigration, [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The question that has been directed to me by Senator Gietzelt requires the administrative attention of my colleague in another place, the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
So far as the latter portion of the honourable senator’s question is concerned - that is, the point regarding the tightening up of the screening processes that take place - 1 understand that my colleague Mr Grassby, the Minister for Immigration, has taken steps along these lines already and also is engaged in preparing a list of people who have come to Australia as migrants and who have committed serious criminal breaches of Australian law with a view to taking prospective action in that regard. [More…]
Is it a fact that no attention was paid to the means test provisions, in spite of promises by the honourable member for Riverina who is presently the Minister for Immigration, the Labor member for Dawson and the Labor candidate for the seat of Murray that under a Labor government the means test would be abolished? [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Does the Minister agree with the statement made in a letter from a Minister for Immigration in the previous Government to his colleague the former AttorneyGeneral, Senator Greenwood, that there could be serious consequences if Croat nationals in Australia are permitted to continue unchecked their terrorist activity and outrages against representatives of the Yugoslav Government and authority generally in this country? [More…]
Can the Minister indicate what differences there are between the attitudes expressed by the previous Attorney-General to th;se issues and the attitudes expressed by the present Attorney-General to the Minister for Immigration on this issue? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has been watching this matter for some time. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, although it may come within the responsibility qf the Attorney-General. [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…]
Senator Negus has asked me a long series of questions relating to the Department of Immigration, the relevant Minister being in another place. [More…]
As I announced last week in reply to my colleague Senator Gietzelt, the Minister for Immigration has stated that the matter of checking proposed migrants to Australia is in the course of review and is being considerably tightened. [More…]
Arising out of the answer which has just been given by the Attorney-General, I ask either the AttorneyGeneral or the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: Can an assurance be given to the Senate that in the future no unnaturalised person will be deported from this country for alleged political activities without such deportation being referred to a judge of the Supreme Court who is appointed a commissioner under the Migration Act so that the facts surrounding the reason for the deportation may be properly evaluated? [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
As the Minister for Immigration is reported to have stated during the week-end that he had under consideration the deportation of about 50 people, will the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration inform the Senate of the nationality of these people and the reasons for considering their deportation? [More…]
I understand from the former Minister for Immigration that this matter has been under consideration for some time. [More…]
I have been informed - I take it that my information is correct - that the background of this legislation is that prior to the Minister for Immigration being given this power certain persons were enticing people of Aboriginal descent overseas and displaying them in circuses and sideshows and treating them in much the same way as wild animals. [More…]
If I were asked to suggest one way of destroying Australia’s growth, destroying the real living standards of its people and destroying its productivity I would say: ‘Right, attack the idea of a selective immigration system and introduce in its place a non-selective system which would disregard skills.’ [More…]
I want to see growth in this country by the reintroduction of a selective immigration system in order that we bring from abroad people with the best of skills. [More…]
The Government will do the gravest possible disservice to this country if it carries out its promise to wipe out the assisted immigration programme. [More…]
It derives from the letter I forwarded to the Minister for Immigration which last week was incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
I also say, to illustrate the character of the case sought to be made, that the opinion I expressed as Attorney-General on the question of the grant of a passport to Jure Maric, which was in any event refused, by the responsible Minister, namely the Minister for Immigration, was not included in the tabled documents. [More…]
I retained my copy of my notation on the 3- page submission dated 6th July, wherein I expressed my views and acknowledged completely that the decision was for the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Why have we not heard from him about the Department of Immigration brochure? [More…]
Why did Senator Greenwood make no mention of this brochure put out by the Department of Immigration which also set out information, chapter and verse, about the United Croats of West Germany? [More…]
Why did he not answer the charge that there is a clear and recent High Court case which establishes the fact that immigration authorities in Australia do not have to deport a man to the country of his origin. [More…]
In any event, the case is reported and it establishes that Senator Greenwood’s advice to the Department of Immigration was given on a false basis. [More…]
On 29th March the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) also pointed out in relation to deportations that each case is to be treated on its merits. [More…]
The only decision that can be made is made by the Minister for Immigration on the advice of many organs of government and we will be proceeding with justice and compassion. [More…]
For more than 5 years I stressed to various Ministers for Immigration and various Attorneys-General that they could defuse a situation that was developing. [More…]
Referring back to our immigration policy, there were pockets of malcontents amongst some of the Croatians in South America, West Germany and other places who came here as migrants due to earlier lax screening. [More…]
I do not want to incriminate public servants but I know that senior officers of the Department of Immigration will confirm what I am saying. [More…]
I have known a number of people who were given adverse reports by ASIO but when I, and no doubt other senators too, took up their cases, even on a number of occasions under nonLabor Ministers for Immigration, we were suddenly proved correct and citizenship granted. [More…]
No doubt the submission of all these reports was prompted by the letter from Mr Lynch, then Minister for Immigration, and the letter from Mr McMahon, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, both directed to the Attorney-General, to see whether there could be more effective action in stamping out terrorism, and sent in about December 1969. [More…]
So, too, of the Immigration document to which he referred. [More…]
What did Mr Lynch say on only 3rd December 1969 when he was Minister for Immigration, Minister in charge of a department which had made other submissions on the existence of other Croatian terrorist organisations? [More…]
On 18th October 1972 - and this was not so close to the election that the former AttorneyGeneral could not act on it - the Assistant Director of the Special Reports Branch of the Department of Immigration made certain statements. [More…]
I think that probably our Department of Immigration was lax right from the start. [More…]
Senator Greenwood admitted in his statement that he had the power to invoke the Immigration Act, which this Government cannot use because of its total opposition to the use of those powers. [More…]
Instead of ridding this country of the danger that existed, the previous Government - Senator Greenwood states this in a letter to the Department of Immigration - simply tried to protect these people by keeping them here at that stage. [More…]
Senator Murphy tabled a letter written in May 1972 by the Commissioner of the Commonwealth Police Force to the Department of Immigration. [More…]
On 18th October 1972, the Assistant-Director of the Special Reports Branch of the Department of Immigration recommended Marincic’s deportation. [More…]
The answer continues: 1 understand from the Department of Immigration that some action is being contemplated as to his authority to remain in Australia. [More…]
The whole question is that the then Attorney-General, who acknowledged the existence of terrorist organisations in Australia, while saying ‘We leave it to the Department of Immigration’, was making an appeal to the Department of Immigration to protect this individual - whether he is in gaol or not - despite the danger to the safety of Australian citizens. [More…]
On the judgment of the High Court the Department of Immigration could deport him to any country which would have him. [More…]
What Senator Greenwood appealed to the Department of Immigration to protect this man from need never have been a threat. [More…]
They have appealed to the Department of Immigration not to deport him. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) has said that 300 people are under consideration. [More…]
There has been grave disquiet in the migrant community - not only the Croatian community but the migrant community at large - because they do not fully understand the niceties of the Immigration Act. [More…]
give due credit to the right honourable Arthur Augustus Calwell for initiating a splendid immigration policy. [More…]
They are a former Minister for Immigration, Mr Opperman; the former Minister for Social Services, Mr Wentworth; the infamous Douglas Darby, M.L.A., from New South Wales; the former Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, who coming home from a game of squash or tennis a year or two ago said: ‘They seemed a good bunch of boys with a good cause, having some fun’. [More…]
Therefore, the maintenance of friendly relations with that country is an important part of our immigration program. [More…]
I am anxious to prevent any recurrence of behaviour either on the part of Yugoslavs or any other national minority groups, which adversely affects our external relations, and I have asked the Minister for Immigration to consider what positive steps might be taken to restrain them. [More…]
I have discussed the question of prosecution under both the Passports Act and Aliens Act with the Secretary of the Department of Immigration and it was agreed that I should bring the question of prosecution to your attention so that you could discuss the matter with your colleague, the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Why did it not take action on the report by the then Minister for Immigration and present Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Mr Lynch, to the then AttorneyGeneral? [More…]
All of the documents that Senator Murphy has tabled dating from 1963 - they include letters from a gentleman in Argentina to the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies; from the then AttorneyGeneral, Sir Garfield Barwick, to the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies; from the then Minister for Immigration, Mr Lynch, to the then Attorney-General, Mr Hughes - say that these people were concerned at the extent of the growth of terrorist organisations and terrorist activities - I include both those things - in Australia. [More…]
Senator GAIR asked the Minister repre senting the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator McCLELLAND - The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I know that the Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, has endeavoured to alleviate the fears of these people by suggesting that only in cases which are proved may action be taken. [More…]
I know when that time comes, from the pledges of both the Attorney-General and the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), that something will be done about that. [More…]
They had an opportunity last year when, because of the pressure brought upon them by the wine grape growing industry itself and, in particular, the efforts of the present Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) and the former honourable member for Sturt, Mr Foster, the then Minister for Primary Industry and the former government had to capitulate. [More…]
My interest in the report springs not only from its content but also from the reference in its conclusions to the Migrant Education Committee of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
The survey, which is the substance of this report, was initiated by the previous Minister for Immigration and the former Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Like Senator Davidson, I emphasise the point that when the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council holds its next meeting in mid-July, no doubt we will be watching the responses of the various States. [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
It is as though the concern of the former Minister for Immigration and the former Minister for Foreign Affairs had not been put seriously to paper. [More…]
The Department of Immigration, which has a special reports branch and which is interested in the question of whether there are terrorist organisations in Australia, is also totally satisfied that such organisations exist. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to a lengthy answer he gave me to a question I asked about the status of Australians in Britain under the United Kingdom Immigration Act. [More…]
A resettlement committee comprising officers of the Departments of Immigration, External Territories and Labour will oversight the arrangements. [More…]
The Commission of Population Growth and the American Future in its report on 27th March to the President and Congress of the United States commented ‘Even if immigration from abroad ceased and couples had only 2 children on the average - just enough to replace themselves - our population would continue to grow for about 70 years. [More…]
In the last 3 or 4 weeks I have represented the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) at a number of functions and the cry of the people attending them has been: ‘When will the pensions legislation get into orbit?’ [More…]
I enter the debate simply to point out that, with respect to the reference to ethnic groups and the alleged vital importance of this issue, the fact of the matter is that a delegation comprising Messrs Cujes, Alagich, Bizjak, Dezlin, Kosovich and Spiciar, saw the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) and me. [More…]
On 1st June and 16th July various immigration committees are to meet in Melbourne and in Sydney to deal with alleged or possibly reasonable areas of discrimination. [More…]
Secondly, the immigration committees, to which I have referred, are in existence already, are available to consider these matters and their services will be utilised in this field. [More…]
Under the Migration Act a person may be deported only if he is a prohibited immigrant, he is an alien or a migrant who has been convicted of a serious offence or he is an alien or migrant whose conduct has been such that, in the opinion of the Minister for Immigration, he ought not to be allowed to remain in Australia. [More…]
Our colleague, the Minister for Immigration is concerned about hostilities within local communities, particularly in relation to their effect on the problem of assimilation. [More…]
I am anxious to prevent any recurrence of behaviour, either on the part of Yugoslavs or any other national minority groups, which adversely affects our external relations, and I have asked the Minister for Immigration to consider what positive steps might be taken to restrain them. [More…]
Minister for Immigration then. [More…]
The bombing attack last week on the Yugoslav Embassy in Canberra (which was apparently intended to coincide’ with the Yugoslav National Day on 28lh November), the evidence of a deliberate attempt to fire the Immigration Offices at Barton on the evening of 1st December, the bombing ‘ of the Yugoslav Consulate-General in Sydney earlier- iri the year are evidence of a pattern of ‘extremist activity which should be capable of preventive measures by the law authorities. [More…]
This is what Phillip Lynch, then Minister for Immigration, said in a letter to the Attorney-General in 1969. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Some weeks ago I asked him could he say whether there was any, truth in Press reports in Adelaide newspapers that a Mr and Mrs Bon field of Elizabeth South in South Australia returned to England at the expense of the Department of Immigration and that this was agreed to during the Christmas period last year. [More…]
Does the Minister for Immigration intend. [More…]
The details supplied to me by the Department of Immigration are that the Bonfield family arrived in Melbourne on 28th February 1961 - some 12 years ago. [More…]
According to the Department of Immigration, 2 of the children had come to the notice of authorities for what might be called antisocial behaviour. [More…]
A month ago J bad the opportunity to recommend to the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) a Yugoslav for appointment to the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
and (5) The following information has been provided by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
They were Senator Neil O’sullivan; Senator Wright, to whom I have referred; Mr Alec Downer, who was a Minister for Immigration in the Menzies Government and later High Commissioner for Australia in the United Kingdom; and Mr Joske, Q.C., as he was at that time, but who is now His Honour Mr Justice Joske of the Commonwealth Industrial Court. [More…]
Does the Government’s decision to extend the present wheat stabilisation scheme for a further 12 months suggest that he believed that he had insufficient time in which to make up his mind about the terms of a new scheme, or was the influence on caucus of the Minister for Northern Development and the Minister for Immigration responsible for the decision? [More…]
If they do not seek registration they can, after 5 years here, simply notify the Department of Immigration that they want to be citizens; and they thereupon become citizens. [More…]
It is intended to publicise this change throughout Australia and of course people seeking to migrate to Australia will be thoroughly informed by officers of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
It is just on 25 years since the first Australian Minister for Immigration, now the Right Honourable Arthur Calwell, introduced, with great and justifiable pride, a Bill which for the first time created in law the status of Australian citizen. [More…]
I think it is most necessary that the immigration policies which were pursued by the previous Government continue to be persued. [More…]
Certainly we are looking at somewhat reduced numbers to meet the economic situation of li to 2 years ago, but unless we have an active immigration policy which brings us skills and assistance in the labour field we will not have the generation within our own economy on the local scene that we need to have to continue the growth that has marked our economy in the last couple of decades. [More…]
haps the time when the existence of this provision in the legislation did manifest itself on the ethnic group was when Mr Oppermann, as he then was, was Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Sena.or Murphy, and the Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, have yet to be nailed about taking away a person’s passport. [More…]
I can imagine that Senator Greenwood will say that he did not do it and thai Mr Lynch, the former Minister for Immigration, also will say that he did not take his passport from him. [More…]
1 sympathise with the present Minister for Immigration when 1 think of the people who were denied citizenship. [More…]
I went along to the then Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Within a week of Mr Grassby becoming Minister for Immigration I took a delegation to see him and the first thing its members put up was that they wanted the removal of these iniquitious provisions of the Crimes Act. [More…]
Very soon after the previous government was defeated one of the first acts of the Department of Immigration was to naturalise a migrant who had been refused naturalisation for about 19 years. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I refer to the Government’s announcement of an emergency drive in the immigration program to recruit an additional 14,500 migrants by the end of June. [More…]
Will the Minister concede that long term planning in the immigration program for migrants with required skills for Australia’s employment needs is a desirable objective? [More…]
I personally agree, as I am sure the Minister for Immigration agrees, that long term planning of the migration program is an essential. [More…]
I understand that the Minister for Immigration is working on this matter at present. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
If so, what will be the fate of these facilities and the people involved if and when the immigration program is suddenly switched off? [More…]
The matters raised in the honourable senator’s questions are outside my immediate knowledge, They are matters for the administrative machinery of the Department of Immigration and for my colleague in another place. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Senator McCLELLAND- The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Future immigration programs will, however, provide for: [More…]
My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, refers to the vexed subject of dual nationality. [More…]
Our great development has taken place in about the last 25 to 30 years since we began a very vigorous immigration policy and so increased rapidly the population of this country. [More…]
Earlier immigration to this country took place, in an era of larger families which coincided with the tail end of the United States development. [More…]
The population, as we all appreciate, will not develop naturally because of the circumstances of family life which have changed so much from what they were in the first stage of our development and since the major period of the massive development of the United States when that country had an immigration rate similar to the one we might be running now. [More…]
We must depend even more heavily on immigration. [More…]
If we rely more heavily on immigration, we will want the proposed Cities Commission to assist in the necessary development. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Postmaster-General whether he will examine the ethics that should apply to the custody of a post office mail box and see whether the Immigration Control Association which operates post office box 322, Crows Nest, New South Wales, can continue to use postal facilities for the purpose of perverted racialism. [More…]
Sometimes, in Asian and in African countries we have had difficulty in obtaining architects and matters have had to be dealt with between the Department of Works, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Immigration and all the rest of the people concerned. [More…]
Minister for Primary Industry: Is it a fact that the Minister for Immigration in an election advertisement last year stated that $500m provided to farmers at 3 per cent interest would cost the Government only $15m to subsidise the interest rate? [More…]
The Labor Party cannot accept what Mr Grassby is leading it into on immigration. [More…]
I intended to enter the debate mainly to reply to some of the excursions on the Government’s immigration program that emerged from the speech by Senator Carrick. [More…]
Now I want to reply to the statements made by Senator Carrick in relation to the Government’s immigration policy. [More…]
We had to make a decision about our immigration inflow. [More…]
But we as a Government, and the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) - and for that matter the whole Ministry - are not dazzled by statistics alone. [More…]
I repeat that irrespective of whether we have in mind the Labor Ministry, the Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, his committee, or the whole Caucus, we may have to take a calculated risk in the field of immigration and perhaps face the accusation by employers that there are not enough workers. [More…]
I wanted to put the record straight in relation to our immigration policy. [More…]
However, that is a matter for the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) whom I do not represent in this chamber. [More…]
Department of Immigration, made some estimates amongst which he said that ‘each migrant was a gain to Australia because of his education, training in industrial skills and the incidental costs which had been paid for by another nation’. [More…]
When we discuss a measure of this kind we discuss it against the background of immigration and immigration policies, because immigration policies determine the number and the quality or style of people that come into Australia and therefore the numbers and style and quality of people are very much related to the whole matter of citizenship. [More…]
This is perhaps not an occasion on which to discuss in total and extended detail the Government’s immigration program. [More…]
But I think it is pertinent to refer to a statement made by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) that the first priority -would be given to the reunion of immediate family members - husband, wife, parents and children. [More…]
The implication carried by the statement is that previous administrations had not taken these humanitarian causes into account; but the more important implication, as I see it - the idea of a total migrant program based on sponsorship by migrants already living here - is not one which I think is good for Australia’s development or total immigration program. [More…]
The Government should never relinquish its responsibility so that it allows the size and structure of such an important legislative area as its immigration program to be determined solely by unco-ordinated decisions of individuals here and overseas so that our immigration intake is determined by the wishes and maybe the needs of people living here who wish to bring in their kith and kin. [More…]
These studies were being undertaken and were announced by a former Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) in 1970. [More…]
Also in February of this year the Minister for Immigration spoke about what he called the nation’s first emergency interpreter service. [More…]
I refer to a speech made by the former Minister for Immigration, Dr [More…]
In addition to existing interpreter services provided by the Department of Immigration an on-call telephone interpreter service will be introduced. [More…]
As most members know, I had the privilege of serving with the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council - a council which, may I say, was originally established by a Labor administration and one which has known the benefit of advice from a wide range of citizens coming from diverse disciplines and interests and all of them acutely involved in the welfare of citizens. [More…]
If they do not make this registration, after 5 years all they have to do is notify the Department of Immigration and by the act of notification they automatically become Australian citizens. [More…]
It is not without its importance to note that the Right Honourable Arthur Calwell, to whom we give so much credit and honour for establishing Australia’s post-war immigration program, had as the cornerstone of the program he envisaged integration. [More…]
As Minister for Immigration he emphasised on many occasions the importance of bringing migrants to this country who shared with us a common language and a common tradition. [More…]
I am indeed surprised because I think it will hinder immigration and what is more, I think it will hinder citizenship. [More…]
Just as an immigration program cannot be turned off and on at will and just as an immigration program cannot be left to the process which remains in the hands of relatives, nor can it be the subject of factors which ignore the very basic ingredients of nation building. [More…]
Those factors are part of an immigration program which can keep Australia as not only a stable, human community but also one that is economically advancing. [More…]
In expanding a country by an immigration policy there is some wisdom in that procedure because integration is so much easier where the cultural backgrounds of the people involved are identical or almost identical. [More…]
In recent years there has been more tolerance towards immigration from countries where the cultural background is distinctively different. [More…]
I think that those who have studied the problem of a developing nation such as ours in regard to immigration have always realised the necessity for a gradual change along the lines of what has been happening in Australia. [More…]
and we are forced in our attempts to achieve the rate of immigration to Australia which is the minimum that we can sustain because of the falling birth rate in Australia, to resort to programs of persuasion which have not engendered the desire to come to Australia into the people who have the capacity to tackle the immense task of starting life in a new country. [More…]
In those, countries there are none of the factors which should inhibit us in broadening our immigration policies. [More…]
I have argued with Japanese friends who have queried our immigration policies and have wrongly designated them as a White Australia policy. [More…]
If we believe in immigration at all we do not believe in it just as a way of exploiting other people by persuading them to come here and to give us their all and not to give them anything in return. [More…]
If I may quote the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) on this point, other countries which do not require a person to renounce their allegiance to their country of origin encompass New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, Ireland, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands. [More…]
This is a sort of situation which I know the Department of Immigration in its wisdom has been trying to overcome. [More…]
We should view this amending legislation in conjunction with many other reforms in the immigration (field. [More…]
The current immigration legislation will do to the Queen, metaphorically speaking, what that man did to Charles I. [More…]
I agree with the commendation made by the Minister of the right honourable Arthur Augustus Calwell, the architect of our original immigration policy. [More…]
established in dealing with immigration, the enormous work which he did and the tremendous benefit which his work in immigration has brought to this country. [More…]
In any event, there would be one point on which all 60 of us would agree, and that is that this nation will be eternally indebted to Arthur Calwell for his work on immigration. [More…]
Having said that, I add that the work of Arthur Calwell was carried on very well, very successfully, very intelligently and very humanely by a succession of Liberal Ministers for Immigration. [More…]
I hope we can abandon all the nonsense, humbug and hypocrisy and get back to the earlier pristine days when the Labor Party had ideas, put up by Arthur Calwell, when immigration was a reality and when the job done for this nation was one which we remember with pride and thankfulness. [More…]
in reply - Representing asI do the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), until Senator Hannan had spoken I had intended to say that I appreciated the amicable way in which this very important Bill had been discussed by representatives of all political parties. [More…]
If the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) thinks that it causes confusion, surely that confusion could be removed by the Government’s own proposal to change the style and title of the Queen and by using the very words proposed in the Opposition’s amendment. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have referred to Arthur Calwell as a former Minister for Immigration. [More…]
General explanations of the reasons for the proposed changes are contained in the second reading speech that I made on this Bill on behalf of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby). [More…]
Therefore, the Minister for Immigration and the Government are not opposed to promising a review of the oath of allegiance at some time in the future after the new Royal Style and Titles have been introduced, if this is necessary, but for the present time strongly wish the oath now proposed in the Schedule to this Bill to be enacted. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: Is it a fact that the Minister, speaking in the Senate on 17 May, said that the Government’s proposal for the common period of residence before Australian citizenship could be sought would be 3 years? [More…]
Will the Minister explain to the Senate, the statement made yesterday by the Minister for Immigration that the waiting period for Australian citizenship for all nationalities had been reduced to one year? [More…]
Within 3 years of being elected to Parliament in 1940, Arthur Calwell rose to the Ministry, acting as Minister for Information from 1 943 and also as Minister for Immigration from July 1945 until the defeat of the Government in December 1949. [More…]
What he did in administering the immigration portfolio is something which is remembered with admiration by all in politics. [More…]
He was the architect of Australia’s postwar immigration program, a program which brought many thousands of Europeans into Australia following the war a program which has enriched our culture and influenced the very fabric of our lives. [More…]
When appointed Minister for Immigration in 1 945, Arthur Calwell devoted his energy and undoubted administrative ability to the task of planning an immigration program on a scale no other country had attempted. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and refer to an announcement of the proposed immigrant intake of 1 10,000 for the ensuing year. [More…]
It was recognised by the Minister for Immigration that one factor that had to be taken into account was the serious wastage of migrants which had occurred in the past. [More…]
I understand it has been established by the Immigration Advisory Council that over the past 5 years there was a 2.25 per cent loss of people who had come here and who, for whatever reason, had decided to return to their original homelands. [More…]
As has been pointed out by my colleague the Minister for Immigration, people are not available to be ordered around like shock troops at the drop of an order, and availability of migrants is a very real consideration. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Immigration has assured me that the present program is a flexible one and that it will be subject to review. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether the Minister for Immigration approves of what seems to be a blatant act of discrimination against a migrant wishing to serve his adopted country in this way? [More…]
I present also a transcript of the conference held at Brisbane on 1 1 May 1973 between the Minister for Immigration and State Ministers for Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) in speaking to the Committee in another place said nothing at all that would be helpful about it. [More…]
In the last 25 years we have built enormous national strength from our immigration policies. [More…]
These are words which we repeat often and which may even be described as cliches, but all of us in this Senate and all citizens of Australia have known the benefits of the immigration program. [More…]
I think the Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, has been very conciliatory. [More…]
I know that Senator Davidson has had friendships with personnel of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
I have listened to the debate with considerable interest because I have the responsibility of being the representative in this chamber of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby). [More…]
I might also add that it is the subject of associated initiatives by the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
As I was saying, this matter is also the subject of associated initiatives by the Minister for Immigration, who, I would like to place on record, is on behalf of the Government sparing no effort in ensuring as a first step that migrants who acquire Australian citizenship and who are still regarded by their former homeland as being its citizens are able, where the law of that country so provides, to divest themselves of that citizenship if they so wish. [More…]
I repeat that this matter is the subject of scrutiny by one of the joint committees of the Parliament, that it is probably also the subject of scrutiny, as Senator Byrne has said, by a standing committee of the Senate, and that it is also, of course, the subject of very close scrutiny by the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
In my second reading speech on behalf of the Minister for Immigration I said: [More…]
During the debate on the Citizenship Bill I indicated, on behalf of the Government and the Minister for Immigration, that the Government was not opposed to promising a review of the oath of allegiance contained in the Citizenship Bill after the new royal style and titles had been introduced. [More…]
Subsequently, in a public statement made on 7 June, my colleague the Minister for Immigration confirmed this point. [More…]
I should also like to give to the Committee some additional information that has been made available to me by my colleague the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) as to why the Government believes it essential to omit the words ‘renouncing all other allegiance’. [More…]
The main reason for this is that the report of a survey on migrants carried out by the Department of Immigration in the first half of 1971 included the following statement: it was found to be difficult to explicitly renounce allegiance to one’s country of birth which still held great emotional significance. [More…]
In January 1973 a committee on citizenship of the Immigration Advisory [More…]
Council unanimously recommended to the Minister for Immigration that the oath of affirmation should no longer require the applicants to renounce their former allegiance. [More…]
A recent study of the citizenship legislation of 19 Commonwealth countries that was made by the Department of Immigration on behalf of the Minister revealed that 1 7 of those Commonwealth countries require an oath of allegiance but of that number only four require renunciation of other allegiance. [More…]
As long ago as 1963- a decade ago- the then committee on naturalisation of the Immigration Advisory Council recommended the same action as the citizenship committee recommended in January 1973: [More…]
In a recent report to my colleague the Minister for Immigration the Department of Immigration gave the following considered opinion: [More…]
These figures are taken from the consolidated statistics of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I am conscious of the difficulties that face the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) in such a technical field in which he is representing the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) and attempting to command an adequate assessment of the difficulties of this position. [More…]
On the survey that has been taken by the Department of Immigration, to which I referred earlier, it is obvious that a large number of those people are affected by that clause. [More…]
In the light of all that, what incredible folly it was for the Government on coming into office to knock down the immigration program in such a dramatic if not hysterical manner. [More…]
The Government finds itself in the position where it has to turn around and gradually get itself back into the immigration picture again. [More…]
Senator Carrick referred to the immigration situation. [More…]
As to the specific matter of the passport which has been raised by the honourable senator, I think it is proper that that should be referred to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister for Labour and the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) might be induced, as I think they are beginning to be induced, to let some more people in to help the steel industry. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
-These matters are not within my immediate knowledge, other than the fact that I know that the Minister for Immigration has given permission to BHP to engage in the recruitment of migrant labour from abroad. [More…]
I will refer the question to the Minister for Immigration for appropriate advice. [More…]
The design was selected by the Minister for Immigration and the opportunity was taken to improve the design. [More…]
By administrative arrangements made earlier this year, the 8 overseas Press and information posts that previously were operated by the publicity branch of the Department of Immigration, and the 9 officers attached thereto, were transferred to the Australian Information Service. [More…]
Immigration information will remain an important aspect of the future activities of the Australian Information Service posts involved. [More…]
In view of the reopening of communications with Chile and the presence of Australia’s Ambassador to Chile in Canberra, can the Minister now state, firstly, whether approaches have been made to our offices in Chile, either on a diplomatic or immigration basis, from Chilean political refugees for sanctuary in Australia and, secondly, whether Australia has at a United Nations level sought to activate the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, which always appears to roll rapidly in the face of left wing totalitarianism but never in the case of right wing totalitarianism? [More…]
Is it not a fact that this Government cut immigration and reduced the available work force? [More…]
A banking conference should be held and there should be an increase in immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Deportation procedures are a matter for the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) said that he brought about this change. [More…]
The Bill, Mr President, seeks an amendment of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 which, in defining in section 3 capital equipment of an educational nature’ which could be financed under the child program, specifically excluded any building. [More…]
A survey of child migrant education in schools of high migrant density in Melbourne which the Government initiated late in 1972, and undertaken by the Victorian Education Department, the Catholic Education Office in Victoria, the Department of Immigration and the Department of Education, revealed serious inadequacies with respect both to accommodation and supply of teachers, which are related problems, and some shortages of equipment and materials. [More…]
The findings of the Melbourne survey were amply confirmed by the task force which the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) established early this year to identify and report on special problems confronting migrants. [More…]
Cabinet on 14 May 1973 approved a joint submission by the Minister for Immigration and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) to extend the child migrant education program to include provision for supplementary class-room accommodation by way of demountable or portable class-rooms, where this was necessary as an emergency measure to ensure that adequate instruction could be given. [More…]
Clause 1 makes the point that the principal Act when amended will be known as the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-1973. [More…]
They were ascertained as a result of the inquiry which was undertaken by the Victorian Department of Education, the Catholic Education Office in Victorian, the Department of Education and the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I intervene briefly in the debate to state that the Immigration Advisory Council- I know that Senator Davidson would concur with this - was equally concerned about the position. [More…]
It is disgraceful that this position has been permitted to continue for so long because there has been a need for special classrooms for learning possibly back to the early 1 950s- since the late Arthur Calwell introduced the immigration program in Australia. [More…]
I did not criticise the Government’s attitude in relation to immigration. [More…]
-I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is he now in a position to indicate whether immigration and diplomatic representatives in Santiago have been given instructions to assist Chileans who may be apprehensive of the current political situation in that country? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) who introduced this Bill in another place- and I suppose that what he had to say was said here- said that if the Australian taxpayer pays for these inspections it is tantamount to that taxpayer subsidising the consumption of Australian meat overseas. [More…]
-My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, concerns the ban which has been placed on the Rhodesian delegates of mixed racial origin who wish to attend the fourteenth triennial conference of the Associated Country Women of the World which is to be held in Perth in 1974. [More…]
I refer to the Minister’s assurance of 9 October as reported at page 1082 of Hansard that the Australian Government has made known to the Soviet Government Australia ‘s belief in the fundamental human right of free immigration of a nation’s citizens. [More…]
In the making of its attitude known to the Soviet Government, did the Australian Government specify restrictions on Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union as an instance of denial of this fundamental human right? [More…]
Did the Australian Government protest, that is, did it make a formal statement of dissent or disapproval, to the Soviet Government specifically concerning that Government’s refusal to allow free immigration of Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union? [More…]
Will he have tabled and made available for the Parliament to peruse the evidence- I repeat, the evidence- on which the Minister for Immigration and the Minister for Services and Property base their allegations? [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government table as soon as possible the evidence upon which the Minister for Services and Property and the Minister for Immigration based their allegations and upon which the Government plans to base its legislation concerning the matters he referred to? [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present the final report by the Immigration Advisory Council on its inquiry into the departure of settlers from Australia. [More…]
Reports had been submitted to it not only by the Commissioner of Police but by the Department of Immigration prior to the statements that there was no credible evidence of any terrorist organisation in Australia. [More…]
-No doubt the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration has seen reports that following the Prime Minister’s visit to China a significant number of Chinese migrants may be coming to Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The principal Act was introduced by the right honourable Arthur Calwell who was Minister for Immigration in 1947. [More…]
Also, it would provide data for an analysis of Australia ‘s alien population so that the government of the day could implement its immigration policy on lines which were considered to be sound and scientific. [More…]
Of course, many of the phrases, ideas and ideals which were used in the early days of the immigration policy no longer apply. [More…]
To this extent, I am interested to read of the report which was placed before the Senate a few weeks ago on behalf of the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
As one who formerly had the privilege of being Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council, I was associated with the first steps of this inquiry back in September 1971. [More…]
All of the evidence which was put before the Committee of the Immigration Advisory Council suggested that departures generally resulted from a number of factors and a complexity of factors. [More…]
Interestingly enough, a significant number of people concerned in this study were described as those who used immigration to Australia to try to escape personal and environment problems at home. [More…]
We are going to contrive a labour shortage by cutting back immigration’- and in fact it has done that- ‘and then with inflation running at Christmas time and diminishing people’s spending, we are going to plead emotionally to the people for power over prices and we hope, emotionally, that we will get it. [More…]
On the Immigration Advisory Council I get correspondence, as does my colleague Senator Davidson- I pay tribute to Senator Davidson as Chairman of that Council and he would agree with me if he were in this chamber now- from people in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-My colleague, Senator Mulvihill, has been raising this matter not only with me as Minister for the Media, but also with my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and, I understand, prior to our assuming office, with Ministers of the previous [More…]
I have had discussions with my colleague the Minister for Immigration about this matter. [More…]
Officers of the Board and of the Department of Immigration are looking at the matter to see what sort of public access can be given to these migrant groups. [More…]
Is it arbitrary or excessive power to amend the Crimes Act and the Immigration Act so that no longer naturalised Australian citizens will be eligible for deportation from this country? [More…]
I do not mind, and I know that the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) does not mind, if we have to pick up the tab to ensure that the wage claims of these people are met. [More…]
The Government has cut back on our immigration program at a time when it should have been maintained. [More…]
In times past Government members have talked about the clear economic and social advantages of an immigration program. [More…]
I suggest that they are contradicting their own statements when they contribute towards a winding down of Australia’s immigration program. [More…]
I call for a reactivation of the program of overseas recruitment so that we can have a proper relationship between immigration- the intake of personnel- and the level of economic activity and development within Australia. [More…]
I charge the Government that it made no serious examination of Australia’s immigration requirements before it set out on a program for the intake of new settlers which was unrealistic and quite unfair to Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) has stated on a number of occasions that he does not want an immigration program which is simply identified with a labour program. [More…]
Department of Immigration [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Will the Corporation, in conjunction with the Department of Immigration, direct migrants to move into this area? [More…]
If this is so, does it indicate that there is likely to be a stepping-up of the immigration program? [More…]
I would ask those honourable senators and other honourable senators opposite to cast their minds back to their criticims of us in relation to immigration. [More…]
On 4 December 1973, Senator Durack directed a question to me in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration concerning new Australian citizenship laws and the advertisements appearing in newspapers throughout Australia concerning the application of those laws. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I refer to a so-called answer that I received yesterday from the Minister for Immigration to a question I had asked expressing some concern about advertisements in the Australian Press regarding the application of the new citizenship laws. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the vast majority of British subjects in Australia came to this country from the British Isles and that they are not likely to appreciate having their status referred to as ‘quaint’ by the Minister for Immigration? [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I am not immediately aware of the answer to the honourable senator’s question because I only represent the Minister for Immigration in this chamber. [More…]
I think that some countries which impose these bars on the immigration and emigration of their citizens and claim that there is some specially dangerous position in which they find themselves which forces them to impose these bars on the free egress and access of their citizens, ought to look at Israel which they criticise so much. [More…]
Immediately that happened Mr Grassby, the Minister for Immigration, said that Solzhenitsyn and his family could come to Australia to live. [More…]
If they are not careful they will find that they will get into the same jam as they got into in relation to immigration. [More…]
It deliberately reduced the immigration rate, knowing that by so doing it would reduce the work force in the basic industries. [More…]
I would severely cut back the immigration program, having planned the industries to absorb those migrants. [More…]
I am concerned that another of the causes of the difficult situation stems from the Government’s total disregard of the importance of an appropriate immigration policy for this time. [More…]
Immigration has varied in style and importance over the 25 years that we have known it since the end of World War II. [More…]
Officers of the Department of Immigration were trained not only to assist but also to counsel and to render such services to potential migrants as would help them to fulfil their own desires in life in this country. [More…]
Proof of the satisfactory administration of the immigration program of the previous Government is seen in the great number of migrants in this country who fit very truly into that category. [More…]
Two years before the election the Prime Minister in a telecast made it plain that his Government when in office would not have an immigration policy that would benefit Australia. [More…]
I suggest that the Prime Minister adopted a negative attitude by saying that immigration would decline anyhow and that people with qualifications could do better in their own countries than here. [More…]
I suggest that that statement by the Prime Minister is a sharp difference of expression from that of his Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) who more than once has praised the skills- the very many skills, to use the Prime Minister’s own words- that migration has brought to Australia. [More…]
I suggest that the Government has deliberately cut off an orderly immigration program and I suggest that one of its main reasons for doing so has been to create a scarcity of labour. [More…]
The cutting and cancelling of a decent immigration policy for Australia has meant that the Government has cut right across the efficient contribution of our basic industries. [More…]
But, of course, by comparison with earlier administrations there has been literally no immigration as such and certainly many fewer non-Europeans have come to Australia under the present Administration. [More…]
As proof of the Government’s opposition to an immigration policy I refer the Senate to an extract from the ‘Fabian Newsletter’ of August 1970 which contains an article written by Mr Everingham, who at that time was the member for Capricornia and who is now a Minister in the Labor Government. [More…]
He went on to say that immigration increases the anti-communist movement, the anti-Russian movement and the anti-labor movement, thereby committing us more uncompromisingly to capitalist policies. [More…]
I suggest that by turning down an immigration policy and cutting out an immigration program the Government is trying to persuade the people that to reduce immigration is the right thing to do when really it is the wrong thing to do and it is, of course, for very much the wrong reason. [More…]
The immigration program has been steadied down or decreased at a time when there are very big demands on industry to produce those things which are now in very short supply. [More…]
The Government’s immigration policy has not assisted the sound development of our economy. [More…]
We are deliberately deciding that immigration numbers will be geared to the number of jobs available and not to exploitation. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: Is it a fact that during a visit to Italy Mr Grassby, the Minister for Immigration, invited Mr Francesco Catanzarati, an Opposition member of the Italian Parliament, to visit Australia? [More…]
I am not aware whether my colleague the Minister for Immigration extended an invitation to the Italian gentleman referred to by the honourable senator. [More…]
Additionally, immigration information offices were transferred from the Department of Immigration to the Australian Information Service and this has meant that we have been able to establish additional offices in Rome and Vienna. [More…]
4m now sought for capital works and services, the major requirements are $2m for emergency classroom accommodation for the Department of Immigration, $l.lm for the purchase of residential properties at overseas posts, $33m for the Postmaster-General’s Department to meet the cost of new wage rates and improved conditions of service together with increases in the prices of materials, $7.2m for the Department of Services and Property, of which $ 1.7m is for acquisitions of freehold properties in the Australian Capital Territory and $4.1m for acquisition of properties for overseas posts. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
a person for whom the Minister for Immigration considers it to be undesirable, in the context of Australia’s international relations, to request other countries to provide free passage, protection and assistance. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What were the names of the four Yugoslav persons deported from Australia between 5 December 1972 and 30 September 1973 under Section 12 of the Migration Act as mentioned by the Minister for Immigration in an answer to a question asked by Senator Greenwood in 1 973. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration prepared a reply to the question before Parliament was prorogued but it was not subsequently included in Hansard. [More…]
Minister for Labor and Immigration- the Hon. [More…]
-My question which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration is supplementary to the question asked earlier by Senator Jessop in relation to the Philips Industries Ltd plant at Hendon in South Australia. [More…]
Although the scheme is not yet under way, its preliminary organisation is being considered by the Department of Labor and Immigration and if anybody is made redundant I would think that the legislation would be brought forward in a hurry and would cover the position of workers made redundant. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-The Minister for Labor and Immigration has stated that in his opinion it is likely that unemployment will increase. [More…]
But the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, who could never be described as a cheerful soul, is even more pessimistic than usual. [More…]
It decided that it would cut and virtually eliminate the European assisted immigration scheme which was a great scheme for the development of Australia and a scheme which selected a homogeneous cross-section of workers for jobs here and brought them into the basic steel, automotive and building industries of Australia so the people could have a flow of steel, cars, building nails and ordinary fencing wire. [More…]
I refer to a statement made by the Prime Minister at his Press conference last week in which he said that the former Department of Immigration had fallen down very badly. [More…]
Has the Government closed the Department of Immigration as a matter of Government policy? [More…]
If so, can the Minister tell the Senate why the Government felt that the Department of Immigration had fallen down very badly? [More…]
Does this assertion refer to the work performed by the former and immediate past Minister for Immigration? [More…]
What were the areas of immigration activity in which the ‘falling down very badly ‘ took place? [More…]
As to the question of closing down the separate Department of Immigration, that of course was a matter of Government policy. [More…]
As to whether the Prime Minister intended in any way to reflect upon the administration of the former Minister for Immigration, I can safely answer the honourable senator by saying no. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Following the Government’s decision to amalgamate the Department of Labor and the Department of Immigration, what steps have been taken to re-allocate the functions of the former Department of Immigration. [More…]
It is now about a month since the Prime Minister announced that Mr Clyde Cameron would take over the duties formerly performed by Mr Grassby and that the 2 departments- the Department of Labor and the Department of Immigration- would be combined. [More…]
As the Prime Minister explained, the idea was to make sure that the Department responsible for employment and employment policiesheaded by Mr Clyde Cameron- would be more closely allied with the objectives and policies of immigration. [More…]
The Prime Minister has explained and the Minister for Labor and Immigration has announced that although the present head of the Department of Labor, Dr Sharp, will remain as Secretary of the Department of Labor, he will be assisted now by Mr Armstrong, who was formerly the Secretary of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Those two will advise the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I was amazed at the attitude taken by the Minister for Labor and Immigration in this Government, Mr Clyde Cameron, whose sole concern after the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation was that some action should be taken to enable that union to regain its registration. [More…]
When the secretary of the union involved expresses his concern and criticises the Government’s policy, the only response which he is given by the Minister for Labor and Immigration is that he is a featherweight. [More…]
I have written to the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, about this matter. [More…]
We hear the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) saying there is a danger of unemployment, and the Prime Minister saying there is no danger. [More…]
I think that a significant factor is the immigration intake, the predominance of which goes to city areas. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Is he aware of the widespread concern expressed by migrant groups, Good Neighbour councils- particularly that in South Australia on the occasion of its 25th anniversaryand migrant welfare associations at the splitting up of the Department of Immigration? [More…]
Has the Government an immigration target for the coming year? [More…]
I said that some of the functions of the Department and of the former Minister for Immigration would be taken over by the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Social Security. [More…]
I can assure the honourable senator, as Mr Clyde Cameron has already stated, that the expertise of officials of the former Department of Immigration will not be lost to the migrants or to the Public Service, and that the Department of Labor and Immigration will still serve as an established centre of contact for all migrants. [More…]
If any migrant is unsure about which Department to approach with a problem, he still will be able to use the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
When the committee I spoke about on Thursday has made its determinations, instructions will be given as to which area concerning immigration will be served by the respective Ministers. [More…]
Has the Minister also seen a report that certainly until 5 July Philips Industries was recruiting labour through the Department of Labor and Immigration? [More…]
I also saw a reference- I think it was in the ‘National Times’ last Sunday- to the fact that Philips Industries as late as 5 July was recruiting labour through the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration give an assurance that widows now eligible for retraining under the present training scheme for widow pensioners will not be disadvantaged by the proposals in the Government’s retraining scheme which were detailed by the Minister for Labor and Immigration yesterday? [More…]
That scheme will be phased into the new scheme, which was announced by the Minister for Labor and Immigration, not before 1 October of this year. [More…]
In view of the comprehensive canvass of the position by Senator Webster, to reply adequately a statement would need to be made by the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The papers and reports on the retraining scheme which was announced yesterday by the Minister for Labor and Immigration will be tabled today. [More…]
The internal immigration policy pursued by that country will determine whether an Australian will be admitted into that country as a resident. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration say what progress is being made in solving the dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation which has held up delivery of 10,000 tons of steel from the roll-on roll-off terminal of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd at Port Adelaide since March of this year? [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Is it a fact that when governmental announcements are made from time to time giving the number of unemployed persons in Australia, a rider is added indicating that the figure given is exclusive of school leavers? [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
But with respect to the general scope of the question I can state that the policy of the Minister for Labor and Immigration and the Government in relation to the present target about which the honourable senator asked last week is to ensure that half of the target should consist of skilled people. [More…]
If I, as a Government senator, had evidence that there has been collusion between earlier Immigration and [More…]
My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration refers to the Government’s recently announced retraining scheme. [More…]
My question which I address to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration also relates to the private industry retraining scheme. [More…]
I can only undertake to have the matter examined not only by the Minister for Labor and Immigration but also by any other interested Minister. [More…]
However, this is a question which concerns my colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration and if there is some further information I can obtain for the honourable senator I shall forward it to him. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, refers to the announced decision of the Commonwealth Government to introduce wage indexation by way of quarterly wage adjustments. [More…]
-I think I could say that the policy referred to by the honourable senator is what might be called a platform policy which will be put before the Moore conference in the early part of next month with the idea of seeing whether the employers and the unions will accept what the Minster for Labor and Immigration calls, and the Government suggests should be, a package deal. [More…]
I do not think I should be too precise because really it is the proposition of the Minister for Labour and Immigration which is to go before the conference. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
But in putting this package deal to the Moore conference the Minister for Labor and Immigration and the Government intend to argue that if this system, were adopted if would minimise stoppages because, as the honourable senator is aware, at the present time a number of disputes occur because of the inflationary spiral. [More…]
-Will the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration inform the Senate what are the precise issues that threaten to precipitate the strike tonight by members of the Transport Workers Union? [More…]
If before the Senate adjourns I am able to say anything which will not worsen the situation I will certainly ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration to allow me to do so. [More…]
-The Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration will recall that I raised the question last week concerning the 10,000 tonnes of steel that is rusting on the wharf at Port Adelaide due to an argument between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers’ Federation. [More…]
Since Senator Jessop asked me a question about this matter last week I have asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration to give me whatever information he could about it. [More…]
At the conclusion of question time I will ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration the current position. [More…]
I think that the shortage of labour relates to the stevedoring industry, which comes within the portfolio of the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-The Minister for Labor and Immigration has announced his scheme. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I will take the matter up with the Minister for Labor and Immigration and, if he can give me any further information, I will convey it to the honourable senator. [More…]
The arrangement was made by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) with the Secretary of the organisation. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) and I met the principals of the Australian Capital Territory Medical Association in his office in Canberra when he was Minister for Labor and we offered to go through with them in detail any of their industrial complaints. [More…]
I am unable to see in the chamber at the moment the Minister for Labor and Immigration, but we will soon be able to say of him a parody which was said of others almost 20 years ago, namely: ‘You will all be cool in Cameron’s pool’. [More…]
He was taken to a non-public area of the airport terminal by the Immigration Officer on duty. [More…]
It was then agreed that he would stay in Australia and talk to the Department of Labor and Immigration on Monday morning. [More…]
On Monday Mr Ermolenko contacted Professor Kabalevsky at the Parmelia Hotel and arranged to see him at 1 1 o’clock after he had an interview with an official from the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Mr Grayden, the Western Australian State Minister for Immigration, has asked to be present and he will be most welcome. [More…]
The whole area of industrial agreements is so significant that it was included on the agenda of the tripartite industrial peace conference called by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) in December last year to examine ways and means of achieving stability in industrial relations in Australia. [More…]
If it is, I invite the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop), who represents the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) in this place, to give some attention to an aspect which has not been adverted to at all in the second reading speech explaining the Bill. [More…]
I had a conversation with the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) last week. [More…]
I preface it by referring to a meeting which was eld in Perth yesterday afternoon by persons alleged to have an interest in the case of the Russian violinist, Mr Ermolenko, and which included Mr Garland, the Liberal Party member for Curtin, and Mr Ian Medcalf, representing the Liberal Party Minister for Immigration in Western Australia. [More…]
It will comprise representatives of the Departments of Manufacturing Industry, Labor and Immigration, and Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
I ask a question of Senator Bishop in his role as Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Sector MULVIHILL- My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, is supplementary to one asked earlier by Senator Poyser about the operations of the Bally poker machine company. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration put before the Moore Conference last week a proposition which, if it is accepted by the employers and the unions, either in the form in which it was proposed or in a modified form, will go a long way towards reducing industrial disputes in this country. [More…]
But, generally speaking, the aims of the Government in respect of amalgamations and agreements have become known not only through public discussions and announcements by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), but also in the proposed legislation to which I referred earlier. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Has he seen reports of a circular letter from Mr Jack Egerton, President of the Brisbane Trades and Labour Council and State President of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland? [More…]
Will he consult his colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration with a view to instituting a properly planned program of adult retraining at award wages? [More…]
The Department of Labor and Immigration now has a special training subsidy for Aboriginal employees who wish to increase their skills or who seek trade occupations. [More…]
I refer to what the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) said in May 1973 when he introduced the previous Bill extending the temporary provisions for one year. [More…]
The report has been presented to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron). [More…]
I ask: Was the Minister aware of what was said by this young man during his interview on the Monday of that week with the Department of Immigration? [More…]
Is he aware of statements attributed to the head of the Department of Immigration in Perth that, at that interview, the young man made clear that he wanted to remain in Australia? [More…]
The Government, I think mainly through the Department of Labor and Immigration, has been in close contact with various municipal bodies throughout Australia. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Thus, such cases are not subsequently identifiable within the records maintained by either the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The Departmental Heads to whom these arrangements apply are: The Secretary, Department of Labor and Immigration; the Secretary, Department of the Media; the Secretary, Department of the Northern Territory; and the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs. [More…]
He was asked yesterday whether he would table in this Parliament a record of an interview which Mr Ermolenko had with Department of Labor and Immigration officials in Perth some 4 days prior to his departure from Australia. [More…]
Statements have been attributed to the head of the Department of Labor and Immigration in Perth that at that particular interview Mr Ermolenko indicated a desire to remain in this country. [More…]
If at that conference with the Department of Labor and Immigration this young man said that he wanted to remain in this country and he indicated that he was prepared to take the steps to apply for permission to remain in this country, why did the Minister not inform the Parliament of that fact during the week we were asking him questions? [More…]
On the Monday morning he went to the Department of Labor and Immigration and he there had a conference which, on Press reports, lasted about an hour. [More…]
Regarding the conversation with Mr Ermolenko at the Immigration Office- I do not remember being specifically asked about this- I now say, because it is no secret, that at that point Ermolenko said that he wanted to return home. [More…]
He said this once at the airport and once to the immigration officer next day. [More…]
Accordingly, with the co-operation of the Soviet Embassy, Georgi was interviewed a number of times and on successive days without any other Russian present- first, by the representative of the Foreign Affairs Department and the Chief Immigration Officer in Perth, then by Mr Gilchrist, the Head of the Legal Division of my Department whom I sent from Canberra expressly for the purpose, then by Mr Cowles, the representative of the Transport Workers Union, Mr Bluck of the Musicians Union and Mr Michael Edgley, the well-known West Australian businessman, who speaks Russian well, then by Mr Tonkin, the former Labor Premier of Western Australia, whom I had asked to intervene, and Mr Harding of the Federated Clerks Union and finally at length by a number of journalists on television yesterday evening. [More…]
On Monday morning he rang Mr Goodwin, the chief immigration officer in Western Australia. [More…]
However, I make 2 points: Firstly, he acknowledged that at the interview with the Department of Immigration officials, Mr Ermolenko, on the Monday morning, indicated that he wanted to remain in Australia. [More…]
He also informed the public that, as Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby had established a community relations committee which had gathered a great deal of evidence indicating that discrimination continued to exist in important areas of community administration and activity. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, relates to unemployment in the areas chosen by the Government for initial assistance. [More…]
Currently an examination is being undertaken by a Cabinet committee, in collaboration with two of our Caucus committees, to ascertain precisely what action should be taken in situations such as that to which Senator Bessell has referred; that is, whether in addition to the schemes now in operation and the one proposed by the Minister for Labor and Immigration some more direct assistance might be given to people in industries which are affected. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
What were the countries of origin of the 176 persons who entered Australia illegally and who came within the ambit of the amnesty granted by the former Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, and which was referred to in the Department’s News Release No. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
48/74 issued by the former Minister for Immigration. [More…]
We have had from the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) a speech which one must say is infinitely more informative than the speech made by the responsible Minister, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) in the lower House. [More…]
In contradistinction to what the Minister for Labor and Immigration said in the House of Representatives, I must say that we had a prepared speech in the Senate from the PostmasterGeneral, but it is a speech which talks in generalities and does not deal in any way with specifics. [More…]
This is one area in which I am quite sure that the Opposition Parties would be interested in meeting the Minister for Labor and Immigration to see whether there cannot be some common ground to which expression can be given. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has used as one of his supporting points for the passage of this Bill the need to prevent inter-union competition in price rises and claims for wage increases. [More…]
The PostmasterGeneral (Senator Bishop), who represents the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) in this place, knows that the classic case is that a person gets the idea and he gives an envelope to a person and says: ‘Are you voting yes or no?’ [More…]
It has been said more than once and it ought to be said again that public statements were made before the last general election by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) that we considered these measures to be necessary. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has talked with the ACTU. [More…]
I think it may be best to get a considered reply from the Minister for Labor and Immigration . [More…]
I admire and compliment the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator Bishop) on his discretion in stating that he would get from the Minister for Labor and Immigration an appropriate reply. [More…]
I notice, of course, that in introducing this Bill into the House of Representatives the Minister for Labor and Immigration regarded it as a casual matter to be introduced with a few off the cuff remarks, and that is what Hansard discloses. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether he has seen newspaper reports that a large number of migrants have been charged with obtaining motor car licences by illegal means. [More…]
As the migrants involved are all of Turkish and Lebanese origin, will the Minister take steps to ensure that the Department of Labor and Immigration advises migrants of these nationalities in publications in their languages of the requirements of Australian law in relation to motor car licences? [More…]
I have heard of no case in the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory but I will ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration to see to what extent he can inform these people of the need to observe Australian laws and assist them where required. [More…]
Does the Treasury avail itself of the experience of officers in the States from other departments, such as the Department of Labor and Immigration, the Department of Overseas Trade, and the Department of Housing and Construction, who are daily involved in research in current trends in their respective departmental areas? [More…]
-I refer the Leader of the Government in the Senate to the very extravagant allegations made yesterday in another place during question time by the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, against the Premier of Western Australia, Sir Charles Court, which Sir Charles Court has vigorously denied. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The honourable senator has seen the comments of the Minister for Labor and Immigration in the Press and I have stated them here. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I will ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration to supply an answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]
I note in a Press release put out by the Minister for Labor and Immigration today that a large number of Queensland’s provincial cities are among those listed for special assistance because of their high rates of unemployment. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, relates to the Government’s regional employment development scheme. [More…]
-Will the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration indicate whether moneys for the unemployed are available for the use of councils in the floodravaged Lachlan, Murray, Murrumbidgee, Macquarie and other river valleys in New South Wales? [More…]
I understand that local councils can make an application either directly to the regional office of the Department of Labor and Immigration or to the Minister. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I recall that another Government supporter, Senator Mulvihill, ranged in the immigration area, and particularly in the area covering the quarantine of animals and plants. [More…]
One might be serving on Estimates Committee C when the estimates for the Department of Immigration were being considered. [More…]
The letter was written to Mr Clyde Cameron, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, by a person deeply involved in the operation of this telescope. [More…]
But the figures in the last report of the Department of Labor and Immigration led us quite clearly to realise that the unemployment situation is increasing and has, in fact, increased by 13,555 in August to 107,140. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) will take note of this and recognise its grave significance for South Australia, in particular. [More…]
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5 ) That the Australian Government Departments of Education and Labor and Immigration in consultation with State technical education authorities explore the possibility of planning and co-ordinating at national level the production of core technical textbooks and manuals suited to the industrial techniques and conditions applying in Australia. [More…]
The difference between the attitude of the Opposition and the Government to employment is that the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, has spent many hours devising emergency unemployment schemes. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron, only recently pointed out the amounts given to Tasmania for programs under this Government’s regional employment development scheme. [More…]
I understand from the Minister for Labor and Immigration that he has received very good co-operation from the State Ministers in respect of this matter. [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…]
I will ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether he can add to the information that I have given to the honourable senator. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Government’s announcement that there will be a severe setback in the Australian immigration program. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Minister for Labor and Immigration said last night that Australia’s greatest problem was a shortage of skilled labour and that if we could get 400 fitters and turners, an organisation such as the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd would take on an additional 1,400 people? [More…]
If this is so, will the Minister take all possible steps to obtain these and other skilled people who will assist in the productivity situation in this country and will continue the benefits of immigration to Australia? [More…]
I do not think that our present offices overseas would be affected at all by the announcement by the Minister for Labor and Immigration, but I will check with him. [More…]
I will ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether in precise terms he can add to my general comments on the question. [More…]
In that program the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) said in answer to a question that he considered that newspaper editors were fit pieces for a museum. [More…]
It said that it is prepared to tolerate a level of unemployment at which we get rid of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron). [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) said that he would resign if the figure got to 3 per cent. [More…]
Labor is going to set up a national employment and training scheme but if you ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration what classification of work he will train one man for to assure him of a job he cannot tell you. [More…]
The balance will be expended by other departments such as the Department of Education for study grants and secondary grants and special programs in the Northern Territory, by the Department of Health in the Northern Territory, and the Department of Labor and Immigration under its employment training scheme. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration: What restrictions have been placed on the political activities of a Mr Curtis, who entered Australia illegally from South Africa, while his application for political asylum is being considered? [More…]
This seems really to be a question which falls within the administration of one of my colleagues, the Minister for Agriculture, who represents the Minister for Overseas Trade, or the Postmaster-General, who represents the Minister for Labor and Immigration, and I will refer the matter to them. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has indicated in another place that he believes complementary legislation will be forthcoming. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration comment further on the case of a girl of non-European origin who was denied employment and the circumstances of the case which were to be the basis of a ministerial investigation? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration is concerned first with the employment prospects of people who might be retrenched or who have been retrenched and, secondly, with whether they could come under the respective schemes being promoted by the Minister. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration and it refers to the estimated 230,000 young people who in the weeks immediately ahead will be leaving schools, colleges and universities and seeking employment consistent with their talents and training. [More…]
I understand that he has had some consultation with my colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration on this matter. [More…]
My question, which I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, relates to the retraining scheme. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has announced the Regional Employment Development scheme. [More…]
The Opposition views with concern the way in which the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has treated this Bill. [More…]
He has assisted, as the Minister for Labor and Immigration in this country, in producing the greatest rate of inflation that we have known in decades. [More…]
I invite the PostmasterGeneral (Senator Bishop), who represents in this chamber the Minister for Labor and Immigration, to indicate whether he can say positively that the States will implement complementary State legislation as required by Mr Justice Sweeney. [More…]
I think it was most uncharitable of Senator Greenwood to question the diligence of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron). [More…]
If the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, or the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, appears on the television program ‘Monday Conference ‘ or a similar television program and accuses the members of the Opposition of being guilty men, they will come into the Senate and say that those remarks represent a gigantic smear. [More…]
I think it is worth while at this stage, in case there are some doubts as to what the problem is, to point out that it is adequately and fairly stated in the second reading of the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop), as Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, where he points out that over the years, because we have this dichotomy in our industrial law, situations arose so that a State branch of a Federal union and a State union often were administered as if they were the same body, with one set of books, one register of members, one membership fee, one set of officers, one election of officers for both bodies and one system of meetings. [More…]
It told the Federal Minister for Labor and Immigration that South Australia is ready to introduce complementary legislation as soon as the Commonwealth Parliament passes this Bill. [More…]
This is necessary in order to bring these allowances into line with those payable to trainees under the national employment and training system which was recently introduced by my colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron). [More…]
Really the question of what wages ought to be paid is one for the arbitral tribunals and it falls within the ministerial responsibility of the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
If the Minister for Labor and Immigration would want to add anything further on this, I am sure that he will. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (l)and(2)Yes. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator ‘s question: [More…]
I am informed that the decision was taken by the former Minister for Immigration when amendments to the Citizenship Act including the design of the certificate were under consideration in 1 973, on the grounds that the design of the new certificate should be such that it was distinctively Australian. [More…]
I direct a question to Senator Bishop in his dual capacity as Postmaster-General and Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Firstly, will he immediately urge the Minister for Labor and Immigration to disregard the absurd Public Service Board directive on the virtual staff freeze existing in the citizenship section of the Department of Immigration in Sydney, where an efficient and dedicated staff is overwhelmed by massive citizenship applications, and make early additions to the staff engaged? [More…]
I will ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration to see what he can do to expedite this matter. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration supply the Senate with the following information on unemployment in each State: The number of people receiving social security unemployment benefit, the number of people receiving assistance under the income maintenance scheme, the number of people involved in the national employment and training schemesometimes known as the NEAT scheme- and the total weekly cost of unemployment to Australia? [More…]
Was it not the Government which by its action in January last year virtually eliminated the European selective immigration scheme and cut out 50,000 workers, all of them scheduled to go into the steelworks, the building and automotive industries? [More…]
Was it not the Government which through the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) urged upon the country the proposition that the trade unions should bypass arbitration, go in for collective bargaining and yell for and obtain above-award wages? [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration said that he would not stay in the Government if it reached 3 per cent- and no doubt his resignation will be announced tonight. [More…]
It will be an interesting test of the ethics and morality of this Government and of the collective operations of the Cabinet to see whether a Minister, the Minister for Labor and Immigration no less, having said that he would not be prepared to associate with the Government if unemployment went beyond 3 per cent, will now announce his resignation when the current statistics show 3.2 per cent. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I am not aware whether that company is in fact putting an embargo on the employees of Tulloch Ltd. All I can do is agree to ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration to work with Mr Charles Jones and to get the inspectors to see to what extent those things are happening. [More…]
In respect of the other schemes, and I think these are questions which involve the Department of Labor and Immigration, there is the RED scheme, which is the Regional Employment Development Scheme. [More…]
Those funds are established through an ad hoc committee which is chaired by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Cameron) and presently there are some 400 projects which have been approved for construction in that way. [More…]
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Again I should like to pay tribute to the officers of the Department of Labor and Immigration for the evidence that they gave to the Committee. [More…]
I know that this is an area where there is an overlap between the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Mr Chairman, in dealing with the Department of Immigration I, as someone who has had a connection with that Department, want to pay a tribute to the officers of the Department who through the years have served Australia particularly well. [More…]
In paying my tribute to them I want to express my concern for them at the way in which they have been miserably let down by this Government which has agreed to the complete disappearance of the Department and has put in its place something quite incompetent, under the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) whom I can only describe, as far as immigration is concerned, as incompetent, disinterested and inept regarding the whole range of migrants. [More…]
I plead with the Government to take the element of immigration away from Mr Cameron for good and for all. [More…]
Mr Cameron, as the Minister for Labor and Immigration, came to the last 2 annual general meetings of the Good Neighbour Council in South Australia. [More…]
I ask the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) and the Committee: What is the future of the Good Neighbour Councils which, for the last onequarter of a century, have done so much for immigration in Australia? [More…]
The best that Mr Cameron can do is to say nothing- not even pay lip service to the question of immigration. [More…]
When the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) came to Adelaide to speak at the 25th anniversary of the Good Neighbour Council in South Australia he laid great emphasis on the fact that family reunion was to be the great cornerstone of Australia’s immigration policy. [More…]
They might be in London, they might be in the Department of Health or they might be in the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Heaven knows, the Minister for Labor and Immigration has on his hands now more than enough problems of his own making. [More…]
For heaven’s sake give the area of immigration to a Minister who will care for it and for the people who belong to it, who are affected by it and who are suffering by it. [More…]
There is no communication between the Department of Labor and Immigration, the State authorities and the people concerned with immigration. [More…]
As the estimates for the Department of Labor and Immigration are before the Committee tonight I take the opportunity of drawing the Government’s attention to the fact that there is a wide feeling of unrest, distrust and indeed almost grief at the way in which the migrant community in Australia has been treated by the Government. [More…]
What is to happen to the work of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council which was set up by a Labor government many years ago and which, during the last one-quarter of a century, has been dealing successfully, I believe, with the integration of migrants into the total Australian community? [More…]
I rise in defence of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) in respect of what Senator Davidson has seen fit to accuse him of tonight. [More…]
So for at least one year and 2 months the case about which Senator Davidson complains was the responsibility of a Minister for Immigration who was a member of the Government which Senator Davidson supported. [More…]
Perhaps it is because our Minister for Labor and Immigration is a South Australian. [More…]
The fact is that Senator Davidson is opposed to this Government and he has to vent his spleen on a Minister who, in my opinion, has done a good job in the short time that he has been the Minister in charge of immigration. [More…]
We must not forget the vindictive campaign that was conducted against the previous Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, in the electorate of Riverina during the period leading up to the election held on 18 May 1974. [More…]
He was quite prepared then to sit back and be silent when that criticism was levelled against the previous Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I have been to citizenship ceremonies and I have never heard Senator Davidson or people like him criticise the previous Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby. [More…]
But these same people were not prepared to speak out in his defence when organisations such as the League of Rights were conducting a very vindictive campaign against him in the electorate of Riverina to bring about his defeat because of the humane policies that man was implementing while he was Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I think that it ill behoves Senator Davidson to stand up here tonight and criticise the present Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I can say only this: The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) responded very quickly to the need to send people to that country. [More…]
I think he was looking back at the time when he was Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council and when the general immigration needs were different from what they are present. [More…]
When the Government decided to amalgamate the Departments of Labor and Immigration it stated that there was a need to ensure that the workforce requirements were more directly geared to our immigration targets. [More…]
Mr Cameron was made the Minister for Labor and Immigration by Government decision. [More…]
So I can only say to the honourable senator that the experience he has had in relation to our Minister for Labor and Immigration is perhaps the same as we had in relation to Ministers of other governments. [More…]
-Will the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration institute early discussions with State immigration ministers to ensure that in the case of Queensland we do not have a repetition of the conning of Canadian nurses as regards Australian recognition of their qualifications and, in the case of New South Wales, we seek an explanation of a repudiation by Jago the unready of his assurance to me 2 years ago that all New South Wales hospitals would have interpreter services? [More…]
-The Minister for Labor and Immigration yesterday announced a number of approvals in respect of Queensland. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-I have been told by the Minister for Labor and Immigration that he will be in New Zealand next week to attend the [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, refers to the report in the Melbourne ‘Herald’ of yesterday afternoon that some 50,000 tertiary students may be unable to obtain employment during the Christmas vacation period. [More…]
-Senator Bessell will know, because I have referred to them many times, the various schemes which the Minister for Labor and Immigration has been able to get the Government to endorse to cover these situations. [More…]
I have more than once recited the sort of attractions that the Minister for Labor and Immigration has had approved by the Government. [More…]
It is a matter which was well understood and recognised by the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
In addition, as I explained earlier, when we came to office we became the first Government to establish a correct manpower policy and to gear immigration to manpower policies. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
In making his report about yesterday’s meeting on the Regional Employment Development scheme, Mr Clyde Cameron pointed out that previously when areas had been declared eligible for participation in the scheme they have encompassed the entire employment office areas administered by the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-Does the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration recall my asking him earlier this year whether he would compel people applying for unemployment assistance to produce a birth certificate for identification in order to overcome the problem of some people obtaining more than one unemployment benefit? [More…]
The previous question by Senator Young was sent to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and the Minister for Social Security. [More…]
-Does the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration recall a statement by the Minister for Labor and Immigration on 18 August of this year that he thought most Government members would sooner resign than preside over unemployment of 250,000 people. [More…]
Labor and Immigration and it refers to the answer given by the Minister yesterday to my question as to what precise advice the Government would give to the 230,000 school and college leavers looking for a job in the face of predicted chronic unemployment of the order of 300,000 to 400,000 people for at least the next 7 months. [More…]
I repeat that the various schemes which the Minister for Labor and Immigration has proposed and which the Government has endorsed are structural adjustment payments, the new location payments which have now been approved, and the Regional Employment Development scheme which is now in operation and, as was mentioned this morning, Mr Clyde Cameron has announced that an additional 90 applications for projects have been approved. [More…]
It might even excite supporters of the Government to recall what the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) said. [More…]
Perhaps this may herald the resignation of Mr Cameron as Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The honourable senator’s question was, I think, generally alluded to by Senator Carrick last week at question time and asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration to give consideration to the matter raised. [More…]
In one case, a person successfully enrolled as ‘HBerrill (Surname) Stop Asian Immigration Now’ (other names) and was a candidate in that name at the recent South Australian Senate election. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
J direct my question to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, relates to the salvaging of the bulk carrier MV ‘Sygna’ by a Japanese salvaging team under the direction of Captain Kintoku Yamada off Newcastle. [More…]
The Stop Asian Immigration Now Party was another name that was used as a device. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether, in view of the Government’s repeated expressions of confidence that trade unions would heed the call for wage restraint as a means of checking inflation, the Public Service pay rise is a clear indication that the real value of wages and salaries continues to fall as the rate of inflation climbs. [More…]
It has been argued by the Minister for Labor and Immigration and the Government that, if wage indexation is accepted by the union movement and the employers and is supported by the Government, it will go a long way to easing many of the pressures that are currently being placed on the economy. [More…]
-I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration to a recent Press report which stated that privileged people are applying for benefits under the National Employment and Training scheme to the detriment of more needy people. [More…]
What policy guidelines have been given to Department of Labor and Immigration employees to assist them in understanding the Government’s scheme? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, refers to the public statement of the Prime Minister that sections of the trade union movement are conspiring with employers to force up prices. [More…]
There must be warehouses containing immigration information relating to every time that people travel which could cover deserts. [More…]
I do not know what the devil they do with the immigration cards that travellers fill in. [More…]
Literally the Sahara Desert must be covered by the warehouses of the United Nations which are filled with immigration cards, but that is by the way. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Do immigration statistics indicate persons who enter Australia in a similar manner to Lieutenant Miko. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The initial report was prepared by an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the case was then assessed by senior officers in the Department of Immigration. [More…]
My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration refers to the address by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Cairns, to the Canberra Press Club on 20 June 1974 and his response to the question ‘What would you like the WhitlamCairns years remembered for most? [More…]
I understand that the Department of Labor and Immigration is making an investigation into the aspects which the honourable senator has raised. [More…]
Only yesterday the Minister for Labor and Immigration forecast that towards the middle of next year the trend in employment will improve. [More…]
I can only be guided by the fact that the figures given to the Minister for Labor and Immigration by his Department- at the time people thought they were extravagant- seem to have been proved to be correct. [More…]
The best thing I can do, because I accept that these things ought to be seriously surveyed and forecast, is to ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration to see whether he can get a quick reply to the matters raised by Senator Carrick. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has used its powers and its patronage in a host of areas, such as the way in which Mr Clyde Cameron, as the Minister for Labor and Immigration, dispenses 6 months previous average weekly earnings to some people who are put out of work, in the way in which it can be used through the Australian Assistance Plan - [More…]
I was saying that the use by this Labor Government of the power of patronage is well known in the area of activities of the Minister for Labor and Immigration; it is known in the area of the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden); and it is known in the area of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren). [More…]
It will be an inquiry into all aspects of the Services like any other inquiry, such as those advocated by the Department of Labor and Immigration into the work force or in regard to particular industries to ensure the greatest job satisfaction. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General: Will he as soon as practicable inform the Senate on what date Junie Morosi commenced work on the staff of the former Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, and when she left that post? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
In which countries does the Australian Government have Immigration representatives. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 ) Officers of the Department of Labor and Immigration are currently in the following countries: Arab Republic of Egypt, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Britain. [More…]
In a number of instances officers visit neighbouring countries on immigration matters. [More…]
In these and other countries where there is no immigration officer permanently located. [More…]
Department of Foreign Affairs officers are responsible for immigration matters. [More…]
The number of migrants obtained over the past three years from each country in which there is an immigration officer/s is as below. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
In the face of the reluctance of some employers to include service in Vietnam as part of a person’s employment when assessing long service leave entitlements, will the Minister seek an early ruling from the Minister for Labor and Immigration which will provide guidelines for such workers who served in Vietnam, many of whom were conscripted to do so, as to their entitlements under both Commonwealth and State awards? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I ask: Can the Minister indicate whether there were any special reasons for the appointment of Dr Peter Wilenski as the head of the department which includes in its responsibility the important area of immigration? [More…]
Has Dr Wilenski, who I understand is a migrant, had any experience in the administration of immigration affairs in the source countries? [More…]
Was consideration given to officers of the former Department of Immigration who have had extensive experience in immigration affairs both within Australia and overseas? [More…]
The position is that the Minister for Labor and Immigration recommended to Cabinet the appointment of Dr Wilenski to the newly arranged department, which, as Senator Davidson well knows, is not now just the Department of Labor or the Department of Labour and National Service, as it used to be, but the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
With respect to the other questions which Senator Davidson has raised about the position of officers of the former Department of Immigration or the Department of Labor, I will try to obtain answers for the honourable senator as soon as I can. [More…]
On what grounds of admission under the Government’s immigration policy did she enter Australia? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Did the Russian violinist, Georgi Ermolenko, visit the Department of Labor and Immigration in Perth on Monday, 12 August 1974. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Mr Ermolenko indicated during the interview that he had to keep an appointment at the Hotel Parmelia at 1 1 a.m. and was told that he could return to complete the immigration interview after that [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether Press reports are correct that the Australian Labor Party conference in Terrigal last week agreed to include in the Party’s platform a clause which in part states sympathetic consideration of people who for political and other reasons would face danger to life and liberty upon return to their country of origin’. [More…]
If such reports are correct, will the Minister for Labor and Immigration grant asylum to 2 Czechoslovakian seamen, Jaroslav Reinisch and Jan Janik, who appealed for asylum in Australian early last year? [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister for Labor and Immigration has informed Senator Young that, in respect of the 2 Czechoslovakian seamen about whom representations have been made by him and by some other people, he has invited Mr Tony Lamb, who is the Secretary of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party in Canberra and a Victorian member of the Parliament, to visit and talk to these 2 people, one of whom is at Tennant Creek and the other at Alice Springs. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Last Saturday evening the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) released the monthly unemployment figures. [More…]
More than 250 000 people have been unemployed for the last 2 months, yet Mr Cameron seems as disinterested in real policies which will prevent unemployment as he is unconcerned with honour, because he is still the Minister for Labor and Immigration presiding over increasing unemployment. [More…]
They are trusting that the propositions that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) and his Department have put forward will improve the economic position so much that in the second half of the year unemployment will drastically drop. [More…]
It is because the Department of Labor and Immigration is closer to industry and commerce than other departments are. [More…]
The Department of Labor and Immigration for the first time set about devising a manpower policy for the country and an immigration policy applied to the work force and manpower. [More…]
1 note that Mr Clyde Cameron, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, stated in one of his speeches that the rates of profit were too high. [More…]
In that article he quoted the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, as follows: [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether an investigation is contemplated into the circumstances in which 9 Chilean migrant women were dismissed at the W. D. and H. O. Wills (Australia) Ltd tobacco factory in Sydney, particularly in view of the evasive attitude of the company which was compounded by the arrogant attitude of the personnel manager, Mr Reidy. [More…]
I have been told that his report is ready for submission to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration but it may come within the province of the Minister for Manufacturing Industry. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Postmaster-General who represents the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Malcolm Mackay ‘s economic views are poles apart from my own, but because he made legitimate representations on behalf of a few non-European migrants he became the target of abuse from the Immigration Reform Association which comprises only small-time people. [More…]
This is not good for a healthy society, and I say without any inhibition that if Mr McDonald and his organisation, the Immigration Reform Society, whose first casualty was a member of the Liberal Party, are not curbed there will be more bitterness. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Last year the Minister for Labor and Immigration announced some new schemes to attract more apprentices into the Australian Government service. [More…]
1 put on the notice paper 2 questions directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) about allegations he had made. [More…]
I notice that the Minister representing the AttorneyGeneral and the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration are both in the chamber. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Minister for Labor and Immigration, speaking recently at the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party, called for an increase in the migrant intake? [More…]
In the light of the references in the Borrie report and the Minister’s admission that the Government’s immigration policy is outdated, is it proposed to seek migrants with special skills rather than to place emphasis on accommodating relatives of migrants already here? [More…]
-The Minister for Labor and Immigration has not yet set in course any evaluation of the Borrie report. [More…]
One of the resolutions which the Minister for Labor and Immigration had passed is to ensure that that will be done. [More…]
I do not think there have been any changes in policy but I will ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration to examine the honourable senator’s question and give a more complete answer, if possible. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has said that first the Government has to consider it. [More…]
The implications of the report will be considered also by the Australian Population and Immigration Council and all I can do is refer to the Minister for his further consideration the comments of honourable senators who ask questions. [More…]
I rise to support the Bill and to commend the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) on his understanding of the industrial situation today and also his ability to recognise what will happen in the future and to make allowances for future developments in the industrial situation. [More…]
I am not necessarily arguing that aspect, but the plain fact of the matter was that the union involved had to come to me and I had to go to the Minister to see whether appointments could be held up until in turn we went to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) to get the granting of citizenship accelerated. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) rightly said, this situation is not satisfactory industrially. [More…]
We have a change from an initial situation of government subservience to almost every union demand and encouragement by the Minister for Labor and Immigration of many of the demands and requests made by the union movement to a situation where virtually there is now the complete reverse. [More…]
Notwithstanding the statement which the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration made in an earlier debate on what the ACTU’s precise pledge to the Commission was, the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) yesterday condemned the ACTU for the inadequacy of its approach on indexation. [More…]
Senator Bishop’s second reading speech, so different from the second reading speech of the Minister for Labor and Immigration in the other place, attempted, and I recognise it, to give a reasoned exposition in support of this Bill. [More…]
It is because the trade union membership, the committee of management, the unions themselves and the stevedoring employers- certainly assisted by the officials of the Department of Labor and Immigration- have been able to secure agreements which ought to run. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-The Minister for Labor and Immigration, considering all the factors involved in the cases of the 2 Czechoslovakian seamen, has decided that approval for permanent residence be granted to them subject to their meeting normal migration requirements. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
At the time I did not have the information but later in the day, as honourable senators now know, the Minister for Labor and Immigration made a statement to the effect that Georgi Ermolenko and his parents would be migrating to Australia and that they had been advised by Australian officials in Vienna that they could be eligible for assisted passages. [More…]
It now seems that the Minister for Immigration, Mr Cameron, has some justification in claiming that his Government’s decision to fly Georgi and his party out of the country by RAAF plane was right. [More…]
A report indicates that the Aborigines are satisfied with the services being provided at the Pennington hostel by the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
lm for the Department of Labor and Immigration for additional staff; $ 1.35m for the Australian Film Corporation; $723,000 for the Interim Committee for the Children ‘s Commission; $650,000 for additional staff for members and senators; $500,000 for grants to eligible organisations under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act; $537,000 for Expo 75 at Okinawa; $ 1 m subsidies on ship construction; and amounts of $6.2m and $5.3m for the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory education services respectively for additions to staff establishments and other increased costs. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, is supporting in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission are designed to lift people on the lower incomes. [More…]
The assumption of a national population of 23 million or even 2 1 million people by the turn of the century is now quite unwarranted in the light of current trends in fertility and in net immigration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
What action can be taken by the Minister for Labor and Immigration, in the interests of a national manpower policy, to curb the press gang policy of the New South Wales Education Minister which is compounding teacher redundancy by seeking to import additional teachers from overseas? [More…]
-I know that the matter has been considered by the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
In view of the matter raised by Senator Mulvihill I have asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration to consider seriously that proposition. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
On what grounds of admission under the Government ‘s immigration policy did she enter Australia. [More…]
After entering Australia children who have not been lawfully adopted are immigrant children and as such are dealt with under the provisions of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act. [More…]
Until these allocations have been made the children are not being issued with entry permits and consequently are remaining under the control of the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
This matter is being dealt with within the terms of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children ) Act. [More…]
Any further flights which may bring Vietnamese children or Vietnamese orphans to Australia will include an experienced welfare worker with immigration experience. [More…]
The heads of agreement which represent the approved terms acceptable to the Government and the management of the Chandris Line involved detailed and complex negotiations involving representatives of the Treasury, the Attorney-General’s Department, the Department of Transport, the Department of Labor and Immigration and the Department of the Northern Territory. [More…]
After receiving representations from the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the maritime unions a conference was arranged by the Department of Labor and Immigration at which time union representations were considered. [More…]
Will the Minister for Foreign Affairs seek early information from our High Commissioner in London as to the extent of remarks made by the Assistant Minister to the Home Secretary in Britain which indicate that there is to be a further reshuffle of the status of Australians and New Zealanders under the British immigration laws? [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has pointed out, people who are now entering the workforce may well need re-training several times during their working life. [More…]
Asian Immigration Now’ (other names) and was a candidate in that name at the recent South Australian Senate election. [More…]
-The Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, has for some months been pursuing this objective following the adoption of the policy and has put it to the Government. [More…]
Having determined the policy, the Minister for Labor and Immigration has now received government approval for such an organisation. [More…]
I preface my question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, by reminding him that recently the Treasurer has indicated that he does not object to high levels of Government spending while it helps the employment of one extra person. [More…]
I do not think anyone would argue against the fact that the scheme has been very largely successful, as was evidenced by the figures released by the Minister for Labor and Immigration over the weekend. [More…]
As to the specific qualifications required, as expressed in the honourable senator’s question, I would need to refer that to the Minister for Labor and Immigration, whose direct responsibility it is, because I know that he has laid down specific guidelines regarding the qualifications of people who may apply under the scheme. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, or it may come within the purview of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Will the Minister ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration, if that is the appropriate ministry, to examine the feasibility and desirability of extending the present arrangement for bringing out Vietnamese orphans to embrace a plan whereby, in the case of the loss of the male parent, a mother with a child or children can be assisted to come to Australia and be provided with such facilities and opportunities here as are necessary to start a new life as a young family unit in this country? [More…]
Has the Minister or his Department conferred with the Department of Labor and Immigration on this matter? [More…]
I think Senator Davidson probably would know that we set up a special task force in which the Department of Labor and Immigration is involved at the working level. [More…]
I desire to speak on a subject that I think reveals the inhumanity of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron). [More…]
He has been subjected to interrogation and inspection by the Commonwealth Police and he has been treated with complete ignore by the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
1 have checked on the dates, and it must have been on 5 May of that year when, on a television broadcast, the then Minister for Immigration stated that under a Labor Government nobody had been refused citizenship on political grounds. [More…]
As a result of what Mr Dvorscek told me I forwarded a telegram to the then Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby. [More…]
I wrote a fuller letter to the then Minister for Immigration on 20 May 1974. [More…]
On 19 December 1974 I replied to the Minister for Labor and Immigration as follows: [More…]
I leave aside questions relating to his other responsibilities as Minister i’.ir I labor and Immigration. [More…]
Although he may say that, as the AttorneyGeneral, he did not make the final decision but that the Minister for Immigration did the plain fact is that he was an accessory in decisions that were made. [More…]
Senator Greenwood was an accessory of the then Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, who in the realm of civil liberties took the passport of Mr Srecko Rover, a man of Croatian origin, who happened to be in Canada. [More…]
Any government, whether it be acting through its Attorney-General or its Minister for Immigration, if there are people so imbued with oldworld hatreds that they are prepared to create these incidents at embassies, must be able to withdraw or deny citizenship. [More…]
I assure Senator Greenwood that I will approach the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) to test whether what the honourable senator said is true. [More…]
In the first place, I am very surprised that Senator Greenwood has not followed the courtesy or formality of advising the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration in this place about the matter that he has raised. [More…]
You can check it with the Minister for Labor and Immigration’. [More…]
We can all recall many occasions when complaints were raised in this House about the actions of previous Ministers for Immigration in refusing entry to Australia for various reasons. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill has told me that he has a file containing the names of at least 20 persons who, for various reasons, were refused entry to Australia by former Ministers for Immigration. [More…]
If the honourable senator would like to reinforce his argument presented today by giving to me all the evidence he has, or states that he has, in his possession I certainly will take it up with the Minister for Labor and Immigration, have it checked out and later report the circumstances to the Senate. [More…]
I rise again on a Bill on which one can speak to matters relevant or irrelevant to the purpose of the Bill and this again concerns the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) and his treatment of an individual who is dependent upon the exercise of a ministerial discretion. [More…]
I then wrote to the Minister for Labor and Immigration on 29 July 1 974. [More…]
He did not see the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) personally by deputation. [More…]
The Committees were attended by specialised officers of the Department of Labor and Immigration- not the Minister, I agree- who are experienced in the matters about which the honourable senator talks and who have had postings overseas. [More…]
He wanted to use the case as a political manoeuvre against the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron). [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-Some time ago an interdepartmental committee consistingI speak from recollection- of representatives of the Government’s adviser on community affairs, the Department of Immigration, the Department of the Media, the Department of the Prime Minister and the Department of Urban and Regional Development was set up to consider this question. [More…]
They consciously surrendered a number of sovereign powers, including control of customs and excise duties and other functions of national significance including defence, immigration, currency and coinage. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The appointment has been made by the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I believe I should ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration to reply fully to the points made by Senator Greenwood, and I will do that straight away. [More…]
The only achievement that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) seems to have made is to put more and more people into his own Department and to have more officials administering these schemes which are costly and achieve virtually nothing. [More…]
What interests me very greatly in this case and in the reported case of similar assistance being provided to the Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd of Burnie, but not of course in this account of expenditure that is before us for approval, is why such a thing should be occurring in the Department of Manufacturing Industry and not in the Department of Labor and Immigration or in some of the other areas in which structural adjustment and assistance of the unemployed would more properly be expected to occur. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Government intend withdrawing Mr Dragoja’s passport by taking a similar action to that taken in the case of Srecko Rover, by a former Liberal Government Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Additionally, of course, under the administrative arrangements of the previous Government the Department of Immigration had a large internal information or publicity branch. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
He indicated quite clearly that the Government, the Ministers concerned, including the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron, consider that it is a matter for the Commission to determine. [More…]
I direct my question to the Postmaster-General as the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The Committee submitted a report to the Minister for Labor and Immigration for the fiscal year 1973-74 covering its first 7 months of operation, and this was tabled in Parliament on 4 December last year. [More…]
As further evidence of this, I would like to draw to the attention of honourable senators the fact that when the Bill was before the House of Representatives the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) accepted an amendment moved by the Opposition to include in the Australian Council for Union Training one member of Parliament appointed by the Prime Minister, another member appointed by the Leader of the Opposition and a member of the Council appointed on the nomination of the Minister for Education. [More…]
The Australian Council will be chaired by the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Immigration or another officer of the Department appointed by the Minister, and it will be constituted by the Director of the Australian Trade Union Training College, 3 representatives of the Australian Council for Trade Unions, one representative from each of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, one representatives each of the State Labor Councils and the 3 members I have referred to earlier in this speech. [More…]
The Authority will be responsible to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
That subclause, which requires the annual report to include details of syllabuses and study undertaken at the college and state centres, was also inserted on the motion of the Opposition in the House of Representatives and accepted by the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
It is not the same type of appropriation Bill as the Budget, under which can be raised such questions as why immigration spending is not higher or why health spending is not higher and under which the matter of refugees and so on can be raised. [More…]
This is at the request of Mr Grassby, who is, I suppose one could say, the unofficial Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The licences will be issued in the name of the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-So far as I know, it will be organised by the Department of Labor and Immigration in consultation with Mr Grassby ‘s office. [More…]
-I think most of those matters would come within the responsibility of the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
As in all immigration matters, every case will have to be looked at individually. [More…]
Without committing my colleague on this matter, I think that if the students meet the normal criteria they will be treated as ordinary immigration applicants. [More…]
Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs had discussions with the Prime Minister and the Minister for Labor and Immigration on the subject of Vietnamese refugees? [More…]
By the nomenclature of the Australian Office of Information there is intended to be included within the one branch the Australian Information Service, the Australian Government Liaison Service and the Immigration Publicity Service which was previously a part of the former Department of Immigration but which, under the administrative arrangements of this Government, for better and more effective co-ordination of Government information efforts, has been transferred to my Department. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I am told also that if Senator Mulvihill can supply further details to the Minister for Labor and Immigration it would support any possible action to be taken. [More…]
I will pass on that information to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-At present 135 journalists, I think, are employed in the Australian Information Service, including 27 who were transferred from the former Department of Immigration. [More…]
Over and above the establishment in the old Australian News and Information Bureau and the former immigration publicity section within the Australian Information Service an additional 12 journalists, I think it is, have been appointed. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The Government and the Minister for Labor and Immigration have said and I think it was Senator James McClelland who said yesterday- this applies to every Minister- that we are wedded to the principle of wage indexation. [More…]
In its inquiry the Committee took evidence from the Departments of Services and Property, Social Security, Labour (now the Department of Labor and Immigration), Overseas Trade, Transport, Civil Aviation (now the Department of Transport) and the Public Service Board. [More…]
I refer to the Department of Social Security and the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Grassby was Minister for Immigration, and he knows the approved intake, but as a protege of Whitlam. [More…]
He is the National Secretary of an organisation called the Immigration Restriction Council. [More…]
And obviously these people from the Immigration Restriction Council consider them relevant. [More…]
In 1966 … the Liberal Government, with the blessing of the Labor Party modified the traditional selective immigration policy . [More…]
The immigration doors which were so imprudently opened in 1966 have since been opened wider and wider to flood Australia with all sorts of unassimilable people who are not the types we locals were asked to admit in 1966. . [More…]
We must persuade the Government to stop all immigration or at least confine it to the traditional sources, that is, to people from the British Isles and Northern Europe. [More…]
The brochure requests that a donation be sent to the Immigration Restriction Council to help stop multiracial immigration. [More…]
It has an immigration policy that is most stringent. [More…]
Similarly I understand that the socialist republic of Russia has just as stringent an immigration policy. [More…]
Australia over recent years has adopted an immigration policy that has allowed the immigration into this country of blacks, whites, reds* yellows and browns. [More…]
Formerly these students were required to return to their countries of origin so that those countries would benefit from the education they had received, but in May 1973 the then Minister for Immigration altered the regulations so that they could stay in Australia, thus robbing their own countries of their services. [More…]
They did not decry the campaign against the Minister for Immigration in the first Whitlam Government. [More…]
They did not disown the propaganda that sought to defeat a Minister because he was carrying out a humane and enlightened immigration policy. [More…]
This information is circulated by the Immigration Restriction Council. [More…]
In the almost 30 years since the post-war immigration program began, no New Australian has been offered a Government appointment as senior as the Qantas post offered to Bayutti. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the activities of the League of Rights in Victoria and elsewhere and to the activities of the Immigration Control Association which I think forwards to most honourable senators a copy of its publication ‘Viewpoint’. [More…]
Mr Clyde Cameron, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, made reference to this matter yesterday. [More…]
The figures which are available to the Minister for Labor and Immigration regarding unemployment and those which are available to the Minister for Social Security regarding the number of recipients of unemployment benefit do not tally. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration say what is the current number of people accommodated under this plan and what is the current monthly cost? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I am informed that originally there were discussions with the Department of Labor and Immigration to afford that particular industry and others in New Guinea the benefits of the experience in Australia. [More…]
I think I should ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration to supply in detail some reaction to Senator Mulvihills question about the Bougainville dispute, and I will do so. [More…]
As far as I am aware, the funding arrangements are being provided by either the Special Consultant on Community Relations section or the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
If the Treasurer or the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) can estimate and require, in the case of the National Employment and Training Scheme, an amount of $5.7m under division 3 10, subdivision 4, of Supply Bill (No. [More…]
-I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration to a recent statement of the Victorian Minister for Labour and Industry, Mr Rafferty, who said that the Australian Government’s national apprenticeship assistance scheme had been unsuccessful in creating employment opportunities for apprentices. [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…]
If a clause like clause 28 was passed into law, it is possible that we would find that people who are genuinely trying to debate perhaps our immigration policy or other matters that they regard as being of importance, or even more abstruse subjects such as the inheritability of intelligence, might be held up by some as having a racist intent and of trying to divide the community when in fact that is not the case. [More…]
I have naturalised about 1500 people in Albury, and our sister city of Wodonga has naturalised more than that number because the immigration centre is in the Wodonga shire. [More…]
That understanding of people from other countries was introduced in the first instance through the wonderful immigration policy of the national Government, and both Labor and Liberal Party governments are due for credit in that respect. [More…]
I think the Department of Labor and Immigration was also represented at this meeting which was held to discuss this matter generally. [More…]
-I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
There is another area within our Australian community in which I have had a particular interest, and this is the field of immigration. [More…]
Immigration has been a prominent and influential factor of Australian life for a long time but particularly so in the last 25 years. [More…]
The Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council, which was set up long years ago under the honourable Arthur Calwell, then Minister for Immigration, and in which in later years I was privileged to be involved for a while, through its many inquiries, committees, concern and deliberations has played a very notable part in developing the whole discipline of integration. [More…]
Australia over recent years has adopted an immigration policy that has allowed the immigration into this country of blacks, whites, reds, yellows and browns. [More…]
They are a reflection on the general policy of immigration into this country for a number of years, and that policy has been administered by representatives from both sides of the chamber. [More…]
By its policy of seeking deliberately through immigration to undermine the national character, the Government has succeeded in causing an understandable disquiet and what it calls ‘racism’- but what is merely legitimate criticism. [More…]
The last of these objectionable arguments to which I wish to refer is the document received from the Immigration Restriction Council which has accused us of merely following the Party line of seeking the migrant vote. [More…]
The honourable senator is probably referring to a speech on immigration by Mr Alex Lyon, Minister of State of the Home Office, on 5 April 1975. [More…]
I cannot do any more than re-state what the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, said in answer to the questions. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) Yes. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), (2), (3) and (4) It is well known that ballots for office in trade unions have been the subject of activity by various groups seeking to gain control of the unions. [More…]
Early in 1974 the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Labor and Immigration refused an application by Mr O’Donnell to renew his Australian passport. [More…]
I think I have given figures in the past on behalf of the Minister for Labor and Immigration and yesterday I answered questions about areas which had recently been granted approval under the scheme which has been very beneficial in reducing unemployment on a regional basis. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, although if the Minister for Foreign Affairs has greater knowledge possibly he would answer the question. [More…]
As that information could only come from a spy network or from the Department of Labor and Immigration, which has the information given to it when they came into this country, co-operating with the Soviet authorities, will the Minister declare whether or not there has been this co-operation by the Department of Labor and Immigration? [More…]
In recent weeks the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has said that the operation by the Government of the capitalist system was abysmal. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has said of the chaos over which he presides and at which he looks with dismay and complete impotence: ‘Marx was right after all.’ [More…]
It is pleasing for me tonight to be able to say that a former industrial officer of the Australian Workers Union, Mr John Bannon, is now acting as a departmental adviser to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Mr Clyde Cameron, the Minister for Labor and Immigration who is responsible for this Bill, has indicated that Marx was right after all. [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) said in his second reading speech, the activities outside trade union training- of trade union leaders and delegates meeting employers and management specialists on industrial relations discussions- will go on just the same. [More…]
The brochure that has been circulated in the Parliament is to be used publicly for telling the employer organisations and other interested bodies such as the trade unions and the Department of Labor an d Immigration. [More…]
7- the first amendmentprovides for the members of Parliament who are members of the Australian Council to be removed from office by the Minister for Labor and Immigration should they cease to become members of Parliament. [More…]
At this stage I cannot undertake to do other than to report to the Government and the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) what Senator Wright has stated and ask them to consider the matter. [More…]
Will the Minister seek information from the Australian High Commissioner in London about public utterances made by an Assistant Minister to the British Home Secretary which implied that the status of Australian and New Zealand nationals under existing British immigration laws are to be changed. [More…]
The question of permanent residence is essentially a matter for my colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration, with whom I can check this matter. [More…]
However, I will check with the Department of Labor and Immigration and let the honourable senator know. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration following the nonanswer given to Senator Mulvihill with regard to teachers in New South Wales. [More…]
Is the reason that the Minister for Labor and Immigration has not yet provided an answer to Senator Mulvihill that he has intruded into an area of State responsibility which was completely misunderstood by him before he made rash public statements? [More…]
Fortunately we have seas surrounding us and therefore the influx of people depends on our immigration policy. [More…]
There are elements in that immigration policy that are of concern to certain Australian people. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration investigate an industrial racket being perpetrated by Richard Bradford who operates a karate institute in Sydney? [More…]
When the individuals concerned, Bung Soon and Peng Wah, sought an increase in their wages they were told that with the connivance of the Department of Immigration they would be deported. [More…]
Their employment was considered by the industrial relations section of the Department of Immigration which had no objection to their taking up employment with the school provided they were paid the New South Wales basic wage which was then approximately $68 per week. [More…]
I have taken up the matter with the Minister for Labor and Immigration and he is presently investigating it urgently. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration and relates to the Regional Employment Development scheme. [More…]
The first matter had come to my attention in May 1974 and, notwithstanding repeated requests to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), I had not been given an answer to the substantive inquiry. [More…]
The other matter had originally arisen in July 1974 and, notwithstanding repeated requests again to the Minister for Labor and Immigration, no reply had been received. [More…]
The first matter concerned what I alleged to be and what on the material available was a fairly clear case of political discrimination by this Government, notwithstanding publicised boasts by the previous Minister for Immigration that no such discrimination had ever existed under the Whitlam Government. [More…]
The Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop), who represents the Minister for Labor and Immigration in this chamber, stated that he would take up the matter with the Minister for Labor and Immigration, have it checked and later report the circumstances to the Senate. [More…]
Senator Greenwood started somewhat logically by saying that the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, had not answered some questions about 2 persons whom he had been talking about for some months. [More…]
All I want to say about the first point he raised is that my colleague, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, has said that he is reluctant to give in the Parliament answers to Senator Greenwood’s questions because the 2 persons referred to have been the subject of inquiry by officers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation who were appointed by Senator Greenwood in his capacity as Attorney-General but that he, the Minister, is prepared to show the files to Senator Greenwood and then if the honourable senator wants the matters answered in the Parliament he would be quite willing to do that. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has said that the amalgamations of organisations will make for more efficient and more responsible unions. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
He is back in the days when Mr Clyde Cameron, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, said that he believed in getting what could be got from collective bargaining. [More…]
That is a view which the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) have been echoing in recent months. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Is the Government aware that the level of industrial dislocation and strife in Australia has reached astronomical proportions? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I am advised by the Minister for Labor and Immigration that the figures shown in the Press are reasonably accurate and that he intends to issue the statistics in a few days. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Earlier this year in a debate in this chamber I repeated what the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, the then Treasurer, and more recently I think Mr Hayden had said, that the economic position would tend to improve during the second half of the year. [More…]
I do not deny that there have been times when the illustrious Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, with all his ability to conciliate, has had differences with the Waterside Workers Federation, in the same way as previous Ministers have. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation is making whoopee under the encouragement that is it getting from men like Senator Mulvihill, Mr Foster and the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) as well as the Labor Government. [More…]
Senator Greenwood has talked about the Foster report which was handed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) last year. [More…]
In addition, the Minister for Labor and Immigration has invited opinions and propositions from the Opposition as to what it thinks should be done to set up a new authority which no doubt must be done. [More…]
In addition, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has invited the Opposition to make a contribution as to what it thinks should be done in the way of a new authority. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
But it expresses itself more in sorrow than in anger because, like the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland), when we first saw this proposal for overcoming the problem we thought that this was an untidy way of doing this sort of thing. [More…]
The concluding statement in the second reading speech of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland), then the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, was: [More…]
We are hoping for some improvement following the change of Minister in the portfolio of Labor and Immigration that occurred in such dramatic circumstances last Friday, but that is another point. [More…]
The ink was not dry upon that report before the company showed that without assistance it could not maintain the employment of its 4000 personnel and keep its operations going so that it could provide more than the limited employment that I have read from the second reading speech of the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) was in Burnie a week or so ago, when he was Minister for Manufacturing Industry. [More…]
This of course snow-balled and the private sector was forced to follow suit, even if it meant, as recognised by the ex-Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, that eventually there would be fewer jobs for even the unionists of the country. [More…]
I anticipate that in due course the Minister for Labor and Immigration will answer some of the queries that have been raised in regard to the terms of the assistance and the interest rates applying to it and other questions relating to the measure. [More…]
The justification given by the former Minister for Manufacturing Industry, now the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) for introducing this Bill is riddled with confession of Government ineptness. [More…]
For the information of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) I quote from page 19 of that report where it says: [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) in his latest second reading speech has given no new reason for the introduction of this Bill. [More…]
It is unfortunate that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland), the Minister representing the Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs, is not present because concern was expressed for the scientists from the CSIRO. [More…]
According to the Department of Labor and Immigration the number of registered unemployed decreased during May by 1 7 290 compared with a reduction in unemployment during April of 5428. [More…]
This change in the procedure has enabled officers in the Department of Labor and Immigration to concentrate more on their responsibilities for maintaining the register of unemployed up to date. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) said that he could not understand the theme that the Opposition was trying to get at. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland, earlier gave complete and adequate answers to Mr Lynch ‘s false claims regarding Mr Khemlani. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland, when making his contribution to this debate talked about petrodollars and said that there were new areas of money available to the world. [More…]
When the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) was speaking, Senator Carrick had the effrontery to raise a point of order because the Minister had referred to certain disclosures concerning the Department of the Treasury, and particularly the head of that Department. [More…]
There is provision for a pro rata recapture bounty arrangement which is spelt out in the second reading speech of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland), but I do not feel I need once more to spell that out. [More…]
I have conferred with the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-I draw the attention of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) to clause 6 of the Bill which deals with the exercise of jurisdiction in relation to legal practitioners and the power of a judge to order that jurisdiction in a matter be exercised by not less than 3 judges. [More…]
Mr Khemlani was introduced to me on 1 1 November last, by the then Minister for Labor and Immigration, the Honourable C. R. Cameron, M.P. [More…]
What is also necessary is the advice to the Government in respect of loan raisings- the advice from the Treasury, the AttorneyGeneral’s Department, the Department of Minerals and Energy, the Prime Minister’s Department, the Department of Labor and Immigration, the Australian Industry Development Corporation, the Commonwealth Bank, and non-government sources including banks and other financial institutions. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Matters Relating to the Public Service, upon notice. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in matters relating to the Public Service, upon notice: [More…]
Immigration officers were sent to Guam and arranged for the transport to Australia of Vietnamese persons there who were approved for entry into Australia. [More…]
Immigration officers were also sent to Hong Kong where they processed and arranged for the movement to Australia by charter flight of 20 1 Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
-On 10 June 1975 (Hansard page 2389) Senator Sim, Western Australia, asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration How far have the guidelines laid down by the Prime Minister prevented South Vietnamese refugees from entering Australia on humanitarian grounds? [More…]
Immigration officers have been sent to such places as Guam and Hong Kong and the Government has provided aircraft to bring approved cases to Australia, the most recent instance being the airlift of 201 refugees from Hong Kong. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I have been misrepresented by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland). [More…]
That is what the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) has said. [More…]
My purpose is to seek the attention of the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) and of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) so that the matters contained in these affidavits are investigated. [More…]
My various committee functions including re-appointment to the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council would certainly refute any ideas some people, even some of your officers might have, that Shadow Ministers rate ahead of Government Senators who are non-Ministers. [More…]
It was she who first suggested that the Government should set up a women’s secton within the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Since 1 March 1975, it has been a requirement of the United Kingdom authorities that all passengers passing through immigration control and not being holders of United Kingdom passports complete landing or embarkation cards at the point of entry or departure. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware that the President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Hawke, believes that the possibility of higher unemployment in Australia is implicit in the Budget brought down last night? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration, is based upon the reported attitude of the Government to the wage indexation case about which he is so proud. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I am presently looking at the position and I will be discussing the matter with the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration, refers to the Treasurer’s Budget statement: . [More…]
I trust that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) will not regard my remarks as out of place because he himself has contributed in this place so much to the way in which this Bill has been dealt with and ultimately reach the stage at which it will become legislation. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration, refers to the many South Vietnamese [More…]
I ask: Is this matter one of primary responsibility for the Minister himself in his capacity as the Minister responsible for immigration matters? [More…]
We do not propose to take into account the matters which Senator Baume has raised, which are propositions which the Minister for Labor and Immigration has advanced with regard to applications concerning the indexation of wages before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
My question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration is related to eligibility for assistance under the National Employment and Training scheme. [More…]
-I rise on this motion only to invite the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland), if he will, to obtain a reply for me from the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) before this debate is resumed. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Labor and Immigration been drawn to a statement made by the Leader of the Opposition in Perth last week to the effect that the Opposition, if elected, would attempt to end discrimination in employment? [More…]
Is it a fact that a national policy to eliminate discrimination in employment and occupation was enunciated for the first time by the then Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron, in a statement to Parliament on 22 May 1973? [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) said earlier today, we are in a position at the moment of economic crisis. [More…]
Expenditure under the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-73 on special English language instruction for child and adult migrants in 1975-76 is estimated to cost $23.6 million, compared with $2 1.3 million in 1974-75. [More…]
On 9 February 1975, at about the time when that level was reached, the former Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, who still held the Labor and Immigration portfolio then, said that the Government’s measures were starting to take effect. [More…]
Mr Cameron promised to resign if the unemployment figure ever reached 250 000, but he was saved the indignity when this year he was transferred from the portfolio of Minister for Labor and Immigration to that of Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs. [More…]
The Tasmanian senators in particular know that the paper industry clamoured for special assistance, yet when my illustrious colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) attempted to do something for them it was implied that he was the victim of a confidence trick. [More…]
If the Government attempts to get tough with the oil industry and the big oil companies and makes a plea on behalf of the small service station operators, the Opposition accuses the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) or the Minister for Labor and Immigration of being too vicious. [More…]
I turn now to the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I see that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) is present now. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware of the imminent lay-off of 4500 workers at Chrysler Australia Ltd at Lonsdale and Finsbury in South Australia, due to a Vehicle Builders Union strike at No Sag Springs, Geelong, and the consequent inability to obtain supplies of seat springs? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Co-operation exists between my Department, the Department of Labor and Immigration and the Department of Foreign Affairs in dealing with foreign nationals who deliberately breach the Customs laws in relation to bird smuggling or any other form of smuggling. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I indicated then that the whole question of those vacancies and appointments was to be the subject of a discussion between myself, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cooley and some other important people including the chairmen of the commissions. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and refers in part to a statement which he made earlier during question time. [More…]
Does this statement indicate a development or change in Government policy in relation to immigration, especially so far as the admission of skilled people from Asia is concerned? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration a question which relates to his immigration responsibility. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether the article appearing in today’s Australian newspaper alleging that coal miners in New South Wales southern districts have been taken off unemployment benefit on the Minister’s instructions is correct. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I refer him to his reply last Thursday to a question by Senator Davidson in which he referred to the Government’s immigration policy and said: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Recently I asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) whether when his Government made its socalled social contract with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the trade unions and told them: ‘Look, if you forego over-award wage demands we will give you wage indexation’, he told them that his Government proposed that it would not be full wage indexation on the consumer price index but that indirect taxes and charges would be discounted. [More…]
Yet when questions were asked in the Senate on 27 August we were able to extract from Senator James McClelland, Minister for Labor and Immigration, the thought that if the Treasurer, Mr Hayden, were here he would gladly concede that the real state of the economy at the moment is one of recession. [More…]
This culminated with the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) telling us in the Senate on 27 August that the nation is now in a state of deep recession. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) admittedly on several occasions has spoken of Australia being involved in a deep recession. [More…]
I intend to have further discussions with my colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland, about this matter in the hope that he may be able to find some solution to the problem. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I should like to pay tribute to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland), who said this morning that when the Budget was being prepared there were signs of recovery. [More…]
I certainly would be prepared to allow it to exploit the avenues which are open to it and to carry on as suggested by the Minister for Labor and Immigration in his speech this morning. [More…]
My friend Mr Bert James, the honourable member for Hunter who represents coal miners, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) and I had a singularly disagreeable experience today in speaking to representatives of the Miners Federation and other mining unions- unions which have given a lot of loyalty to this Government and to this Partyand telling them that we cannot at this stage do anything but support indexation of wages and incomes. [More…]
Those of us who heard Senator James McClelland, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, speak today must admire and congratulate him for the courage with which in his speech he faced up to the problems. [More…]
My question, addressed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration, relates to the entry into this country of refugees from East Timor, an area where several diseases, including in particular malaria and amoebic dysentery and amoebiasis are endemic. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Any Baltic communist today, even in the highest ranks of the party, is still liable to deportation for opposing the gradual russionization of the three states by immigration of Russians and by labour direction policies which strew Baltic graduates and school-leavers over the vast spaces of Eurasia, where their languages and national consciousness are expected to die. [More…]
I can well recall what happened one tremendous afternoon when the subject of the complexities of this matter came up and the Chairman of the committee, Mr Bayutti, issued an invitation that Senator Davidson immediately accepted that the committee should get the views of the shadow Minister for Immigration, Mr Michael Mackellar, and no less a person than Senator Young, who is the Opposition spokesman on media matters. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I refer to questions I have asked him recently concerning the new staffing and salary arrangements for the Postal Commission and the Telecommunications Commission and to the fact that the Minister said he was discussing these matters with the Minister for Labor and Immigration under some Government directive to do so. [More…]
I now ask: Has the PostmasterGeneral had those discussions with the Minister for Labor and Immigration? [More…]
As to the last part of his question, I have mentioned before to Senator Durack that more than once these properly constituted Commissions have said that they agree entirely with the Government’s wage indexation policies and with the guidelines which have been pronounced by Senator James McClelland and the former Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Labor and Immigration been drawn to a Press statement appearing in the Melbourne Sun of 3 September that Victoria lost 128 300 man weeks or 2500 man years of production time last year through industrial accidents? [More…]
Despite the claims that have been made by Ministers, Government speakers and most recently Senator Bishop in this debate, I would have thought that his colleague Senator James McClelland, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, had painted the grimmest possible picture of the economy and the problem which we are now facing. [More…]
The serious state of the economy was very clearly pictured not only by the OECD report but was also outlined by Senator James McClelland, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, when he spoke on behalf of the Government in this debate some days ago. [More…]
I finally got some sort of an answer from him today although by no means a satisfactory one, because it is clear that under the Government’s guidelines, under the rules that are being laid down now through the Department of Labor and Immigration, very much closer attention should have been paid to the staffing levels that have been adopted by these Commissions. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration in his capacity as the Acting Attorney-General. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and refers to the statement of the Minister yesterday that unemployment ‘could approach 400 000 members of the labour force in 1976’. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration whom I ask: Has the Government’s attention been directed to claims that the Australian Council of Trade Unions at its congress next week will reject the Government’s wage indexation policy because of the non-introduction of tax indexation? [More…]
They tend to proclaim individual freedoms, that freedom of the individual means all, but then they bay for harsh censorship laws, conscription, restricted immigration based on racial grounds, and the flogging and gaoling of people like homosexuals. [More…]
As honourable senators will recall, the former Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, introduced the Stevedoring Industry Charge Bill into the House of Representatives during the autumn sittings. [More…]
We are more than 12 months past that date and we have heard from the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) today a willingness on his part to consult with the major parties in the industry. [More…]
It is an exceptional instance in this industry of those wage pressures which are assisted by stevedores, aided by the Government industry authority and now abetted by the Minister for Labor and Immigration, who was supposed to have tried to moderate this waste. [More…]
Senator Sir MAGNUS CORMACK (Victoria) (9.3)- I asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) by way of interjection, which was highly disorderly, I suppose, whether he would indicate to the Senate the quantitative cost that is involved in this proposal. [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) explained earlier tonight- no one seems to have taken any notice of what he said- the actual charges in relation to stevedoring industry matters are fixed by regulation. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) whether he would be so good as to look at those figures which I quoted from page 75 of the last annual report. [More…]
In June the Minister, when representing the former Minister for Labor and Immigration, admitted that idle time had escalated out of all recognition. [More…]
What I wish to point out to you, Mr Chairman, if I may be permitted to do so, is that we began the consideration of the Committee stage of this Bill with a total reluctance by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) to divulge any information to the Committee and that over the last 40 minutes we have managed to force him to disgorge information that he did not have in his skull when he introduced with great forsenic ability, rhetorical flourishes and all the court manners with which he is so used - [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Has the Minister for Labor and Immigration seen a statement that is reported to have been made by the National President of the Communist Party of Australia, Mr Laurie Carmichael, who is also the Assistant Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, to the effect that the Government is applying unworkable guidelines with respect to wage indexation? [More…]
I have written to the Minister for Agriculture, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, and the Special Minister of State as Minister responsible for the Industries Assistance Commission, with a proposal that the four of us or our officers should set up a joint committee to study the problem of farmers who are in this situation. [More…]
-My question is directed to Senator James McClelland as Minister for Labor and Immigration and in all his representative capacities- as the Minister representing the Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs, the Attorney-General and the Minister for Manufacturing Industry. [More…]
Can the Minister for Labor and Immigration assure the Senate that there is no truth in the allegation by the Prime Minister that some union secretaries are receiving kickbacks from lawyers under the present system of compensation and insurance? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
and (2) There are no journalists employed in the Department of Labor and Immigration or in commissions and statutory authorities under my control. [More…]
However there is one journalist outposted from the Department of the Media working in the Immigration Group of the Department. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I indicate to the Senate that Senator James McClelland, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, has had to go to Sydney today in relation to industrial matters involving a dispute in the oil industry. [More…]
I remind the Senate of the 2 main questions that I directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) on this matter. [More…]
Minister for Labor and Immigration Parliament House Canberra A.C.T. [More…]
Why has the Minister for Labor and Immigration responded? [More…]
My final question is: Was the Minister for Labor and Immigration correct, in his answer to me, when he indicated that no new expenditures or initiatives whatsoever will be introduced in this financial year to offset his projected 400 000 or more unemployed? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Mr Street says that officers of the Department of Labor and Immigration are telling school leavers there will be no jobs available next year and advising them to register for unemployment benefit immediately the school year has finished. [More…]
Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware of a recent survey among 66 architectural firms in Sydney indicating that 322 of their 800 architects and draftsmen face dismissal before Christmas because of current restricted work load and almost no forward contracts? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware that the Coober Pedy Progress Association was promised a grant of $40,000 by the Government under the Regional Employment Development scheme? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Nevertheless, as Minister for Labor and Immigration I have not sought to conceal the realities and the seriousness of the employment situation. [More…]
Has the Minister for Labor and Immigration and Minister assisting the Prime Minister in matters relating to the Public Service read a report in the Sydney newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, of 4 September of this year, in which a person who was recently appointed to a senior Public Service position admitted to being an anarchist? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Will the Minister inform the Senate what is to happen to each of the RED scheme projects in Tasmania? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether there is any truth in the report that Australia has refused to allow refugees from Vietnam who are highly qualified professionally to enter Australia from a Hong Kong holding centre. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the Government has endeavoured to rationalise a number of activities such as by the amalgamation of the Department of Civil Aviation with the Department of Transport and the Department of Labor with the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I preface my question which is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration by saying that the Minister has said on several occasions that unemployment in this country could reach 400 000 in the near future. [More…]
Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware that the Queensland branch of the General Electric Company of Australia Ltd is reported to have decided to take the provocative course of withdrawing all annual leave entitlements from employees involved in a recent industrial dispute? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether the unilateral decision by the doctors’ union, which calls itself the Australian Medical Association, to increase charges by 14 percent from 1 January, coming as it does on top of its decision to increase charges by 12 per cent on 1 July, in defiance of a tribunal which it nominated, poses a threat to wage indexation and inflation control. [More…]
Within the limitations of staff that we have available in view of the Government guidelines on restricting the expansion of the Public Service, we are making these periodic checks and we are, in conjunction with the Department of Labor and Immigration, seeing that the work test is strictly applied. [More…]
I put to the Minister for Labor and Immigration that a pattern seems to be emerging from questions emanating from the Opposition about Chilean refugees which imply that undue favouritism is shown to what might be called the ultra-left. [More…]
Those are the unemployment statistics of the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Labor and Immigration indicate what he meant when he said in a Press release recently that sympathetic and speedy consideration’ would be given to claims by municipal councils who found themselves in difficulties because of the slowing down of the Regional Employment Development scheme which resulted in the cancellation of some projects? [More…]
I ask the Minister: Why have I not had a reply about a Mr Pavlovic about whom I wrote, not to Senator Willesee, but to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) on 18 July 1974 when he applied for a passport. [More…]
What of all the others, whose names I will not mention now because I expect and hope that some response will be given by the Ministers of the Crown- the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee)- to explain whether or not there is a vendetta against Croatian born Australians or an attitude which treats them as second class Australians who are not entitled to the rights which other Australians have. [More…]
Does the Minister for Labor and Immigration recall saying on the television program This Day Tonight on 15 July 1975 that The public knows all that it needs to know about the loans affair … all that it needs to be told’? [More…]
Those are the unemployment statistics of the Department of Labor and Immigration, which relate to people who are seeking employment and who are not necessarily, by any means, people who are eligible to receive unemployment benefit. [More…]
I repeat that the level of unemployment is in no way reflected accurately by the figures that are provided by the Department of Labor and Immigration, and I say that in no way critically of my colleague or his Department. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration whom I refer to reports alleging that the employment of a New South Wales teacher, Mr Michael Clohessy, was terminated because of his public statement that he is a homosexual. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and relates to Press reports in this morning’s Australian headed: ‘Wilenski staff in strike vote over outsiders’. [More…]
Following the expansion of the manpower programs of the Department of Labor and the amalgamation of that Department with the former Department of Immigration, a reorganisation and expansion of the State offices were carried out. [More…]
-The Minister for Labor and Immigration sings out and sings out. [More…]
I have conducted a debate before large audiences with its putative Minister for Labor and Immigration, the man who will take my place, Mr Street. [More…]
Undoubtedly, they will enjoy a honeymoon and they will say: ‘Yes, you were told by the previous Minister for Labor and Immigration that there would be 400 000 people out of work. [More…]
I had intended to speak directly to the Loan Bill but I feel that some comments of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) should be answered briefly. [More…]
It has been said recently by the Minister for Labor and Immigration that the Budget deficit is now set at a different figure from that which was envisaged. [More…]
Those are not small matters and they are not matters that should have been dealt with by the Minister for Labor and Immigration in the way in which he chose to use what should have been a responsible speech on a Bill which has been of great concern to the Opposition. [More…]
We have seen the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) playing a vital part in connection with wage indexation. [More…]
I address this question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration: In view of the announcements heralding the formation of the official government of Great Eastland which it is claimed is no longer part of Australia, can the Minister take up with his Government the possibility of appointing Mr Fraser, the present Leader of the Opposition, as Australian ambassador to this proposed new nation as a consolation prize or a place of exile if his present attempted coup in the Senate is unsuccessful? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration in his capacity as Minister representing the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Labor and Immigration seen reported statements by the Leader of the National Country Party, Mr Anthony, to the effect that he is not in favour of wage indexation? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration whom I refer to Press reports that the Government will not be in a position to honour Regional Employment Development scheme commitments because of the Opposition’s deferral of Budget funds. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and relates to the current sizeable backlog of citizenship applications existing at the Sydney Immigration Office. [More…]
In view of the speed-up by the New South Wales Police of screening processes, what supplementary action is contemplated by the Department of Labor and Immigration in Sydney to overtake this backlog? [More…]
In May of this year the Public Service Board approved a total of 43 positions, the number asked for by the Department of Labor and Immigration to speed up the processing of immigration work, including citizenship applications. [More…]
The Department of Labor and Immigration has established its permanent office for the district employment area of Bellerive and there has been a study done of all the social welfare needs of eastern shore residents. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Since March there had been 3 Ministers for Foreign Affairs, 3 Ministers for Defence, 3 Ministers for Health, 3 Ministers for Education and Science, 3 Attorneys-General, 2 Treasurers, 2 Ministers for Labour and National Service, 2 Ministers for Immigration, 2 Ministers for the Navy, 2 Ministers for Housing, 2 Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and 2 Ministers for Supply. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration in his capacity as Minister assisting the Prime Minister in matters relating to the Public Service. [More…]
Within weeks of its introduction the Minister for Labor and Immigration confessed that the unemployment figure would rise to 400 000 or 500 000 people. [More…]
It was not until we debated the matter in the Senate that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) tabled the Executive minute. [More…]
My good friend and colleague, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland), explained to the Senate tonight how many members of previous Liberal-Country Party governments had misled the Parliament. [More…]
The Department of Labor and Immigration conducted three surveys of organisations using varied working hours arrangements, in 1973 and 1974. [More…]
The honourable senator is referred to the report on the results of the Department of Labor and Immigration’s latest survey taken in September 1974, which was published in the Personnel Practice Bulletin, Vol. [More…]
-I ask a question of the Minister for Labor and Immigration in his capacity as Minister in charge of Regional Employment Development scheme grants. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and is supplementary to a question asked yesterday by my colleague Senator McLaren. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Is he aware of reports that most of the men employed in the forestry operations of Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd of Tasmania are to be stood down for a month. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
In view of media reports that a person named Khemlani entered Australia yesterday without the immigration documentation required by law, will the Minister inform the Senate whether these reports are correct? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and follows the answer given by the Special Minister of State in relation to the consumer price index for the September quarter of this year. [More…]
I refer to the matters on which I originally addressed representations to Mr Clyde Cameron as Minister for Labor and Immigration and concerning which I am now seeking the attention of Senator James McClelland as the current Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I became aware of it because it was a boast of Mr Grassby as the then Minister for Immigration that the Labor Government, unlike- as he said- previous Governments, had never withheld passports or citizenship on political grounds. [More…]
At the same stage in this latter period, the administration of passports was transferred from the Minister for Immigration to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
I apologise for the supposition that the Minister for Immigration is still involved in this matter; it is the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee). [More…]
The second matter which I refer to is one which directly concerns Senator James McClelland as Minister for Labor and Immigration and relates to a gentleman named Milan Sogorovic who is currently in gaol in Western Australia and who, I understand, has been in gaol for a quite long period. [More…]
I sent a telegram to the then Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, on 12 March. [More…]
The letter which I wrote on 24 July was directed, of course, to the present Minister, Senator James McClelland, and I received from the Minister’s immigration private secretary on 3 1 July an acknowledgment of my letter and a statement that Senator James McClelland had directed that his Department report to him as quickly as possible and that he would write to me immediately he had something definite to tell me. [More…]
I intervene in the debate only to support strongly the stance which the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) has taken. [More…]
My illustrious colleague, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland, referred to the Serbians. [More…]
I told him that I was prepared to go to both the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Willesee, and also the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland. [More…]
We must act then, in a large enough case, in concert with the Minister for Police and Customs, the Minister for Labor and Immigration and the Attorney-General. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and relates to the desire of South Vietnamese people in Australia to obtain residence here for themselves and for their close relatives. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is virtually supplementary to that asked by Senator Missen and, of course, is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration was heard in complete silence except for one interjection, and I say to the Senate, particularly on this day, that as little interruption as possible should be made to speeches. [More…]
They are arrogant in their display of the power of numbers in the Senate in what is I suggest, and as my colleague Senator James McClelland the Minister for Labor and Immigration suggested this morning, an unrepresentative House whilst they conveniently ignore the weight of numbers given to the Government in the House of Representatives by the people of Australia through the ballot box only 18 months ago. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether his attention has been drawn to an article in the latest issue of the Bulletin headed ‘NEAT scheme far from tidy’ which alleges: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether there is any truth in the report that Australia has refused to allow refugees from Vietnam who are highly qualified professionally to enter Australia from a Hong Kong holding centre. [More…]
Research into the effects of demographic change which was initiated as a joint project between the Commission and the Department of Labor and Immigration now involves the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Department of Manufacturing Industry. [More…]
On the admission of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) it will create in the coming 2 months some 200 000 more unemployed by its sheer failure to employ school and college leavers. [More…]
The ink had hardly dried on the Budget Speech before the Minister for Labor and Immigration in this place announced that there would be 400 000 or more people unemployed in December, January and February. [More…]
I rise on the adjournment and not for any length of time, to refer to the completely disgraceful abdication of ministerial responsibility which was displayed this morning in this chamber by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland). [More…]
Naturally, I will not be answering for the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) because he is capable of doing that himself, and quite eloquently. [More…]
I said I could not give any guarantee or undertaking because that was a matter for my colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland), with whom I had not even discussed the matter at that time. [More…]
-Did the Minister for Labor and Immigration receive a letter last week from the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Fraser, complaining that the Dundas Shire Council was in trouble because the Federal Government had not met outstanding claims totalling $49,496 for Regional Employment Development scheme projects? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
The question later spilled over into my portfolio of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Is it a fact that a Laotian student, Saysavath Vichidvongsa twice wrote to the Minister’s Department seeking political asylum for himself, his wife and his child? [More…]
Is it a decision which the Minister is competent to make or is the Prime Minister the de facto Minister for Immigration? [More…]
However, the matter at this stage is not one in which I as a Minister for Labor and Immigration am directly involved. [More…]
Despite the fact that the time of his permit to stay in Australia was extended by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland), despite the fact that the Opposition parties knew that he would not be here this week and he was here last week, despite the fact that they said he had all these illuminating observations to make to us and that he had the good oil which he was going to give to us, and despite the fact that members of the Opposition spent hours with Mr Khemlani and his solicitor, Mr Khemlani has not appeared before the Senate. [More…]
3198 and 3201 on the House of Representatives Notice Paper addressed to the Ministers representing the Ministers for Social Security and Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Has the Department of Labor and Immigration been involved in any studies of the usefulness or work value of women in the defence forces? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware of the problems which have been caused, particularly in country areas, by the announcement of the termination of the living away from home allowance for apprentices under the National Apprenticeship Assistance Scheme? [More…]
I think it is worth commenting on the fact that Professor Henderson did say in his report that steps have already been taken by some administrationsnotably the Department of Social Security and the Department of Labor and Immigration- to disseminate literature and to advertise through the Press, radio and television in Australia in. [More…]
Indeed, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) related to the Sydney Trades and Labour Council within the last 2 months that if certain eventualities occurred it might be that that unemployment figure would reach one million. [More…]
The question of entry into Australia is one which concerns my colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Computer Sciences of Australia Pty Ltd. Feasibility study and strategic design for an integrated information system to serve the information storage, retrieval “and processing requirements of the former Department of Immigration. [More…]
In fairness to the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) at the conclusion of my speech I will present 4 documents comprising a request from the Portuguese community in Sydney dealing with certain refugees from Timor, my submission to the Minister and her reply- the Minister will understand that I am not pre-empting what she may say after my remarks- and finally a letter from a former illustrious Minister for Immigration in the person of the honourable Clyde Cameron which refers to a survey that was being made. [More…]
In enclose copy of a communication received from Mr J. J. ENCARNACAO a member of the Sydney Portuguese Community with whom I have dealings as Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
Minister for Labour and Immigration Parliament House Canberra, A.C.T. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
In answer to the question, I am able to state that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs announced that Australia would offer sanctuary to more IndoChinese refugees. [More…]
Mrs Constance Mathers approached the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs with regard to them. [More…]
We will be responsible also for providing general supportive and welfare services to the refugees once they have arrived in Australia.The migrant services section of my Department will liaise with the Department of Immigration and EthnicAffairs indeed with all other departments such as the Department of Education, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- to enable any difficulties to be overcome with regard to the refugees on their arrival in this country. [More…]
For argument’s sake, I would be curious to know under which item immigration and ethnic affairs would come, and I know that other honourable senators have other matters they would like elucidated. [More…]
I replied to the statement of the present Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, on the migrant program. [More…]
Some of the chickens that came home to roost, particularly in the field of immigration, were attributable to the previous Liberal Government’s failure to undertake a scheme, in a manpower sense, of the magnitude of the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme. [More…]
Last night I pointed out to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Senator Guilfoyle) the fears and views of Mr Clyde Cameron, the honourable member for Hindmarsh, who has referred to the increasing problem of political refugees. [More…]
This amnesty is another facet of immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) is emulating Mr Grassby and I do not quarrel with him about the amnesty system. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
However, I will undertake to have this matter investigated in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and have an answer for the honourable senator as soon as possible. [More…]
I took up the case with the former Minister for Labor and Immigration only a few weeks before the election. [More…]
In the first instance my speech is virtually a continuation of a plea which I made last week to Senator Guilfoyle who represents the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
The reason I have raised this matter again tonight is that this Government broke up the previous amalgamation between the then Departments of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I simply make an appeal to Senator Greenwood- it will have equal force, I know, to Senator Guilfoyle who is the Minister in this chamber representing the Minister for Immigrationon behalf of Manuel Sanhueza Eutierrez, a boilermaker. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the former Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland, and to his predecessor, Mr Clyde Cameron, for what they did in this area. [More…]
Does it lie with the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations or does it lie with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar)? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, relates to a report in today’s newspapers that a Mr Eddie Zannaniri has applied to enter Australia to study at a university. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that Australia is not about to encourage immigration by terrorists of any kind and that Mr Zannaniri ‘s application will be subjected to the closest possible scrutiny? [More…]
The only information I have about the story which was reported in the Press this morning is that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has received a final report from his Department on the application and he will make a decision about that application shortly. [More…]
As to the more general comment with regard to encouragement or support for applications from people in that category that the honourable senator mentioned, I suggest that this would be a matter more properly dealt with by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs himself. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs inform the Senate whether the Commonwealth Employment Service keeps any record of what proportion of the unemployed are migrants from non-English speaking countries and of how disadvantaged they are in seeking employment because of language difficulties? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
In the light of previous difficulties of sporting teams, am I to assume that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is ready and willing to expedite citizenship for the team member involved? [More…]
I am informed by my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, that the application would be expedited by his Department. [More…]
I suggest, therefore, that Mr Nash should contact the Regional Director of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Melbourne. [More…]
He appealed against the decision and the Home Office did not say, as the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) would say here: ‘You have to go’. [More…]
We know that the Minister concerned took steps to have that officer removed from the staff of the Department of Labor and Immigration because he was carrying out a task which was not in accordance with that Department’s functions. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
As no firm decision was taken at the meeting in February 1976 between the present Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the New Zealand Minister for Immigration, it was agreed that there was insufficient evidence that the problems arising were of such dimension as to justify requiring the large number of citizens of both countries who travel across the Tasman Sea to obtain passports or other travel documents. [More…]
They also agreed to continuing consultation on trans-Tasman travel and other aspects of immigration which are of common interest to both countries. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Education ascertained whether the Government will carry out proposals which emanated from the Labor and Immigration Ministry under the Whitlam Government to create an authority to protect and enhance the status of interpreters and translators? [More…]
Is the Minister aware of a letter dated 4 April 1975 written by a former Minister for Labor and Immigration to Mr B. J. O’Connor, the Director of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority, in which the Minister said: [More…]
Is he further aware that a similar guarantee was also given by the next Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland? [More…]
The Minister recently received the Northrop report, which was commissioned by the previous Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
They were cancelled on the authority of the Acting Minister for Labor and Immigration on 5 February 1974. [More…]
Without immigration, that low figure would have been reached a lot sooner. [More…]
The second factor relating to population growth is immigration. [More…]
About 35 per cent of that growth was from immigration and 65 per cent from natural increase. [More…]
Directly and indirectly, immigration has been responsible for about 59 per cent of this nation’s growth since 1947. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the National Population Inquiry, which was commissioned by the previous LiberalCountry Party Government and conducted under the leadership of Professor Borrie, acknowledged in its report the positive nature of the contribution of immigration to Australia’s economic growth. [More…]
After considering the costs and benefits of immigration, the committee’s final assessment was that the past benefits of immigration far outweighed the costs, especially in view of the role of immigration as a supplement to the Australian work force. [More…]
The committee therefore concluded that Australia should continue its active immigration policy. [More…]
That recommendation from the Borrie committee can be further substantiated when other benefits of immigration are considered. [More…]
Against this must be acknowledged the burden the immigration program has placed on Australia’s resources. [More…]
To achieve a balance we must estimate whether Australia can assimilate a further program of immigration in a social and economic context. [More…]
But the actual figure for immigration probably will be closer to 50 000. [More…]
Therefore, Australia’s projected population in the year 2000 should be in the order of 17.5 million, based on both immigration and natural trends. [More…]
Borrie ‘s analysis thus has enormous significance because most current public and private enterprise planning is based on expectations of fertility and immigration much higher than Borrie ‘s. [More…]
It will involve consideration of immigration, decentralisation and environmental policies. [More…]
If, for example, the population figure required for an effective work force is dependent on supplementation from immigration, then a plan to provide for the assessed desirable level of immigration should be formulated well in advance. [More…]
This lack of propensity for living in the country- reflected both in the lack of immigration of people to country areas and, moreover, in their movement to the cityperhaps reflects an ignorance of the fact that the country life is better or that the city is that bad. [More…]
I had intended tonight to ventilate 3 cases of immigration injustice. [More…]
What I was going to say has been fortified by a letter I received this afternoon from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
In justifying the separation of the Department of Immigration from the Department of Labor, the Minister made the point that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as a single focal point would provide efficient methods of effectively handling various immigration problems. [More…]
Whatever might be our attitude to relating the wants of the Department of Labor to those of the Department of Immigration, the fact of the matter is that job security is important. [More…]
I shall seek leave later in my remarks to have incorporated in Hansard the letter written to me by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs which I refer to as document A. [More…]
Document B is a letter written by me, in my capacity as the Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council, to the Australian Financial Review. [More…]
I mentioned a Spanish stonemason and pointed out that in October 1975 the then Department of Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland being the Minister, had investigated the matter. [More…]
There is something wrong with an immigration program when it takes so long for such matters to be dealt with. [More…]
If a person coming from Europe has passed his various immigration tests then there must be some reason for this delay in the clearance of X-rays which have been sent to London for attention. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard Document A, which is a letter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs addressed to me; Document B, which deals with a letter sent to the Australian Financial Review, and Document C which is a letter sent by me to the New South Wales Regional Director of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, supported by a declaration from a Portuguese baker in Sydney. [More…]
Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
I understand that Senator James McClelland when he was Minister for Labor and Immigration agreed last year to reform the Immigration Advisory Council, and appoint you as its Chairman. [More…]
The new Government has since created a separate Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as a single focal point through which matters of interest to migrants can have prompt and effective attention and to assist the many migrant welfare organisations. [More…]
It will therefore not proceed with the reconstitution of the Immigration Advisory Council as envisaged by Senator McClelland and as a consequence the position of Chairman is being abolished. [More…]
I am aware of your personal interest in the welfare of migrants and I should like to express my appreciation of the constructive association you have had with the former Immigration Advisory Council as its Chairman. [More…]
Sir, I am afraid the new Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, oversimplifies the overseeing of an effective immigration program when he uses such terminology as ‘demographic stagnation’ (Financial Review of January 20). [More…]
What might be termed the ‘immigration intake pause undertaken by the Whitlam Government was accompanied by overdue innovations which the various ethnic communities had sought in vain from earlier Liberal Governments, namely pension portability, removal of racial clauses from the Crimes Act, liberalisation of income tax deductions for overseas dependents, and last, but not least, ethnic radio. [More…]
Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, [More…]
With regard to the attached application for admission to Australia of Mr Fernando Savtana Marques, who is sponsored by his family in Marrickville, N.S.W., vide Immigration file No. [More…]
He had advised the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), through my Department, earlier today that he would be seeking some clarification of the delay that had occurred in relation to these two cases. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr [More…]
I hope that the continued representations that we are making will clarify the situation and enable immigration to proceed when all the requirements are met. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct a question which can be fielded by either the Minister representing the Attorney-General or the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I seek leave to present a statement on behalf of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Honourable M. J. R. MacKellar, M.P., who read the statement in another place earlier this afternoon. [More…]
-Reference to the pronoun in the first person in the statement should be taken as relating to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Immigration to Australia has also declined dramatically. [More…]
According to the first report of the National Population Inquiry, page 302, if fertility stabilises at around 1975-76 at net reproduction rate = 1, the population to be expected by the end of the year 2001 would be 15.9 million in the absence of immigration and 1 7.6 million if net immigration averaged 50 000 a year. [More…]
Second, net immigration is currently running at well below 50 000 a year. [More…]
It was in the context of the need for long range perspectives on population and immigration that the Liberal-Country Party Government, on the strong recommendation of the then Minister for Immigration, the Honourable P. R. Lynch, commissioned the National Population Inquiry in 1970. [More…]
In so far as Australia has had a population policy in the post-war period it has been in terms of immigration rather than policies designed specifically to increase births to achieve desirable population policy goals. [More…]
There are people who suggest that Australians should be encouraged to have more children as a substitute for immigration. [More…]
Therefore, external immigration will continue to be the only major instrument available to government to influence the level and composition of our population. [More…]
The second is that the rate of population growth in most of our traditional source countries for immigration is decreasing and, if current trends continue, will do so to a much greater degree from early in the next century. [More…]
What population goals should immigration be directed towards in the medium and long-term? [More…]
A precedent is the 2 per cent population growth rate policy following the Second World War and the introduction of annual immigration programs. [More…]
The agreed policy was that Australia’s population should increase by an average of 2 per cent per annum, approximately 1 per cent resulting from natural increase and the balance from immigration. [More…]
One only has to consider that since 1945 some 3.3 million migrants have come to Australia and that one in 5 persons in this country is a migrant to appreciate the impact of post-war immigration. [More…]
It is almost universally agreed that the immigration program has been of enormous benefit to [More…]
We are a larger and more diverse nation than the one which set out on the large-scale post-war immigration program. [More…]
There are groups which see our standard of living increasing by upgrading the skills of our workforce and developing our natural resources without the assistance of further immigration or even population growth. [More…]
If the community sees some cause for concern in an aging population, it may even be desirable to direct immigration in such a way as deliberately to have a ..,—-6-, effect on the populationfor example by lowering the general age eligibility limits or by giving preference to younger applicants. [More…]
Our example and even massive immigration from them will not have any significant effect on the scale of their problems. [More…]
For its part, the Government maintains the position stated in its election policy statement on immigration and ethnic affairs as follows: [More…]
Immigration is an essential instrument of Australia’s population policies and of the broader national strategies and objectives to which those population policies are directed. [More…]
That is a commitment to population growth, with immigration as the prime factor in that growth. [More…]
But, and I emphasise this, it is not a commitment to immigration simply to add to our population without any assessment of the effects of doing so and what is needed to meet those effects. [More…]
The Government believes that Australia’s population and immigration strategies must not be a numbers game’ but must have a sound basis which takes account of the medium and longterm implications of various growth options. [More…]
In my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs with responsibility for matters of population policy, I now announce initiatives which will assist the development of future population policy. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is now actively engaged in the analysis of basic statistical data on fertility, mortality and migration and population developments and policies in other countries. [More…]
In addition, the Australian Population and Immigration Council (APIC) which was originally established in February 1975 has been reconstituted. [More…]
The reconstituted Council will advise the Minister on such matters as: Regular monitoring of, and research into, population change; major developments and research in Australia and overseas concerning population and immigration; the longer-term implications of changing patterns of immigration intakes; ways in which future immigration intakes can be planned to complement other policies; and implications of population change for various aspects of resource allocation. [More…]
The functions of the new Council indicate the importance which the Government attaches to population policies and show its determination to base immigration policies and programs on a range of considerations including the population objectives to be developed with the assistance of the Council. [More…]
Of course, it is proper when we consider the tremendous number of people who have been brought into the country under the immigration program in the post-war years that governments responsible for such programs should accept a financial responsibility for housing. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in introducing this Bill in the other place showed a remarkable lack of understanding of the purpose behind the Bill. [More…]
So it is nonsense for the Government to imply, as did its spokesman for housing in the House of Representatives, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, that this problem of providing adequate housing for the poor in our society will be looked after by the current resurgence in the private housing sector. [More…]
Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) could get together and determine what their policy will be on the use, for instance, of places such as migrant hostels which are still standing and which are still operating in most States. [More…]
My question relates to ethnic radio and is directed to 2 Ministers, one representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications and the other representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Senator Button suffered at the hands of Mr MacKellar when he was dismissed from the Australian Population and Immigration Council? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
With the response not as satisfactory as hoped, due possibly to a misunderstanding by many of these people that they would be giving themselves up, and as many of them may fear coming into contact with authority such as the Public Service, in this case the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I ask: Will the Minister give serious consideration to adopting another approach by suggesting that they get in touch with the Good Neighbour Council, with all of its resources, where persons could explain and offer guidance in the migrants’ mother tongues regarding the Minister’s offer of amnesty? [More…]
The report on population policy which we received yesterday from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, also gives us food for thought in this regard. [More…]
With the net immigration loss last year mentioned in the report and with the population declining at the rate set out in the report, one wonders whether in the 1980s there will be enough students to go to university. [More…]
Senator James McClelland was then the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
and of the Minister for Labor and Immigration … so that matters contained in these affidavits are investigated. [More…]
Senator James McClelland, who in this place, represented the Attorney-General and who held the office of Minister for Labor and Immigration, said: [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I have no knowledge of any intention to transfer the Migrant Community Services Branch of my Department to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
When we were confronted with the turmoil in Cyprus, the former Minister for Immigration, the Honourable Clyde Cameron, faced up to a situation in Australia in which a number of Cypriots on holiday here, whose land in Cyprus had been overrun by Turkish invaders, found themselves in a very parlous position. [More…]
A number of Portuguese nationals who previously were living in Mozambique and Angola and who are on tourist visas in Sydney and in Melbourne wish to be treated in the same way as the former Minister for Immigration, Clyde Cameron, treated certain Cypriots when their country was in turmoil. [More…]
There is difficulty in getting specific information about the number of people who may be defined in the jargon of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as being under political duress. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the following question: [More…]
According to the records of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, none of these persons had been released from prison recently for political activities. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration Parliament House CANBERRA [More…]
Last but certainly not least, as I am sure Senator Lajovic will appreciate, earlier this year I wrote to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) about a matter. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I put a twofold question to the Minister: How does she reconcile Liberal Party election statements that used such words as ‘unequivocal’ and ‘specific’ in stating that this service that the Minister administers would come under the umbrella of the portfolio of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
Our party policy with regard to a separate department for immigration and ethnic affairs contains the concept that services for migrants would be embraced within that department also. [More…]
Tonight I seek amplification of a joint statement which emanated from Ministers for Immigration, both Commonwealth and State, in regard to what I believe is an innovation which is to be implemented shortly. [More…]
They have produced a set of files from State immigration officers and they have other file numbers from our Commonwealth office in London. [More…]
I put the matter directly to the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
That is my prime reason for raising this matter, although honourable senators may think that it is rather a minute aspect of immigration. [More…]
I am concerned about the existing Commonwealth immigration offices not only in London but also- I suppose some of them would be temporaryin Manchester, Birmingham and, for that matter, Belfast and Dublin. [More…]
She will recall that when the present Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) held a seminar one evening in Parliament House I raised this matter with his officers and they accepted the fact that the delay seems to be a running sore. [More…]
-On behalf of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) I want to respond briefly to the matters raised by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]
I refer firstly to the arrangements between the States and Commonwealth immigration offices. [More…]
So, in summary, senator, the decision can be said to have both avoided a potentially confusing division of responsibility between Commonwealth and State immigration authorities and to have extended to nominated British unassisted migrants counselling facilities in Britain and reception services in Australia which might not otherwise have been available to them. [More…]
I will bring to the attention of the Minister for Immigration the matters of urgency raised by the honourable senator with regard to Rugby League and Soccer clubs. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What was the staff establishment of the Department of Labor and Immigration at 1 1 November 1975. [More…]
What proportion of this establishment was involved in work designated as immigration duties at 1 1 November 1975. [More…]
What staff ceilings have been set for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for 30 June 1 976. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
At 11 November 1975, Immigration Group Establishment was 1562, comprising Central Office 560, State Offices including administrative areas 773 and Overseas 229. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
With regard to the first part of the question, I am able to inform the honourable senator that the matters to which I referred last night on behalf of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs apply to all citizens of the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland; but, I am sorry to say, they do not apply to citizens of the Republic of Ireland. [More…]
In regard to the third matter, which concerned co-operation received by Federal members of Parliament who go to State immigration offices, I am assured that that cooperation will be given readily and that any facilitation that can be given by means of representations by Federal members will be welcomed by the State authorities. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Would the Minister be good enough to refer the case to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs with a view to seeing whether any such direction might be reviewed in the compassionate circumstances occurring? [More…]
I would be pleased to direct that specific question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I made my point as the then Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
I say this with all due respect to Senator Guilfoyle because State officers are seeking to put their paddle in the lake in relation to immigration responsibilities. [More…]
I looked at the minutes of the last meeting between Mr MacKellar, the Australian Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and his State counterparts. [More…]
She may care to acknowledge that following the confrontation which took place 2 years ago in this part of the world the immigration of doctors to the Australian Capital Territory has almost ceased and the medical manpower situation is a lot worse. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
At this stage I have no knowledge of the planning in that particular area by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
-This is a matter both for my colleagues the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Mr Michael MacKellar, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: How many applications for migration to Australia from Lebanon have been received during 1976? [More…]
Immigration: Reported Entry of ‘Bluebells’ (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
What was the expenditure by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for the financial years 1973-74 and what is the anticipated expenditure for 1975-76 in each of the States and Territories. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Education or the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Is it a fact that the Victorian Education Department plans to bring 100 British teachers to work in State schools from September? [More…]
We attach a copy of a letter we have just sent to Mr M. Mackellar, M.P., Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr E. Robinson, M.P., Minister for Posts and Telecommunications, The National Director of Ethnic Radio Australia and The Chairman of the National Committee of Radio Ethnic Australia. [More…]
He further stated that he had had a conversation with the Minister of Immigration, Mr Mackellar, who had advised him during this conversation that Mr White would be sacked within two days. [More…]
That the Immigration of teachers recruited from outside Australia be prevented while students with similar University qualifications are refused entry into Diploma of Education courses, and school leavers are refused entry into the state colleges of Victoria. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Minister for Immigration, Mr MacKellar will carry out this Petition. [More…]
I ask the Minister to indicate to the Senate whether Australian aid rendered to Italy as a result of its recent earthquake is based upon the principles followed by the former Minister for Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, in the Cyprus debacle, with particular regard to external aid sent direct to the stricken region. [More…]
-All I can say to the honourable senator is that to get a proper answer I will need to have consultation not only with the Prime Minister but also with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has stated that we will give immediate priority to those nominations already in the pipeline involving people made homeless by the earthquake. [More…]
We will also give priority to other nominations lodged in the immediate future which are within existing immigration criteria. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs announced also that staff from the Department in Rome would go to the disaster areas without further delay to help process the nominations quickly. [More…]
At Sydney and Melbourne the officers of the Department of Immigration will be specially designated to attend to these nominations in an expeditious manner. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and refers to the amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, presented by the Minister for Labor and Immigration in the previous Government, Mr Clyde Cameron, to provide a new section 133a and new section 140 (1) (d). [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education and ask him to take his mind back some 6 or 8 weeks when he said that it was the intention of the Government to take the authority proposed to enhance the status of interpreters and translators from what was the Department of Labor and Immigration under the previous Government and give it to the Department of Education. [More…]
It was transferred to the then Department of Immigration in January 1949 to provide housing for migrants. [More…]
- To be closed from 1 May 1976 and held on a caretaker basis against future immigration requirements. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
Does research conducted by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs correlate with this conclusion. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Several years ago, a survey was conducted under the aegis of the former Immigration Advisory Council, on the departure from Australia of former settlers. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 ) The first Report of the National Population Inquiry and its subsequent research reports are the subject of continuing study by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Australian Population and Immigration Council which has recently been reconstituted will be asked for its views on issues raised by the reports. [More…]
At its first meeting on 10 May, I asked the Australian Population and Immigration Council to proceed as a matter of urgency with the preparation of a Green Paper on population and immigration policies dealing, inter alia, with the implications of demographic trends for various areas of [More…]
I understand that the population projections in the National Population Inquiry Report are being used as a basis for policy formulation in a wide range of fields, including education, community development, aboriginal affairs, housing, social security and the environment as well as immigration. [More…]
As the migrant education function is now part of my responsibility, I am able to say that a special six weeks course for use with migrants in industry at the work site, preferably in employer time, was developed by the former Department of Immigration towards the end of 1971. [More…]
The second matter that I raise concerns the separation of the former Department of Labor and Immigration under the Labor Government into two separate departments. [More…]
In the changeover of ministerial functions, the Department of Foreign Affairs became responsible for passport control and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has the function of interviewing tourists. [More…]
I believe that the people who brought in the innovation of severing the Department of Immigration from the Department of Labor felt that we would get quicker service. [More…]
This applies to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
1 am now able to advise that the Victorian Education Department had approval from the Department of Immigration and Ethinic Affairs for the planned recruitment. [More…]
I am advised that a joint immigration-labour team subsequently had discussions with the State departments of education and teacher industrial organisations. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It is a fact that earlier this year- I believe in January- the Minister for Immigration announced that we would offer sanctuary to some 800 Indo-Chinese refugees and that preference would be given to refugees closely related to people already living in this country. [More…]
It will be recalled that Mr Cameron when Minister for Labour and Immigration, gave consideration to a proposal whereby the operations of the industry would be carried out by the Government, thus in effect nationalising the industry. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
-The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
It has aggravated this situation by deciding at this very crucial point in our history to increase the immigration intake over the next 12 months. [More…]
It was under the guidance of the late Arthur Calwell, the then Minister for Immigration, who has been praised from all sides of politics, even by Sir Robert Menzies, because of his actions as Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I was not going to bring up the question of migration tonight, but as it has been the subject of debate I feel I must comment on the quite incomprehensible decision of the Government at this stage to increase immigration to a target of 70 000 persons. [More…]
I have heard already from the immigration office in London that they are being plagued with inquiries from people who want to come to Australia because they have heard that immigration is going to be increased. [More…]
The services of interpreters attached to the Translation and Interpreting Section of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs are available to Arbitration Inspectors in New South Wales for the purpose of interviewing persons who have only a limited knowledge of English [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Last year as Minister for Labor and Immigration I spent a lot of time and effort trying to convince unionists that not only was it against the interests of the nation but also against their own interests if they sought wage rises of such dimensions that they created a pressure on prices which ultimately had the effect of eroding their wage increases and making them illusory. [More…]
My remarks deal with immigration. [More…]
Could I get details of the staffing of our immigration offices at Madrid and Paris? [More…]
Another matter, which I need to have incorporated in Hansard, relates to the last statement which was made by Mr MacKellar about the immigration program for 1976-77.I want to link 2 paragraphs in this document. [More…]
Extracts from Press Releases from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
Mr La Rossa has received a letter from Department of Immigration, which we enclose. [More…]
DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC AFFAIRS [More…]
I wish to thank Senator Mulvihill for his interest in the Government’s immigration program. [More…]
I inform the Senate that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, left Australia on 28 May to lead the Australian delegation to the Habitat Conference which is being held in Vancouver. [More…]
During his absence the Attorney-General, Mr Ellicott, is acting as Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I feel sure that I could give an undertaking on behalf of the Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs with regard to matters relating to political refugees. [More…]
It could be said with regard to this matter that inquiries by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs have revealed that the direct transit facility has been abused by a number of Chileans to gain entry to Australia and to remain here illegally. [More…]
It also could be said that deportation orders against 7 Chileans, 2 of whom are in custody, have been signed by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [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…]
Will she advise the Minister for Immigration that those consequences could be so severe as to affect the liberty and lives of the people concerned? [More…]
I think it would be understood that our immigration policy ensures that people admitted for settlement have fulfilled the necessary entry requirements. [More…]
I shall certainly refer to the Minister for Immigration the matters that have been raised, particularly with regard to those people who do claim political refuge in this country. [More…]
Mr Clyde Cameron, when Minister for Labor and Immigration in the Whitlam Government, looked at the possibility of nationalisation in this industry, but he did not proceed along that course. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware of a report in the Adelaide Sunday Mail of 21 March 1976 headed ‘Australia to push for more UK migrants’, which was attributed to a statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Is the Minister satisfied that Government policy in regard to the issue of permanent entry permits to United Kingdom applicants is being carried out by officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
The present immigration policy is non-discriminatory and applies equally to all applicants or nominees irrespective of nationality. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
At the Conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers for Immigration held in Sydney on 12 April 1976 the approach to immigration in the years ahead was discussed. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
They were the only Vietnamese with close family relationship with Australian residents who could be contacted by the Australian Immigration Selection Team in Thailand. [More…]
Although the immigration selection team had lists of all Vietnamese close relatives in Thailand who had been sponsored for entry by Australian residents and more assiduous efforts to locate all of them, it was able to make contact with only the three Vietnamese refugees who were approved. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
Will the Minister provide an updated schedule of migrant entries for the first nine months of the financial year ending 30 June 1976, based on the format used by the former Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron, in response to Question No. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
A manual count in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs of passenger cards lodged by persons at time of arrival indicates that some 39 803 migrants arrived in the first nine months of the financial year which ends on 30 June 1976. [More…]
That the Immigration of teachers recruited from outside Australia be prevented while students with similar University classifications are refused entry into Diploma of Education courses, and school leavers are refused entry into the State Colleges of Victoria. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) I asked if a person were to be brought in from Ljubljana to Belgrade could there not be a set time slot for interrogation rather than that person having to wait all day after making a long trip. [More…]
But nowhere in this answer, or in the letter I received from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, did anybody tell me why Miss Svigelj was brought 500 kilometres to be interviewed. [More…]
That is the only interpretation I can place on the answer of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs which indicates that what happened in this case was not usual practice. [More…]
I am being pretty general on this because on one occasion under my own Government a Filipino national was exploited on an immigration matter. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill: To ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs- [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 ) Immigration controls are sufficiently effective to prevent entry into Australia of people known to be involved in smuggling narcotics. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs whether she has seen a letter to the editor in today’s edition ofthe Australian from a Mr J. H. Abel of Sydney claiming that an application from his wife for a passport, together with particular documents, was taken to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney and that the Department refused to receive the documents by hand and said that they must be posted? [More…]
Is it true that this is the policy of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and, if so, why? [More…]
I did not see the letter and I am unable to give information as to the procedure adopted by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on receipt of applications for passports. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs inform the Senate whether transit facilities have been refused to Fijians, Indians and Pakistanis in Australia in recent weeks and whether a similar decision is imminent in respect of Chileans desiring to travel to another country through Australia? [More…]
Is the Minister able to confirm that the Department of Foreign Affairs is attempting to bring some pressure to bear on the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on this issue, realising, of course, that such discrimination in the application of our immigration laws must bring Australia into disrepute in our own region? [More…]
Some of the statements that have been made are very serious indeed, particularly those that related to racism and discrimination in our immigration policy. [More…]
I shall refer the matter to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and obtain whatever information I can for the honourable senator. [More…]
Lest I am reminded of this fact by honourable senators opposite, let me say that it is common knowledge that a Labor Minister, the Minister for Labor and Immigration in the previous Government, suggested that similar amendments should be made to the Act by the Labor Government. [More…]
If my memory serves me, in 1973 the then Minister for Labour and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, introduced an amendment into proceedings in this Parliament which caused some dismay throughout the trade union movement. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Does the Report recommend that the Aboriginal special works projects should be greatly expanded and the former Department of Labor and Immigration immediately fill all vacant positions in the Aboriginal Employment Section of the Department. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
On 28 May 1976 the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs announced that Timorese evacuees in [More…]
Will the Minister consult with his counterpart in Victoria and, if it is a fact that there is now a surplus of teachers in that State, will he ask the Minister for Immigration to curtail the issue of visas to the teachers from the United Kingdom? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has made statements about this matter. [More…]
Does the Minister recall that, in answer to a question in the last session of this Parliament, I was promised information concerning the number of unions which had altered their rules in order to comply with the provisions of section 133a and section 140 ( 1 ) (d) of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, as required by the 1974 amendments to that Act introduced on the recommendation of Mr Justice Sweeney by the then Minister for Labor and Immigration, the Hon. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Any complaints by Australians concerning problems of entry to other countries, whether as individuals or as a class of person, would not be matters to be dealt with by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
May I have an assurance, in view of the vagueness of the treatment accorded these boxers, that there will be some liaison between Mr Mackellar, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and Mr Peacock, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, so that if necessary we can talk to Washington about this double standard that apparently is being applied by the United States? [More…]
I am quite prepared to give an assurance that I will seek the cooperation of Mr Peacock, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr MacKellar, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, on this matter. [More…]
There has been no cutback on immigration. [More…]
In fact, immigration has been increased. [More…]
For example I refer to the whole pupilteacher ratio, the use in future of teachers in various ways-their use in the technical and further education field; their use in the pre-school fieldand the question of whether Professor Borrie ‘s projection on immigration will be correct in the long term. [More…]
They failed to discuss vital issues such as education and immigration. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs whether she is aware that there are now living in Australia 86 Chileans who fled their country following the military coup in Chile in 1974. [More…]
Is it a fact that these 86 persons are in danger of deportation having arrived here illegally this year, according to the immigration authorities? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister Representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
While I certainly have no quarrel with our immigration program I believe that in these days when we are nearing zero growth and when our population is nothing more than static, the natural Australian family must be encouraged. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Senator GUILFOYLE The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has made an announcement that a national ethnic broadcasting advisory council and State ethnic broadcasting advisory committees will be established in the near future. [More…]
No decision has yet been made about who the appointees to the committees and the council will be, but I know that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is desirous of having representative bodies and I feel sure that smaller and minority ethnic communities will find representation on them. [More…]
The decision to permit these people to land was taken by the Regional Director of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs at Darwin in accordance with established procedures relating to persons arriving as crew or passengers of vessels. [More…]
In a survey carried out by the Department of Labor and Immigration in 1 975 it was found that nearly 50 per cent of unemployed youth had not attempted any education beyond the ninth year, in other words they were leaving school at 14 years of age, or the tenth year, which means they were leaving at 15 years of age. [More…]
When the Labor Party came to office it inherited an immigration advisory council. [More…]
Since March we have had 3 Ministers for Foreign Affairs, 3 Ministers for Defence, 3 Ministers for Health,’ 3 Ministers for Education and Science, 3 Attorneys-General, 2 Treasurers, 2 Ministers for Labour and National Service, 2 Ministers for Immigration, 2 Ministers for the Navy, 2 Ministers for Housing, 2 Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and 2 Ministers for Supply. [More…]
It relates to the joint statement made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications on 9 September dealing with ethnic radio. [More…]
-Will the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs confirm that refugees from Vietnam recently have arrived in ports around the Gulf of Siam and are not allowed to land at those ports? [More…]
-I think that the matters raised by the honourable senator ought to be the subject of a considered answer from my colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs in respect of the first questions, and from my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in respect of the last question. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 ) One journalist seconded from the Department of Administrative Services (AIS) was attached to the Department of Labor and Immigration when the administrative arrangements of 22 December 1975 were made. [More…]
A second journalist was seconded to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in March 1976. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It will be recalled that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs announced on 28 May that Timorese evacuees in Australia could apply for resident status and that those evacuees who decided not to apply for resident status would have their tern,porary entry permits extended to 30 June. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, refers to an article on page 1 1 of this morning’s West Australian regarding a Miss Michelle Santangelo who is desirous of remaining in employment in Kalgoorlie. [More…]
I will seek an answer from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and will see that it is given to the honourable senator without delay. [More…]
I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard a statement which was made in the other place by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) relating to new Government initiatives on Lebanese migration. [More…]
The normal immigration criteria were relaxed for Lebanese who had suffered hardship as a result of the conflict within the Lebanon. [More…]
The task force will remain in Cyprus for 3 months and the special immigration operation in Nicosia will then be reviewed. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I am informed that earlier this year the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs discussed the matter raised by the honourable senator with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. [More…]
Posters could be seen in the Department of Labour and Immigration which read: ‘Mothers Liberation’. [More…]
When Senator James McClelland took over as the Minister for Labor and Immigration not a day went by when honourable senators opposite were not screaming about the NEAT scheme. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has the sole responsibility for determining the eligibility for admission of people for residence to Australia, including children who are admitted for the purpose of adoption. [More…]
I am the Minister responsible for the adminstration of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act. [More…]
He expressed to me as late as last night certain serious disquiet about the methods followed by the Australian Embassy or its immigration officers in Rome in the case of an Italian tourist, Mr Andrea Piroso, in the town of Badolato, in the province of Catanzaro. [More…]
I simply convey it to the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), who represents the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Can the Minister advise whether this is one of the 23 racist organisations referred to by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in the House of Representatives? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I will refer this matter to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations to see what measures are being taken at present and what others may be introduced to minimise industrial accidents of this nature. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [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…]
I refer to previous questions which I have asked him up to 6 weeks ago about the financing of ethnic radio in Australia and the joint statement issued on 14 October by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications. [More…]
Mr Bond demands not only that these people be given special priority as refugees but also that the normal processing time through the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, which is stated to be 8 to 12 weeks, be speeded up to 2 1 days. [More…]
It is pleasing to note that the Government so far, or at least so far as can be gleaned by public statements on the matter by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), has resisted pressure on this issue. [More…]
For all the reasons stated, and some others not stated, I trust and hope that the Government will rigorously maintain the policy which has so far been enunciated by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar. [More…]
As you will be aware, following the changes of Government in South Vietnam and Democratic Kampuchea last year, the previous Australian Government announced, through Senator James McClelland, Minister for Labor and Immigration, on 1 1 November 1975 - [More…]
He asked the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) a question without notice seeking information on what the situation would be so far as Australia was concerned and asking for an assurance that any Thai student who felt endangered by the coup d’etat in Bangkok would not be forcibly repatriated. [More…]
I would like a definitive statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the Thai students who are already resident in Australia. [More…]
Senator Baume would be aware that the present Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, said that any Rhodesians intending to come here would be asked or vetted- to the degree that we can ensure security- as to whether they had aided or abetted any anti-monarchy attitudes within the Ian Smith Government. [More…]
Such people have a legitimate right to seek immigration to this country. [More…]
What we are opposed to, and what Senator Walsh referred to, is mass immigration by a number of people from a certain country who want to settle en masse in one corner of this country. [More…]
I had cause to place on notice some time ago several questions relating to Rhodesia and I want to refer to an answer given to me by Senator Guilfoyle on behalf of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
As the representative in this chamber of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), Senator Guilfoyle would know that there is a lot of interest in that area concerning Chilean refugees. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Will she ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to refer the matter to the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations for investigation and possible action under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
I understand that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has been informed about this matter. [More…]
The matter with which I concern myself is the administration of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Education. [More…]
Having made those initial remarks, I draw to the attention of the Senate and particularly of the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton), who is at the table, the delays that are taking place in the office of the Minister’s colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in making final replies to representations made to the Minister on behalf of constituents. [More…]
The honourable member for Parramatta in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Mr Barry Wilde, wrote to me in May this year and asked me to make representations to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs concerning the desire of one of his constituents to bring some people to Australia. [More…]
On 2 June I made appropriate representations to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Representations were made by me to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on 18 June. [More…]
I urge the Minister in charge of the Bill to bring my initial remarks to the notice of his colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
Does this Unit co-ordinate or liaise with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
I shall make inquiries with regard to the degree to which it has liaison with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and advise the honourable senator accordingly. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I shall refer it to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to see whether there is any information which he can provide for us. [More…]
I wish to relate my remarks completely to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Recently Senator Guilfoyle, in her capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), presented a list of statistics relating to the Australian Citizenship Act 1948. [More…]
When we severed immigration and ethnic affairs from the Department of Labor, taking into consideration the broad concept of fewer migrants coming to Australia we expected to have an ample work force to process things quickly. [More…]
I return to the other matter that I have hammered for a long while, and that is the capacity of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney to give citizenship applications a reasonably speedy processing. [More…]
I would like officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to give me an idea of whether, in view of staff ceilings, there is a 3 months delay in processing applications for citizenship. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill raised several matters with regard to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the first of which was with regard to Australian protected persons. [More…]
I will reply firstly to matters raised by Senator Mulvihill last week in relation to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
-My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, refers to the Vietnamese vessel which arrived in Darwin yesterday, Wednesday, 10 November. [More…]
The refugees are at present at the quarantine station in Darwin pending the decision of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as to their status. [More…]
I did hear that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs was having discussions in regard to this matter this morning. [More…]
The meeting that was held this morning of officials of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on this matter brings some further information to me. [More…]
The information is that the refugees are presently being interviewed in Darwin by officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It should be stressed that until the investigations by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs have been completed no precise information as to the future placement of these refugees can be given. [More…]
-Strictly speaking this is a matter which belongs to my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and not to the Prime Minister. [More…]
As mentioned in my letter of 1 9 October 1 976, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs would provide a separate answer to the aspects of the Rhodesian question which are their concern. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Hon. [More…]
The Senate Hansard of 1 June records Senator Guilfoyle ‘s reply on behalf of the Minister ‘for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to question on notice No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Are reports accurate that the Minister has refused to permit the department to participate in the forthcoming Austcare and Australian Council for Overseas Aid Conference on the problems associated with Rhodesian immigration to Australia? [More…]
Of course, variations in either fertility or immigration rates could change the whole pattern. [More…]
The question of residence status is, of course, a matter for my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in another place. [More…]
I want to ventilate to Senator Guilfoyle, the Minister for Social Security, a couple of matters that come within the province of Mr MacKellar, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, whom she represents in this place. [More…]
I think it will be appreciated by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, or at least by the Minister for Social Security, that Mr Hutchinson had this to say: [More…]
I might say that all the officers of the Immigration Department and the Commonwealth Police have been most helpful. [More…]
I might say that all the officers ofthe Immigration Department and the Commonwealth Police have been most helpful. [More…]
In the answer to 2 (b) the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs said that the United Nations defined certain Chileans as political refugees. [More…]
It has a reference number in respect of immigration correspondence in which, I emphasise to the Minister, it is asserted that the United Nations- I take it that it would be the refugee commission- made an approach to this Government 6 months ago. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Ethnic Affairs Unit within the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has functions relevant to the terms of reference of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
It most probably would have been my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The question of granting permanent residence to such students is a matter for the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) but we do have responsibility for Australian Government sponsored students under the Colombo Plan. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs stated the Government’s policy in the House of Representatives on 13 October 1976 as recorded in Hansard at page 1827. [More…]
As I have been in communication with a number of Thai students in recent times and as I have been in correspondence with both the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in respect of this matter, I want to add some comments to what Senator Primmer has said and generally to support the plea which he makes for a number of students who are now left in a dangerous situation, for reasons which I think have not been entirely covered by Senator Primmer, and who should now have the benefit of being able to stay in this country. [More…]
The Colombo Plan students are the concern of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the private students are the concern of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The New South Wales Association of Immigration Reform took up his case and wrote to the Minister on 1 1 November, asking that permanent residency be granted to the professor. [More…]
Senator Primmer also referred to the statement made in the House of Representatives on 13 October by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
I am able to give further information from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on this matter. [More…]
I am able to state that there have been requests from groups of Thai students to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to be granted permanent residence in Australia prior to the completion of their studies. [More…]
However, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs does make it clear that any claims by students to stay in Australia under the circumstances of which we have been talking would be considered on their merits. [More…]
I have no information with regard to financial assistance that may be required by the students under the circumstances about which we have been speaking, but I shall refer that matter to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and obtain a response from him. [More…]
With regard to the general question of applications that are received y the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I can give the assurance that these will have a most sympathetic consideration and, I believe, an assurance that help will be given to the students who find themselves in those difficult circumstances that have been mentioned in the Senate tonight. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I am aware that recently the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has made certain statements with regard to a new interpreter authority. [More…]
I shall refer it to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and obtain an answer from him. [More…]
I shall refer the question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to obtain an answer for the honourable senator. [More…]
-I undertake to refer the matters raised in the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and assure him that I will attempt to obtain an early answer to the matters raised. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
-I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I ask: Now that the matter has been resolved and Mr da Silva is on a bond to be of good behaviour for one year, will the Minister accede to a request by Mr da Silva that he should leave Australia next Wednesday for Mozambique and not respond to a request from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that he should leave this Sunday? [More…]
I ask the Minister to give favourable consideration to his request because the demand by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs means that Mr da Silva would have to overstay at Mauritius for one week, thus endangering his personal safety. [More…]
I will refer it to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and see that an early reply is given on this matter. [More…]
Honourable senators would know from the brochure distributed by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, that until 30 November there was a transition period during which British citizens could obtain Australian citizenship within 12 months of coming to this country. [More…]
I am unaware whether the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has announced the formation of 2 resource centres. [More…]
I will seek from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs what statements he has made on this matter so that I do not pre-empt any information that he may care to provide. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
As we are unlikely to have any debate on immigration before this session ends, can the Minister obtain from her colleague in the other place an undertaking that the recommendations will be examined and implemented and that the Minister will have tabled in this chamber and in the House of Representatives a statement concerning the progress made in implementing the recommendations contained in the report? [More…]
I was speaking with my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, on this matter this morning. [More…]
I undertake to draw Senator Harradine ‘s question to the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I am not sure whether this question of the appointment of the Community Relations Council comes within the area of responsibility of the Attorney-General, whom I represent, or under the jurisdiction of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I refer to a decision of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, of which I was advised by letter dated 25 May 1976, that Mr G. O. Stewart and his family could enter Australia as permanent residents. [More…]
I have some information on this matter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Unfortunately Mr Stewart could not be interviewed and could not undertake the health and other formalities during a visit to Calcutta by an immigration officer in late July. [More…]
The only available alternative is for him to wait for the next visit by an immigration officer to Calcutta in the first week in February. [More…]
I will refer the question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to see whether Mr Stewart’s entry can be expedited. [More…]
I refer to the joint statement by the Minister for Immigration and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications some 3 months ago about the future of ethnic radio in Australia and subsequent questions which I have directed to Senator Carrick and the answers thereto. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Government’s policy on Immigration and Ethnic Affairs states that Australians should be encouraged to develop an understanding of the cultures, language and history of migrant source countries, that appropriate ethnic studies should be introduced into teacher training curricula and that ethnic communities should be consulted and supported in their own programs of ethnic education. [More…]
I instance the case of a number of eastern European illegal migrants, metalliferous miners, who after speaking to the Australian Workers Union and certain employers, and following liaison with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, were given crash courses in their occupation. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
In the exercise of this discretionary power successive Ministers- Ministers of Immigration prior to the transfer of responsibility to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1975, and Ministers for Foreign Affairs since then- have followed the practice of requiring an applicant for a passport, if married, to obtain the consent of his or her spouse. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that Mr Brian Horgan, who was until yesterday the endorsed candidate of the Liberal Party of Australia for the Legislative Assembly electorate of Balcatta in Western Australia, has announced that he no longer wishes to contest the election on behalf of the Liberal Party for a number of reasons, among them being the fact, according to him, that Liberal Party officials in Western Australia have been describing him as a pommy’ and his wife, who is of Greek descent, as a ‘ wog’ and that he has announced that he will now support the Australian Labor Party member for the electorate, Mr Brian Burke? [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs follows a question which I raised in the Senate the other day concerning the very fine report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Australia and the Refugee Problem. [More…]
But I believe the Senate is aware of many statements which have been made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in past months about our assistance and our willingness to assist those refugees whom we are able to help in Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The immigration program operates on a global basis and Australia’s involvement at the present time is limited to the normal family reunion or occupational criteria. [More…]
Apparently the Australian Attorney-General and the Minister for Immigration felt that if he was deported he would have paid his debt to society for his crime. [More…]
The subject of deportation comes under the control of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), or if a claim for political asylum were made it would come under the jurisdiction of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock). [More…]
I refer to the joint statement by the Minister for Immigration and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications some 3 months ago about the future of ethnic radio in Australia and subsequent questions which I have directed to Senator Carrick and the answers thereto. [More…]
I direct this question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and/or the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
Will the Minister confirm that the Australian immigration office in the United Kingdom advertised during midJanuary 1977 for potential migrants in the skilled trades? [More…]
I could perhaps answer the first part of the question with regard to advertising which it may have been claimed was misleading and give some information from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on this matter. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and I refer to processes at reception centres for refugees from various places in South East Asia, particularly Thailand. [More…]
Can the Minister and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs give assurances in relation to health checks and tests in Australia on these refugees? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Health. [More…]
I can give no definite information with regard to the matters raised in that report but I am able to say that the whole of the function of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Social Security with regard to migrant services is to assist the integration of migrants and their settlement into this country. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs made a recent announcement about a unit dealing with ethnic affairs in his own Department and other matters which will be of assistance to migrant communities. [More…]
I shall refer to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and to the Minister for Health the specific matters raised in the question but I give the assurance that in whatever way we are able to identify assistance to migrants we are proceeding to do this, and to enable migrants more fully to determine the assistance which they require. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I should like also to mention immigration. [More…]
We agree that immigration is important in many ways for Australia. [More…]
It concerns reports which reached Australia during the overseas visit of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, when he was alleged to have said that there would be a new 6-point plan to improve the position of Italian migrants to Australia and also that he was discussing a new social security arrangement with Italy. [More…]
I believe the Press report of the statement of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs slightly misinterpreted the matter and gave the impression that there was a greater degree of conclusion about it than is actually the case. [More…]
We have had a long history of immigration from many countries and I believe it would be desirable as early as possible to have some conclusion on these matters. [More…]
The problems with the present system here certainly have been highlighted by 3 appointments made by the Labor Government during its term of office- the appointment of Mr Menadue as Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the appointment of Dr Wilenski as Secretary of the Department of Labor and Immigration and the appointment of Mr Spigelman as Secretary of the Department of the Media. [More…]
He too was placed in the position of secretary of one of the departments of State, in his case serving as Secretary of the former Department of Labour and Immigration between March 1975 and December 1975. [More…]
1 wish to make it quite clear that posts were instructed that a visa should not be issued to any person of this name without reference in the first instance to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Canberra. [More…]
This information was conveyed to the Commonwealth Police late on 22 February and on 23 February arrangements were made with the co-operation of the New South Wales Police for Mr Teresa to be located with a view to his being interviewed by officers of the Commonwealth Police and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has directed that the visa issued to Mr Teresa in San Francisco is to be cancelled and he is to be instructed to leave Australia immediately. [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government bring to the attention of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the concern being expressed in north Queensland about an increasing number of citizens of Papua New Guinea illegally entering that area and staying on? [More…]
My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs follows that asked earlier today by Senator Mulvihill about Vincent Teresa. [More…]
I have received information that at 2.45 p.m. Mr Teresa was being interviewed in Sydney by officers of the Commonwealth Police and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
-My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, follows on from yesterday’s question about the future of Vincent Teresa. [More…]
I shall refer the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and, if necessary, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs to see what action was taken in conjunction with the New South Wales Police in dealing with this matter so expeditiously yesterday. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Australia’s immigration policies will be implemented by the Government and not under threat from any union. [More…]
-Strictly speaking, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs controls the issue or non-issue of visas. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is addressed to Senator Guilfoyle as Minister for Social Security and also in her capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Will the Minister request her colleague to refer the question to his Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for investigation? [More…]
To my mind the moral of the story is that we need closer liaison between the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It is a fact that primarily immigration was seen as a means of providing a source of semi-skilled and unskilled labour. [More…]
The fact is, that after 25 years of mass immigration, one needs a magnifying glass if one is to find a migrant in the leadership of a union. [More…]
Of course, the higher levels of aspiration in relation to the son of work which people might be expected to do was encouraged in Australia by 20 years of immigration from Europe. [More…]
This is the first Green Paper dealing with Immigration policies and Australia’s population ever to be tabled in this Parliament. [More…]
Australia clearly enunciated its goal to achieve through immigration an annual population growth of 1 per cent to supplement natural increase which was also expected to be about 1 per cent. [More…]
Having established the goal, it set out to achieve it through a vigorously promoted, but selective, immigration program. [More…]
This is not to say that Australia’s immigration programs during the past 3 decades have not been accompanied by problems. [More…]
Unless there is an increase in the birth rate, we will be approaching a situation where the numbers of births and deaths will be equal and, in the absence of an immigration gain, Australia will experience zero population growth. [More…]
Indeed, the experience of several developed nations suggests that Australia could even be facing further falls in its birth rate and a future loss of population in the absence of immigration. [More…]
Over recent years, we have also seen a rapid rundown in the rate of population growth through immigration. [More…]
This represents a growth rate for the financial year of less than 0.15 per cent through immigration. [More…]
In considering the immigration options open to Australia, we must bear in mind that Australians themselves are a mobile people. [More…]
If we are to avoid regular losses of such needed skills, it is imperative that Australia should maintain some level of immigration which is selective in regard to occupational skills. [More…]
This component of our immigration program would also appear indispensable unless its underlying humanitarian objectives are to be jettisoned. [More…]
This element also, I believe, should be a necessary part of any immigration policy and I hope to announce soon the policy guidelines within which Australia’s future responses to such situations will be made. [More…]
As the Green Paper indicates, issues underlying immigration cover a diverse range of topics. [More…]
In terms of an annual immigration program, the Green Paper suggests that feasible limits might be net gain in the range of zero to 100 000 persons per year. [More…]
High tribute is due to the Australian Population and Immigration Council which has prepared this Green Paper. [More…]
I should like to pay particular tribute to the part played by the late J. F. Rich who died 2 days after the Green Paper was adopted by the Australian Population and Immigration Council. [More…]
It is now 30 years since the great post-war immigration program was begun. [More…]
That immigration program was introduced by a consensus of people of vision, people confident about the future of Australia, a growing Australia. [More…]
I have no intention of placing any blame for the present situation, but I wish to state the position and to indicate, amongst other things, the total inseparability of the figures relaing to employment, education and immigration. [More…]
I start with immigration. [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…]
That is the total figure for net immigration into Australia. [More…]
In periods of stability and prosperity we tend to have full employment and to increase our immigration, but we also go through periods when we increase the school leaving age and reduce the age for retirement. [More…]
It referred to the legislation which was passed by the Parliament last year- it was debated in the Senate in the middle of November- concerning collegiate voting and changes made in legislation on that subject which had been passed under the Labor Government when Mr Cameron was the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
By way of preface I mention that the subject matter of my question touches on the responsibilities of at least 3 Ministers, namely, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Education. [More…]
There may have been some approaches and they may have gone to my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and refer to a report prepared by Mr Dunn bf the Legislative Research Service of the Parliament concerning Timorese refugees in Portugal. [More…]
Can the Minister indicate what action has been taken by Australian immigration authorities to contact Timorese refugees in Portugal who may wish to come to Australia? [More…]
In particular, will an immigration office be established in Lisbon to handle applications from Timorese refugees? [More…]
242 on the notice paper Senator Georges calls for statistics relating to the current position of applications for immigration from East Timorese in Portugal. [More…]
This information is being extracted by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in reply to the question and will be provided as soon as possible. [More…]
The figure given by Mr Dunn concerning the proportion of refugees who are said to have relatives in Australia overstates the total as known to the Department of Immigration and [More…]
An Australian immigration officer has been stationed in Portugal to handle processing of applications, including those from East Timorese evacuees. [More…]
While obviously many aspects of the issue are dealt with by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), it nevertheless remains a foreign policy issue, an issue which will have an impact upon our relations with countries around the world. [More…]
I add that I think the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has shown an enlightened approach to the plight of IndoChinese refugees. [More…]
They could involve a wide range of Commonwealth departments’ such as the Department of Overseas Trade, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Department of Defence, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Primary Industry, the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Department of Science, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and Radio Australia and the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I note that you have submitted Mr Copelo ‘s case to my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and since I received your letter, I have had my Department discuss Mr Copelo ‘s case with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
As you know, decisions on entry and stay in Australia are the responsibility of my colleague, but my Depanment will naturally be making available to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs information which it holds on the situation in Uruguay, to assist in determining Mr Copelo ‘s case. [More…]
I direct my question to Senator Guilfoyle in her capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The figure given by Mr Dunn concerning the proportion of refugees who are said to have relatives in Australia overstates the total as known to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Can the Minister explain how the information was presented to her because information supplied to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in December by the East Timorese Refugees Committee stated that there were 794 persons with relatives in Australia, which is approximately 50 per cent of the total number of refugees? [More…]
Would the Minister remind her adviser in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that the Senate expects accurate information in answer to questions asked in this chamber? [More…]
The answer was given yesterday as a result of advice from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs which has at its disposal all facts relating to the people from East Timor who in some cases were seeking refuge in this country. [More…]
I do not know whether the statement made today by the honourable senator is based on the information of Mr Dunn and whether it is claimed that it is more accurate than all the information held by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Subsequent to those applications, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs decided that he would waive the occupational criteria for brothers and sisters of persons resident in [More…]
If this continues immigration may not let me return. [More…]
It is something of a pity, but it appears to me that our collective departments and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) have not taken the time to study the Committee’s report. [More…]
However, they are requested to sign a statement allowing the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to provide the compiled list of names to the Indonesian Government. [More…]
We have an immigration officer stationed in Portugal. [More…]
The Refugee Resettlement Co-ordination Committees include representatives from Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Education, Health and Employment and Industrial Relations; from State Departments of Health, Education and Welfare and the Depart.ments responsible for Ethnic Affairs; from voluntary organisations such as Red Cross, St Vincent de Paul, and Salvation Army, and from many other organisations including ethnic and religious associations and from refugee groups. [More…]
Upon arrival in Australia, customs and other reception formalities are co-ordinated by the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs who also arrange movement of the refugees to migrant hostels or similar accommodation. [More…]
I look forward to, and am certainly willing to hear, discussion from honourable senators on anything that we are able to do in the Department of Social Security or in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs- the Department whose Minister I represent in the Senateto assist in the resettlement of these people whom we welcome to this country. [More…]
She was well known in the 1840s as the first exponent of the functions of a good neighbour immigration service for women who came to this country, some as ticket of leave prisoners and others as bonded servants. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and refers to the situation in East Timor, which has been raised already by Senator Primmer. [More…]
I suggest that the specific questions that have been raised today be placed on notice so that definitive answers can be given by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
On one occasion I referred to a quotation from that letter to further my representations which are directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andrew Peacock, and to the Honourable Michael MacKellar, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I note that you have submitted Mr Copelo ‘s case to my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and since I received your letter, I have had my Department discuss Mr Copelo ‘s case with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
As you know, decisions on entry and stay in Australia are the responsibility of my colleague, but my Department will naturally be making available to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs information which it holds on the situation in Uruguay, to assist in determining Mr Copelo ‘s case. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs will give me a feedback. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 10 March 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs are not conducting any inquiries into Mr Teresa’s activities whilst he was in Australia. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the former Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, approved this practice in principle? [More…]
I have raised certain questions on the position of Timorese refugees and the stance that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has been taking on their entry into this country. [More…]
There seems to be some determination on the part of the Immigration Department to classify these people in terms of refugees and in terms of migrants. [More…]
I hope that the immigration criteria will not be confined merely to what may be described as the close family relationship criteria which we use in respect of so many other migrants to this country. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr Mackellar) is doing so. [More…]
Australia by the Department of Labor and Immigration in 1 974 in which it was stated: [More…]
None of us will decry the efforts that were made by his Minister for Labour and Immigration, Senator James McClelland, in the last three or four desperate months of the Whitlam era to try to curb the abuse of the use by trade unions of political pretext in order to create demands for higher charges and dislocation in industry. [More…]
They expressed the view that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) surely could not understand what the Chinese meant by family when he had made a limitation to what we understand perhaps in Australia as the nuclear family. [More…]
The second question concerned the signing of the letter which had been sent out from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Before any Australian Immigration action can proceed in East Timor, it will be necessary for you to give your written agreement, in the form shown below, to details of your nominees being given to the Indonesian authorities. [More…]
Should it be possible to finalise arrangements for a visit by an Australian Immigration Team to East Timor, the Indonesian authorities will arrange for the location of your nominees and their attendance at the Immigration Processing Centre in Dili. [More…]
I agree that the names and addresses of my nominees may be provided to the Indonesian authorities so that they may be located and assembled for Australian immigration processing in East Timor. [More…]
One of them went so far as to suggest that we limit the signing of the form to relate to only those who would be assured of being accepted for immigration. [More…]
The last concern which I had was that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has adopted the rather unusual practice of saying to people who are nominating refugees to come out, firstly, ‘Are you a Fretilin supporter? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 15 March 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
This figure had been derived from information received from the Migration Officer in Madrid who was then responsible for immigration activities in Portugal, on the basis of actual applications received and from lists in Portuguese of what might be called “tentative” applications submitted from various sources. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 1 7 March, 1 977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions- [More…]
How many copies of (a) the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry; (b) the report of the Inquiry into Australian Broadcasting; and (c) the Green Paper on Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population, were made available for distribution respectively to (i) members and senators; (ii) the Australian Government Publishing Service for sale to the general public; (iii) public libraries throughout Australia; and (iv) libraries of universities and other tertiary education institutions throughout Australia. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, refers to the application by Mr Chris Santos for permanent residence. [More…]
I am unaware of any duplication in payments by my Department and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic [More…]
I thought the department to which the honourable senator referred was the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
An interdepartmental committee comprising representatives of the Department of Social Security, the Department of Education and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has been evaluating the need of this clearing house. [More…]
Consideration should be given to the immigration of the people we need to generate more demand for Australian manufactured goods as well as to provide more employment within manufacturing industry. [More…]
It was the thought, as much as anything else, of the massive unemployment which faced people in the manufacturing industry that led me to become an advocate of wage restraint when I became Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs- Review of Activities to 30 June 1976 [More…]
I understand that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) will be presenting a Green Paper on refugee problems. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Are overseas visitors or personnel arriving by direct flight at Pine Gap and other foreign bases in Australia exempted from customary immigration, health or customs checks, or subjected to different immigration, health or customs checks from other overseas visitors? [More…]
If so, how can this fact be reconciled with the statement made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that the same provisions and checks would apply? [More…]
Immigration and Ethnic Affairs- Sydney, Adelaide Brisbane, Perth, Hobart. [More…]
The matter that I wish to raise on the adjournment tonight concerns an application for immigration by a Mr D’Leno. [More…]
I took up the case on 9 January 1976 when I wrote to the current Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) requesting him to grant an entry visa to Mr D ‘Leno, Miss Thorton ‘s fiance, under the appropriate provisions of the Act. [More…]
On 24 April 1976 I wrote again to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, disputing the reasons given by Mr Ellicott in his undated letter received on 28 June. [More…]
I request that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), who represents the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in this chamber, convey this complaint to the Minister with a request that it be speedily resolved. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to ensure that the matter is resolved promptly and properly. [More…]
Earlier in this sitting day Senator Walsh raised a matter concerning immigration. [More…]
I give him the assurance of the Government that the matter will be referred to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) for his urgent consideration. [More…]
Has the Minister’s Department made any survey of education needs in Australia during that period ahead, taking into account the findings of the Australian Population and Immigration Council? [More…]
Without taking away any particular government’s credit, I say that originally this was the brainchild of a former Minister for Labour and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron. [More…]
I know that the other aspect of the present link between the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the job assessment criteria for migrants could be improved. [More…]
When this Government felt that there was a separation between the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs it was considered that it would be all right if there were very effective co-ordinating links, but I do not think we have these links. [More…]
As late as this week I got a letter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, which indicated that an application could be successful where somebody is sponsoring a migrant to come to Australia on the basis of family reunion. [More…]
The point I am making is that I do not believe the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations is working as effectively as it could work in making joint decisions with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Although Senator Carrick is not here he would appreciate that since this Government came to power I have been arguing for a continuation of the idea of the former Department of Labour and Immigration to create an authority something like the Institute of Chartered Accountants to ensure adequate recognition of the proficiency of interpreters and translators. [More…]
I know that this Government sort of backed and filled because originally Senator Carrick was going to be responsible for it, then I believe Senator Guilfoyle was to have it through Social Security and then later I believe there was a tug of war about the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs having it. [More…]
The other matter that I want to refer to deals with the question of immigration. [More…]
I raised the matter with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, via Senator Guilfoyle. [More…]
I appeal now to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister has advanced theories about the immigration intake and certain categories in which it would appear there is a lack of certain skills. [More…]
Inflationary pressures, lower birth rates, reduced immigration, changing patterns of consumption expenditure as incomes rise and industrial development of other countries in our region, have all contributed to a major change in outlook for manufacturing industry in Australia. [More…]
To this end: it has ratified the Convention on the Status of Refugees, it is a member of the Executive Committee of the UNHCR and contributes to the resettlement funds of the UNHCR it recognises the need through its immigration policy to fulfil the legal obligations required by the Convention and to develop special humanitarian programmes for the resettlement of the displaced and/or the persecuted. [More…]
1 ) The Government will consider proposals from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for designating refugee situations and appropriate responses to them. [More…]
A Standing Interdepartmental Committee on Refugees comprising senior officers of the Departments of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Chairman), Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Finance, Health and Education with other Departments and the Public Service Board to be coopted as necessary, will be established. [More…]
This Committee will: advise the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the capacity for accepting refugees, consult annually, and otherwise as necessary, with voluntary agencies regarding the numbers they would accept for resettlement, recommend co-ordination for arrival and immediate resettlement, regularly review the intake of refugees against the capacity of resources in this country to ensure successful resettlement. [More…]
Provided satisfactory sponsorship is available, a small number of such refugees could be accepted on a case by case basis by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Refugee Unit of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs will be strengthened. [More…]
Senator MULVIHILL (New South Wales)by leave- Anybody who has read the Minister’s statement and related it to chapter 5 of the Green Paper on immigration would realise the complexities involved. [More…]
I believe that while we have people of such high calibre in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and other offices the Government will make reasonable decisions. [More…]
asked the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 21 April 1977: [More…]
1 ) Are there immigration program targets set each year on a country by country basis, or on a regional basis. [More…]
What sums of money have been spent on migration advertising by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in the countries referred to above. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 ) and (2) The annual immigration program is not set on a country by country or a regional basis. [More…]
For many years the Government has followed the practice of announcing a total immigration program in respect of the ensuing financial year. [More…]
Present immigration policy applies in a nondiscriminatory way to applicants who satisfy the entry criteria relating to family reunion, occupations in strong and continuing demand in Australia and refugee and other special cases. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I refer to reports in a news sheet issued by the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra and reporting that Indonesia has agreed to an Australian immigration team visiting East Timor to contact East Timorese who may wish to be reunited with members of their family now living in Australia. [More…]
I am aware of a report in the Indonesian newspaper of 26 April 1977 concerning an agreement between Australia and Indonesia on visits by teams of immigration officials. [More…]
The report accords with the parliamentary statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs which was made on 30 March this year that the Indonesian Government had agreed in principle to a visit to East Timor by a team of Australian officials to interview Timorese who are eligible for entry and who have been nominated by relatives in Australia. [More…]
In order to support that claim I should like to point out that a study carried out in September 1975 by the Department of Labor and Immigration of unemployed juniors registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service showed that of juniors registered with the CES nearly half- 47 per cent- had not gone beyond third form secondary; two-thirds had not gone beyond fourth form; and in country areas 72.4 per cent of junior unemployed males had not gone beyond fourth form. [More…]
If we put those school retention figures together with the study conducted by the Department of Labor and Immigration of unemployed juniors we can see that the unemployed school leavers with whom we are concerned are in general the products of the poorest state schools, they are the children who had the least opportunity at school and they are now the members of the work force with the least opportunity to secure employment. [More…]
This paper was prepared by the Australian Population and Immigration Council, which was established by the Fraser Government. [More…]
The paper is titled ‘Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population’. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) also has to be congratulated on his initiative in suggesting to the Council the general theme of the paper. [More…]
First, it has identified the major immigration issues to be discussed. [More…]
Secondly, it has illustrated the relationship between the variables in the population equation and the linkage effects of immigration and general population policy decisions on the socioeconomic system. [More…]
The latter has achieved effectively the overall principal function of producing the paper- that of identifying and discussing the major issues to be considered in immigration and population inquiries. [More…]
First, our immigration program has been substantially run down. [More…]
Thirdly, international crises are creating pressures on us to clarify our attitude on accepting refugees and on our total humanitarian immigration program. [More…]
The Government has attempted to tackle the task of immigration with zeal and enthusiasm. [More…]
It covers all aspects of the population and immigration issue, from background chapters covering such areas as goals and options, population growth rate trends and recent policy history, right through to a discussion of the effect of immigration on the economy and the possible policy options. [More…]
I would like to concentrate my discussion on the effect of immigration on the economy. [More…]
The paper concentrates on immigration as an option in population policy. [More…]
However, as the report notes, immigration is the population variable most readily controllable by government in seeking specific population goals. [More…]
The objectives of immigration can be reduced to two: Firstly, those serving specific national interests such as providing needed manpower for industrial and economic development and more generally stimulating Australia’s economic growth; secondly, those of a humanitarian nature. [More…]
The fact that immigration policy is a component of both these objectives, each motivated by quite separate and different considerations, is very important. [More…]
It is an unfortunate fact that the socio-economic system imposes a finite limit on our immigration absorptive capacity. [More…]
This chapter convincingly supports the very real necessity for a consistent and sustained immigration intake if we are to ensure a healthy economy and a high standard of living in Australia. [More…]
The paper rejects criticism that Australia’s immigration program has had adverse effects on capital accumulation, economies of scale, technological progress, employment and economic stability. [More…]
Firstly, it deals with capital requirements, costs and immigration. [More…]
This area resolves to a discussion of 2 major assertions: Firstly, the question of the viability of an immigration program in the light of the demands it makes on investment in infrastructure- social overhead capital- for instance, welfare, education, housing and so on. [More…]
There is little evidence that immigration is a major retarding influence on the growth of the capital-labour ratio in industry. [More…]
The paper suggests that in the short run immigration may have a dampening effect on the rate of growth of productivity and thus real wages. [More…]
This is perhaps the area of most discussion and debate in immigration considerations. [More…]
In this area immigration has supplemented areas of shortage of both skilled and unskilled labour. [More…]
The question which is so often asked and which is dealt with quite adequately in the paper is this: Has immigration increased pressures sustaining the high level of unemployment in Australia? [More…]
It is a fact that the Green Paper rejected as insupportable claims that immigration has added to unemployment. [More…]
Immigration is a positive policy instrument in alleviating this. [More…]
From all the arguments the fact comes clearly to light, that the immigration policies adopted during the last few years have not Deen in the best interests of this country. [More…]
That it is difficult to support claims that immigration has made an independent and continuing contribution to inflation. [More…]
It has clarified many fundamental misconceptions and unjustified fallacies about our immigration programs. [More…]
This applies especially to the effect on unemployment levels and real wage rates, a subject much exploited by unions both in voicing and in attempting to justify their opposition to immigration. [More…]
In any assessment of immigration this distinction is vital. [More…]
It is vital also in considering the costs of immigration, especially in present times when these might appear uneconomical. [More…]
Firstly, it presents the option of cessation of immigration, as such, which is dismissed as totally unfeasible. [More…]
As the Minister noted, the success of an immigration policy is dependent upon its being actively pursued and being based on a public consensus. [More…]
During a great deal of this period when we have been accepting refugees into Australia our immigration program has been flowing at a very high level, so much so that in addition to those people to whom I have just referred we have spent a great deal of time and money seeking more migrants from what we have known as the migrant source countries. [More…]
Indeed the Green Paper on immigration policies and Australia’s population points out also that historically victims of many different circumstances have been called refugees. [More…]
Therefore the statement which the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has put out is interesting and welcome. [More…]
The committee will advise the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on a number of matters. [More…]
I think that we will learn in a few days, if not tomorrow, that Austcare- the major nongovernment organisation in Australia for caring for refugees- is disappointed about this, especially in view of the conferences that were held between the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, his Department and the nongovernment organisation. [More…]
Senator Lajovic raised a very interesting issue with regard to future population policies in Australia, particularly as they affect immigration policies, which is a matter of great concern to all of us. [More…]
He talked about the working of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
I want to take this opportunity to raise a couple of matters dealing with the citizenship aspect of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Starting at the top, with the honourable member for Chifley, Mr Armitage, I have had informal talks with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, concerning some cases. [More…]
I am sure the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) will be interested to hear the honourable senator’s comments on this matter; the constructive suggestions he has made are very practical ones which should have our consideration. [More…]
I cannot canvass any changes in arrangements which would be the matter for a subsequent Budget, but I shall draw the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) to the matters raised. [More…]
Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I hope there is some way in which the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) or the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) can examine whether he is a desirable visitor to this country. [More…]
I asked about this gentleman and the passport he possessed because when the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) was the Minister for Immigration in a previous government, the New Zealand Minister for Immigration, Mr Colman, came here. [More…]
They conferred with people in Australia who were interested in immigration. [More…]
I agree that our Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) should confer with the Minister responsible for Immigration in the Muldoon Government. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) will convey my remarks to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to get a decision. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 30 March 1977: [More…]
On what demographic basis is the Government now proceeding to re-formulate its immigration policies in the absence not only of this survey/but also of any detailed analysis of the 1976 Census. [More…]
-The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: (I), (3) and (4) The International Statistical Institute, which is responsible for the management of the World Fertility Survey, has recently decided to extend the deadline for participation in the Survey to 1 982. [More…]
Australia’s population and immigration policies are kept under continuing review in the light of changing demographic trends and prevailing economic and social conditions in Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 5 May 1 977: [More…]
This was after Senator James McClelland and Mr Clyde Cameron had been Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
I have not received a reply to that question from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
Surely the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has a duty to make some decision on this application as soon as possible and relieve Mr Santos of the worry that is currently in his mind. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 24 May 1 977: [More…]
-The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 25 May 1977: [More…]
The Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The action in the past few days with regard to the refusal of entry to two Croatian people was a decision taken by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs because he believed that on the information available to him it would not be in the interests of the Australian community for the people in question to visit Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 1 April 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs had personal discussions with Mr Goncalves recently in Canberra and correspondence is continuing. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]
1 ) Who were the three persons referred to in the Minister for Labor and Immigration’s answer to Senate question No. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Immigration: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 24 March 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 20 April 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]
1 ) Do United States personnel enter and leave Australia by direct flights to and from Alice Springs without undergoing normal immigration and Customs procedures. [More…]
) If the answer to ( 1 ) is in the negative, where and when does the Government carry out immigration and customs checks on United States personnel arriving at Alice Springs on direct flights from Guam. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Earlier this year the Minister advised that a party from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs would visit East Timor to investigate the circumstances of Timorese people who had made application to come to Australia. [More…]
I will seek information regarding the visit to East Timor from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
As it is essential for the Department of Social Security to obtain information from the Department of Immigration and [More…]
-I think it is fitting that we should commence this session with a perusal of this very important Green Paper entitled ‘Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population’, because I think that immigration spells job opportunity. [More…]
Like Senator Davidson, a former Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council, I know a number of people who participated in its formulation. [More…]
I make this comment as I proceed: The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) probably knows of this dismemberment between the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and of a case ibr more emphasis on the secondary needs of migrants. [More…]
The Green Paper on immigration raises the question whether we should maintain a target of 5000 political refugees outside the normal categories of people entering Australia mainly as permanent migrants. [More…]
Because of the unfortunate illness of my colleague, the shadow Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Ted Innes, I had the job of submitting an immigration paper to the Australian Labor Party National Conference in Perth. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs will probably study all our comments. [More…]
I should like to congratulate the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) for bringing down the Green Paper on Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population. [More…]
We have noted the success of the last 30 years whereby immigration has greatly assisted the economic development of Australia and also its cultural development. [More…]
It is doubtful whether systems of immigration such as the guest worker concept, which is used in countries like Germany, contribute very greatly and successfully to the development of their particular culture. [More…]
In fact I noted from a Press statement from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on 6 August that last year migrants transferred $358m into Australia, which more than offsets the amount of $3 13m which was sent back overseas. [More…]
Again, according to the statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on this matter, statistics in fact relate to people who at some time during the preceding 12 months experienced unemployment for as short a period as one week. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 25 May 1977: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I refer particularly to the joint statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications of 15 August relating to advisory committees on ethnic broadcasting services. [More…]
I ask: Will the Government, in giving effect to its decision, take care to consult people involved in immigration and ethnic areas so that all areas of opinion, action and experience, as well as contemporary interest, will be involved? [More…]
I undertake to draw to the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the matters which were raised in the honourable senator’s question. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Will the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs be seeking legal means of deporting migrants, who could be citizens of this country, because they choose to become active members of the trade union movement? [More…]
-I will refer the matter that has been raised by the honourable senator to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
-Australian citizens and people having resident status in Australia may apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of decisions made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs under section 12, 13 or 48 of the Migration Act 1958. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
-There are in the question a number of matters which relate to my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and there are other matters which relate to my own responsibility. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 1 7 August 1 977: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 3 1 May 1 977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
When I look across at Senator Guilfoyle, who represents the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I am reminded that although there is a multiplicity of nationalities in Wollongong, Rex Connor was not a man who asked the Senator to do his work for him. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It should be understood that under our immigration policy of reunion of aged parents with their children in this country it is provided that the sponsor shall submit a written undertaking to be responsible for the full time maintenance of the nominee as a prerequisite to the issuing of a visa. [More…]
This paper is the first Green Paper on immigration policies and Australia’s population that has been tabled. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that Australia’s immigration policies for the last 30 years or so have developed essentially on the basis of agreement between both major political groupings in the Parliament. [More…]
This in itself is one indication of the success of the Australian immigration program. [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…]
I think previous conservative governments have seen immigration as something akin to a tap which can be turned on or off in accordance with the prevailing economic climate in the country. [More…]
Therefore I think we must look very carefully at the statement of the Australian Population and Immigration Council that Australia has the capacity to absorb some 100,000 settlers annually. [More…]
While the Green Paper is to be commended for a reasonable assessment of Australia’s immigration needs and future trends in population, I think a number of questions should be posed. [More…]
They are not posed either by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) or the Immigration Council. [More…]
These are some of the questions that should be posed in order to be totally realistic in assessing our population and immigration needs for the future. [More…]
It is no good looking at immigration in isolation. [More…]
We, as a country, have much to gain from investigating in full and searching detail our immigration needs and our projected population growth for the last quarter of the 20th century and beyond. [More…]
a ) Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs- [More…]
The new Ethnic Affairs Branch of the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, staff for which is now being recruited from inside and outside the Commonwealth Public Service, will have responsibility, amongst other matters, for developing an overview of the position of migrants in the community in relation to health, welfare, housing, education, employment, communications, the law and other matters affecting their integration; identifying gaps in services or programs and, in co-operation with appropriate government and non-government agencies, developing approaches and pointing to action to remedy deficiencies. [More…]
The terms of reference of the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council require it to advise the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the major policy areas mentioned above. [More…]
who have been admitted to Australia and for the administration of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1973 which provides for the guardianship of children who are admitted to Australia and have no other legal guardian or whose overseas adoption is ruled invalid under the legislation of the various States or Territories. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is directed to Senator Guilfoyle both in her capacity as Minister for Social Security and as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs because the matter falls within the responsibility of both portfolios. [More…]
There is liaison between the Department of Social Security and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs with regard to refugees who come into this country. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs also provides services for them. [More…]
This afternoon I want to refer to immigration and Aboriginal housing. [More…]
I should like to deal firstly with immigration and the restrictions which are now placed on migrants coming to Australia and the refusal of this Government to re-admit migrants who have been admitted previously as residents. [More…]
I question whether politics are involved in the operation of immigration policy. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) made a statement about the Vietnamese refugees who landed in Australia. [More…]
I wrote to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on 26 July this year. [More…]
Consequently, I cannot see my way clear to waiving normal immigration requirements to permit them to settle in Australia at the present time. [More…]
Are we so lacking in compassion in Australia that, even if there were a possibility of the son being unemployed and having to receive social service benefits, we cannot afford to give some assistance to a woman who is in a suicidal state as a result of the action of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
Mr Seed came to see me to ask me whether I would take the ashes of his wife to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as he holds him responsible for her death. [More…]
I bring up these cases in the hope that at least there will be some reconsideration of them if the relevant Minister in this place reports to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the points that I have made. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Mr F. Garforth; Anglican Immigration Office [More…]
Father Van Melis-Catholic Immigration Office [More…]
Father Heaps- Catholic Immigration Office [More…]
Mr M. T. Stretton; Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I recall the earlier question and the statements that I made as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on that occasion. [More…]
The Australian Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has asked me to write to you concerning alleged problems being experienced by elderly South Amercian migrants living in Sydney and, in particular, the comments of Mr N. Maina Secretary of the National Australian Association. [More…]
Australia’s immigration policy which is nondiscriminatory on grounds of race or nationality gives priority to the reunion of close family relatives with Australian residents. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has requested that your readers be assured that the views of Mr Maina and his organisation are not representative of Australian opinion. [More…]
We have decided- I will be making an early announcement of this-that an interdepartmental committee and a committee of Ministers for a number of departments, including Education, Health, Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Aboriginal Affairs and my own department- maybe others as well- will work towards the observance of this Year. [More…]
-My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
One of the questions which I answer as the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs relates to whether I was aware of Mr Whitlam ‘s statement with regard to services for migrants. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Has the Minister received a report from a committee comprised of officers of his Department and of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs relating to enthnic radio and access radio for ethnic minorities. [More…]
The Report is a confidential report to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and myself and is not written for publication. [More…]
I suggest that anybody who is in any doubt as to his citizenship should ascertain the position from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, which administers the Australian Citizenship Act-not the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
1 will also make arrangements with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to have produced for display in each divisional office posters listing the eligible countries. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I refer to the actions of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic [More…]
Did the police subsequently interrogate these people and detain a small number for breaches of the Immigration Act? [More…]
I understand from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that on the night of 18 September officers of the Department of Immigration, in co-operation with officers of the Commonwealth Police, visited the premises of the Tak Lee Club and the Fook Lee Club in Melbourne. [More…]
Reports on these people will be submitted to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs shortly to enable him to decide whether they should be deported. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has developed expertise in this difficult area and continues to collate information on the subject both from within Australia and from immigration services overseas. [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…]
The question of further action in respect of these persons is under consideration by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
At present, the Senate Estimates committees are meeting and a great deal of information was given to the committees with regard to the estimates of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the services to migrants in my Department. [More…]
I do not believe that it would be competent for me as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to relate to the Senate what the Department requested. [More…]
Negotiations between the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs and Labor and Immigration commence immediately on the transfer of responsibility for the Special Work Projects Scheme to the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
(i) The Department of Labor and Immigration be authorised to immediately fill all vacant positions in the Aboriginal employment sections; and (ii) there be an immediate review of the establishment of the Aboriginal employment sections of the Department of [More…]
Labor and Immigration which will carry out duties associated with the recommended expansion of the Special Work Projects Scheme; and [More…]
On 17 August as recorded in Hansard at page 122, Senator Mcintosh asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, a question without notice as to whether the Minister will be seeking legal means of deporting migrants, who could be citizens of this country, because they choose to become active members of the trade union movement. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has supplied the following information for answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Health by referring to a news release from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs dated 23 September. [More…]
The purpose of this enhanced program is to supplement existing surveillance activity with light aircraft to detect, report and act on, as appropriate, illegal landings and breaches of Australia’s quarantine, immigration, fishing and Customs laws, including the location of Vietnamese refugees through the co-ordinating machinery of the Marine Operations Centre. [More…]
As to the suggestion about the sinking of boats which arrive under those circumstances, 1 will have that drawn to the attention of the Minister for Health, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and the bodies which are undertaking this additional surveillance to see whether there is validity in the suggestion, bearing in mind our very strict laws on animal, plant and human quarantine. [More…]
Despite the fact that I and other persons in the community who are concerned about this matter have made repeated representations to the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Staley) and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), there is no allocation in the Budget to provide any special services for migrants. [More…]
M. J. R. MacKellar, M.P., Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It should be understood that when I use the first person singular pronoun I am referring to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
A study of the economic costs and benefits of immigration was one of three projects commissioned by the Commonwealth Government in 1970. [More…]
Two of these- the National Population Inquiry, headed by Professor W. D. Borrie, O.B.E., and the 1973 immigration survey- were completed in good time and produced valuable results. [More…]
The report of the 1973 immigration survey, which was entitled ‘A Decade of Migrant Settlement’, was tabled in Parliament in September 1976. [More…]
These two reports provide a valuable data base for the formulation of Australia’s future population and immigration policies. [More…]
I now refer to the report on the third project, the cost-benefit study of immigration. [More…]
Associate Professor J. R. Wilson, of the University of Sydney, in 1970 undertook to carry out a costbenefit study of immigration. [More…]
His appointment was recommended by the then Immigration Planning Council and the project was subsequently placed under its general supervision. [More…]
Successive Ministers for Immigration pressed to have the study completed as did I. [More…]
1 believe that I will, in expressing some regret about the apparent quality of the report, speak not only for myself and the Government but also for previous Ministers for Immigration who, like me, had hoped for a greater contribution to an understanding of the economic impact of the post-war immigration program than this report offers. [More…]
by leave- I journeyed to the Parliamentary Library to study a copy of the report on the cost-benefit study of immigration. [More…]
I speak with some interest in and some authority on this subject because I know that during the term of the previous Government the Minister then responsible for immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, and the immigration committee of the era, of which I was the Chairman, were very anxious to get something worthwhile out of this project. [More…]
I would rather say that, in view of the fact that there was a lot of controversy about this subject and there was perhaps a justifiable desire to get an effective assessment of the cost-benefit of immigration, it is a rather dismal document. [More…]
I noticed that the Minister for Science (Senator Webster), who today in this chamber is representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr Mackellar), did give the impression that his counterpart in the other place was not in a position to say why there was such a delay in the presentation of the report. [More…]
I have held the view over the life of successive governments that the machinery in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations may not be sufficiently tooled up to enable one to try to assess the manpower demands in industry in the face of automation. [More…]
-On 25 August 1977, Senator Robertson asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the following question, without notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
A proposal for a member of the Timorese Committee for Permanent Residence to accompany the Immigration team to East Timor was received. [More…]
As negotiations with the Indonesian authorities for the entry of an Australian Immigration team are proceeding the Committee’s proposal is not one which could be accepted because of the risk that the inclusion of persons other than officials might jeopardise further progress. [More…]
The comment may be a reference to the Report of the Consultative Committee on Ethnic Broadcasting, which reported to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications in July 1976. [More…]
-The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I will refer the question that has now been raised to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to see what information is available at this stage. [More…]
Taking the example of this very important area in regard to migrants a step further, an announcement was then made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Honourable Michael MacKellar, on the establishment of a new body to boost translating and interpreting. [More…]
Statistics provided by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) show that the various categories of people who will be admitted to this country comprise mainly people with training. [More…]
-I have been looking through my brief but I cannot find a poster which has been designed in co-operation with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh, Mr Clyde Cameron, as the Minister for Labor and Immigration was the first Minister of recent years to do anything to try to redress the rapid diminution of apprentices. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
There is in my own department a considerable degree of advertising and other means of communication of our programs but we will participate in this new program announced by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, in view of the continuous controversy in the media about adult migrant education, inform the Senate of the latest situation with respect to the supply and demand for adult migrant education services. [More…]
I assume that the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, on behalf of Mr MacKellar, the Minister for Immigration, will also introduce legislation. [More…]
The second aspect to which I refer relates to Australian Security Intelligence Organisation immigration posts and liaison offices. [More…]
I would like to believe that the Department of Immigration will go back through its records to the 1950s and pull out the files on everybody who has been denied citizenship and that it will write to those people in order to give them an opportunity for citizenship. [More…]
I would like to believe that the Department of Immigration, with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, will go through every file and pull out the files on people who have been refused citizenship, that then some of these people will be given an opportunity to confront their accusers. [More…]
I ask for leave to continue my remarks, confident that the Department of Immigration particularly will accelerate an investigation into some of these injustices which are on file and which are crying out for redress. [More…]
by leave- I wish to inform honourable senators on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), and myself of the Government’s decision today to allocate an additional $2.3m for migrant education programs for the remainder of the 1977-78 financial year. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I will refer that matter to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to see whether he has some information that can be given to Senator Sibraa. [More…]
Admittedly, I recall hearing Mr Clyde Cameron the other day get up and make a personal explanation that he did not resign as Minister for Labor and Immigration and take over the portfolio of Science and Consumer Affairs; he was sacked. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The second case I mention, which I think is equally important, has some Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs overtones. [More…]
I do not know whether false information was given at the immigration end or perhaps even at the passport section of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
It would appear that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is not the only body doing some work on this matter. [More…]
Such a provision would be completely in conflict with Australian policies, particularly the immigration policies which are administered without discrimination as to race or colour. [More…]
Late in 1975 the then Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James Mcclelland, requested Mr R. M. Northrop Q.C.- as he then was- to report on the views of the parties to the industry as to what they saw as the problems associated with the existing arrangements and the action they considered appropriate for the Government to take as to future arrangements. [More…]
At a later stage when we deal with the estimates for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs I intend to name a Sydney solicitor, but he is not the one named by the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin) as being the man involved in one or two cases of misleading migrants into believing that they could get permanent residence when their grounds were extremely slender. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
-I direct a further question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The information I have received from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is as follows: Mr Adjei did not claim to be a refugee. [More…]
The Committee has recommended that further consideration be given to the introduction of a national identity card system which could also have advantages to other areas such as health and immigration. [More…]
A Press statement released by the Minister states that other functions of the Committees will include: to develop ongoing consultations with ethnic organisations and provide a focal point for all matters relating to ethnic broadcasting in the State; to advise the SBS on the extent to which the Broadcasting time available and the scope, standard and content of ethnic radio programs reflect the needs and interests of the ethnic communities concerned; and to keep the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, similarly informed. [More…]
The reason we were included in the membership of that committee was that each of us in his time had been chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
When I was chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council we did not exclude or discontinue membership to anybody. [More…]
I notice that in the Press release of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), he gave the names and locations of the personnel of the New South Wales and Victorian Ethnic Broadcasting Advisory Committees. [More…]
I do not expect Senator Carrick to have the information with him but tomorrow when we deal with the estimates for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs I should like to find out what positions those people hold. [More…]
It deliberately appointed a representative from the Government and the Opposition to the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
When somebody from the Government made a statement on immigration issues the Opposition representative would know how much it was coloured by party political allegiances. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware of the recent attempt to disrupt the operation of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs through the sudden dumping by some clever Dicks in the Labor Party of an extremely large number of applications for citizenship upon that Department’s Melbourne office? [More…]
I understand that my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs received a report on 1 November this year. [More…]
The Minister has been informed that the reason given for not forwarding the applications to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs at an earlier date was that an action committee associated with the applications wanted the people concerned to be interviewed outside working hours in the areas in which they live. [More…]
As far as the citizenship ceremony held recently at Oakleigh is concerned, it has been reported to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that some disruption took place during the proceedings caused by three persons who later identified themselves as members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
With regard to action to be taken, I remind the Senate that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs wrote to all parliamentarians in October this year, referring to the citizenship ceremonies and mentioning that such a ceremony is a formal legal process in which the whole community unites in welcoming new citizens to this country. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [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…]
It is a fact that refugees are being accepted into this country who may otherwise have been delayed in their applications for immigration or who in some cases may not be accepted as applicants for immigration. [More…]
I am seeking to do so due to the late arrival of the immigration report. [More…]
Apparently our immigration office in London was making one reference to a British migrant who was involved in a criminal activity and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) was saying something different. [More…]
The next document concerns details from the Portuguese community about the failure to have adequate Portuguese translators at the office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 November 1 977: [More…]
What action is being taken by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to facilitate the settlement of these migrants in Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs whether the Government has considered the question of the nationality of the nearly 2000 Timorese in Australia. [More…]
-I turn to document B which is a letter signed by Senator Durack as the Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
M. J. R. Mackellar, I am writing in reply to your letter of 16 January, 1977 addressed to the Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on behalf of Miss Estrella De Mohaded of 1 /50 Wiley Street, Waverley, N.S.W., 2024, concerning the entry to Australia from Argentine of her sister, Miss Ana Maria Mohaded. [More…]
The Minister has a copy of the telegram which I shall call document C. In the telegram I drew the attention of the Minister for Immigration (Mr MacKellar) to the fact that if we were cutting corners in relation to the boat people as political refugees at least we could do the same for Latin American people. [More…]
The document read as follows- text of telegram to immigration minister Mackellar i 3.2.78 [More…]
I understand that the Australian Government has some immigration officers in Latin America. [More…]
One of the letters to which I have referred implies that an Australian immigration officer was trying to reach this Argentinian penitentiary. [More…]
I ascertained from my last telephone call to the central office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that in December the Argentinian Government said there was no such person as this girl in a gaol. [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…]
I have been told by Foreign Affairs that the list of names of individuals which was given to you by the delegation from the Committee for Solidarity are being processed through the Brisbane Office of theDepartment and Labor and Immigration. [More…]
It is only because I have not received a reply from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) to my communication of 12 January that I raise the matter. [More…]
She presented her documents, including the re-entry visa, to the immigration officials. [More…]
I thought it was fairly normal that in most circumstances a person picked up even on a murder charge is entitled to make one phone call, but apparently a murder charge and the Immigration Department at the Perth airport are two separate and entirely different things and the same courtesies do not apply. [More…]
Mr Stein’s wife had to wait three days before her reentry visa was stamped, but his foot was hardly out of the door of the plane before officers were taking his passport and his visa off him to stamp and making sure that he was the first through the immigration procedures. [More…]
If it was at the direction of someone in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the officer responsible for the direction should be located. [More…]
I wish to respond briefly, in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), on the matters that were raised by Senators Mulvihill and Coleman. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs indicated to Senator Mulvihill in a letter of 1 February 1978 that he was prepared to authorise the Australian Embassy in Buenos Aires to issue a certificate to the appropriate authorities to the effect that, provided our officers were permitted to interview Miss Mohaded and she successfully completed entry requirements concerning health and character, a visa would be issued to enable her to travel to Australia. [More…]
As I stated earlier, I will again refer the matter to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and draw his attention to the way in which Senator Mulvihill presented this problem tonight to see if further action is possible by the Australian Ambassador or the Government to facilitate the processing of the application concerning the person who has been the subject of our discussion tonight. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has said that we hide our heads in the sand, that there is a shortage of skilled workers, that these positions cannot be filled by Australians and that skilled replacements must be brought from overseas. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and relates to the address given by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to the Australian Retailers’ Association Council of Management which was reported in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald. [More…]
Does the Minister’s statement made yesterday indicate an increase in the annual immigration intake? [More…]
Does the Minister’s emphasis on the future and not on, as he called it, obsession with the present’ suggest that the Government is planning a wider and more diverse immigration selection? [More…]
I have in front of me a copy of a report entitled Population Report 1 which was produced in November 1977 by the Australian Population and Immigration Council. [More…]
The chairman of that organisation is the Honourable Michael MacKellar, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I know one applicant who is very worried, as is his daughter- who was a social worker in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs- whether, if their names were on this list, it has militated against them. [More…]
Immigration is one such subject that I hope will be debated at length during this session, if only to overcome some of the popular myths which surround it. [More…]
There are many myths in Australia about immigration and several of them have been aired since this Parliament resumed. [More…]
Recently Dr Cass, the shadow Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, aired certain myths about immigration. [More…]
He stated that immigration should be cut to the bone. [More…]
Whilst the Government is certainly attempting to overcome current and projected shortages of skilled manpower, the avenue of immigration is only one of those that are to be followed. [More…]
The policy for an immigration program certainly is not based purely on such economic criteria. [More…]
The Government’s immigration policy is not as Dr Cass asserts, singularly devoted to the goal of economic growth. [More…]
Australia has derived from its immigration program. [More…]
Before I finish my remarks I would like to quote from a statement made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Would the use of a private plane to bring to Australia a person who had been refused a visa to enter the country be a breach of the immigration laws? [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and relates to the claim by the Premier of Queensland that he might travel to the Cook Islands to bring Mr Brych into Australia if the Federal Government does not agree to let him in. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Lastly, is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs contemplating reviewing his decision in this case? [More…]
Has the Minister had discussions with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs about these reports, particularly in relation to the non-resident aspect and also the current reported concern about the already surplus number of doctors practising in Australia? [More…]
I have been advised by the Minister for Health that this matter has received some consideration with regard to not only reviewing the current immigration procedures but also taking into account in medical schools the possible oversupply of doctors. [More…]
The eligibility of people to immigrate under the current immigration policy should not be confused with the eligibility to practise, which is the matter which I referred to as being the responsibility of State governments. [More…]
As a result of a clerical error the Press release in question was prepared on headed paper normally used for announcements made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he can arrange for the Government members’ committee on immigration and employment and industrial relations to co-ordinate with this body to overcome the present impasse where employers who want tyre builders are rejecting a National Employment and Training scheme retraining concept and are suggesting an intake of overseas tyre builders. [More…]
The Minister will agree that in effect this is really a litmus test of a successful immigration policy. [More…]
The honourable senator referred to a government committee on employment and industrial relations and immigration. [More…]
I will raise the question of bringing in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and relates to the question asked yesterday by Senator Young concerning the extraordinary situation in South Australia where in the past two years some 1 ,200 overseas doctors have registered to practise although they do not live in this country. [More…]
That is the position as far as the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is concerned. [More…]
Increased public awareness of drug-running breaches, and breaches of fisheries, quarantine, immigration and other Australian laws has heightened the need for an examination of offshore law enforcement methods. [More…]
The Executive has initiated moves for a joint Northern Territory-Queensland-Western Australian approach to impress on Canberra the seriousness of drug smuggling and illegal immigration in the north. [More…]
The Migration Act, which is administered by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, is also applicable. [More…]
People regard fishing, illegal immigration, drug running and introduction of unwanted disease as representing a defence function. [More…]
An Australian coastguard should be set up now, equipped with Australianmade patrol boats and medium range aircraft to perform the essential civil task of protecting Australian fishing and marine mineral resources and enforcing Australian customs, immigration, transport and health laws in Territorial waters and within the proposed extended economic zone? [More…]
Not only will we have to protect the resources in that area; we will have to perform the health and quarantine functions, prevent the illegal importation of drugs and other goods and prevent immigration offences. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Are we to assume, on the basis of Press reports, that the impending discussions between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs will be restricted solely to Vietnamese refugees? [More…]
I am advised by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that the discussions wtih the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and his officials are not confined to the Vietnamese but cover a review of refugee-type situations throughout the world. [More…]
-On 2 1 February this year the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) wrote to Mr Mu Pingue Fongue, the Secretary of the Timorese Committee for Permanent Residence in Australia, in the following terms: [More…]
He has been in that situation for some two years now, and because of what seems to me to be bureaucratic indifference in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, nothing has been done to expedite the bringing of one or both of his parents to Australia. [More…]
All that has done has been to raise new sets of hopes, somewhat cynical I suppose, in view of the fact that this matter was first mooted by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as early as March 1977, and that nothing has happened since. [More…]
I conclude by referring the Senate to the report of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid of August 1977 entitled ‘A Response to a Green Paper- Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population’. [More…]
Matters which they raised very strongly relate to the immigration team which we hope will soon go to Timor. [More…]
It was promised that we would have an opportunity to send people from our Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to Timor to investigate those who want to come here. [More…]
I suppose that it will require that photographs be taken to ensure that the people actually interviewed are the people the immigration team wants to interview. [More…]
So when the governments of the two countries reach agreement that an immigration team should go there, we should ensure that such a team does not cause greater danger to the people there but that it interviews people who desire to come to this country and whom we desire to come to this country. [More…]
I believe that the standards laid down by our Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for allowing these refugees to come from Portugal to Australia are altogether too strict. [More…]
‘families’ should be widely interpreted in the terms of the culture and background of the refugees concerned rather than according to the normal criteria of Australian immigration procedures- this would involve the acceptance, appropriate to each particular ethnic group, of degrees of what we might describe as extended families ‘; [More…]
Our responsibility as I see it is, firstly, urgent and effective pressure from Australia for the acceptance by Indonesia of an Australian immigration team in Timor and the achievement of early reunion of families from there; secondly, for a more compassionate re-examination of the Portugal refugee program and the bringing from Portugal of many more of the people who are there at the moment and who want to come to Australia; thirdly, pressure for International Red Cross to get back into Timor and also for us to supply aid to these families in Timor; and lastly, support for the Timorese leadership financially in Australia in the way that has been referred to by both Senator Button and me so that we will help the people who are here. [More…]
I have some information on this matter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
Senator Button and later Senator Missen mentioned that in March 1977 the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs announced that following discussions in Jakarta the Indonesian Government agreed in principle to a visit to East Timor by a team of Australian officials to interview Timorese refugees who were eligible for entry and who were nominated by relatives in [More…]
Until now it has not been possible, despite the statement in March 1977 of our Minister for Immigration, to take any action regarding the nominations submitted by close relatives of Timorese in Australia. [More…]
However, the Indonesian Government has advised that arrangements for a visit to East Timor by a Department of Immigration team will be discussed after the elections this month. [More…]
I will draw the attention of the Minister for Immigration to the comments made by the honourable senator and I shall obtain a response from him. [More…]
I simply summarise by saying that I feel sure that the case of the East Timorese refugees that has been presented to the Senate will receive the urgent and active attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Home Affairs. [More…]
On 30 December 1977 the Administrative Appeals Tribunal delivered its decision on an application by Mr Alvaro Salazar-Arbelaez for review of a decision of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to deport him from Australia. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the following question, without notice, on 2 March 1978. [More…]
Would the use of a private plane to bring to Australia a person who had been refused a visa to enter the country be in breach of the immigration law? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
If, however, the person brought to Australia sought to evade immigration controls, and the person bringing him here was a party to such attempted evasion, this would be unlawful. [More…]
Senator Peter Baume asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the following question, without notice, on 7 March 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It is based on a Press release of last week wherein the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs stated that, after consultation with the United Nations Refugee Commissioner, he had created an interdepartmental committee to consider the political refugee status of people entering Australia obviously on tourist visas and of those who present themselves at Australian ports for the same privileges. [More…]
Coupled with an earlier assurance about the unique situation besetting Latin American nationals, I ask the Minister: In addition to the statement, what has been done to meet the situation that is confronting the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs now in respect of Latin Americans in gaols who are offered exile to another country but are not recognised at the moment by the Minister as genuine political refugee applicants. [More…]
When making the original statement the Minister for Immigration had in mind that he would arrange for any cases referred to him by the Latin American community to be examined as quickly as circumstances would permit and that he would give them compassionate consideration. [More…]
Perhaps that could be arranged directly between the senator and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My Department confirms that the interpreter was not an employee of the Department and a check with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs reveals that he was not an employee of the Telephone Interpreter Service. [More…]
I must say that the Indonesian Government has agreed, following the presidential election, that an immigration team should go to East Timor to obtain the reunification of families. [More…]
In March 1977 the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) promised that a team would visit East Timor directly within six months to look at the whole question and he said further that negotiations were in process with the Indonesian authorities. [More…]
In essence, there appears to be a lack of co-ordination between the Department of Immigration, the Department of Productivity and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Did a party of immigration officials go to Thailand to discourage refugees from coming illegally to Australia? [More…]
I shall refer the question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
If that is the case, I ask the Minister- and this is the third occasion on which I have raised this matter: When will we get some rationalisation or consistency of policy between the ministries of Productivity, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Mr Street’s Department to resolve the impasse with the rubber manufacturers as to whether we fill the gaps with tyre builders who have been through a mini National Employment and Training scheme or, as the multi-nationals imply, by recruitment from overseas? [More…]
As I understand it, visas are issued by the Minister for Immigration and [More…]
The documents are simply letters directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr McKellar), with attachments. [More…]
M. MacKellar, M.P., Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, relative to the efforts of Sydney Trade Unions to aid Miss Rosa Mohaded, 1/50 Wiley Street, Waverley, NSW, to have her sister, Ana Maria Mohaded, released from the Cordoba Penitentiary in the Argentine where she has been subject to severe political duress. [More…]
M. J. R. MacKellar, M.P., Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT 2600 [More…]
Might I emphasise that I refuse to accept the direct imposition of people on the Australian Government without your own Ministerial evaluation, but on that basis I have yet to see flexibility in Latin American applicants suffering political duress approach anything like the incessant stream of boat people who claim to be escaping from a Left Wing Asian Government and in that context I enclose Appendix ‘B’ which shows that the girl in question must have encountered some very naive Australian Immigration Officer when interviewed as my stock question to such people would have been how much money had they made from blackmarket operations and been taxed on such money to rehabilitate their war-devastated homeland. [More…]
The couple were selected by Australian Immigration Department officials in Malaysia and arrived in Perth on Christmas Eve. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister repesenting the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It is based on a Press release of last week wherein the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs stated that, after consultation with the United Nations Refugee Commissioner, he had created an interdepartmental committee to consider the political refugee status of people entering Australia obviously on tourist visas and of those who present themselves at Australian ports for the same privileges. [More…]
Coupled with an earlier assurance about the unique situation besetting Latin American nationals, I ask the Minister: In addition to the statement, what has been done to meet the situation that is confronting the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs now in respect of Latin Americans in gaols who are offered exile to another country but are not recognised at the moment by the Minister as genuine political refugee applicants. [More…]
When making the original statement the Minister for Immigration had in mind that he would arrange for any cases referred to him by the Latin American community to be examined as quickly as circumstances would permit and that he would give them compassionate consideration. [More…]
J. MacKellar, MP, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, relative to the efforts of sections of the Sydney Latin American community to have Ana Mohaded freed from political imprisonment in the Argentine and allowed to join her sister in Sydney. [More…]
Departments-Aboriginal Affairs, Administrative Services, Attorney-General’s, Business and Consumer Affairs, Capital Territory, Construction, Defence, Education, Employment and Industrial Relations, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Health, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Industry and Commerce, National Development, Northern Territory, Postal and Telecommunications, Primary Industry, Productivity, Science, Social Security, Trade and Resources, Transport, Treasury, Veterans’ Affairs. [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…]
In recent cases in Brisbane the Department of Immigration took massive action in the early hours of the morning against Fijian visitors who had illegally over-stayed the period of their visas. [More…]
As would be known by many honourable senators, the Department of” Social Security had a migrant services section which was recently transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is of a two-tiered concept. [More…]
In the first instance, can the Minister indicate what progress the Government or the Minister has made in the creation of an immigration appeals tribunal for people who have been denied citizenship and for the handling of kindred immigration decisions? [More…]
I will refer to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the matter of the delay in replying to question on notice No. [More…]
One of the results of a country such as Australia having an extraordinarily rapid population growth, both for natural reasons and from immigration, which then slows down, is a sudden burgeoning for a number of years of academic staff appointments. [More…]
I am advised that it may turn out that the Council on Interpreting and Translating, established by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, will recommend that the College should move into some other field of interpreting and translating where there is scope for a single national course rather than provide facilities in the States. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
Up to 12 official Greek interpreters- five from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and seven from the New South Wales Premiers Department’s interpreting panel- were made available from time to time as well as three Greek speaking members of the Commonwealth Police. [More…]
On 20 September 1977 I asked Senator Guilfoyle a question concerning the Department of Immigration and Ethic Affairs and referred to the actions which that Department through the Commonwealth Police had taken against certain Chinese. [More…]
Did the police subsequently interrogate these people and detain a small number for breaches of the Immigration Act? [More…]
If the Department of Social Security, or for that matter the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs too, is allowed to continue operating as it is operating at present and if the Commonwealth Police continue to act in this massive way whether against Croatians, Chinese, Fijians, Australians of Anglo-Saxon origin or any other ethnic group, curbs ought to be placed upon them by this Parliament and the purpose of this debate is to ensure that such an operation is never allowed to occur again. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Whilst many people have considerable sympathy for migrants and, particularly, refugees coming to Australia, such as those from Timor and Vietnam, they are becoming increasingly alarmed at the continuous flow of foreign boats landing at Darwin or on the northern coast and escaping the scrutiny of our immigration and quarantine officials until they are close to shore or have actually made a landfall. [More…]
As these people are now deliberately by-passing immigration officials based in South East Asia, will the Government consider setting up a quarantine area, say on an off-shore northern island, to carry out full investigations as to quarantine and their backgrounds in an effort to safeguard Australia for the reasons I have outlined? [More…]
I know that Senator Missen will be happy when I say that there is nothing racial in what I have to state in relation to large numbers of Japanese coming in to work this project, when our immigration policy has been seriously restrictive and when we have such a high unemployment content in the local population. [More…]
I will close on that note and make this final plea to the Government: That it take the initiative, under the legislation that is available to it, to ensure that before the project is proceeded with every possible safeguard in terms of the environment, foreign investment, immigration, and any other aspect that is to the benefit of Australia is properly investigated and safeguarded. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Following the concern expressed by the Government at the number of Vietnamese refugees coming by boat to Darwin and the Government’s attempt to stop these unheralded arrivals by sending additional immigration officers to Indo-China, I ask: Is there any truth in the claim that following the previous Government’s ratification of the 1967 extensions to the United Nations Convention on Refugees, Australia is now obliged to accept all refugees regardless of number without any restriction on their entry due to a criminal record, political activity or health? [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs seen a report that the United States Administration estimates that more than 3,000 boat people arrived in Australia last month? [More…]
I shall refer those matters to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and obtain an early answer for the honourable senator. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, is based upon information that was furnished to Estimates Committee C on Friday, at which she was present, and at which her officers disclosed that the ratio of Vietnamese political refugees to Latin Americans was running as high as six to one. [More…]
I shall refer the matter to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to see whether there is any further information he can give about Latin Americans who seek entry into Australia and whether at this stage there are any other matters upon which he would like to advise. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 5 April 1 978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 5 April 1 978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
On 7 March Senator Primmer asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the following question, without notice: [More…]
Lastly, is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs contemplating reviewing his decision in this case? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
The administrative arrangements also provide for continuing liaison between the production company and the responsible Commonwealth Department which now is the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and/or the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and refers to the proposals put up by the Australian Government to Indonesia in respect of reuniting East Timorese families following the occupation of that country. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: What action has the Government taken on recommendation 25 of the report, tabled in June 1977, of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, on its Middle East reference, which urged the Government to avoid transferring foreign quarrels to Australia by taking more stringent steps to deny entry to people who had participated in, or had called for, acts of terrorism abroad? [More…]
Did a party of immigration officials go to Thailand to discourage refugees from coming illegally to Australia? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs have been stationed in Thailand since August 1977. [More…]
On 2 May 1978 Senator Douglas McClelland asked me, as representative of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: [More…]
Has the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs called for a report from his Department on the organisation? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
In addition to defence, coastal surveillance meets a number of important civil requirements, particularly fishing, immigration, health and customs. [More…]
My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs stems from revelations at the Estimates Committee hearings that our intake of Vietnamese refugees is in the ratio of six to one compared with those from Latin America. [More…]
In view of the happenings in Lima, Peru, at the weekend, and the concern of the Sydney Peruvian community as to what the future holds for people under political duress in that country, can the Minister express a view as to the continuance of a high ratio of immigration from one area as opposed to another? [More…]
In relation to the Protected Zone provisions permitting freedom of movement by the local people in the carrying on of traditional activities, the treaty will provide for cooperation on immigration, customs, health and quarantine arrangements. [More…]
In relation to the Protected Zone provisions which will permit the continued performance of traditional activities by the local peoples and continued freedom of movement about the Zone for that purpose, there will be cooperation on immigration, customs, health and quarantine arrangements, although each country will retain the right to implement national controls to prevent abuses or other possible adverse effects of the Protected Zone provisions. [More…]
In particular, the protected zone provisions of the treaty will permit freedom of movement by the local people within the protected zone, but at the same time the treaty will provide for immigration, customs, health and quarantine arrangements. [More…]
My Department, and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, attempt to make dual nationals aware of the problems they might encounter on return to their country of birth. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that over recent months, culminating in discussions during the Estimates committee hearings concerning the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I have made the point that our intake of political refugees should have a more balanced ratio. [More…]
The Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs stated: [More…]
In the past the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has argued that as some Latin Americans from countries with extreme political oppression are not in a third country it would be very difficult to process them and define them as being within the ambit of political refugees. [More…]
Our immigration figures would prove that our intake of Latin American people consists of people who have been victims of governments on the far right and, in some cases, on the far left and who have fitted in very well and met their responsibilities. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security in her capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Health and /or Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I know that they are of concern to the Minister for Health and to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Department of Health and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs are very concerned to see that any risk of reintroducing a disease of this kind is minimised. [More…]
Has she ascertained whether help had been offered either by welfare workers in her Department or the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
Accordingly the Government will move to strengthen the Information Branch of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to provide a focus for co-ordination of advice. [More…]
Many publicists and church men support coloured immigration in an attempt to justify their unfounded theories and basic insecurities for which the coloured are mere guinea pigs. [More…]
One of the consequential advantages of this legislation may be the immigration to Australia of people of wealth and all the benefits which their wealth would bring to this country if it were invested here. [More…]
The dispute with which we were concerned was between two departments- the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Finance. [More…]
On 22 May 1977 the Government decided to establish an advisory body to advise the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on refugee policy and operations. [More…]
This body is the standing interdepartmental committee on refugees, comprising senior officers of the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (which chairs the committee), Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Finance, Health and Education, with other departments and the Public Service Board being co-opted as necessary. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Acting Prime Minister or, alternatively, the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration has already announced that the Government has accepted those recommendations, in particular that which proposes that Government support for Good Neighbour Councils be phased out over a 2-year period. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs by referring to the pleas I made about the possible fate of exiled Peruvian trade union leaders who were deposited in the Argentine. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is aware of the matters that have been raised. [More…]
Only a handful of issues has, in the last few months, attracted more persistent speculation than the prospect of a revised immigration policy. [More…]
The question of immigration is rarely argued in detached terms. [More…]
The issue of Indo-Chinese refugees has brought all Australians face to face with the reality that no longer are we insulated and isolated from immigration questions of immense significance. [More…]
Immigration ought to be above partisan political polemics and largely it has been. [More…]
The issue between us has never been the fact of immigration but the quantum and nature of intake. [More…]
Since 1 974, immigration policies have been very tightly defined. [More…]
While there has been a shortage of hard data on which to reach firm conclusions regarding the economic effects of population growth and immigration, many have seen a link between post-war economic development and large-scale immigration. [More…]
It was against this background that, in 1976, the Australian Population and Immigration Council prepared a Green Paper on Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population. [More…]
The issues were discussed at Conferences of Commonwealth and State Ministers for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs over the past year. [More…]
There is a remarkable degree of unanimity among the States on the importance of a continued positive approach to population building through immigration, and on related policy measures. [More…]
There has never been, in Australia, so comprehensive a review of immigration. [More…]
Though the Government must give priority to resolving the prevailing economic difficulties facing Australia, it believes that population and immigration policies lay the foundations for tomorrow. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs been drawn to the reported remarks of the Secretary of the Wollongong Trades and Labour Council this morning that refugees coming to Australia from Vietnam are not in fact genuine refugees but include former pimps, brothel keepers and other undesirable people? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and I have stressed on a number of occasions that the Government is determined to screen arriving Vietnamese to ensure that they are genuine refugees according to the Geneva Convention. [More…]
After all, this Authority was the brainchild of a very illustrious Minister for Labor and Immigration, the Honourable Clyde Cameron. [More…]
and (3) An interdepartmental working group, convened by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, has been convened to consider the policy relating to the entry into Australia of private overseas students. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and/or the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and refers to the proposals put up by the Australian Government to Indonesia in respect of reuniting East Timorese families following the occupation of that country. [More…]
On the matter of East Timor family reunions, in February this year the Indonesian Government advised that final arrangements for a visit to East Timor by an Australian immigration team would be discussed after the Indonesian presidential election which was held in late March. [More…]
1 have noted a recent reported statement by the Indonesian Foreign Minister that in principle his Government could receive Australian immigration officials in East Timor. [More…]
Commonwealth support for migrant education at the schools level from 1971 to 1975 was provided under the Immigration (Education) Act, 1971. [More…]
1 ) Commonwealth involvement in the teaching of English to migrants began in October 1947 when a significant program of instruction for displaced persons was begun by the Commonwealth Office of Education at the request of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
See the public statement of 6 July 1978 which I issued jointly with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, or to the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
I am not sure that this question falls within the responsibility of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, whom I represent, but I shall see that information is obtained and that Senator Mulvihill is advised. [More…]
Assistant Director- Melbourne- Yehuda Svoray (Act ing pending permanent appointment) vice Uri Themal (transferred to Immigration and Ethnic Affairs 20 February 1978) [More…]
Even statisticians cannot succeed in projecting human fertility or, in fact, immigration programs. [More…]
I could take the matter a little further and refer to a very competent officer in the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I refer to a Press statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) dated 2 June, in which it is stated: [More…]
Announcing this today, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Hon. [More…]
Obviously the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs was concerned to see that the Northern Territory Good Neighbour Council was being disbanded because he said in a telegram of consolationalmost of condolence- to the Northern Territory Good Neighbour Council: [More…]
There is a big job to do outside the Darwin area and the migrant resource centre proposed by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affiairs following the Galbally report would not be able to do this job. [More…]
I have made the point that the migrants accept their value, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs accepts their value and I am sure honourable senators would all see the value of avoiding the creation of a problem. [More…]
Representations were made to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on behalf of Bozo Dubajic alias Ronald Orbinski, while he was being held in custody following his arrest on 19 May 1978. [More…]
Mr Baird was given the names and telephone numbers of officials in the US Immigration Service in Los Angeles and was advised to call the Consul-General again should he require further assistance. [More…]
Perhaps the question asked by the honourable senator raises a wider issue of policy with specific reference to immigration matters. [More…]
If the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs favoured the importation of tyre builders from Uruquay and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations favoured an employer such as Firestone Australia Pty Ltd upgrading employees, and there was an impasse between the two departments, would such a matter concerning a major component of Government manpower policy go to Cabinet for a final decision? [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party was in government I was able to persuade the then Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron, to open a Commonwealth Employment Service regional office in Murray Bridge. [More…]
One illustration of this point is that the Government runs its current immigration intake program on the basis of skills categories. [More…]
Every month or every few months the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) puts out a list of skills categories under which persons wishing to migrate to Australia can qualify as being eligible for immigration. [More…]
If the Government can identify those areas of needed skills for the purpose of its immigration program, surely it could identify them for the purpose of establishing a proper work force training program. [More…]
As a matter of fact, even a year after the Labor Party came to power- that is, in 1974- the CES offices did not have much to cope with because at that stage the Labor Minister for Labour and Immigration said that we had ‘overemployment’. [More…]
I charge the Government with this worsening unemployment position as a result of its utter failure to implement adequate retraining policies and adequate manpower policies and its utter failure to implement adequate immigration policies. [More…]
In relation to the employment section I cannot see spelled out any means of getting advice from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs about how many people are in the pipeline. [More…]
It is in this sort of case that there is a failure to mesh employment and immigration. [More…]
I wish to hammer the point that the employment service is responsible for job placement but unless there is a better meshing with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that is the sort of situation that can arise. [More…]
I make that criticism and I ask the Minister to tell me how we can achieve this link with the Department of Immigration. [More…]
It is true that at the moment there are co-ordinating committees in the capital cities that evaluate demand, but in the case I have instanced, because the Immigration money ran out in early June, there has been a time lag on trade tests in Europe. [More…]
I then wrote to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) about the case. [More…]
This afternoon I received a phone call from the woman saying that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs had said that the South Korean mechanic they had employed had to leave next week. [More…]
We eulogise the capacity of the employment service to find jobs for people, and I go along with 90 per cent of what is said, but if we want to create the perfect manpower system and if eight employment offices have said that nobody is offering, how is it that the message does not get through to the Minister for Immigration and his people? [More…]
I would like the Minister to indicate to me ways in which there could be a link with the Immigration Department. [More…]
We can either blame the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or say that bad judgment on the part of the CES office was the cause because it did not suggest it had anyone suitable on its books. [More…]
I ask the Minister where is the liaison between the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
As the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), who is at the table, knows, the theme of my discourse is the need for an evenhanded approach to extending clemency in respect of certain immigration matters. [More…]
Recently, I took a delegation from the Latin American community to see the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, in Sydney. [More…]
I have seen a letter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs which points out, loud and clear, that a false statement had been made by this man to gain exist from Beirut. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has made his point to warn people against making false statements. [More…]
I had knowledge that Senator Mulvihill wished to raise this matter this evening and I have been advised by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in regard to it. [More…]
I am-led to understand by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that Mr Moussa ‘s application for the entry of his family has been refused because of the deception he practised in gaining entry to Australia. [More…]
It attempted to advise on potential bottlenecks as well as possible soft spots in the labour markets so these weaknesses could be overcome through immigration and retraining. [More…]
We had a very fine Minister for Labor and Immigration in the person of Clyde Cameron who was a great innovater. [More…]
When this Government came to office it created a separate portfolio of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs from Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
I respectfully believe that as Mr Street’s work load is such that he does not have to handle immigration matters directly, some matters relating to productivity or even some aspects of industrial safety. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I refer to the announcement made by the Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr Ellicott, on 27 July 1978 that the Indonesian and Australian governments had made arrangements for the reunion of Timorese families. [More…]
I understand from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that the agreement reached in Jakarta during the talks between Australian and Indonesian officials provided for an exchange of immigration teams to reunite families in either Australia or Timor. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Adult Migrant Education Program is developed, funded and co-ordinated by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
1 ) What is the total number of personal and ministerial staff attached to each of the following Ministers in the Fraser Government: (a) Minister for Trade and Resources; (b) Treasurer; (c) Minister for Education; (d) Minister for Health; (e) Minister for Primary Industry; (0 Minister for Immigration; (g) Minister for Home Affairs; and (h) Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs. [More…]
MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC AFFAIRS [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 1 6 August 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Directors-Mr G. N. Crawford-Fish, Partner of Irish, Young and Outhwaite, Chartered Accountants; Mr J. P. Devereaux, Former National President of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and Former Executive member of the ACTU; Mr S. J. Dempsey, Deputy Secretary, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Canberra; Mr J. M. Wark, O.B.E., First Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance, Canberra. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Visits to study the movement of Papua New Guineans into the Torres Strait area and mainland Australia have been carried out in recent months by a task force from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Senator Durack passed the question for my attention as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, who has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Information on the movement, and residence without proper authority of Papua New Guineans in the Torres Strait area and mainland Australia has been obtained by a task force from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, in the course of visits to the area in recent months. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I am not aware ofthe number of residents of Papua New Guinea who have been engaged in the activities mentioned by Senator Maunsell but I am aware that Papua New Guinean citizens employed temporarily on a seasonal basis on Australian pearling and other vessels in the Torres Strait have not applied in the past to Australian immigration authorities for permission to engage in such employment. [More…]
From information made available to me by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I understand that on average the pearling season in the Torres Strait extends over nine months and that at the conclusion of the season it is customary for pearling vessel operators to return those Papua New Guineans employed on their vessels to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The task force formed in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to inquire into the movement of Papua New Guineans in the Torres Strait area and in mainland Australia has examined the matter of Papua New Guineans employed temporarily on Australian pearling vessels in the Torres Strait, and policy considerations involved in regularising the situation from an immigration point of view are currently under review by that task force. [More…]
I ask whether the attention of the Minister concerned has been drawn to a report in the Melbourne Age of 1 September that the Federal Government approval for the Iwasaki tourist project was given despite strong objection by the Department of Foreign Affairs and the express reservations of the Departments of Defence, Industry and Commerce, Transport, Primary Industry and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
Section 51 (xxvi) of the Constitution gives us power to make laws with respect to immigration and emigration. [More…]
Industry and Commerce, Transport, Primary Industry and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs outline the criteria by which the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs determines the eligibility of persons to migrate to Australia as refugees? [More…]
I will refer that question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to obtain an answer on the matter of the criteria used for determining the eligibility of migrants, particularly those applicable to Lebanese who propose to migrate to this country. [More…]
It is comprised of people from both the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I am seeking information on this matter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs but I have not had any response from him. [More…]
Senator Durack passed the question for my attention as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, who has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It concerns the effect of the existing staff ceilings at the office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney. [More…]
I am advised that in July the Government set the staff ceiling for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs at a level consistent with the satisfactory handling of migrant applications in the Department’s offices. [More…]
There has been a recent increase in the work load of several regional offices, including Sydney, as a result of the recently announced changes in Government immigration policies and changed arrangements with the States. [More…]
To ensure that the introduction of this tax is a smooth and co-operative exercise, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has met representatives of the international transport and travel industries in this country. [More…]
Under the Bill, the Minister may appoint as authorised officers, officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or officers under the Customs Act or members of the police force of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory. [More…]
It is fortunate that in principle the Opposition supports this measure because I have distinct reservations about its repercussions on immigration processing. [More…]
As the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) will appreciate, I was fortified by the in-depth answer she gave to me yesterday when I referred to the existing staff ceiling at the office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney. [More…]
That brings me to the question of how the decision was made that the collection of this tax would be an Immigration show, and I am being perfectly bipartisan about this. [More…]
At the time we had a very fine Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in the person of the Hon. [More…]
In Sydney people have to go hither and thither to Foreign Affairs for a passport and then to Immigration for a re-entry visa. [More…]
If we can hive off a normal function from Immigration and give it to Foreign Affairs in one case we can do it in this case. [More…]
From the information I have, I assume that a group of Immigration people will be at the airport performing this duty, and I understand that the number involved will be 16. [More…]
It is beyond my comprehension why the Public Service Board, when doing its forward planning, did not feed in at least a dozen people to the Immigration offices in Sydney and other major regional centres. [More…]
As it is, there will be an intensification of the backlog in normal Immigration functions. [More…]
I notice that in the concluding words of her reply to me the Minister said it was quite possible that the remarks I made yesterday would be brought to the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and that Public Service Board decisions on job placements might be accelerated. [More…]
The officers in the Immigration Department are going to get a lot of flack from people about delays which should really be attributed to 16 of their comrades being put on other duties which is quite an unfair position to put them in. [More…]
I am curious to know whether it is going to be paid at a desk or cubicle at the airport or whether people will have the choice of paying at Immigration offices in Sydney. [More…]
As one who espouses full employment I do not object, probably on grounds of job creation, to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs officers collecting this tax, but I do have grave doubts about that Department’s ability to handle the matter, because I believe it should have added forces before this system comes into operation. [More…]
They will be obtained from the city and regional offices of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs booths at airports and major seaports. [More…]
Where the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs does not have an office, offices of the Bureau of Customs will be able to have stamps available, as will Department of Foreign Affairs passport offices throughout Australia. [More…]
That brings me to another point which was raised by Senator Mulvihill concerning his feeling that the Department of Foreign Affairs would have been the appropriate department through which this matter could have been handled instead of doing it through the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
That was one reason that it was necessary for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to handle the matter to get complete coverage. [More…]
I took note of the question with regard to staff requirements which was raised yesterday by Senator Mulvihill and I gave the information to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr Mackellar). [More…]
I am advised that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs will not restrain travel agents from issuing a ticket but before embarkation it will be expected that the tax will be paid in accordance with the tax stamp procedures. [More…]
-My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, arises from the present situation in the Lebanon where it appears that a massacre of the Lebanese Christian population is taking place. [More…]
On the matter of reunion of Timorese families, Australia and Indonesia reached agreement last July for an exchange of immigration teams to facilitate reunions both in Australia and in Timor. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security and Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Is it a fact that last Tuesday, 3 October, a meeting was held in Sydney between officers of her Department and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and representatives of Greek welfare organisations who are looking after the interests of the 175 people charged in the recent conspiracy case? [More…]
It was arranged by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in conjunction with my Department. [More…]
It was probably arranged by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs; I would think the calling of the meeting was in his hands. [More…]
I believe that the meeting was arranged by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs because of some concern that had been expressed to him by members of the Greek community. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Source: Preliminary tabulations prepared by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs based on data from incoming passenger cards. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 1 6 August 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs does not have a separate statistical category for political refugees; hence it is not possible to distinguish political refugees from other types of refugees. [More…]
Source: Preliminary tabulation’s prepared by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs based on data from incoming passenger cards. [More…]
Did a report in the Age, 1 September 1978, state that Federal Government approval for the Iwasaki tourist project was given despite the strong objections of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and the expressed reservations of the Departments of Defence, Industry and Commerce, Transport, Primary Industry and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I have no knowledge of the requirements of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in this matter, but I will refer the question to the Minister and see what he is able to do to overcome the personal difficulties that have been explained by Senator Thomas. [More…]
My question which I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs concerns the reported granting of visas to six white South African cricketers in what I believe is a contradiction of the United Nations policy on South Africa and the Gleneagles agreement which this Government supported. [More…]
I shall refer the matter to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and seek information for him. [More…]
They include: ‘Welfare in Industry: Changing Perspective’, reports; Worker Participation in Management: The Australian Context’; a submission to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on migrants in the work force: ‘Social Policy and Problems of the Work Force’, volumes 1 and 2; ‘Adequacy of Income Derived from Work for Low Income Families in the Williamstown- Altona areas’; Development of a Working Women’s Charter’, submission to the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health; a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare concerning the inquiry into the adequacy of Australian health and welfare services; and ‘The Collection and Dissemination of Information on Social Welfare Programs and the Role of Trade Unions in the Direct Provision of Welfare Services’. [More…]
Australia has an active immigration program which has encouraged people to come here. [More…]
For example a migrant couple from country Z- it does not matter what country it is- comes to Australia, having been attracted here, as families were until recently, by our immigration policies. [More…]
I wish very briefly to make an appeal to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) to forge much closer links between the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs special reports section and State authorities in regard to the practice of some solicitors in Sydney who appear to be misleading people who are in Australia on tourist visas about their alleged rights to have the visas converted to permanent residency. [More…]
While every country has to have a fairly tight immigration system, we should not have these vultures who are living off some people’s misfortunes. [More…]
Secondly, he should find out what follow-up has been taken by the Department’s special reports section in, as it were, culling out these sorts of people who definitely masquerade as immigration experts. [More…]
I will leave the matter for the Minister for Administrative Services to transmit the information to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, but I indicate that I raised a matter concerning members of the Latin American community some months ago. [More…]
It does seem to be a case in relation to which the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) is acting quite properly. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill has really raised a principle of difficulty which is faced by Mr Arroyo and apparently by other people who it is alleged are being exploited by people who claim to be able to influence the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Migrants and would-be migrants are amongst the most vulnerable elements in our community’, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Hon. [More…]
Mr MacKellar said that it is unfortunately true that there are people within the community who are prepared to exploit the vulnerability of migrants and their unfamiliarity with immigration laws and procedures. [More…]
Unfortunately, this kind of operation does not appear to be illegal, Mr MacKellar said, ‘and lean only counsel people with immigration problems to contact my Department rather than pay money to organisations that make spurious claims about their ability to influence departmental decisions. ‘ [More…]
I note that it has been claimed that certain solicitors have charged large amounts for services related to immigration. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Applications for entry to Australia from Rhodesia are processed by immigration officials in the Australian Embassy in Pretoria. [More…]
May I suggest that the question be placed on notice, and I will draw it to the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
In March of this year did a boatload of Vietnamese refugees which arrived at Darwin include 30 people who had previously been rejected for entry to Australia by Australian immigration officers in Thailand? [More…]
The Canadian Government has recently decided to restrict the immigration of foreign doctors, not only because the nation is considered well supplied (there are regional shortages) but because of an estimate that each new doctor admitted costs the Canadian population . [More…]
I believe that our Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs should consider that very carefully. [More…]
1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I do not know whether the translation sub-section of the citizenship branch of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has been requested to do a translation as outlined by the honourable senator. [More…]
I start off with an immigration matter which I trust will be referred to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
The matter can now be taken up with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The other matter to which I wish to refer concerns partly the Department of Foreign Affairs and partly the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I speak highly of the staff of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister for Science (Senator Webster) to take up with the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) the staffing situation in Suva, the definition of an Immigration officer, the definition of a Foreign Affairs officer and whether there is some sort of tacit plot with the Fijian Government whereby because somebody in Australia happens to have a trade union background it is thought to be a good security measure to stop his 81 -year-old mother from joining him. [More…]
Secondly, of course, in the past 20-odd years the pattern of immigration has changed the whole face of the community. [More…]
The existing troika, consisting of the Minister for Productivity, representative Macphee, the Minister for Immigration, Michael MacKellar and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, has to devise a more integrated policy rather than the addition of an extra Minister. [More…]
I come now to immigration policy. [More…]
Last night I made a plea to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) about the case of Sydney Widjaja. [More…]
I do not unduly want to delay the Senate so I now seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the letter I received from the President of the PolishAustralian Olympic Club, copies of which have been sent to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Premier of New South Wales and the Commissioner for Community Relations, together with a copy of the protest which has been signed by a vast number of people. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
The three areas that are covered in the report are: Firstly, immigration, which has occurred very substantially since 1945; secondly, the influx of married women seeking and finding employment within the work force; and thirdly, the fluctuations in the proportion and number of young people who are entering the labour market, accompanied by a trend towards longer average periods of full-time education. [More…]
I will examine each of these three points and consider, firstly, immigration as a factor in the growth in the labour force over the period I have mentioned. [More…]
The direct effect of immigration for those 20 years was a contribution of at least 40 per cent to the annual increase in the Australian labour force. [More…]
-] direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Because of the wide differences from country to country in policies, legislation and procedures concerning immigration, the entry of visitors and the taking of employment, it would not be feasible to establish a uniform approach internationally to prospective working holiday makers. [More…]
As I said, I have not a list available and I am not sure whether the Minister for Immigration could readily provide that information. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, relates to the announcement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs yesterday as to the new points plan. [More…]
Finally, is it possible to ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to consult those bodies at an early stage to ensure that this system will not be applied arbitrarily, in view of the number of clerical details that will be required during the investigations? [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs would be able to respond to the matters that have been raised by Senator Bishop. [More…]
The labour force was built up as a result of substantial immigration at that time. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs been drawn to the attitude of the Malaysian [More…]
As it is a matter of importance I will refer it immediately to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to see whether he wishes to make a statement on it. [More…]
Additionally, under an arrangement with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Chief Australian Electoral Officer is writing personally to each person who acquires Australian citizenship, sending a copy of the pamphlet together with an electoral claim card and post free return envelope. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 I present the report on the operation of the Act in relation to the adult migrant education program for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
The Committee was assured that the Department had had extensive dialogue with the Public Service Board and within a month of the introduction of the tax the situation would more or less level out and the Department would have the capacity to service airports and to carry out the normal immigration functions. [More…]
It concerns an abortive mission that I undertook last night to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has a Special Report Branch. [More…]
I do not know the link between our Foreign Affairs office in Buenos Aires and our immigration people, but I would like some prompting of the Foreign Affairs officers in Buenos Aires to see what the Argentinian Government is doing now that Australia has offered to take this girl. [More…]
In summary, I wonder whether the Minister is now able to advise whether this new points system involves a new section in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs; what sort of establishment will be set up to decide upon that system? [More…]
As will be realised, we are dealing with the estimates of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I will ensure that the Ministers concerned are advised of the comments that have been made. [More…]
In dealing with the estimates of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Senator Mulvihill first raised certain questions with regard to the NUMAS scheme, the Press release on which was made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKeller) on 13 November. [More…]
I do not want to go right back through everything, but on 6 October last year I received a letter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, thanking me for my letter of 16 September on behalf of Mr Van Gameren concerning his brother-in-law, Mr Mujeeb Chowdary The Minister said that in order to give full consideration to the matter, it might be necessary for further inquiries to be made and that upon those inquiries being made, he would be in contact with me. [More…]
On 9 May, Mr Donald Edward Charles of 100 Percy Street, Portland, who is in the saddlery and leather business, wrote to the Regional Director of Immigration in Melbourne, informing him that he had met Mr Chowdary while he was in Australia, that he was very pleased with the type of man Mr Chowdary was, and that he had an opening for Mr Chowdary should he be fortunate enough to be able to migrate to Australia. [More…]
I do not want to read in this place the letter I received from Mr Chowdary ‘s brother-in-law because it tips a large bucket on officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Delhi. [More…]
I hope that Senator Guilfoyle, as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, will refer this matter to Mr MacKellar and point out that I, like Mr Chowdary, am just about fed up with the delay. [More…]
I say at the outset that I, as a senator representing the State of New South Wales, am far from satisfied at the way in which the regional office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney is administered. [More…]
On 29 February- I speak from recollection- that person had been given a letter from the Department saying that his application for permanent residence had been successful, subject to normal immigration and health requirements. [More…]
At about the same time his employer made application to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, through a Sydney barrister, for the employee to be made a permanent resident of Australia. [More…]
I made representations to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and I suggested that the circumstances of her apprehension were ‘most unpleasant circumstances’. [More…]
We all have a pretty difficult job and I know that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has a pretty difficult job when he is handling personal cases of this nature day after day. [More…]
For some time I was Acting Minister for Immigration in the time that the Whitlam Government was in office. [More…]
After that time the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has decided to sign a deportation order against her. [More…]
Whilst I and my colleague Senator Mulvihill have withdrawn from raising these cases on the adjournment debate in the Senate for the sake of the members of the Senate, if the situation does not improve in the Sydney office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs henceforth I will be once again on the adjournment debate raising matters concerning migrants. [More…]
The matter that was raised by Senator Primmer about an individual application with which he has had a long and very painstaking association is still awaiting a response from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), but I know that he had some contact with the office on 4 October and again later. [More…]
I will draw to the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the comments made by Senator Douglas McClelland about the Sydney office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the particular cases he mentioned and seek from the Minister any response that may be appropriate. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 ) when we were dealing with the estimates for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I raised the case of a young Greek girl. [More…]
While she was staying with her brother-in-law and sister at Yass she was arrested by Commonwealth Police, taken to the Canberra lock-up and from there taken to Villawood detention centre to await determination by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) as to whether she should be deported. [More…]
Apparently the Department of Immigration and the Minister, obviously acting on the advice of his Department, either cannot agree with that or refuse to acknowledge it. [More…]
A short while ago the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in his wisdom informed me that for the time being he has released the boy on the basis of reporting each week so that we can ascertain whether the travel agent did mislead the auntie. [More…]
-On 25 October 1978 Senator Cavanagh asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the following question without notice: [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
In March of this year, did a boatload of Vietnamese refugees which arrived at Darwin include 30 people who had previously been rejected for entry to Australia by Australian immigration officers in [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I will have checked the statement referred to by Senator Mcintosh and see whether there is a response from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on that matter. [More…]
My question is directed to Senator Guilfoyle in her capacities as Minister representing the Minister for Health and Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
While the situation is being reviewed, will the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs cease encouraging the immigration of doctors, particularly specialists, who are in gross surplus? [More…]
As a consequence, an interdepartmental committee comprising representatives of the departments of Health, Employment and Industrial Relations, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and Education, and the Tertiary Education Commission has been established and is at present studying the question of medical manpower in detail. [More…]
It is not a fact that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is encouraging the immigration of doctors. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware of claims in La Fiamma of 6 November that migrants are not being advised of their right of appeal to the Federal Ombudsman if an application for citizenship is refused? [More…]
I will refer it to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and obtain from him information on the procedure with regard to advice to migrants as to claims that can be made to the Ombudsman when migrants disagree with decisions that are given. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
We were informed of serious delays, caused by the need to refer minor matters to numerous co-ordinating bodies in Canberra, including the Public Service Board, the Department of Finance, the Department of Administrative Services and on occasions various interdepartmental committees, as well as major parent departments- the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Trade and Resources and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The first matter relates to the situation of Timorese refugees in Australia and particularly the fact that today the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) saw representatives of Timorese refugees in this country and gave them a number of undertakings which must be regarded as of extremely doubtful validity. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that it is now some 1 8 months since the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs said that a team from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Australia would be sent to East Timor. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs seems to be adopting a most supine role on this whole question. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs seems to treat this tragic and important situation as just another file. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]
What is the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs ‘ assessment of the number of East Timorese likely to come to Australia in 1978, 1979 and 1980 respectively. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
However, I will refer this matter to my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, to see what further information may be available. [More…]
When the former Minister for Labour and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, introduced the original legislation he was not trail blazing. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs been advised of concern being felt and expressed by the Timorese refugees in Australia, particularly those in Darwin and Victoria, relating to the delay in the processing of applications for the reuniting of families in Australia and to the discrimination practised by the Government of Indonesia against Timorese people who wish to come to Australia to be reunited with their families? [More…]
Will the recent guidelines issued by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs be used in the situation of Timorese refugees wishing to come to Australia or will the Government keep to the promises it has given over the last 1 8 months in response to questions and written requests? [More…]
I will refer that question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and seek the information requested by Senator Robertson. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, relates to the misery, devastation and death amongst the refugees fleeing Vietnam in all sorts of vessels. [More…]
I will need to seek from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs information as to just how many of these people are still in Vietnam and what can be done to expedite the processing of these documents, in some cases, through the Vietnamese authorities. [More…]
It deals with an initial decision by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr Mackellar) to deport a Chilean national, Roberto Arroy-Reyes. [More…]
In conjunction with Senator Douglas McClelland, I took the opportunity when we were dealing with the estimates of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to state that I had reservations about the case inasmuch as it was alleged to me that Five Dock Travel Agency had enticed this man’s aunt to purchase a return ticket to Australia on the understanding that the agency would ensure he obtained permanent residence in Australia. [More…]
b ) that the Ministers for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Post and Telecommunications should determine the arrangements for implementing a program of extensive consultation on the next stage of development of multicultural, multilingual television services. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 8 November 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
A task force from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has visited the area on several occasions this year. [More…]
I preface my question to the Attorney-General by pointing out that it has been reported that the office of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs issued a circular within the Department stating: . [More…]
Attorney-General aware that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is posting its literature to this illegal office? [More…]
asked the Minsiter representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 10 October 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (I also refer the honourable senator to the answer to a similar question without notice in the Hansard of 16 November 1978, page 2 175): [More…]
1 ) In 1976 the Government received detailed advice on the establishment of a permanent ethnic broadcasting service from the Ministers for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Post and Telecommunications. [More…]
The Government’s recent decision to involve the SBS in the provision of an ethnic television service was based upon advice from NEBAC, the Report of the Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services to Migrants (Galbally Report), and the report of an Interdepartmental Committee of Officials from the Departments of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Postal and Telecommunications, and Finance. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has informed me that persons appointed to the State Ethnic Broadcasting Advisory Committees (SEBAC) are appointed as individuals, not as representatives of particular communities. [More…]
Indeed, my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has informed me that, before making the initial appointments, he invited nominations from the community. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Australian immigration policy is non-discriminatory, and is applied on a global basis. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]
1 ) Why was any reference to work visas omitted from the comprehensive outline of current immigration policy criteria at pages 1 1-13 of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs ‘Review ‘78’. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
1 ) The comprehensive outline of current immigration policy at pages 1 1-13 of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs’ ‘Review ‘78’ deals with entry for settlement. [More…]
This amending legislation was foreshadowed in a statement issued jointly by the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) on 6 July 1 978. [More…]
I simply want to make a few observations on Australia’s current immigration policy in respect of working visas. [More…]
I have had conversations with the staff of the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) who represents the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
1060 and the reply from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the ambit of working visas. [More…]
Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]
1 ) Why was any reference to work visas omitted from the comprehensive outline of current immigration policy criteria at pages 1 1 - 1 3 of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs ‘Review ‘78’. [More…]
The comprehensive outline of current immigration policy at pages 1 1-13 of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs’ ‘Review ‘78 ‘ deals with entry for settlement. [More…]
Of course Miss Dubowski will certainly abide by the terms of her visa and leave the country when expected to and will not accept employment unless given permission from the Immigration Department. [More…]
I know that from the era of Foreign Minister Willesee up to the present Foreign Minister Peacock, and from the illustrious Immigration Ministers in the previous Government, such as Clyde Cameron, up to the present Immigration Minister there have been preliminary discussions on this matter with these foreign governments. [More…]
I am not reflecting on them but I recognise the part played by the major ethnic communities in this country and that from time to time their various ambassadors in Canberra see Mr MacKellar, just as they saw Labor Immigration Ministers, and make constructive suggestions in respect of what they feel to be irritations to their ethnic communities. [More…]
I repeat that the dialogue that was commenced by Foreign Minister Willesee and the Employment and Immigration Minister Clyde Cameron should be continued by their present counterparts. [More…]
Only three weeks ago the Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr Ellicott, said that since the fall of Saigon in April 1975 Australia had resettled about 17,000 refugees from the very part of the world which was the central theme of the Minister’s speech today. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs pointed out that per head of population Australia has done better than any other country receiving refugees. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs said that the exact number of Indo-Chinese refugees resettled since the fall of Saigon was 16,000 nearly 2,000 of whom had arrived in small boats. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Peacock, and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
When later TUTA got under way, Mr Bill Mcpherson, the Regional Director of the Commonwealth Department of Labour and Immigration and Mr John Evans, representing the State Education Department together with Messrs. Currie, Harradine, Lavey. [More…]
A Minister named Clyde Cameron on 6 June 1975 was sacked as Minister for Labor and Immigration and replaced by another Minister. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) to consider this matter and perhaps to suggest a full debate on it. [More…]
I would like to mention a couple of other matters in the broad field of immigration. [More…]
I have good relationships with the officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, as no doubt all of us here do. [More…]
The Fiji Times of 4 January this year carried an article headed: Australia changes its immigration rules’. [More…]
Quoting the Australian Minister for Immigration, Mr Michael MacKellar, it said if a prospective migrant had friends or relatives in Australia already this would be ‘one factor taken into consideration because of the obvious advantage this gave in overcoming settlement problems. ‘ [More…]
Mr MacKellar said the new system was the product of ‘the most comprehensive review of immigration policy in Australia ‘s history ‘ and was intended to achieve a net gain of 70,000 people a year during the first three years of its use. [More…]
This man of whom I am speaking went to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and asked for a bundle of nomination forms so that he could complete them. [More…]
There is one other matter that I want to touch on briefly in support of the plea made by my colleague from Darwin, Senator Robertson, concerning immigration. [More…]
Certainly there needs to be a rethinking of the immigration policy of this Government. [More…]
I presently have a case before the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs ( Mr MacKellar). [More…]
Officers from the Department of Immigration have told me the only thing which debars this young fellow from returning to Australia is that he has a sister living in England, His sister came to Australia with her parents, married a British subject and went back to England to live. [More…]
Labour and Immigration, who I think was the Hon. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has provided me with information on the matter raised by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 21 February 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
With regard to the first question raised by Senator Wriedt relating to the issue of a visa, I am advised by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that a visa has not been issued to enable Mr Sarkar to enter Australia. [More…]
With regard to the second question relating to convictions for offences involving acts of violence, I am advised that this is not within the province of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Accepting that, do we have an immigration officer at present in Iran? [More…]
I will need to seek that information from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
We have learnt with regret just how close to the surface these reserves of xenophobia are in this country, even after 30 years of European immigration, and even after the creation, or what most of us would like to think has been the creation, of a multi-cultural society. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has interpreters. [More…]
With regard to the Good Neighbour Council, I would need to refer that matter specifically to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
Department of Health, from the Departments of Education, Employment and Youth Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and from the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
In cases where doctors are not Australian nationals but are registered in Australia and wish to immigrate, not only must they satisfy the usual immigration requirements relating to good character and health, et cetera., they must also produce evidence of having a firm job offer within Australia. [More…]
To the credit of the then Administration, some of them obtained it but others did not until Al Grassby became Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I refer honourable senators to a booklet entitled A review of operations 1967-70, which was prepared by the Canadian Immigration Appeal Board. [More…]
When we were in government, I think I had the confidence of a very fine Minister for Labour and Immigration in the honourable member for Hindmarsh, Mr Clyde Cameron. [More…]
In November last year I asked the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs whether the translation sub-section of the citizenship branch of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs had been instructed to translate the Prime Minister’s weekly electorate talks for release to ethnic affairs groups. [More…]
I was prompted to ask the question in the first place when I received a complaint about this instruction to officers of the Department from a constituent of mine who objected to what that constituent saw as the Government’s misuse of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Mr Grassby, the then Minister for Immigration, spoke of dual nationality being ‘one of the curses of citizenship around the world’. [More…]
I do not intend to delay the Senate too long on this issue, but I was delighted to read in the Hansard record of yesterday afternoon’s proceedings in the other place that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, in answer to a question regarding dual citizenship, had this to say: [More…]
I can assure honourable senators that the citizenship section of the Department of Immigration in Sydney had to perform mental somersaults to determine her jumping off place. [More…]
I am always eulogising the actions of the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) when he was the Minister for Labour and Immigration. [More…]
Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) concerning the report. [More…]
One gets the impression from that introduction, and from the statement of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), that we have almost solved the very difficult and personal problems which frequently arise. [More…]
I will be proposing an amendment to ensure that no administrative action is taken in the employment or immigration area on the basis of any security assessment which has been made prior to the passage of this legislation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]
1 ) Did the Minister give assurances to the Yugoslav Minister for the Interior during their discussions on terrorism that the Australian Government screens the applicants for immigration who could be members of certain ultra right-wing Croatian groups which have strong organisations in Spain and West Germany? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
68 Immigration Policies and Australia’s PopulationMinisterial Statement. [More…]
149 Department of Immigration and Ethnic AffairsAnnual Report 1977-78-Paper. [More…]
Mr Justice Hope, in his report, found that outside the areas of Commonwealth employment, immigration cases and Commonwealth contracts there was very little communication of intelligence relating to security, and that is why he advised that the appeal system should be confined to those cases. [More…]
I also inform the Senate that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) left Australia today to visit the Philippines and South East Asia. [More…]
During his absence Mr Groom will be acting as Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 1 March 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 28 March 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has supplied the following answer to the honourable senators question: [More…]
The migrant community of the ACT is served by several Government Departments besides the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, as well as by a number of non-government agencies and enterprises, such as three of the major banks which conduct migrant advisory services. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs currently provides welfare services to migrants and refugees through its Bailey Arcade office in Civic and general immigration functions at the CML office in University Avenue. [More…]
Among projects under consideration are the opening of a Migrant Resource Centre in 1979 and a proposal to extend migrant services in the region by creating an ACT Regional Office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Are Australian Banks experiencing difficulties in obtaining visas for their Australia-born employees from United States Immigration authorities: if so, what steps have been taken by the Australian Government to remedy the situation. [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…]
I feel that because of the detail involved in them it would be preferable to have them placed on notice and obtain that information from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I direct a question to either the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, whoever is the more appropriate. [More…]
I think this may be a matter that needs to be referred to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and [More…]
1 ) Has the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs noted the speculation surrounding the identity of United States boxer Greg Stephens, who defeated Queensland boxer, Hee Thompson in Brisbane on 9 December, 1978. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I am advised by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that Australia does not require any persons entering Australia to undergo fingerprinting as a condition of entry. [More…]
Overseas representatives of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs have no equipment for taking fingerprints. [More…]
I make it perfectly clear that it is true that the Canadian apparatus encompasses immigration matters outside actual citizenship determinations. [More…]
I sought information before Estimates Committee C on whether there had been any long range planning with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on how this tribunal would operate. [More…]
A person on the tribunal may have dealt with immigration and ethnic affairs people and could have been party to decisions that were made on criteria to be applied on questions of citizenship. [More…]
Over the years, Australia and Canada have constantly exchanged immigration procedures and concepts. [More…]
Arthur Calwell and I saw the Minister for Immigration and Ivan Kosovich gained citizenship. [More…]
The other party to the appeal is the Minister of Manpower and Immigration- the respondent- who files a reply, which is simply a bare indication that he is going to appear and contest the appeal. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Although changes in immigration rules may well be made later by the new British Government, there is no suggestion that working holiday-makers will be affected. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister for Health. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a speech by Dr Brian Morgan, the chairman of the college manpower committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, calling on the Federal Government strictly to control the immigration of doctors? [More…]
Indonesia’s continuing help in forestalling unheralded arrivals of refugees is very much appreciated, for it is much easier for Australia to take in a significant number of refugees when this is done in an orderly way and under proper immigration procedures. [More…]
I take the opportunity in this debate on these Appropriation Bills, to raise a matter which actually is related to appropriations, namely, the appropriation for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The councils have a degree of autonomy, but staff ceilings, salaries and conditions are laid down by the co-ordinator who is of course, a member of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Canberra. [More…]
I rise tonight to ventilate a number of immigration problems because in recent days the Press of the major capital cities has emphasised the dilemma of the Government in regard to its committed intake of Vietnamese refugees from the turbulent area of Asia. [More…]
Firstly, I refer to a letter dated 23 April 1 979 from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC AFFAIRS [More…]
On 21 March you asked a question without notice of Senator Guilfoyle in her capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in the Senate. [More…]
Your question concerned immigration operations in Iran. [More…]
There is no officer of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs located in Iran. [More…]
However, recent events in Iran have led to a situation where the Australian Embassy is no longer in a position to continue to handle its full range of consular and immigration functions. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the letter from the Greek Labor Association of Western Districts, signed by its President, and a letter from the Regional Director of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney. [More…]
I want you to make a personal representation to the Minister of Immigration regarding Mr D. Rizos of 77 Wingram St Harris Park NSW regarding his brother Georgios Rizos from Greece. [More…]
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Commonwealth Government Centre Chifley Square Sydney, N.S.W. [More…]
The Government’s Immigration Policy provides for the admission, subject to certain criteria, of the spouses, dependent children, parents and fiance(e)’s of Australian residents. [More…]
When our programme started in 1976, the statistics of the Immigration Department stated that the total of the Portuguese Community in N.S.W. [More…]
In particular, was it requested to do so by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, which seeks a monopoly of ethnic broadcasting to the exclusion of public broadcasting stations? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 1 May 1 979: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Minister can explain the implications of a paragraph appearing in a judgment given by Mr Justice Brennan of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to a recent deportation case which stated: lt was relevant that Mr Pochi’s liability to deportation depended in part upon an apparent failure by the Department of Immigration and Ethic Affairs to advise him that a grant of citizenship had been made. [More…]
I have some advice on this matter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
How does the Government justify the fact that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has reported that there is a shortage of skilled labour while the Government itself, through its staff ceiling policy, refuses the intake of apprentices needed to train skilled workers? [More…]
ls it a fact the Australia’s reliance upon immigration as a source of skilled tradesmen denies training opportunities to thousands of unemployed young people, causing unnecessarily high levels of youth unemployment? [More…]
Other aspects more properly concern immigration or customs. [More…]
I do not want to develop the requirements for control of our exclusive economic zone, for most of them have little or nothing to do with defence- control of fishing, illegal immigration or smuggling for instance. [More…]
At Question Time this week, I mentioned that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) had said last week in a speech in Sydney that the availability of key occupational skills continues to be an important issue even in the current economic situation. [More…]
I ask again: How is it that we are still placing staff ceilings on departments and statutory authorities which could provide a pool of skilled people to meet this demand, as has been mentioned by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
I want to speak in relation to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
Immigration officers gave me a summary. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has been sitting on this case for quite a while. [More…]
While I do not quarrel with the definition, the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) will recall that senior officers from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs reiterated that a person subject to political duress has to surface in a third country. [More…]
In Northern Ireland however you would have to consult the Department of Manpower Services; if you are thinking of going to live or work in the Isle of Man or one of the Channel Islands, you should first consult the Island’s Immigration authorities. [More…]
Should you obtain a new passport, the production to the Immigration Officer of the passport enclosed with this letter on your first return to the United Kingdom will indicate your settled status and facilitate your re-admission. [More…]
Failing this, you will need to satisfy the Immigration Officer of your settled status and in this connection you may find it helpful to carry with you documents, such as bank statements, notices of income tax coding etc., relating to the earlier years of your residence in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Moreover, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has recently claimed that about 200,000 Vietnamese refugees have drowned while attempting to flee from Vietnam. [More…]
I want to deal firstly with a question I asked the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs when Senate Estimates Committee C was meeting. [More…]
I wish to direct my remarks to the appropriation for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I say firstly that I believe the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has handled this extremely difficult and sensitive situation with great sensitivity and compassion. [More…]
-I wish to speak to the estimates for the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
However, today certain comments have been made which I consider to be inflammatory and which ought not be considered by the officers in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs when dealing with the problem of refugees from Vietnam. [More…]
Mr Chairman, before the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was addressing my remarks to the subject of immigration and ethnic affairs and responding to some comments made by Senator Sim. [More…]
If the compassion which the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) showed to the Vietnamese refugees in the Philippines were to be shown in foreign policy, the larger arena, and if we made an effort to understand that Vietnam needs to be assisted, the problem of the refugees would not be so great and we would not have the RSL demanding that refugees be stopped from entering Australia. [More…]
Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) for showing a compassionate understanding of the problems of the people who are fleeing from that kind of regime in Vietnam. [More…]
The Minister and her officers would well know that one has to work on a component basis in any immigration program. [More…]
However, I think the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), who is at the table, and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs know the complexities. [More…]
I entered the debate only to repeat what I have said to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and his officers at various immigration seminars. [More…]
The Labor Government and its Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, were fairly reasonable to the Cypriots and to the first of the Chileans. [More…]
I thank the Senate for the discussion on the Estimates of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The answer to the question is that a recommendation has been submitted to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and a direct reply on this matter will be sent to Senator Mulvihill as soon as possible. [More…]
I am advised that the answer to the question which was raised is that there have not been any preliminary talks between the Attorney-General’s Department and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and it is unlikely to be a matter on which the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs would become involved. [More…]
I have a response from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to those questions. [More…]
The first incorporation was a letter from the Regional Director of the Department of Immigration and [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has informed me that an appeal to the Federal Court is understood to have been entered against the decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal affirming the Minister’s decision. [More…]
In these circumstances her eligibility for immigration to Australia is the same as for any other permanent resident of the United Kingdom. [More…]
This woman is welcome to approach Australian immigration officers and apply for migrant entry. [More…]
I feel sure that the discussion in the chamber this evening, in which different points of view on a very complex problem were presented, will be of assistance to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
NUMAS will ensure a system of nondiscrimination and a clear definition of qualification factors within acceptable immigration categories. [More…]
As questions raised in the Senate Estimate committee were dealt with in writing, I believe there are no other unanswered matters in relation to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, with the exception of the two questions which I dealt with for Senator Mulvihill tonight. [More…]
As a member of Estimates Committee C I must say that in the hearings which took place on Friday, 4 May, we saw the departments of Social Security, Finance, Health, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Veterans’ Affairs come forward with very complete accounting of their estimates. [More…]
In the intervening period- I am speaking broadly, but the Departments of Social Security, Health and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs were mentioned- it had become obvious that the need for evaluation had been realised. [More…]
We realise the difficulties faced by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in dealing with the tremendous number of people who have reached this shore without going through the normal procedures. [More…]
I want to raise with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs cases which have been shown up in all their stark reality. [More…]
Surely that would enhance not only the reputation of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs but also it would enhance Australia ‘s reputation. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister for Social Security could express to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the concern of some honourable senators at the failure to exercise compassionate discretion on behalf of such people when these cases arise. [More…]
The final matter that I wish to raise involves what I call the misuse of the powers of Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs officers to seize and imprison people who perhaps have overstayed their visas or who are here illegally. [More…]
In those cases, let us not oppress these people by snatching them off the street by using warrants to which apparently the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has access. [More…]
I also ask the Minister how it is possible for a Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs official to enter a house without the occupant being present, to search that house and to confiscate passports? [More…]
Is that within the power of an official of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
I have gone from the general Cases about which I spoke before to these specific cases- the misuse of the powers of immigration officials and the taking away of the freedom of those people who in some way may have misused their entitlement. [More…]
If she cannot at this moment perhaps she can refer them to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
He put points that I think need the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
They concerned the powers of the immigration officers and the manner in which we deal with situations of this kind. [More…]
1 am also happy to suggest that Commonwealth Police inquiries did take place at the instigation of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, which bitterly opposed the granting by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal of a licence to Ethnic Broadcasting Association of Queensland. [More…]
Is the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs still waiting for this payment? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It would be irresponsible for Australia to refuse to fill the vacancies through immigration in the hope that after a prolonged period they could be filled through domestic training schemes. [More…]
Immigration is in no sense a substitute for retraining and the reverse applies also. [More…]
However, the Government recognises that the supply of certain skills through immigration will continue to be necessary to fill needs which arise at short notice and to acquire new skills and techniques currently not in Australia. [More…]
In the course of this inquiry, the Subcommittee heard evidence from a number of departments, in particular, the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Primary Industry and Health. [More…]
Two of the Committee’s recommendations are not related specifically to matters covered by the treaty, but to two quite serious problems which are beginning to affect the Torres Strait area and its community, namely, exotic animal and plant diseases and illegal immigration from Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Illegal immigration from Papua New Guinea to the Torres Strait Islands and eventually to mainland Australia is a well-known practice and one which poses a major risk of disease entering Australia through animals brought into Australian territory by Papua New Guineans. [More…]
Since the Committee heard evidence from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on this question last August, the Department has taken measures to identify Papua New Guineans living in Australia. [More…]
Whilst the Committee was pleased to hear recently that the Department is now confident that the situation is under control, it believes that this control must be continued and strengthened through expanding the number of immigration officers permanently stationed in the area. [More…]
Since March we have had three Ministers for Foreign Affairs, three Ministers for Defence, three Ministers for Health, three Ministers for Education and Science, three Attorneys-General, two Treasurers, two Ministers for Labour and National Service, two Ministers for Immigration, two Ministers for the Navy, two Ministers for Housing, two Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and two Ministers for Supply. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
But on this occasion he is correct and I will have to seek the information from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Did the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs several years ago cut corners in accelerating citizenship acquisition to several members of an Australian national soccer team competing in South East Asia? [More…]
Is consultation occurring between the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Australian Soccer Federation? [More…]
I am advised that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has, whenever possible in the past, taken action to assist the processing of applications for Australian citizenship, including those from sportsmen. [More…]
That the Immigration (Amendment) Ordinance 1979, contained in the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Ordinance No. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present a paper entitled ‘Multiculturalism and its Implications for Immigration Policy’ prepared jointly by the Australian Population and Immigration Council and the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs relating to the paper. [More…]
In particular we should look at the areas of Customs- international airports, immigration, drugs and quarantineand the connection with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and international crime. [More…]
The question relating to a greater diversity in English language courses, professional migrants and further arrangements at language centres should be referred to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The work was funded first by the Commonwealth Immigration Department, and later the Commonwealth Education Department in co-operation with the Academy of Social Sciences. [More…]
In the 2 1 years since the Migration Act was passed, the character of the Australian community has markedly changed, with radical amendment to immigration policies and in the volume and nature of movements into and out of Australia. [More…]
Most travellers respect Australia’s immigration laws. [More…]
Unfortunately, there are some who enter or remain illegally in Australia, regarding breaches of immigration laws and policies as offences of small significance. [More…]
Clearly, people who try to evade immigration controls should gain no advantage over those many others who, being also ineligible to migrate to Australia, are prepared to abide by the rules. [More…]
It believes that immigration laws and procedures should be observed and followed just as any other Australian law should be observed. [More…]
Immigration restrictions applied mainly to people of non-European origin. [More…]
By 1 973 discrimination on grounds of race had disappeared from immigration selection policy. [More…]
The present level of immigration for settlement is relatively low, with an emphasis on encouraging only those skills in short supply. [More…]
In this regard, I draw the attention of honourable senators to the Minister’s statement on immigration policies and Australia’s population of 7 June 1978 which emphasised the Government’s recognition of immigration as a necessary element in economic growth. [More…]
We are pursuing a long term approach to population building in which immigration is the only directable factor. [More…]
The fact that the Australian community is now barely reproducing itself must recommend immigration policy to all persons who genuinely have the future welfare of this nation in mind. [More…]
The relatively low volume of admission for settlement in more recent years inevitably prompts attempts to circumvent immigration policies and procedures either by malpractice or by entering for allegedly temporary purposes but then staying on without authority. [More…]
A visa is a document or notation specifically in the form of a stamped impression in a passport, which informs the carrier company and immigration officer at the port of arrival in Australia that the holder, prima facie, may enter Australia. [More…]
The search for persons who breach the immigration law is an expensive and an unwanted burden on the Australian taxpayer. [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…]
A number of these provisions arose out of the recommendations of a management review which reported on its investigation of immigration policies and procedures in July of last year. [More…]
The Government believes that the Bill will provide for a considerable increase in control capacity while new immigration legislation is being developed. [More…]
White Australia policy is long dead, that our immigration policy today is totally nondiscriminatory and is applied consistently to all applicants regardless of race, colour, nationality, descent, national or ethnic origin and sex. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, says that Australia wants to protect the social and economic future of all its citizens and that therefore it has to limit the number of migrants it accepts each year and give preference to those with close family ties, and with skills, professional qualifications or experience that are in strong demand. [More…]
So great is the number of migrants now coming from South Africa that Australia has increased its immigration staff in Pretoria to cope with the increased numbers of applications from people in Rhodesia who wish to settle in Australia. [More…]
He thought that if he put his case honestly before the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs some sympathy would be shown. [More…]
Migrants in Melbourne and Sydney have made allegations of bribes up to $1,500 being paid to people who pose as immigration officers expecting that people who are making desperate, last minute attempts to stay in Australia will pay any money to do so. [More…]
The report says that the two most common reasons given for the high gains from immigration are that practice in Australia was more lucrative than in many other countries and that the more restrictive conditions for migration of doctors to other countries made migration to Australia comparatively attractive. [More…]
All these figures were given by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I suppose after knowing this, I should not have been surprised to receive the following letter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Is it true that the Australian Soccer Federation has put certain proposals to the Minister concerning visas for overseas footballers wishing to play in Australia? [More…]
Is it also true that these proposals satisfy the requirements of both the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and soccer administrators in Australia? [More…]
I understand that discussions have taken place between the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Australian Soccer Federation to enable closer consideration to be given to the rules related to the entry of soccer players from overseas to engage under contract with clubs in Australia. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, relates to the matter of refugees and to the national and international discussion that has taken place since our Parliament last met. [More…]
The most recent major Government statement on the IndoChinese refugee situation was made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to the United Nations Conference on Refugees which was held in Geneva on 20 and 2 1 July. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
In providing this answer the Minister Tor Immigration and Ethnic Affairs draws attention to the need to distinguish between inquiries about migration and formal applications for migrant entry as measures of interest in migration to Australia. [More…]
Inquiries about immigration at overseas posts in the period covered by the honourable senator’s question numbered approximately 256,000 cases. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 8 May 1979: [More…]
Has an Australian Immigration official been seconded to Dili; if so, what tasks does this officer perform there. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
This followed work assignments in the Departments of Business and Consumer Affairs and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 22 May 1979: [More…]
What were the dates of the Prime Minister’s electorate talks which were translated by the Translation Section of the Citizenship Branch, of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Translation unit of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs translated for distribution to the ethnic press and radio two of the Prime Minister’s weekly talks to his electorate dated 29 October and 5 November 1 978. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 23 May 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Differences in selection results thus reflect differences in the characteristics of applicants, in comparison with the criteria established in Australian immigration policy. [More…]
-On 22 May 1979 (Hansard, page 1900), Senator Tate asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Health, a question without notice concerning the immigration of doctors. [More…]
The whole question of the immigration of overseas medical practitioners was considered by the Committee of Officials on Medical Manpower Supply, whose report was tabled in Parliament on 22 March 1979. [More…]
1 ) That a Select Committee of the Senate be appointed to inquire into and report upon Australia ‘s current immigration program to ascertain whether: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Since it is accepted that a person with a criminal conviction usually has a different hurdle to get over if he wants to enter Australia, how was Charles Colson, the convicted Watergate criminal, able to circumvent the existing immigration practice? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs advises me that visitors with penal records are required to demonstrate significant reasons to warrant variation of the general rule that they should not be admitted to Australia. [More…]
That program, as the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has said, has been important not only to the students who have come to this country but also in respect of our relationships with various countries, particularly those in the Asian and Pacific region. [More…]
1 ) That a Select Committee of the Senate be appointed to inquire into and report on Australia’s current immigration program to ascertain whether: [More…]
But I do not know of any part of the Federal Government’s administration where the destiny of people is concerned more than it is in immigration. [More…]
On one occasion in about the early 1970s when we were dealing with certain aspects of Department of Immigration estimates, I moved an amendment with the blessing of my then leader who is now an illustrious member of the High Court, the then senator but now Mr Justice Murphy. [More…]
At that time the Government of the day half-heartedly agreed that possibly there were facets of the immigration system which coiuld be made subject to public scrutiny. [More…]
I say that because at the time of the Whitlam Government we did operate on the fringe of one facet of immigration when there was friction within one segment of the Yugoslav community. [More…]
I believe it would be beneficial, even with the NUMAS system, to have such a committee to which ethnic communities which argue that they are disadvantaged can come along and give evidence, as can officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I have had an association with immigration officials from the mid-50s when I was a shop floor steward and a Labor Council delegate and now, with Senator Davidson, I have the honour of sharing the chairmanship of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
I have had experience with most of the senior officers in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Immigration will always be a complex area and obviously it has to be subject to public scrutiny. [More…]
I notice that recently the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in an address to the Institute of International Affairs in Queensland stated that the United Nations defined 14 million people as displaced people or people subject to political persecution. [More…]
I have attended a number of seminars with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Opposition shadow minister, the honourable member for Maribyrnong, Dr Cass, and the United Nations Refugee people. [More…]
When we look at the United States congressional record we see listed a host of congressional committees which do grasp the immigration nettle. [More…]
It is all very nice for our political parties to have an immigration platform, but in that sort of situation one has to look at a map and say how many kilometres from the war zone a person has to be in order to be considered a political refugee. [More…]
I have been talking with one of our highly competent officers of the Senate and it appears that the United States has on-going committees looking particularly into immigration. [More…]
Immigration is going to become extremely complicated under the NUMAS system. [More…]
Immigration is a matter of compound complexities. [More…]
I believe that an exercise such as this would give the Senate its first indepth probe into two current facets of immigration. [More…]
Although I have dealt with two areas, there are three components of immigrationfamily reunion, job skills, and political refugees- and each year the problems are going to get more difficult. [More…]
Immigration is not a matter of puting up a few sign posts and thinking that people will go down a certain avenue. [More…]
Senator Davidson, with his vast knowledge gained as Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council, knows that these are questions that the Senate has never answered. [More…]
If we want to look beyond that, I can think of Government members who have served in high positions on ethnic radio committees and on the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
Forgetting the numbers involved in immigration, from a trade union point of view I might believe that there are supressed trade unionists in Chile, Uruguay and the Argentine and another honourable senator might know of people in another area who are being supressed by a different form of government. [More…]
Immigration is always a hot potato, but the Canadian Parliament and the United States Congress have dealt with the matter. [More…]
In the two areas of immigration to which I have referred, I believe that within three months we would have a much more informed Senate. [More…]
Our sources of immigration open up a virtual Pandora ‘s Box but I suggest we open up only two areas, and I leave the matter to the good sense of the Senate. [More…]
Savage and disproportionate staff cuts, encroachments in the field of foreign policy by other departments such as Trade, Transport and Immigration, administrative shackles imposed by the Public Service Board and Treasury, and pressures for the Head of the department to become a business manager rather than a policy adviser have led to a loss of departmental self-confidence. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether Mr Urbanchich has been a member of any Federal government committee or has participated in any way in the formulation of government immigration policy? [More…]
Between 200 and 300 copies of that list are circulated to immigration offices throughout the Commonwealth, Commonwealth Police, Customs offices throughout the Commonwealth and State police forces which ask for the list. [More…]
She put forward her application to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the reply came back, firstly, that the father was eligible because of his age and, secondly, that the mother and children were not eligible, the mother because of her age. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), you, Mr President, and honourable senators would know that the interim measure adopted in these cases- what might be almost a stop-gap measure- is for Australian members of a family to send money to their families, whether it be to Timor, Malaysia or elsewhere. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, concerns the standards required by the Australian Government before citizenship is granted. [More…]
As the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I am unable to do that now. [More…]
On top of that there are housing grants, grants for immigration services, grants for health services through deficit funding of hospitals in South Australia, and so on. [More…]
Mindful of the concern expressed to me by officers of several Sydney and Canberra Slovene organisations, all of whom have been victims of personal smears inflicted by Mr Urbanchich but who rightly feel that the prolonging of this issue is a stigma on all Australians of Slovene origin, I now ask, with their concurrence, whether the Minister will arrange immediately with the Minister for Immigration to have tabled in this Parliament documents relating to Mr Urbanchich ‘s entry into Australia, which would have been the basis of evaluation by immigration officers. [More…]
As to the second part of the honourable senator’s question, I will bring it to the attention of the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
I do not know whether Ministers for Immigration ever release dossiers with regard to the entry of any person into 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…]
Having said that, I think it has to be conceded that because of some uncertainties about the activities of many of these organisations, the difficulties of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and any government in this country have to be recognised when it comes to such matters as the issue of travel documents and visas. [More…]
There is also the question of the commercial practices of these various organisations I have already referred to the issue of their entry into Australia and the difficulty that they pose for governments and for the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to an Age article of 5 September 1979 in which Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki, Chairman of the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council, alleges that Nazi-type racism is flourishing in Western Australia and that prejudice against non-European migrants is promoted there by a number of organisations. [More…]
I have some information on this matter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I understand that the meeting in Perth was attended by some members of the League of Rights and of the Immigration Control Association who identified themselves as such and were vocal in expressing their views against Asian migrants and refugees. [More…]
Australia has a bipartisan non-discriminatory approach to immigration. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs would urge all Australians to channel their resources and energies towards achieving the goal with which all members of parliament will agree, of promoting a tolerant and understanding cohesive society. [More…]
Certainly, the refugee problem, the shortages of food, and the nature of the regime there will tend to aggravate the increase in the number of boat people, and the Government and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs have been making major efforts in that regard. [More…]
Then one gets an extraordinary sort of statement from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) who is a bit sensitive to this issue from the point of view of his Department. [More…]
In reply- I appreciate what the honourable senator has said and that he has informed the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
I refer also to the general immigration controls that are stringently enforced in regard to the admission into Australia of known criminals. [More…]
1 relates to an amendment of the Immigration Ordinance of the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [More…]
Obviously the Government must have some control over immigration into the Territory, as indeed it has complete control over the influx of aliens into Australia, but the cases I have mentioned indicate that the final say should not be left to the Executive. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The best answer I got was that it was thought that the Regional Director of Immigration in Brisbane had spoken to the people concerned. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether the statement made by Mr MacKellar, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, on 28 September 1979 is in any sense a definitive statement of the Government’s view on this matter or whether we can still expect a statement from the Minister and, if so, when. [More…]
As Senator Button would know, the Minister responsible for this matter is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Since the Budget was brought down it has been abundantly clear to all that the actual servicing of this matter would be done by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs at the point of visa and at the commencement of the entry to Australia of the student concerned. [More…]
It has always been regarded by the Government as a matter of immigration and not primarily of education. [More…]
I refer to a statement released today by the Minister for Post and Telecommunications and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs concerning the ethnic television service which says, amongst other things, that the Government commits itself to a continuation of the present Special Broadcasting Service experimental service broadcast over the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
-My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Has the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs seen the report? [More…]
Speaking as one who has seen the work of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the refugee island of Bidong in the South China Sea, can the Minister indicate whether departmental officers have any specific instructions relating to the family distribution situation? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs did see the report mentioned. [More…]
Some specific cases which were raised in the article are being investigated by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Father Foale, the President of the IndoChinese Refugee Association, has been appointed to the Australian Refugee Advisory Council, whose membership was announced on 7 October by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The average population growth in Australia between 1950 and 1970 was 1.9 per cent, representing an increase of 1.1 per cent by natural growth and .8 per cent by immigration. [More…]
We wanted to work towards an objective of 1.1 per cent increase or thereabouts from natural growth and immigration combined. [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…]
I know that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs ( Mr MacKellar) has knowledge of that case. [More…]
It will be agreed that neither the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs nor the Department of Foreign Affairs are very sure about it. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has advised me that the Government has increased the program for Indo-Chinese refugees to 14,000 for this year. [More…]
Any other matters raised by Senator Lewis I could refer to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to seek information. [More…]
Officers of the Departments of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Business and Consumer Affairs stepping up at departure points identification checks of children who are accompanied by only one parent: [More…]
I think this legislation results from a statement on consular matters made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) on 26 May 1978. [More…]
Most of us when we have travelled overseas, as most of us have, when filling in immigration cards for entry into various countries, have been required to indicate our date and place of birth and our country of residence. [More…]
The Papua New Guineans have been using the islands as a bridge to Australia, and there has been increased activity by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to prevent that. [More…]
Whilst I believe that in some way we must maintain immigration control in the area, nevertheless we ought not to be so stupid as to try to stop every little gap and loophole to prevent a Papua New Guinean coming into the Torres Strait Islands, staying there with friends for six months, taking a new name and becoming a relative of a Torres Strait islander. [More…]
In the Department of Aboriginal Affairs there is the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; in the Department of Administrative Services there is a commission of inquiry into drugs; the Attorney-General’s Department conducts criminology research and family studies; the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs has the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence; the Department of the Capital Territory has a nature conservation committee; the Department of Defence has a defence science and technology organisation; the Department of Education has the Curriculum Development Centre and the Education Research and Development Committee; the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs has the National Training Council; the Department of Foreign Affairs has all of our international agreements; the Department of Health has the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, the National Acoustics Laboratories, and the Australian Dental Standards Laboratory, et cetera; the Department of Home Affairs has the National Library of Australia; the Department of Housing and Construction has the Australian Housing Research Council; the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has the population study; the Department of Industrial Relations has the Trade Union Training Authority; the Department of Industry and Commerce has the Australian Manufacturing Council; the Department of National Development has the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Water Resources Council; the Postal and Telecommunications [More…]
As announced by the Treasurer (Mr Howard) on 2 1 August in the Budget Speech the Government has decided to introduce charges to recover certain administrative costs currently incurred by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
In Europe and North America it is usual to charge for a wide array of immigration and consular services. [More…]
At present the Minister is empowered to appoint only officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Customs officers and members of the Commonwealth, State and Territory Police Forces as authorised officers. [More…]
These appointments will be made only in those situations where Australia is not represented in the particular overseas country or where officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs are not employed at overseas posts. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]
My Department and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs attempt to make dual nationals aware of the problems they might encounter on return to their country of birth or ethnic origin. [More…]
The report of the Joint Committee was referred to an Interdepartmental Committee drawn from the Departments of Foreign Affairs, the Attorney-General and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Opposition has been trying to get answers during Estimates committee meetings in relation to particular areas of employment and industrial relations and also immigration. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, relates to Vietnamese citizens seeking to migrate to Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Has any progress been made in reaching agreement with Vietnamese authorities to allow Australian immigration officers to conduct necessary interviews with these people within Vietnam? [More…]
I commence by noting the reference by the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Groom), as recorded at page 2096 of the House of Representatives Hansard, to those in the community who actively encourage the circumvention of immigration laws. [More…]
I do not think there is an honourable senator here who at times has not found that a travel agent has misrepresented our immigration laws. [More…]
Having paid commission to a travel agent, they often ask honourable senators to carry out what I would call a mission impossible and try to make a case to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) for some form of clemency. [More…]
I have expressed criticism and irritation to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs via the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, but I have been equally vocal when I have complained to the New South Wales Minister who is responsible for the New South Wales Travel Agents Registration Board. [More…]
I cannot express too much my amazement at why the special reports branch of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Commonwealth Police and the various State travel agency registration bodies do not get together more. [More…]
In the last 48 hours a Press release has been issued by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and his counterparts in the various State governments. [More…]
In broad terms there seems to be a tendency for the Department of Industrial Relations, the Department of Productivity and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to do their own thing with job expectancy statistics. [More…]
I have attended with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs seminars at which people have said that Australia is a large country whose potential is unlimited. [More…]
I had a talk the other night with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs says: ‘Let us strike a target’. [More…]
But the officers from the Minister’s Department know that when they are dealing with personality- that is what immigration is all about- it is pretty hard to stick to set rules. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has to convince these particular people that whatever policies are endorsed at the United Nations they should not dispossess people. [More…]
What relationship has Interpol with the Australian consulates and immigration offices all over the world. [More…]
I vigorously oppose the handing over of passport controls from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Is there anything in the legislation that negates action by a trade union to see that, in addition to a penalty being imposed on the employer for breaking the immigration laws, the employer is also prosecuted for underpaying the person concerned? [More…]
The BUI proposes to amend the Migration Act to give effect to recommendations made by a joint management review, which comprised a consultant, a Public Service Board member, a departmental member and a member on exchange from the Canadian Employment and Immigration Commission, which in 1978 inquired into migrant entry, control policies and the procedures related to that. [More…]
Everybody in the Senate is well aware of the quite magnificent program of immigration that has taken place in this country over the last 25 years. [More…]
We are all very well aware that the character of the Australian community has changed and that there has been some considerable amendment to immigration policies with the volume and nature of movements of people coming into and moving out of Australia. [More…]
It is apparent to those of us who have worked closely with the field of immigration that the task of control and admission, of allowing people to remain or otherwise, has become extremely difficult. [More…]
As the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar has said, the Act is a 1958 measure being tested by 1979 circumstances, and the speech admits that the Act has been found wanting. [More…]
As the second reading speech states, people who try to evade immigration controls should have no advantage over those many others who, also being ineligible to migrate to Australia, are prepared to abide by the rules. [More…]
Indeed, in this world of emigration and immigration, it is a fundamental and internationally accepted principle that every country has the right to determine who may enter and, what is equally important, who may remain within its boundaries. [More…]
I was very glad that the second reading speech mentioned what I would call the history of immigration and the Migration Act in Australia. [More…]
Immigration restrictions applied mainly to people of nonEuropean origin and the occupational categories which were sought by the Australian community covered the whole spectrum of occupations, including unskilled workers. [More…]
I speak on this matter with some feeling and, I hope, with some understanding because for a number of years it was my privilege to occupy the position of Chairman of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
Australia must take the time, as circumstances permit, to give very serious consideration to our attitude to this position and to the effect and influence it will have on our immigration program and on the kind of people we will receive into this country. [More…]
Through the kind agencies of our Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur and the officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I was able to visit that island, with its 33,000 refugees, and to move among those refugees for the best part of a day in conditions of heat and humidity which to me were quite indescribable and extremely uncomfortable. [More…]
Those people hope that they might gain admission to English language countries and English speaking countries and take their place in those communities and be a part of the great immigration program which extends across the world. [More…]
The matter of entry and control policies has always loomed large in Australia’s development of immigration policies. [More…]
Commonwealth power with respect to immigration. [More…]
I take that point and simply put it to the Minister that if, after she or the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has had an opportunity, in consultation with his advisers to look at the points that I am making in order to satisfy himself or herself that I am not stretching too long a legal bow and that there is that possibility of that interpretation, I would be happy if the Minister could give some assurance that, following such an examination, the legislation would be repealed or amended at some appropriately convenient point of time. [More…]
Perhaps at the outset I should say that the legislation before the Senate will meet some of the needs of the times by tightening immigration controls and by introducing new penalties and increasing existing penalties. [More…]
The purpose of the legislation is to make essential amendments to the existing legislation, and it will provide a considerable increase in control capacity while new immigration legislation is being developed. [More…]
A number of other matters could arise in that study of what is required immigration legislation for the future. [More…]
I was asked by Senator Mulvihill whether I could give an assurance that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs would seek to place on the agenda of the next meeting of State Ministers the matter of travel agents and their activities with regard to misleading people who intend to immigrate to Australia. [More…]
I think I am able to give the assurance that I will draw it to the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and, as this is a matter of concern to him as well as to Senator Mulvihill, I can assure that, if it is appropriate, the Minister will seek to have this matter placed on the agenda for discussion. [More…]
The amendments proposed in this Bill will not affect immigration policies as a whole. [More…]
As I understand it, Interpol information is normally made available to police forces and not directly to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I think that would be a bipartisan approach to refugee problems and immigration. [More…]
As he stated, the Labor Government in 1973 amended the Crimes Act to repeal provisions which enabled the AttorneyGeneralnot the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs- to order the deportation of a person, not born in Australia, who had been guilty of certain offences. [More…]
As I said earlier, the Government is reviewing the whole of the immigration legislation. [More…]
However, I give an undertaking from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), with whom I discussed the matter briefly during the dinner recess, that the Government would be looking at this question and would be able to make an appropriate response when the new legislation is brought down. [More…]
It is appalling that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs seems very uninformed about Government activities. [More…]
At the moment I am negotiating with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) on behalf a man who is in an Adelaide gaol. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) stated that in reply to a question today, but officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs do not know that. [More…]
I know that it was said by the present Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) at the National Press Club that a country gears itself on its annual intake subject to economic conditions. [More…]
Since immigration was severed from the Department of Labour and Immigration, and some of its functions also went to the Department of Foreign Affairs, many more people have travelled overseas and many post-war migrants have become permanent residents and taxpayers. [More…]
I accept the Minister’s statement that at the next meeting with State Ministers dealing with immigration, restrictions on travel agents will be discussed. [More…]
As the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) said in the second reading speech, it is to defray the costs of the overseas administration of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
We are told that the charges levied in this Bill are designed to save the Government some $4m- about 12 per cent of the administrative costs of the overseas operations of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill sees an enormous number of immigration cases. [More…]
By this measure, intending visitors and migrants will be asked to provide $4m a year to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
As I assured him when we were debating the previous Bill, that issue will be considered by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and I hope that it will be raised with the appropriate State Ministers for their discussion and consideration. [More…]
The testing of private students is a fairly formal process conducted by officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, or the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Australian Development Assistance Bureau. [More…]
I think I ought to draw attention to a recent answer by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to a question on notice, in which he assured members of parliament that that charge will not apply to representations which they make on behalf of their constituents. [More…]
As has been said and was clearly stated in the second reading speech, the Bill does relate to some cost recovery of charges relating to permits and other immigration matters. [More…]
I believe that this is a Bill which will allow some cost recovery for the many services which are provided by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
During the Estimates Committee C proceedings the Minister’s departmental officers made it abundantly clear that there are some people who would come into the country under the supervision of the Department of Foreign Affairs and not under the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The other point I had in mind was that there are certain professional bodies which examine candidates overseas and for whom the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs provides services. [More…]
Where inquiries are made directly to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the normal service will be provided free. [More…]
If I understand him correctly, there will be no difference between charges for services whether the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or the Department of Foreign Affairs provides the service. [More…]
In other words if the instance he has in mind is where the Department of Foreign Affairs would need to determine refugee status and the service is provided, it would not matter whether it was the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs handling the matter. [More…]
During the debate last evening on the immigration legislation, I commented that even with the wisdom of Solomon many problems will not be able to be solved. [More…]
Of course, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is more directly involved than my Department. [More…]
After the war, Australia’s immigration policy rightly did not distinguish between Yugoslavs who had served in World War II who came here. [More…]
Hence I am standing here speaking to this legislation because it is presented by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and not the Minister for Education. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs delivered a similar statement in the House of Representatives on 22 August. [More…]
However, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs said in his Press release on the matter that the exemption would be given only to students on fully reciprocal agreements. [More…]
Will it be the Commonwealth Department of Education or will it be the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
This legislation has to be seen within the context of an overall policy in terms of changing migration policies which were outlined by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in the House of Representatives on 22 August. [More…]
I wish to refer specifically and, indeed, in some detail to the publication by the Australian Union of Students and the Western Australian Institute of Technology Guild which prepared a submission to the Minister for Education and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The preamble to the report in the chapter headed ‘Summary of Submission’ indicates, for instance, that there is an alleged proposal to ‘force them to leave Australia immediately on completion of their courses despite the fact that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has indicated that there are a number of ways in which that matter can be dealt with and that the element of forcing them to leave Australia is quite incorrect in that sense although the idea that they should return to their home countries is one supported not only by the Government but by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The submission goes on to deal with the administrative problems which presumably AUS has a far greater appreciation of than the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
1 refer to a comment by the then Minister for Immigration, the Hon. [More…]
So in 1973 the Labor Minister for Immigration put clearly in perspective what this scheme was and what it was not. [More…]
Before proceeding to a general discussion of the Bill, I wish to make some comment on part of the statement made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) in the House of Representatives on 22 August. [More…]
I refer to the consequences for education in Australia, Australia’s immigration policy and Australia’s foreign policy. [More…]
In a similar way the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or perhaps the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), or perhaps both, have had imposed on them these overseas students charge Bills, despite the fact that they introduce clear inconsistency into our educational policy. [More…]
They revive, whether justly or not, suspicions that our immigration policies are racist. [More…]
In some of the overseas countries there are suspicions that our immigration policies are racist. [More…]
This measure that we are debating tonight, which imposes fees on students who are going to come from overseas countries to study in our universities and colleges of advanced education, will only reinforce the feelings in overseas countries that we have a racist immigration policy. [More…]
Perhaps we could add the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as well. [More…]
For instance, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has said that many people are well able to afford such costs. [More…]
During the debate tonight a number of references have been made to the statement made by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) when speaking in the House of Representatives in August. [More…]
It is remarkable that this Bill should be brought into the Senate under the auspices of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) when it is very clear from the wording of the Bill that the charges involved are imposed on a student in respect of his enrolment in a tertiary institution. [More…]
The mere fact that the machinery is under the control of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs does not disguise the fact that this is a fee to do with enrolment in a tertiary institution. [More…]
If this Bill is to be under the control of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, who is an aspirant to the foreign affairs portfolio, it is remarkably insensitive to the foreign policy implications involved in this exercise. [More…]
To answer Senator Hamer’s interjection precisely, as I recall it, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs claimed that somewhere between 70 per cent and 75 per cent of overseas students apply for, and are granted, permanent resident status. [More…]
The ethnic welfare rights officers were first transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs from the Department of Social Security. [More…]
1 have asked the authorities and I have spoken to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr Michael MacKellar, who is a most sympathetic person, to endeavour to bring about with the Indonesian Government the scrapping of this list. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), (2) and (3) the Report of the Review of Post-arrival Programs and Services for Migrants (the Galbally Report) recommended increased Government assistance to migrants across a wide range of activities. [More…]
A comprehensive account of progress made in implementing the Report is contained in the Galbally Information Kit tabled by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on 27 September 1979. [More…]
The attached tables give details of specific projects approved under Recommendations administered by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [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…]
I want officers of the Department of Immigration to be here when I ask questions about this man. [More…]
I regret to say that when that report came down the Minister of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, proceeded to attack Dr Grassby rather strongly on the program AM. [More…]
Respect for individual liberties often seems to stop short at members of unpopular minority groups, and hostility and prejudice over immigration have fostered a climate where it is difficult, even if the effort is made, to ensure that elementary considerations of humanity extends to the procedures for deciding applications to enter the country. [More…]
Then there are other bodies such as the Immigration Control Association; the Immigration Restriction Council; the British Australian Association; the Ku Klux Klan, Melbourne branch; the Conservative Party (Western Australia) Inc.; Women Against Asian Immigration Committee; Westralian Nationalist Movement; National Australian Association; Truth and Liberty Mission; British-Israel World Federation; and the Children of God. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, concerns Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has made many comments with regard to this matter. [More…]
Every day of every week the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) considers the issuing of deportation orders against people who come to this country and seek to stir up racial hatred and racial opposition. [More…]
Migration Act, Sections 12, 13 and 48- Deportation of aliens and immigrants and directions not to act as immigration agent. [More…]
Again in the immigration and citizenship area where appeals are necessary- these matters are the subject of a great deal of investigation, thought and recommendation- there is no significant appellate jurisdiction in the Tribunal. [More…]
I think the general proposition that Senator Mulvihill has put in regard to the distinction between rights under the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and recourse to the Ombudsman are broadly correct, except that there has been a right of appeal in respect of deportation decisions under sections 12 and 13 of the Immigration Act, which perhaps qualifies the views he expressed. [More…]
Even though he had succeeded in an appeal, if the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs appealed to a federal court the person to whom the order referred would still be detained. [More…]
If a Minister is going overseas for up to six weeks, is there anything in the Bill where there is an obligation on the acting Minister for Immigration to act? [More…]
They are allocated to refugees on the recommendation of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs which co-ordinates the movement of refugees to Canberra. [More…]
That is a reference to Australia’s immigration policy, which applies to all peoples of the world other than refugees. [More…]
I had sought the assistance of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to provide translators. [More…]
The Department of Immigration had the mistaken idea that if it prepared anything it would be taking sides on what it thought was a trade union ballot. [More…]
To the credit of Mr Linehan, I told him of the lack of cooperation I was getting from the Immigration [More…]
I warned the Director of Immigration in Sydney that I was taking the matter to the employment and relations people. [More…]
When I read paragraphs 6.8 to 6.14 of this report tonight, it appeared that the agreement I reached with Mr Linehan and the Immigration Department had not become a reality and that these matters were still being looked at. [More…]
I hope that the Government will put its money where its Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Minister’s mouth is. [More…]
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle: The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable Senator’s question- (1), (2), (3): The Report of the Review of Post-arrival Programs and Services for Migrants (the Galbally Report) recommended increased Government assistance to migrants across a wide range of activities. [More…]
A comprehensive account of progress made in implementing the Report is contained in the Galbally Information Kit tabled by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on 27 September 1 979. [More…]
The other matter I raise is typical of the sorts of difficulties that occur in the mopping up process after the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has approved a permanent resident status. [More…]
Reference Immigration File No. [More…]
ear Sir, I beg you to advise the Immigration to allow my family to join me & should a favourable reply be received from Irian everybody will be Happy. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Have officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs been ordered to recall pamphlets on the Numerical Multifactor Assessment Scheme of migrant selection, or.NUMAS as it is often called? [More…]
I will seek advice on it from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and perhaps encourage him to make a statement in case there is any public concern about it. [More…]
elaborate the functions of the Institute to include research into the history and phenomenon of immigration to Australia and issues related to the development of ethnic groups in Australia and their diverse cultures; [More…]
As the Opposition’s spokesman on immigration, Dr Cass, stated last week during the debate on this Bill in another place the Opposition does not oppose the establishment of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs. [More…]
The Institute is to be governed by a council consisting of the Government appointed Director of the Institute, the Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, a Government appointed chairman and three to six other members. [More…]
Up to 100 persons will be appointed as members of the Institute by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, so I suppose it is not to be expected that that group will cause the Government any trouble. [More…]
In his second reading speech, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) said that one of the early objectives of the Institute would be to define multiculturalism and then to follow that through with various worthy aims, which would include the development of awareness among cultural and ethnic groups, the promotion of tolerance, understanding and mutual esteem, the promotion of cohesiveness through existing political and legal structures, and the promotion of an environment conducive to participation. [More…]
There is very little evidence that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs would do more than pay lip service to that aim. [More…]
We have just witnessed the case of the small welfare rights program which was transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs from the Department of Social Security, where it was very effective. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs annihilated this program without consultation with the ethnic groups. [More…]
Once the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs got hold of this welfare rights program, it quickly cut it off in its prime. [More…]
It is not being done satisfactorily at the moment, it is clear, by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
No matter whether there was a Liberal Government or a Labor Government, it was always felt that the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council did not politicise on a party basis by having a link with the Government and/or Opposition. [More…]
Senator Gordon Davidson served on the Immigration Advisory Council for much longer than I did. [More…]
I repeat what Senator Grimes said about the way these people are elected: It could be done in a much better way, having regard to the tried and true formula as applied by the Immigration Advisory Council over a long time. [More…]
Another concern of the Opposition, expressed in paragraph (c) of the amendment, was that we should elaborate the functions of the Institute to include research into the history and phenomenon of immigration to Australia and issues related to the development of the ethnic groups in Australia and their diverse cultures. [More…]
I am advised that discussions have already been held by officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs with those of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies to develop appropriate procedures for the future co-ordination of work programs and policies with those of the Institute. [More…]
I think we are all aware of his experience and of his association with the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
I think it may be appropriate that I draw the attention of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs ( Mr MacKellar) to the comments that were made by Senator Mulvihill to see whether we can achieve a parliamentary interest, a non-partisan interest, in the affairs of the Institute. [More…]
Of these houses 20 are allocated to refugees as interim accommodation on the recommendation of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and 52 are being allocated as the need arises to refugees sponsored by interested organisations in Canberra. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is aiming to actively involve the community in the national process of re-settling the considerable number of refugees now coming into Australia. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has one officer fluent in the Vietnamese and Laotian languages also available to assist. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory and therefore Canberra is served by a Migrant Settlement Council, the Secretariat of which is provided by the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, has been reported by the ethnic Press in a weekly selection produced by that Department dated 30 November 1979. [More…]
I ask the Attorney which is right- what he assured us at the end of his second reading speech, or what the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs now says? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 2 May 1 979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked ‘ the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 3 May 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 25 October 1 979: [More…]
1 ) How many applications have been received by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, including its State offices, for funding under the Migrant Project Subsidy Scheme. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 23 August 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 12 September 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 19 November 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 19 November 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs announced on 16 November that the first of the State Assessment Panels of the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAAT1) had been established in Western Australia and Tasmania. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, upon notice, on 20 November 1 979: [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The new citizenship index monitoring system previously on trial has been adopted in the Sydney Office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Since the honourable senator asked his question the British Government published a White Paper containing Government proposals for revised immigration rules. [More…]
asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: [More…]
Did the recent Conference of State Immigration Ministers consider (a) the lack of uniformity in State recognition of non-British degrees in various professions, for example, Veterinary Science, (b) the need for uniform adoption laws, and (c) closer supervision of small loan agencies which disregard normal interest charges when dealing with migrant clients. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Firstly, can he clarify the lines of authority between the Commonwealth Minister for Immigration and the various State ministers for child welfare in the case of desired adoptions of Asian orphans? [More…]
Secondly, if there appears to be a lack of uniformity between the States in relation to the entry of Asian orphans will the Minister for Immigration convene a meeting of State Immigration Ministers to reach uniformity? [More…]
On 4 July 1974 the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, commented on a decision of the Full Bench of the Australian Industrial Court which fined a candidate in a Miscellaneous Workers Union election $450 for illegally possessing ballot papers. [More…]
Has the Minister for Labor and Immigration seen a report in the West Australian of 15 August in which the Premier of Western Australia cities figures concerning State and Federal Public Service growth rates? [More…]