migrants - senate - 1970

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

What are the names of the major shipping companies that have contracts with the Commonwealth Government to transport European migrants to Australia. [More…]
In respect of assisted migrants other than British or SPAP approved in various European countries, arrangements for sea transport are presently carried out by the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration and, in the case of migrants from the Netherlands, by the Netherlands Government. [More…]
Negotiations are proceeding with various shipping companies on the availability of sea berths to meet anticipated requirements for the transport of assisted migrants from Europe as from 1st July 1970. [More…]
Assisted migrants who travel by sea are given exactly the same facilities and receive the same baggage allowance as other passengers- for goods which are regarded as personal effects. [More…]
Has the Minister read an article in the “Commercial News and Shipping List’ of 3rd April 1970 which claims that the Commonwealth Government’s decision to transport the bulk of migrants by air means that migrants will have to consign their household effects through freight forwarders? [More…]
If one or two firms have been exploiting migrants there is no doubt that ways and means can be found to convey this information to migrants. [More…]
The Minister also informs me that in the past there have been, in relation to the number of migrants who come to this country, very few complaints concerning this matter. [More…]
Will the Minister conduct a searching inquiry into the circumstances that caused radio station 2WL at Wollongong to terminate a programme sponsored by the Australian Translators Association which comprised music and advice to migrants? [More…]
By way of preface I refer to the answer given to me by the Minister on 9th April in relation to moves to improve aspects of workers’ compensation legislation so far as overseas dependants of migrants in the States of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia are concerned. [More…]
If he does, will he give urgent consideration to the building of an international standard airport in Adelaide, with the immediate purpose of flying direct to South Australia the thousands of migrants planning to come to that State but who might, by landing in Sydney or Melbourne, as at present, be diverted from their original intention? [More…]
South Australia has had a reasonable share of the migrants who have come to Australia. [More…]
The honourable senator asked me whether we could direct our attention to building an international airport in Adelaide and whether an increased number of migrants might be landed there as their first port of call. [More…]
I doubt very much whether that is a practical proposition, but I am sure that it would be sensible for me to make a general examination of whether or not migrants could be landed in the city of their destination as their first port of call. [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…]
When the honourable senator asked me a similar question on 6th May I was able to inform him, on the advice of my colleague the Minister for Labour and National Service, that a decision had been taken by the Queensland Government to bring in legislation to make available to dependants overseas of migrants their workers” compensation benefits. [More…]
Will he consult with the Minister for Immigration on a matter which is causing great concern to migrants in Australia? [More…]
I refer to the lack of cheap flights to Europe which would give migrants a chance to visit relatives or to take occasional holidays in their homelands at a reasonable cost, ls it correct that in some other countries charter flights operate on a cost basis which would allow a major airline operating a similar scheme in Australia to charge about $500 return to Europe and still have a normal profit margin over and above operating costs? [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…]
Do migrants from Lebanon enter Australia by air? [More…]
If the reports be true, has any consideration been given to bringing migrants from that area by sea? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities, refers to the failure of some briefly constituted travel agencies, one recently in South Australia, resulting from which booked passengers, including migrants, have now lost savings or money which they had secured on [oan to visit families overseas, without much chance of recovering the fare money. [More…]
Is it a fact that the agencies Alma, Contal and Odra in Melbourne; Delta in Sydney; Globus in Adelaide; Echo in Perth and Maria Sulima in Brisbane are representatives of the Polish banking institution PKO which serves Polish migrants throughout Australia in sending food parcels or money to their relatives in Poland? [More…]
One of the interesting things about our connection with Yugoslavia is that the trade agreement with that country is backed by substantial associations born of the movement of migrants from Yugoslavia to Australia over a period of years, particularly recent years. [More…]
In the light of the proposed cut of 30,000 in our migrant target for 1971-72, will the Minister provide details of any specific reductions on a nation by nation basis or will the date of application lodged by intending migrants determine their inclusion in the reduced annual overall migrant intake? [More…]
In view of the fact that the Government stated recently that selected Asiatics are admitted as migrants to Australia, what was the reason for admission of an average of 1,500 uhselected Mauritians - that is Indians - each year for the last 5 years? [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…]
Is he aware that 28,244 of these migrants left in 1971 to return to their own countries. [More…]
Will the Minister advise approximately what it costs per migrant to bring 28,244 migrants to Australia? [More…]
Will his Department conduct an inquiry into this matter and, if possible, ensure that only genuine migrants are accepted in the future so that Australia will not be giving holidays to many people at considerable expense to the Government and the Australian people? [More…]
By way of preface I refer to a reply given by him yesterday to a question about the acceptability of United States and West German teacher migrants to Australia. [More…]
My question refers to the United States teachers Edward Blesch and John Smith, who claim they were assisted migrants. [More…]
Are teachers made available to migrants travelling to Australia by sea? [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…]
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…]
How many intending migrants have been medically examined at this post since its establishment and how many persons have been accepted for migration to Australia. [More…]
Was Mr Ivica Kokic ever in charge of the Commonwealth Employment Office in Sunshine; if so, was he transferred to Melbourne due to his discrimination against non-Croat Yugoslav migrants. [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…]
In view of the recent terrorist atrocities in Sydney, what additional measures does the Government propose to take with respect to future Yugoslav migrants? [More…]
Has the Government received a request from the British Government asking that Australia accept, as migrants, some of the Asian persons whom the Government of Uganda proposes to expel. [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…]
What has been the expenditure in each of the last 3 years on advertising to attract migrants to Australia in each country where advertisements were placed. [More…]
The following are details of the expenditure and countries in which my Department has advertised directly to attract migrants in each of the last three years: [More…]
I ask: What is the Government’s attitude towards the deportation of migrants who have already been naturalised? [More…]
Migrants particularly have become fearful of the knock on the door in the middle of the night because many have come from a police state; they remember the fear that they held in Europe or their home country and they do not want it here - nor do we native born Australians. [More…]
The reason for seeking the rescission of the Senate’s vote of last Thursday negativing the question for the appointment of a select committee on civil rights of migrants in Australia is that we believe the vote recorded last week did not accurately reflect the Senate’s will. [More…]
In view of that list of people, groups and organisations which the Government has offended - the farmers, the manufacturers, the East European migrants, the doctors, the motorists, the smokers, the newspapers and the media - any talk about a double dissolution appeals to my sense of humour. [More…]
Was a decision made to grant him entry into Australia; if so, who accepted responsibility for by-passing the normal protracted screening that is imposed on all migrants seeking to enter Australia. [More…]
I am informed that the intake of Portuguese migrants (settlers) (a) for the individual calendar years was as follows: [More…]
What was the intake of Portuguese migrants for the years 1964-1974. [More…]
Who approved of the departure, in Sergeant Wollmer ‘s case, from the normal protracted screening that is imposed on all migrants seeking to enter Australia. [More…]
I ask: Is the Minister in a position to say how many such applications for migration from Cyprus have been approved and how many such migrants have actually entered Australia? [More…]
During the 12 months ending 30.4.75 1900 migrants from Chile were admitted. [More…]
It gives an opportunity to a number of people, particularly migrants, to obtain information about the social services available to them in a more convenient way than was available previously. [More…]
The honourable senator would realise that any person requiring a migrant visa for entry to Australia is subject to an occupational test unless he qualifies for consideration as a relative of migrants already here. [More…]
The occupational test is designed to ensure that as far as possible worker migrants are not brought to or granted permission to enter Australia for residence only to face unemployment. [More…]
Migrants from Chile (Question No. [More…]
How many migrants have entered Australia from Chile since November 1 975. [More…]
The matter with regard to Chilean migrants or political refugees is one of some importance. [More…]
A daily newspaper recently published the results of a survey undertaken at Monash University which revealed that almost 50 per cent of unemployed persons are migrants. [More…]
It thus appears that there are many more unemployed migrants than official figures suggest. [More…]
Will he further inquire as to what provisions the Commonwealth Employment Service makes to ensure that migrants who are unemployed are encouraged to register for employment? [More…]
The Government does recognise that migrants suffering from any form of mental disorder are in need of special facilities and services for their effective treatment and that additional special facilities and services are desirable to deal adequately with the problem. [More…]
Wherever possible, these centres have employed bilingual health workers to offer preventive, supportive and therapeutic mental health care to migrants. [More…]
19 645 (preliminary figures) permanent migrants entered Australia in the last quarter of 1 976. [More…]
How many permanent migrants entered Australia during the last quarter of 1 976. [More…]
to (5) I am informed that studies made of the incidence of mental illness amongst migrants in Australia over a period of years indicate that the rates are not, in general, abnormally high compared with the community as a whole. [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…]
The medical screening of prospective migrants takes into account, amongst other matters, their psychiatric health. [More…]
Where mental illness occurs subsequent to a migrant’s arrival in Australia the causes arc frequently the same as those which result in mental illness amongst non-migrants and the medical treatment is similar. [More…]
I ask whether he has seen or heard of reports in the Adelaide Advertiser that English courses for migrants in South Australia are being cut because of cuts in Federal Government finance for further education and that some courses are even being abandoned. [More…]
The intake of British and Irish migrants to Australia between 1 July 1976 and 30 June 1977 was: [More…]
What was the intake of British and Irish migrants to Australia between July 1976 and June 1977. [More…]
Migrants from the United Kingdom and Ireland (Question No. [More…]
I would be happy to consult my colleague in order to assist migrants in any way to receive the benefits to which they are entitled through my Department. [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…]
As the Governor-General’s Speech foreshadowed, this sort of activity is to be increased in the future as the pilot programs show the ways in which we are able to assist migrants with information on the range of government programs that might be of assistance to them. [More…]
I will ascertain whether further information can be given, either in a pamphlet or through the ethnic Press, which may be of immediate assistance to migrants. [More…]
We, the undersigned citizens and/or taxpayers of Australia, speaking for ourselves and on behalf of the many who cannot become citizens because of their inability to speak English, request the Senate to give immediate attention to the totally inadequate provision of English classes for migrants by the Australian Government. [More…]
When we bring migrants of various nationalities and ethnic groups into this country we give them the great freedoms of the country to enjoy all the basic things we have created. [More…]
Are Ethnic Liaison Officers to be appointed in Government Departments to give attention to matters affecting migrants; if so: [More…]
When some of us came here in the mid-1960s a lot of agitation was being spearheaded by British migrants about a number of hostels that had been constructed as far back as the early postwar years. [More…]
Listening to Senator Lewis tonight, I found it rather ironical that when I came into this chamber with George Poyser there was tremendous agitation right across the board in Victoria from the trade union movement and from British migrants about the bad situation in hostels. [More…]
I refer to an article in the Age newspaper of Tuesday, 7 November, alleging a critical reduction in the on-call interpreter service for migrants. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the report in the newspaper Neos Kosmos which alleges that Commonwealth Police sent 1,000 letters to Sydney Greeks seeking confidential information which would implicate Greek migrants in the alleged pension fraud? [More…]
1 ) The newspaper report refers to a recommendation of the Galbally Review of Migrant Services and Programs that an extensive survey should be commissioned to determine: the information most needed by migrants; the forms in which it is most accessible to them; what use they make of the media; and their attitudes towards different methods of receiving information. [More…]
1 ) What was the ‘survey of migrants’ information needs’ mentioned on page 37 of The Courier-Mail, 9 December 1978. [More…]
I refer to the Budget announcement of an allocation of $2.4m over the next three years for the training of interpreters and translators to work in the health services for migrants and Aboriginals. [More…]
What was the intake of migrants from: (a) the United Kingdom excluding Northern Ireland; (b) Northern Ireland; (c) Eire; (d) Italy; (e) Yugoslavia; (f) Greece; (g) Portugal; (h) Spain: (i) West Germany; (j) Chile; (lt) Uruguay; (I) Peru: (m) Ecuador; (n) Hong Kong); (o) India; (p) the Philippines; (g) Malaysia; (r) Lebanon; (s) Cyprus; (t) the United States; and (u) Canada, during the first six months of 1 979. [More…]
1 ) What projects have been approved for funding for migrant communities as a consequence of the Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services to Migrants. [More…]
Yugoslav migrants are no strangers to us. [More…]
Yugoslavia represents an area from which suitable migrants can be obtained in great numbers. [More…]
Under the terms of Article 22 of the Agreement assisted passages to Australia will now be available to selected migrants from Yugoslavia. [More…]
This places Yugoslav assisted migrants on the same basis as migrants from all other countries. [More…]
It records the rights they enjoy and the obligations they undertake in common with Australian citizens and other migrants. [More…]
It provides also for advice to Yugoslav migrants on the acceptance of vocational qualifications in Australia and records that the Australian Government will endeavour to advance the acceptance of Yugoslav qualifications within the framework of Australian laws, regulations and practices. [More…]
Australia undertakes to extend to Yugoslav workers and their families the facilities available in Australia for migrants to learn English. [More…]
The procedural arrangements agreed upon between the two governments in pursuance of article 22 of the Agreement provide that the Australian Government will select migrants for Australia in accordance with its requirements. [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…]
This is not unique to the Yugoslav Agreement, and in any event the benefits of this provision of the National Service Act are applicable to migrants from all countries irrespective of a migration agreement. [More…]
Through it we have benefited greatly by an infusion of migrants of excellent personal quality who are sought after by employers because of their industry and aptitudes. [More…]
This Agreement is intended to confirm Yugoslavia as a continuing source of such migrants in the future. [More…]
the question of the professional qualifications of migrants. [More…]
the possibilities of legislating, pursuant to agreements between this country and others, under the external affairs power to enable the professional qualifications of migrants - in that I include trade qualifications - to be more readily utilised in this country. [More…]
Senator DAVIDSON (South Australia)by leave - 1 wish to comment briefly on the matter the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Murphy) has raised concerning the recognition of the professional qualifications and trade abilities of migrants. [More…]
I think Senator McManus is familiar with a case of migrants who wrote to me from Box Hill in Victoria. [More…]
One of the real implications of the agreement is that we should direct our efforts to attract migrants from beyond the central area of Belgrade, from the republics of Slovenia and Croatia. [More…]
The differences of opinion between Yugoslav groups of migrants have been reduced in some areas. [More…]
It indicates a new political awareness on the part of the Government which may flow into another area which is of great interest to migrants in Australia - he area of naturalisation. [More…]
I hope that this Agreement is an indication that from now on the Government will not use the political opinions or activities of migrants as a basis for refusal of naturalisation, as this has led to considerable intimidation of migrant communities throughout Australia. [More…]
I hope that the former approach will not be applied to migrants who come from Yugoslavia, the first Communist country with which we have reached such an agreement, as any attempt to screen prospective migrants from that country on the basis of whether they are pro-Communist or antiCommunist would place them in an extremely difficult situation. [More…]
Migrants to Australia are provided with hostel accommodation. [More…]
This matter should be dealt with promptly, because if we are to secure migrants we will have to give social service rights to migrants who have been naturalised. [More…]
I have a list of the number of migrants over 55 years of age who left Malta for Australia between 1957 and 1968. [More…]
Between 1957 and 1968 a total of 958 migrants over 55 years of age left Malta for Australia. [More…]
The situation is that we are looking for migrants. [More…]
We have hundreds of thousands of Maltese migrants here already, and they have been of great advantage to this country. [More…]
Yesterday Senator Fitzgerald referred to the position of Maltese migrants in this country. [More…]
I have made a few inquiries and have been told that Maltese migrants to Australia must live here for 10 years before they are entitled to the age pension and for 5 years before they are entitled to the invalid or widow pension. [More…]
I was intrigued to learn today from the Department of Social Services that Maltese migrants who are unemployed may receive unemployment relief, irrespective of the time they have been in this country. [More…]
After a study of the figures I am appalled at the falling off in the flow of Maltese migrants to this country. [More…]
The figures on Maltese migrants are illuminating. [More…]
I do not mind whom we bring in as migrants, so long as Australia is secure. [More…]
Why should there be a qualifying period for Maltese migrants? [More…]
lt may be claimed that if the older migrants are given immediately the old age or invalid pension, once they get it they will return home. [More…]
But it is remarkable that since 1957 the number of Maltese migrants of both sexes aged over 55 years who have returned to Malta is 958. [More…]
The writer of this letter points out that while Maltese migrants must wait 1.0 years for entitlement to the age pension and 5 years for entitlement to the invalid or widow pension, after they have been here only 6 months they are compelled by law to register their names on the electoral roll. [More…]
This doubt comes naturally to Maltese migrants in Australia, as not only do we rub shoulder to shoulder with our former enemies but worse still we are meted out exactly the same treatment. [More…]
I refer to those families on relatively low wages who find it difficult to save a deposit, some newly arrived migrants, couples who have married very young, and widows and deserted wives with dependent children. [More…]
Migrants who come out here are familiar with them. [More…]
We bring in migrants, there is development, there is shortage of land, there is pressure on the building industry which forces up costs. [More…]
Every year we bring new migrants to this country. [More…]
We are bringing to Australia in migrants alone the equivalent of a brand new city of 125,000 people. [More…]
When initial discussions were held with the Spanish Government on the flow of Spanish migrants to Australia was the subject of migrants’ monetary remissions to their dependants in Spain discussed? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that some Spanish migrants find that Spanish banks have arbitrarily utilised some of such savings for Spanish Government loans to the detriment of their needy dependants? [More…]
The question of the transfer by migrants of reasonable funds for the maintenance of their dependants was included in this document. [More…]
It has not come to notice previously that some Spanish migrants find Spanish banks have arbitrarily utilised remittances for Government loans or that there is a reluctance for these people to complain lest the Spanish Government exerts pressure on their dependants in Spain. [More…]
1 take as a text for my speech tonight the remarks made in the recent address by Senator Marriott in which he implied that our intake of migrants has multiplied. [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…]
I do not quibble at the fact that any country must vet the people whom it accepts as migrants, but I ask: ‘On what basis do we finally decide whether the granting of citizenship to a migrant is justified?’ [More…]
I know also that the number of migrants whose applications for naturalisation are rejected runs into three figures each year, but it has diminished to a degree. [More…]
I know that people are screened before they migrate to this country because when we saw the changing of the guard in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation with Brigadier Sir Charles Spry being replaced by Mr Barber, reference was made to the fact that officers of the ASIO have been allocated the job of screening migrants overseas. [More…]
I ask, in the case of Spanish migrants: Are we to do our own screening in the country of origin or must we get advice from the Franco police on intending migrants?’ [More…]
The difficulty with Spanish migrants is this: The term ‘anti-Franco’ could cover a. host of people. [More…]
We live with an open arms policy in regard to bringing migrants to Australia. [More…]
Honourable senators will appreciate that one an easily become labelled.I am not affected personally, but migrants seeking naturalisation can be affected. [More…]
What additional inducements does or can the Government offerto ensure a continuing supply of migrants from countries which have been traditional sources of migrant availability over the past several years in order to offset the problem which has arisen through greatly improved conditions in those countries which are now comparable with our own and as a consequence of which the former inducements to migrate are no longer dominant considerations. [More…]
Has either Minister received representations from the Geelong Chamber of Commerce requesting that flats be erected in that city for the housing of newly arriving migrants? [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…]
Qantas is planning to meet this demand as it develops on the basis of the established policy of sharing migrant charter flights with the designated airline of the country of origin of the migrants. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service advise whether any moves have developed to improve the workers compensation legislation of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia so far as overseas dependants of migrants are concerned, following the meeting of State Ministers for Labour and Industry on 17th March? [More…]
I point out to the honourable senator that no problem arises in the Commonwealth area and in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania with regard to the payment of compensation to overseas dependants of migrants. [More…]
Action is in train which, it is hoped, will result in the removal of the present restrictions so as to relieve any concern or anxiety of migrants here with regard to their dependants. [More…]
Is any discussion proceeding between the Government of Australia and the Government of Malta to enable Maltese migrants in Australia to receive social services under the reciprocal agreement similar to that now operating between Britain and Australia. [More…]
What additional inducements does or can the Government offer to ensure a continuing supply of migrants from countries which have been traditional sources of migrants over past years, to offset the problem which has arisen through the greatly improved conditions in those countries, which are now comparable with our own, and as a consequence of which the former inducements to migrate are no longer dominant considerations. [More…]
The continually improving socio-economic conditions in Australia’s traditional migrant source countries have undoubtedly influenced our ability to attract migrants. [More…]
The Government is keenly aware of this and has taken measures, both at home and abroad, designed to make Australia more attractive to migrants and to facilitate migration. [More…]
- the waiting time for eligibility for benefits under the Hospital and Medical Benefit funds has been abolished for migrants who join the funds within 2 months of arrival in Australia. [More…]
- The expansion of existing facilities for the instruction of adult migrants. [More…]
In regard to housing, migrants now have equal rights with Australians in relation to eligibility to apply for State Housing Commission Homes in all States of the Commonwealth. [More…]
As from 1st January 1970, a uniform personal contribution of $25 towards the cost of passage for assisted migrants 19 years of age or over applies under all our assisted passage programmes from Europe. [More…]
Assisted migrants under the age of 19 make no contribution at all. [More…]
The only exceptions are the British programme which was at the level of 10 stg for migrants 19 years of age or over before devaluation and which has not been changed, and the Greek programme where application of the new rate will commence from 1st July 1970. [More…]
This agreement extends to Yugoslavia the benefits of passage assistance to breadwinners and their families on the same financial basis as all other assisted migrants. [More…]
is it a fact that Maltese migrants are not entitled to age pensions. [More…]
and (2) Maltese migrants are eligible for Australian social services on the same basis as any other persons. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article which appeared in this morning’s ‘Australian’ suggesting that the flow of migrants to Australia could be adversely affected should air transport largely supersede sea transport? [More…]
Is it a fact that a decision has been made to concentrate on air as the major mode of transport for future migrants? [More…]
In view of the expected rise in numbers of Yugoslav migrants to Australia following the recent agreement between Australia and Yugoslavia, will the Minister consider decentralising Australia’s migration offices in Yugoslavia by providing offices in Zagreb and Ljubljana, which would avoid lengthy train journeys to Belgrade by migrant applicants. [More…]
Has either Minister received representations from the Geelong Chamber of Commerce requesting that flats be erected in that city for the housing of newly arriving migrants If so, has any decision yet been reached on those representations? [More…]
The Minister has now informed me that he has received representations from the Geelong Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures concerning the erection of flats for the housing of newly arrived migrants in Geelong. [More…]
5 m for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, $4.4m for embarkation and passage costs for migrants, $2. [More…]
In October 1969 the National Health Act was amended to provide free health insurance for persons receiving unemployment and sickness benefits, for families with weekly incomes not exceeding $39 and for migrants during their first 2 months in Australia. [More…]
We had a situation in the late 1950s in New South Wales when I was a union official in which migrants, when we wanted to enrol them in a union, would say that they were in a union already and would produce a brochure from one of the medical benefits funds to show that they belonged to that fund. [More…]
Among them are migrants of less than 5 years residence, single males aged 25 to 44 years, and then it deals with other categories of migrant. [More…]
I now ask: If Slovene migrants are receiving medical checks in Zagreb, why are not the medical clinics used where people may be examined over a greater spread of hours in the one day? [More…]
ls the Minister aware that the present arrangements for examination by an individual doctor often result in that doctor giving vent to fits of temperament and the abrupt closing of his surgery, leaving intending migrants who have travelled 75 miles from Ljubljana to incur the cost of a night’s lodging in Zagreb while awaiting the doctor’s pleasure the next day? [More…]
The scheme which is based on the same general principles as those underlying recommendation 20 of the Nimmo Committee also extends to persons in receipt of unemployment and sickness benefits and to newly arrived migrants. [More…]
Instead it has helped us with the migrant problem because migrants with their lack of knowledge of the Australian language can be stood over and brow beaten but the Aboriginals cannot be treated in this way so they are not employed. [More…]
People in the printing industry have gone out of their way to find employment for migrants who have worked in the printing industry in other parts of the world. [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…]
My question is: Since I am in possession of information from both the Queensland and New South Wales Trades and Labour Councils which discloses that the former Government has taken action but the latter has not, can the Minister advise me what action has been taken to expedite action in New South Wales, particularly as the New South Trades and Labour Council advises that coverage is given to Italian migrants but not to Dutch migrants or migrants of other nationalities? [More…]
The honourable senator referred to a report concerning a man who recently came here with his brother’s wife and two children as British assisted migrants. [More…]
The man and woman and her two children travelled to Australia with the type of document of identity normally used by assisted migrants. [More…]
I would also like to ask the Minister: In view of the fact that we go to a great deal of expense and trouble to secure migrants for this country does it seem a very worthwhile thing to deport someone because of a legal defect if that person very strongly desires to live in this country? [More…]
By March, notwithstanding the big inflow of migrants and the entry of more and more married women into the work-force, the labour situation had become very tight, with job vacancies well above the number of registered applicants for work. [More…]
There is an ever increasing recognition by the community of the needs of non-English speaking migrants, and departmental staff assist in this regard by lecturing to community health nurses attending New South Wales Department of Public Health in-service training courses. [More…]
Is this what the country needs when there have been over 100,000 marriages in the last year and a tremendous intake of migrants, all of whom are looking for homes? [More…]
This will be assisted by the expected growth of more than 3 per cent in the work force, which will include a number of migrants with building skills. [More…]
In addition to the precautions mentioned by the Minister in relation to airline passengers, can she inform the Parliament what protective measures are being taken against having cholera introduced into Australia by illegal migrants coming in along the thousands of miles of unguarded northern coastline? [More…]
Will the Minister note that most honourable senators are more interested in fighting the cause of bona fide migrants who are trying to enter this country in order to embark on a new life than in fighting the cause of political agitators who want to come here to start political bushfires, including some who are prepared to stand up to their principles only on an expense account of Si, 000 a day? [More…]
Does the Minister recall a matter which I raised at question time during the last session of the Parliament on behalf of Slovene migrants who had complained that erratic doctors in Zagreb who were supposed to examine migrants from other areas had tended to force intending migrants to stay overnight and incur extra expense? [More…]
I ask this question in view of the question which was just asked by Senator McManus concerning the fact that most honourable senators were prepared to fight for migrants coming to Australia and the remarks which were made earlier about the disallowance of a visa to an American citizen. [More…]
Medical examinations of intending migrants are standard irrespective of the background of the applicant. [More…]
I want to return now to the interplay between travellers and permanent migrants. [More…]
We spend millions of dollars bringing migrants to this country. [More…]
For the coming year it is anticipated that about 180,000 migrants will come to Australia. [More…]
Because of the high cost of bringing migrants to Australia and providing them with the necessary amenities it is questionable whether they are contributing to our economic growth, and whether we can afford economic growth of this nature. [More…]
The Commonwealth is sending migrants to the various States after encouraging them to come here and work in industry, thus imposing on local government authorities the responsibility of supplying the various facilities and amenities required in the community. [More…]
I had mentioned that we are at a watershed of history at present, that we have reached a time when we must revalue many of the old established ideas that we had in relation to Australia’s position in finding markets to replace the traditional markets that we have had since we have been settled here as a white section of this part of Asia, as migrants from Europe, more so since we have been on our own with regard to dependence on the British Empire or British Commonwealth for our markets. [More…]
Statistics for a 5 year period show that in the 15 to 25 years age group there was an average of 1,100 people more per year leaving Tasmania than coming into it, and that included migrants. [More…]
We are faced with a similar situation with respect to migrants who come to Tasmania. [More…]
We can produce a pretty attractive brochure aimed at attracting migrants to Tasmania. [More…]
But it seems that these things will not hold the migrants that we need. [More…]
The j fact that he had insulted many migrants ; who have normalised and Anglicised their names was a matter that he had to face. [More…]
In view of the cholera epidemic that is spreading rapidly through several overseas countries, what additional precautions are being taken by the Department of Health to ensure that cholera is not introduced into Australia, particularly by persons entering this country by air or by illegal migrants coming into Australia along the thousands of miles of unguarded northern coast line. [More…]
As a safeguard against illegal migrants coming into Australia along the northern coast line, a special reporting system operates around the northern coast of Australia. [More…]
In the course of these discussions the nature of the movement of people between the two countries received specific attention, as did the existing understanding between Australia and Canada that neither would actively recruit migrants in the country of the other. [More…]
Can the Minister explain how, in the wake of a much tighter screening of migrants from the United Kingdom, Mrs Biggs appears to be receiving special solicitude when financially she is fairly affluent due to her proceeds from a syndicated article capitalising on the exploits of her husband which resulted in the death in a much less affluent state of a British locomotive engine driver? [More…]
Is it any wonder, in view of the burden of direct and indirect taxation falling so heavily on the shoulders of -lower and middle income earners, that last year about 24,000 migrants decided to return to their own countries? [More…]
A number of British migrants argued there that unless the Commonwealth directed the States to use some of the moneys to provide adequate recreational areas, we would not get the amount of park space that is needed. [More…]
This case concerns female migrants. [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…]
No, not housing; trying to attract migrants to Australia. [More…]
We take over 120,000 migrants a year. [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…]
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…]
Assisted passages are intended to assist Australia obtain migrants whom it would not otherwise secure to meet its defined needs. [More…]
This concerns transitory flats for migrants and not hostels to which, I think, the honourable senator was referring. [More…]
Chamber of Commerce and other interested people - the representations have been - made direct to the Department at least - concerning the allocation of Mats for transitory purposes for migrants in the Geelong area. [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 can recall that at one- stage 60 per cent of the employees of big industries such as the Ford Motor Co. of Australia Ltd and the International Harvester Co, of Australia Pty Ltd were migrants, mainly from the Continent. [More…]
still is not the type of home unit accommodation that we- believe will settle migrants more ‘ quickly in the community. [More…]
The honourable senator raised the matter of transitory flats for Ihe accommodation of migrants. [More…]
Decisions as to where flats of this type to assist migrants are to be located are made finally after consideration by the 3 Departments which are interested in the subject. [More…]
Assisted passages are intended to assist Australia obtain migrants whom it would not otherwise secure to meet its defined needs. [More…]
There is an increased appropriation for the repatriation and deportation of migrants. [More…]
Item 05 provides for the Movements of migrations upon disembarkation and item 06 relating to Reimbursement of passage assistance repaid by migrants on temporary departure from Australia show, in the first example, a slight reduction and in the second case a slight increase over actual expenditure last year. [More…]
But every item associated with the passage of migrants to Australia has been reduced in the appropriations for this financial year. [More…]
Every item related to the administration concerned with and assistance to migrants leaving Australia shows an increase, this financial year. [More…]
Do the appropriations in respect of these items reflect the thinking of the Government that there will be a reduction in the number of migrants coming to Australia from the United Kingdom this year? [More…]
Do the appropriations reflect also a more costly effort in both the administration sphere and the advertising sphere for the purpose of training migrants? [More…]
Also included is the cost of equipping initially and establishing child migrants arriving in Australia and proceeding to approved institutions for care and maintenance. [More…]
Migrants of 19 years and over pay $St: 10 towards the cost of their passages whilst persons under 19 years travel free. [More…]
Item 01 provides for a programme of 60,000 British migrants for 1.970-71 compared with approximately 68,200 paid for in 1969-70. [More…]
Migrants 19 years of age and over are required to pay $25 towards passage costs. [More…]
Expenditure under this item covers passage assistance for refugee migrants to be moved to Australia by the Inter-governmental Committee for European Migration. [More…]
A programme of 10,000 refugee migrants has been provided for in 1970-71, compared with approximately 15,000 paid for in 1969-70. [More…]
ICEM comprises 31 member governments, including Australia, and has operated since 1952 to facilitate the movement of European migrants to countries offering opportunities for permanent re-settlement. [More…]
J now refer to Division 330 sub-division 2 item 07 - Repatriation and deportation of migrants. [More…]
I ask, finally: What proportion of this expenditure was spent on repatriation and what proportion on costs associated with the deportation of migrants? [More…]
This year the estimate is $524,000 for repatriation and deportation of migrants. [More…]
This item covers expenditure in connection with the repatriation in approved circumstances of migrants, and the cost of deportation of prohibited immigrants, including sustenance while held in custody pending shipping accommodation. [More…]
In 1970-71 special attention will be given to the needs of individual groups of migrants. [More…]
Greater use will be made of advanced teaching techniques and measures already taken to encourage industry to establish English classes at the work place of migrants will be intensified. [More…]
Facilities for the instruction of migrants in reception centres and in hostels will be expanded in [More…]
Senators have applied to get assisted passages for migrants but have failed because the intending migrants have not qualified under the criteria which the Government establishes. [More…]
We are assisting migrants to come to Australia, whether we want their skills or not. [More…]
The reason given by the Minister for the reduced appropriation for the United Kingdom-Australia Assisted Passage Agreement was that last year 68,000 British migrants arrived in Australia while this year we -are planning for 60,000, a reduction of 8,000. [More…]
The reason given for the reduction in the appropriation for the Inter-governmental Committee for European Migration-Passage and associated costs for refugee migration was that last year we had 15,000 migrants from this source - mostly Yugoslavs - and this year the number will be reduced to 10,000. [More…]
That is another 5,000 migrants fewer than last year or 13,000 fewer from the 2 sources which we will not receive this year. [More…]
But the whole appropriation under Division 330. which covers the assistance of migrants to Australia, is a reduction on the expenditure last year. [More…]
There are more immigrants going home who will want to return to Australia but the number of other new migrants will be reduced. [More…]
The cost of getting a reduced number of migrants this year as compared with last year is astronomical. [More…]
In sub-division 3- Other Services - which includes the appropriation for Commonwealth Hostels Ltd, the Good Neighbour Councils and the International Social Service, services which we offer to migrants, we are increasing the appropriation to the extent of $336,232 to offer migrants greater services. [More…]
So the increased cost of administrative services will give us a total increase of $1,121,448 to cater for fewer migrants than we. [More…]
Of course the total cost of administering this Department and in providing services to migrants in Australia and educating them will be $4,285,373 for fewer migrants this year than we had last year. [More…]
Are we finding it harder to attract migrants? [More…]
We are paying more in services to migrants and yet we are attracting fewer migrants, ls there less desire for people to migrate to Australia? [More…]
Previously I asked the Minister some questions about item 07, subdivision 2, relating to the repatriation and deportation of migrants. [More…]
Senator Dame ANNABELLE RANKIN (Queensland - Minister for Housing) (9.42) - Senator Keeffe asked about item 07 - Repatriation and Deportation of Migrants. [More…]
I am waiting on an answer to the question I raised about the security processing of a person visiting this country from Latvia at the request of migrants in Australia. [More…]
We now have in this country a group of people whose parent were post-war migrants. [More…]
Some of them have an obvious aptitude for European languages, and it seems to me that recruitment to the Department of External Affairs staff should show a reasonable intake of children of post-war migrants. [More…]
With our increased growth through migrants and our natural birth rate increase, building activities in the future must expand. [More…]
Thereafter our economy, both industrial and rural, improved to the stage at which we were attracting to Australia more migrants per capita of the former population than was any other State in Australia. [More…]
Now it is so far ahead of Australia in this field of education that this is one of the major obstacles to us getting migrants from there to come to Australia. [More…]
I have expressed a similar view to Mr Lynch about certain Spanish migrants. [More…]
There will be greater provision of parttime accelerated courses to meet the needs of migrants who for economic reasons cannot engage in full-time instruction. [More…]
Advanced teaching techniques will be used to meet the needs of individual groups of migrants. [More…]
The full-time intensive course of instruction which was first introduced early in 1969 is designed specifically to meet the needs- of professional and other qualified migrants for whom an adequate knowledge of English is a pre-requisite to their being suitably employed. [More…]
As a general rule only migrants who have reached a certain educational level are able to benefit effectively from this particular type of instruction. [More…]
Non-English speaking immigrants are not specified because English speaking immigrants and their children as well as their non-English speaking counterparts are to be provided with courses in citizenship education which are referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-clause (I.) [More…]
Clause 5 relates to the proposed new arrangements for the child migrant education programme as well as to existing arrangements for adult migrants and for full lime intensive courses of instruction. [More…]
Full scale production of material designed specifically for child migrants will possibly take 2 to 3 years. [More…]
It may be useful, Mr President, if 1 were to explain that schools which will qualify for financial assistance under the special programme for child migrants will be those where a special teacher is employed. [More…]
(2) and (3) Migrants to Australia who are requiredto register for national service have the same obligations under the National Service Act as men born in Australia. [More…]
Migrants are not called up until they have been in Austalia for at least 2 years, and those not of British nationality are not called up until after they reach the age of 21 years. [More…]
Turkey and Yugoslavia; and (c) take account of substantive machinery modifications agreed upon between Australia and Malta late in 1969 in regard to financial arrangements and eligibility criteria for assisted Maltese migrants. [More…]
The Agreement provides for advice to Maltese migrants on the acceptance of vocational qualifications in Australia and records that the Australian Government will endeavour to advance the acceptance of Maltese qualifications within the framework of Australian laws, regulations and practices; the rights of Maltese settlers as residents and as workers are set out. [More…]
and that Australia undertakes to extend to Maltese workers and their families the facilities available in Australia for migrants to learn English. [More…]
Under the terms of Article 15, assisted migrants 19 years of age and over will contribute $A25.00 towards the cost of their travel to Australia, those under 19 years will travel free and the Australian Government will meet the balance of the fare. [More…]
This accords with the conditions available to assisted migrants generally. [More…]
The first organised group of Maltese migrants arrived in Queensland in 1883 for employment on the canefields. [More…]
Although migration from Malta has diminished in recent years, Australia now receives more than half of the number of Maltese migrants leaving Malta each year. [More…]
The population of Malta is not large - 325,600 people at mid- 1 970 - and it would be unrealistic to expect very large numbers of migrants in relation to the total Australian migration programme, but in terms of the Maltese population it is a welcome movement. [More…]
The steady movement of Maltese migrants to this country has created strong links of family relationship and of friendship between the 2 countries. [More…]
Migrants from Malta have played an important role in Australian development over the years. [More…]
Obviously this is a matter on which Mr Lynch will have to make a decision but I should like specific answers to the first and second questions and, in relation to the third question dealing with the readmission of the 2 Lebanese seamen, I feel 1 should get something clear cut on their prospects of coming back to Australia as bona fide migrants. [More…]
If the latter were the case we would have the Gilbertian situation of those men coming back as migrants. [More…]
The Minister no doubt remembers the case of the Dalmatian seamen who came back as migrants. [More…]
It fascinates me that an illiterate, if there are any in our community - I suppose there are still some,- and perhaps the trouble is due not so much to illiteracy as to a misunderstanding of the English tongue, if migrants are involved - for some reason is at a disadvantage if he gets a summons through the post but is in a stronger position if a process server gives it to him. [More…]
It resulted from adjustments made over the total assisted programme where this was possible without revoking undertakings already given to prospective migrants or causing personal hardship. [More…]
In addition we could also co-opt onto the committee some of the post-war migrants who, in the hard competitive world in which we live, have made good, together with their counterparts from the employer groups. [More…]
We of the Opposition fear that the Government will fashion an extremely technical weapon in the matter of education of migrants, but unless it can get the parents and citizens organisations and some of the ethnic groups to play their part the Gov ernment’s tools will not operate at maximum efficiency. [More…]
In canvassing our suggestion for the setting up of State advisory committees I have mentioned a number of successful trade union officials who were post-war migrants, and I have mentioned also officers of the parents and citizens organisations and others from independent schools. [More…]
Here is a point which is not dealt with in the Minister’s second reading speech: Let honourable senators consider the work pattern of many young migrants, particularly in recent times with the cessation of the Snowy Mountains project, and look at some of the big projects which are going on at the present time in north western Australia where there is a high ratio of migrants to native born in the work force. [More…]
The Bill is even more comprehensive when it is recognised that it is designed for migrants and some people who are in particular need and who might be described as ‘former migrants’. [More…]
The Bill describes them as ‘certain other persons’ which means certain naturalised Australians and the Australian born offspring of migrants who require English instruction. [More…]
Those of our migrants who may be described as new settlers in this country should be able to express themselves in the language of their new country and in our case that is the English language. [More…]
Migrants who speak English with some degree of fluency generally have better chances not only of progressing in their work but also of finding more suitable employment. [More…]
Australian community groups of people, newcomers or migrants, who are isolated from the rest of the community by one or other of the language barriers. [More…]
The Bill which is before us provides for a comprehensive programme of English language education facilities which are vital to the integration of migrants. [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…]
For some years the Commonwealth has been concerned about the difficulties encountered by migrant children and adult migrants in learning the English language. [More…]
The division was to undertake an investigation into the effectiveness of the existing provisions for teaching English to migrant children and adult migrants. [More…]
The important thing revealed by these activities was a keen desire among migrants for the provision of more opportunities for the development of conversational skills. [More…]
Adult migrants who have long since left school may not be so actively concerned with correct grammar and things of this kind, but they were looking for more opportunities to develop conversational skills. [More…]
Usually adult migrants are busy in employment, setting up homes, attending to the welfare of their families and the development of their life generally and it is not always possible for them to fit into a private educational programme. [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…]
He said that the Commonwealth had undertaken the responsibility for financing the expansion of existing facilities for the instruction of adult migrants; the provision of intensive full-time English language courses for those who must know English in order to follow occupations; and special classes in existing schools for migrant children of all ages to ensure that they achieved the education to which their intelligence and natural skills entitled them. [More…]
New areas of need have become evident, and whilst there have been practical reasons in the past to concentrate on speaking and understanding the English language, the comprehensive programme now proposed will provide for more emphasis in the future to be placed on reading and writing English, on meeting the individual needs of migrants and on their citizenship education. [More…]
Two important points emerge from that statement, the first of which is (he importance of the English language to migrants, and the second of which is that this legislation contains effective methods to deal with something that is rather more than a language problem. [More…]
Looking first at the importance of the English language to migrants one might well ask: ls English necessary? [More…]
Professor Connell titled his paper ‘Education for Adult Migrants’ and in it he said: [More…]
They apply to the education of all citizens, including migrants. [More…]
A recent survey of unemployed male migrants indicated that language problems are the most common single factor involved in a migrant’s securing suitable employment. [More…]
The survey established that unfortunately not all the migrants subject of the survey had attempted as actively as they might have done to attend English classes. [More…]
In studying this area we enter the field of the mental health of migrants. [More…]
A survey of migrants admitted to psychiatric hospitals showed that language difficulties were a major contributing factor to breakdowns. [More…]
Apparently male and female migrants were particularly affected when isolation occurred, lt was established that early breakdowns occurred much more commonly amongst migrants who could speak little or no English. [More…]
I have seen it first hand, as other honourable senators who have visited Europe in the last 2 or 3 years may have seen, the work carried out by ICEM in the interests of migrants to Australia in respect of the English language and communication. [More…]
They all form part of the background of an effective attempt by the Australian authorities to ensure that migrants to Australia at least have an opportunity to acquire a knowledge of the English language and an improvement in the general area of communication. [More…]
I sometimes wonder when we refer to the necessity to train migrants in the English language whether it might, not be a good idea for some of us, if we could find the time and the opportunity, to acquaint ourselves rather more with the languages of the countries from which migrants come to Australia. [More…]
We talk about the integration of migrants into the [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…]
Apparently teachers need to be taught how to teach migrants. [More…]
However, it will be a terribly expensive method of teaching migrants. [More…]
I go so far as to say that nearly all migrants should not be allowed into Australia until they can speak a reasonable amount of English. [More…]
I think the trouble with migrants in Australia is that too many of them do not understand English. [More…]
I believe we should stop taking these migrants unless they can speak English. [More…]
At the moment this lack of communication is a local problem brought about by the influx of a large number of migrants into Australia. [More…]
Perhaps in the immediate post-war years we lost an opportunity to gather a large number of people who would have been very splendid migrants because the circumstances of war had driven them, in European countries that were under occupation, to ways of life which we, in our isolation from the tragedies that war can create, could not understand or condone. [More…]
1 made that point to indicate that we should not go to the extreme suggested by Senator Turnbull and impose on intending migrants a certain standard of the English language. [More…]
We should not enforce a rule that would prevent adult migrants from coming here because they were not proficient in English. [More…]
What is taught in schools covers a very limited field, ff we imposed rules that did not permit migrants because of their lack of knowledge of the language to come to this country, our migration programme would have suffered tremendously and this country would not have developed to the extent that it has today. [More…]
Instead of tourists or migrants going from country to country and being understood by very few members of the community in which they find themselves, they should be able to be understood by the majority. [More…]
One reason is that we now have more migrants here than ever before. [More…]
Possibly a greater contributing factor is that we arc now bringing migrants from countries with which hitherto we as a country have had very little contact. [More…]
This could be said in relation to the recent influx of Turkish migrants who are now coming to this country in greater numbers than ever before. [More…]
We have been drawing our migrants more from European centres in many of which English is taught in the schools. [More…]
It probably makes for more easily assimilable migrants. [More…]
They were better places from which to obtain migrants. [More…]
It helps migrants to understand and to live in this country more happily. [More…]
I agree with his remarks rejecting the proposition put by Senator Turnbull not to admit migrants until they have some working knowledge of English. [More…]
I remind honourable senators of the education officers who have been appointed in overseas countries, of shipboard education programmes, of continuation classes after the arrival of migrants and of the radio and correspondence courses which have been designed to reach adult migrant communities in Australia. [More…]
The surveys which were made were relevant not only to adult migrants but also to migrant children in the schools. [More…]
There was the planning of a major survey of the education needs of both adult and child migrants. [More…]
Surveys were undertaken concerning the special needs of migrant women and of adolescent migrants. [More…]
With the experience which has been gathered through the years, the steps which have been taken have led to the current policy designed to develop accelerated forms of instruction to supplement the long term continuation programme, and the need for specialisation through courses of instruction oriented towards the particular needs of individual groups of migrants. [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…]
Not only are we assisting the migrants in the field of education, we are helping them also to live happily and to enjoy their lives as citizens of this country. [More…]
Has any provision been made at the Enterprise Migrant Hostel at Springvale, in Victoria, for teaching migrants English? [More…]
I ask: Has the Australian High Commissioner in London had discussions with the British Home Secretary on the proposal that Commonwealth migrants will have to register with the British police? [More…]
In view of the fact that there is evidence that two representations are being made to the Minister for permission to use additional charter services, and having regard to the fact that many of the existing charter services are insecure for the travelling public, including many migrants who wish to visit their homelands at economic fares, will the Minister consider any system, additional to the international arrangements which he has reported to the Senate, which will allow our own domestic operators, including Qantas Airways Ltd, to provide some form of charter service that would compete with the low fare charter services which often leave passengers stranded? [More…]
The survey of 10,000 migrants will not cover persons already in Australia. [More…]
In this way, the 10,000 migrants will represent, for example, the pattern of nationalities, the geographical distribution, and the occupational categories included in the actual migrant intake during this period. [More…]
What was the intake of migrants for the years 1969 and 1970 from Austria. [More…]
What was the nationality break-up of the migrants concerned. [More…]
The number of people from Mauritius admitted to Australia as migrants by calendar years since 1966 is as follows: [More…]
People who come to Australia as migrants from Mauritius do not qualify for financial assistance towards their passage costs. [More…]
Let us try to live in those circumstances but let the Government acknowledge that the parents of Australia are our best migrants. [More…]
We spend millions of dollars in trying to attract migrants from overseas. [More…]
All that is necessary is to provide decent returns for parents in Australia in order to ensure that we have our own fair dinkum migrants, our own Australian children. [More…]
Are foreign shipping companies still carrying to Australia under our assisted passages scheme large numbers of migrants who could be transferred to our own airline? [More…]
I understand that there was a conscious decision, taken some time ago, to bring most migrants out by air on Qantas aircraft and by Qantas taking up wet charters with other airlines. [More…]
I cannot say what the future situation will be with regard to the air transport of migrants by air and by ship. [More…]
It is correct that in order to lift an increasing number of migrants to Australia, Qantas Airways Ltd, did engage in the wet charter operation and that in the process, at the point of time when it had these people to carry, it increased its revenue accordingly. [More…]
Additional appropriations amounting to $20m for departmental other services include $1.7m for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; $1.3m for Commonwealth scholarships; $1.9m for educational purposes in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory mainly for increases in teachers’ salaries; $lm for aid to Pakistan and Cambodia; $1.2m for embarkation and passage costs for migrants; $2.5m for broadcasting and television services; $1.2m for war and service pensions and allowances; $1.3m for other repatriation benefits; and $2.8m for grants under the Aged Persons Homes Act. [More…]
Has any provision been made at the Enterprise Migrant Hostel at Springvale, Victoria, for teaching migrants English; if so, why must teachers of advanced students in one section of the gymnasium have to compete with a junior grade in another section. [More…]
What was the monthly’ intake of migrants into Villawood Hostel for the years 1969 and 1970 and what is the breakdown of the various nationalities involved? [More…]
What was the average period of time during those years that migrants remained inactive in Villawood Hostel awaiting employment? [More…]
Statistics of the monthly intakes of British and non-British migrants into Villawood Hostel for the years 1969 and 1970 are set out in the table below. [More…]
Statistics are not maintained of the separate nationalities of non-British migrants admitted to the hostel. [More…]
I might quote from the Hansard report of another place on 23rd April when- the Liberal Party member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) also raised the question of the competition of non-European migrants and the fact that Canada was drawing away from them. [More…]
I am not one of those who would say that If 5000 Asians or 5000 British migrants from the Midlands were injected into the assembly line of GeneralMotors Holden’s Pty Ltd there would be a conflict of job opportunities. [More…]
Has any provision been made at the Enterprise Migrant Hostel at Springvale, Victoria, for teaching migrants English. [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…]
It puzzles me why the nation pays more per head, I understand, for sea travel for migrants than it would if they were brought to this country by air. [More…]
Secondly, I refer to the prolonged delay in giving me an analysis of the share handled by Qantas Airways Limited and the other airlines in the 60 per cent of migrants transported by air to Australia. [More…]
The reduction in this programme has been spread over most or all of the countries from which assisted migrants come. [More…]
In the first place, no statistics are maintained of the individual airlines which bring to Australia migrants who make their own travel arrangements, but there are some statistics of those airlines which bring to Australia migrants who come as assisted migrants either on charter flights or on commercial flights. [More…]
One of the reasons given by Qantas for its action was the decision of the Government to reduce by about 30,000 the number of migrants being flown to Australia by Qantas. [More…]
The Government has something to answer for regarding the downturn in the number of migrants carried by Qantas. [More…]
However, the overall rate of revenue per ton mile for all traffic, including carriage of migrants: and affinity groups on charter, flights, fell slightly from 43.4c in 1968-69 to 43.2c in 1969-70. [More…]
A total of 68,000 immigrants were carried by Qantas or its agents or connections last year. [More…]
The migrants who are now coming to Australia are better educated and more sophisticated. [More…]
He asked how many assisted migrants travel to Australia by charter flights or commercial flights, and the Minister’s reply was as follows: [More…]
The information I have - I think the Minister now accepts the information - is that Caledonian Airways, having done an operation which Qantas itself could well have done and having brought the migrants out to Australia, became a direct competitor with Qantas on its return trip. [More…]
If this is so, will the cheaper charter fares now available to parents of migrants to Australia be continued or are they likely to be based on this new proposition? [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…]
Why have an average of 1,500 unsolicited Mauritians, i.e., Indians, been admitted into Australia each year for the last 5 years in view of the Government’s recent statement that selected Asians are admitted as migrants to Australia? [More…]
The majority of people admitted to Australia from Mauritius as migrants are people of part European/part non-European descent. [More…]
That is the Australian Labor Party; let us be sure who it means - ends colour bar in policy on migrants. [More…]
Irrespective of which Party is in office it could be said that a certain number of migrants will enter this country in a given year. [More…]
Yet Dr Forbes in a statement in the Melbourne Age’ recently referred to about 10,000 Asian migrants coming in. [More…]
Correspondence from the Minister for Education in relation to a complaint at one school indicated that the educational capabilities of migrants cannot be assessed because of their inability to speak the English language. [More…]
Finance that has been made available by the Commonwealth Government to help migrants to learn English is only sufficient to provide a limited number of classes in primary schools. [More…]
The number of people from Mauritius admitted to Australia as migrants by calendar years since 1968 is as follows: [More…]
We bring out migrants and we encourage trade and industry, but we forget that the facilities for these migrants and industries have to be provided by local government. [More…]
There are migration officers in various parts of the world whence Australia draws its migrants and all applications are carefully examined with a view to furthering the overall objectives of the scheme. [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…]
Former migrants are eligible for appointment. [More…]
Former migrants are members of this body. [More…]
I pointed out on that occasion that in a vast continent like Australia, where as ingredients of the economy we have primary producing industries, manufacturing industries and a migration programme providing for a high intake of migrants, to all intents and purposes that unemployment rate is very close to full employment. [More…]
Further is it clear that only about 25 per cent of migrants eligible for assistance have applied to a fund for registration and only about 40 per cent of unemployment, sickness and special beneficiaries have so registered? [More…]
For administrative and statistical purposes beneficiaries under the plan are divided into 3 separate community groups eligible for assistance, namely, low income families, unemployed, sickness and special beneficiaries, and migrants. [More…]
In the year ended 30th June 1971, 82,000 unemployment, sickness and special beneficiaries enrolled in health insurance funds, and in addition about 11,000 low income families and about 28,000 migrants became members. [More…]
My question refers to the expenditure of $397,000 by the Commonwealth Government to pay management expenses’ to the hospital and medical benefits funds at the rate of 6 per cent on the money that they handled in 1970-71 in dealing with bills under the subsidised medical scheme for low income families, migrants and others. [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…]
I ask the Minister for Civil Aviation: What is the proportion of assisted migrants who are flown to Australia and to what extent does Qantas Airways Limited participate in this programme? [More…]
The Government took action quite some time ago to bring as many migrants as possible by air rather than by sea and the proportion of migrants carried to Australia by Qantas Airways Limited is very high. [More…]
The Royal Children’s Hospital has confirmed that its views on the matter were enclosed entirely in its correspondence with the Minister and it has accepted the Minister’s assurance that everything possible was done to maintain the standard of health of children of those migrants. [More…]
I do not deny to any British government, whether it bc Socialist or nonSocialist and whether it be led by Wilson or Heath, the right to control its own inflow or outflow of migrants. [More…]
The subsidised health benefits plan, which has been in existence since January 1970, provides assistance in meeting the cost of medical and hospital treatment to persons receiving unemployment, sickness and special social service benefits, migrants during their first 2 months in Australia and low income families. [More…]
It is essential therefore that persons who believe they are entitled to subsidised pharmaceutical benefits, should make application to the Department of Social Services or, in the case of migrants, to the Department of Health as soon as the changes become effective. [More…]
Separate groups include people receiving unemployment and sickness benefits, and’ migrants for whom assistance is given for 2 months. [More…]
Only 4,385 migrants were covered, making a total membership coverage throughout the Commonwealth of 22,255. [More…]
I refer, first, to persons in receipt of unemployment, sickness and special benefits under Part VII of the Social Services Act; secondly, to migrants during the first 2 months after their arrival in Australia; and, thirdly, to low income families which have been defined in section 82u of the National Health Act. [More…]
1 am sure that the programme for migrants could be handled quite closely upon the arrival of a migrant at a migrant hostel or in the other areas where migrants necessarily come into contact with government departments. [More…]
The figures I have are in the order of 82,000, 11,000 low income families and 28,000 migrants. [More…]
Certainly the scheme gives a special benefit to migrants in the immediate period after they arrive in this country. [More…]
I do not suggest that these men regard themselves as potential migrants to Australia. [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…]
Has the Minister seen allegations by a number of highly qualified migrants that, prior to their migration, they were given inadequate and misleading information regarding their prospects of employment in the New South Wales Stale teaching service? [More…]
Will overseas migration officers, in future, emphasise to all prospective leacher-migrants that it is essential to have a diploma of education, or its equivalent, before a person can be employed as a teacher in New South Wales? [More…]
Has there been any noticeable increase in applications for health insurance from families on low incomes and eligible migrants since the investigations by the [More…]
We have absorbed into our population the migrants that we have been bringing into the country. [More…]
Because of the limited time available in this debate, I will simply express the general point of view that foreign investment in this country has done a remarkable job in conjunction with our rural export industries in assisting the development of the nation, in providing job opportunities and employment for Australians, including the old Australians as well as the millions of migrants who have been brought to this country since the war. [More…]
(.3) Will the Minister take action to recommence these classes forthwith, as the classes, especially those teaching English, are vital to the assimilation of migrants into the community? [More…]
This programme, which has been in operation for some 20 years, provides a course of language instruction for adult migrants in classes of 2 hows’ duration held twice weekly. [More…]
When the Government announced new initiatives for migrant education in April 1970, involving for adults a transfer in emphasis to more specialised and accelerated forms of instruction and substantial development In the area of child migrant education, the Government directed also that there should be a review of the long-term continuation programme (in addition to a high abandonment rate which had become evident there was a need also to assess the justification for continuing to meet expenditure with respect to single classes catering in many Instances only for small numbers of migrants). [More…]
State Education Departments, which are responsible on a reimbursement basis for arranging the continuation classes and appointing teachers, were asked therefore to effect a rationalisation of the programme by closing single classes where the number of migrants attending had fallen below the acceptable level and by regrouping the remaining classes in centralised areas to afford more effective instruction whilst maintaining as wide a coverage as possible. [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…]
The Department is conscious also of the fact that the programme provides in addition to language instructions a useful means of integration for those migrants attending the evening classes, and this also will be kept in mind in the review which is now proceeding. [More…]
One of the things about which the industry has been critical is the fact that some of the charter arrangements made to bring migrants to Australia over the last 2 years were neither profitable nor satisfactory to Qantas. [More…]
What is the breakdown by individual airlines of the transport of migrants? [More…]
No statistics are maintained of the individual airlines who bring to Australia migrants who make their own travel arrangements, viz. [More…]
unassisted migrants (approximately thirty (30) per cent of the total) and assisted migrants from the Americas and Denmark. [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…]
The proportion of assisted migrants who travel by air to sea travellers is now approximately 65 : 35. [More…]
Assisted migrants whotravel by air are carried either: [More…]
In 1970-71 the airline carried 52,000 migrants on scheduled and charter flights. [More…]
In the light of the way in which the programme tends to fluctuate, at the point of time when it had rather a greater number of migrants to carry than it had previously I thought it was commercially wise to do a bit of hiring of surplus equipment from somebody else. [More…]
The carriage of migrants is a very important matter to Qantas. [More…]
I am not aware of any cases of prospective migrants having had their applications for entry to Australia rejected due to the refusal of the Spanish Government to permit their departure. [More…]
The statistics available do not suggest that subsequent to Spanish migrants being interviewed and approved by the Australian Migration Office, permission to leave the country has been refused by the Spanish authorities. [More…]
For example, in 1970- 71 approvals were given for 1,302 Spanish applicants and departures in the period were 1,149 Allowing for time lag between approval and movement and normal ‘wastage’, these figures are consistent with there being no refusal to approved migrants of permission to leave Spain. [More…]
How will the reduction of 3,000 in the intake of migrants over the Christmas period, announced on 26th October 1971 by the Prime Minister, affect intending migrants from countries where there is a backlog of applications for migration to Australia. [More…]
course, with thousands of school leavers about to enter the work force and with migrants continuing to arrive, even though in somewhat reduced numbers, it is an alarming prognosis that industry will absorb fewer rather than more of these job seekers. [More…]
I do not need to remind honourable senators that with the natural increase in the working population and with the intake of migrants which, though reduced, will continue, the. [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…]
Meet the special housing needs of (a) low income earners, (b) pensioners, (c) migrants, (d) Aborigines and (e) deserted wives and similarly disadvantaged people; and [More…]
As far as I have been able to gather, almost 2 million migrants have settled in Australia since that time - many of them in the capital cities - yet the allocation of funds for housing in the 1970 Budget fell to 1.75 per cent of that Budget. [More…]
This does not take into consideration the many migrants for which surely the Commonwealth must agree to accept responsibility. [More…]
It has thrust responsibility for housing these migrants upon the States, the local government authorities and the semi-government authorities, expecting them to provide the services and accommodation and without giving adequate funds in the period in which it has assumed the responsibility for the affairs of this nation. [More…]
At the moment they are occupied largely by migrants. [More…]
We can assert with certainty and without disagreement that migrants are the responsibility of governments. [More…]
We bring migrants to this country. [More…]
to pensioners, migrants, Aborigines, deserted wives, and similarly disadvantaged people. [More…]
Aborigines as such are as much a Commonwealth responsibility as are members of the armed Services, pensioners or migrants. [More…]
The Commonwealth arranges for migrants to come to Australia, but it leaves the problem of their integration to the States. [More…]
Although in most instances the States do not arrange for migrants to come here, when a migrant has become integrated in our community and has become a successful man within his Scale, he is then a success for the State and of benefit to the State, so why should he be required to pay more than anyone else towards the cost of educating his children? [More…]
Whether the children attend a State school or an independent school, whether they happen to have a particular racial background, to have been born in this country or to have come here as migrants, they are still Australian children and should be considered as such. [More…]
The third category referred to in the Opposition’s amendment is the migrants. [More…]
I think we are all aware of the fact that the Commonwealth Government is assisting migrants in this regard and that there is a scheme which fluctuates with the migrant intake. [More…]
After they have been brought here migrants are put into hostels in order to give them time in which to earn a little more money or find out where they wish to have a house. [More…]
1 approve of the fact that no distinction is drawn between the eligibility for houses of Australians and migrants who have become Australian citizens. [More…]
I am simply saying that migrants are now treated in exactly the same way as any other Australians. [More…]
I do not think the English migrants have to take out citizenship. [More…]
As British citizens they do not have to take out Australian citizenship in order to become eligible for such benefits, but other migrants have to take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
pensioners, (c) migrants, (d) Aborigines and (e) deserted wives and- for the glory of the excitement and so that no elector shall be left out of the net of allurement- similarly disadvantaged people; and (2) acquire existing’’ dwellings for restoration’ and allocation by rental or sale. [More…]
With regard to migrants, is it not within the knowledge of the Australian Labor Party Opposition that we have provided flats and hostels for their early period of residence in this country and recognised their eligibility for accommodation in the general housing provisions that we are making by this Bill? [More…]
Has the Minister advised intending migrants of the job situation in Australia at this time? [More…]
Is it considered that the present unemployment situation is due to a large extent to too many migrants too soon and that as a result our social service funds are being used to a large extent for migrants? [More…]
I again ask the Minister whether he does not think that all migration should be suspended immediately because the 30 per cent reduction to which he referred yesterday will still mean that 94,102 assisted migrants will enter Australia in 1972. [More…]
The United Slates of America and Canada have quite a fair intake of migrants. [More…]
I relate it to the present migration to Australia of migrants from Latin America. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister to the problems being experienced with some Chilean migrants and migrants from one or 2 other Latin American countries. [More…]
Sometimes the Minister has to make a statement on claims of ill treatment by migrants. [More…]
Often private migrant recruitment is involved, for example, by Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, or even by State governments when British migrants are involved. [More…]
There may be problems .involving pockets of Maltese migrants or of some other groups. [More…]
One of the difficulties I have in mind is thai in the Sydney metropolitan area there rs a big percentage of Italian migrants, for example, in the electorate of Evans and part of the electorate of Grayndler. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) in another place asked questions about the non-naturalised sector of migrants. [More…]
It is their awareness that migrants could be deported because they were not born In Australia in the event of certain industrial trouble. [More…]
Some British migrants had to be laid off while some non-British migrants were not, the rightful policy of last on first to go applying. [More…]
I am of migrant parents and I am closer to the problems of migrants - especially migrants who are of non-British origin - than most honourable senators would be, but I shall not go into that aspect of it. [More…]
I think that we should look after our own before we add to our burden financially by bringing in loo many migrants. [More…]
In 1970-71 it cost in the vicinity of S70m to bring migrants to Australia. [More…]
Yet 3.10 teachers are being applied to the job of teaching migrants, many of .whom cannot speak English when they get here. [More…]
I have been on migrant ships, f have seen for myself that some migrants are very interested in trying to learn English from a book on the ship on the way out from i heir own country. [More…]
They could not speak Australian if they tried because it is different to English, lt cost, this country money to bring migrants out here but last year 28,200 of them went back to their own country. [More…]
Every year that migrants leave this country to go back to their own it costs us $17m. [More…]
On top of that situation there are the migrants who come out here, start a successful business, spend 12 to 14 years here and then leave Australia and go back to their own country loaded with Australian money. [More…]
I multiplied that amount by 28,200 migrants. [More…]
I have had migrants in these houses who were promised a job in Australia when they left their own country. [More…]
If the Australian Government had told these people that there is work for them and when they get here they cannot obtain work then we are doing the wrong thing by the migrants and by this country. [More…]
When the migrants arrive here they have to have homes. [More…]
If we bring out more migrants so that they can fill the homes we will have to pay them social services. [More…]
If we want migrants - and 1 agree that perhaps we want some at this time - we should insist on having those who will come to Australia at their own expense and not be a burden on the Australian people. [More…]
I think that too many migrants are becoming a burden on Australia and it is wrong for the Australian people to have to carry them. [More…]
Perhaps I could go further and say that some of the migrants who have come here are working their way into positions in the unions and are causing trouble in Australia, but T do not want to go into that subject. [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…]
Firstly he said that no migrants should be allowed and then he said that the programme should be reduced by 70 per cent. [More…]
In relation to the third one, the Minister said that the research staff of the Department would soon begin - this was July 1970 - a trial survey as a prelude to its massive study of the experiences of migrants during their early years in Australia. [More…]
Without that I do not think Australia could have taken the number of migrants which it has. [More…]
The third major project, which is being carried out by the Department, is a survey of the experiences of about 10,000 migrants during their early years in Australia. [More…]
I think it must be remembered that over the years the Government has made it easier for migrants to accept citizenship. [More…]
We have relaxed certain aspects of the naturalisation procedures so that migrants will more readily accept Australian citizenship. [More…]
The method of naturalisation of migrants has been relaxed to the extent that they no longer have to go as far in swearing an oath as they previously did. [More…]
This happens to many migrants because the requirement of 10 years continuous residence in Australia. [More…]
All of us have a considerable number of case histories concerning migrants crossing our desks. [More…]
The work of this Council relates more particularly to matters of integration and social welfare after migrants have arrived here. [More…]
They are related to the well being of migrants and to the number of migrants that a country can take. [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…]
When Senator Greenwood was replying he did not answer my criticism that problems are arising in respect of the recognition of the professional qualifications of migrants from Latin America. [More…]
1 would like to see personnel officers of the Postmaster-General’s Department brought before a committee and asked to explain why they have fumbled the employment of so many British migrants who finish up working in grades in which they did not expect to work. [More…]
We are not talking about the number of migrants. [More…]
I respectfully suggest to Senator Davidson that amongst the committees formed by organisations such as the Good Neighbour Council not many recommendations have been made for the extra appointment of trade union secretaries or lower ranking unionists who are post-war migrants. [More…]
Some people say that migrants are too docile as unionists and are a threat to industrial conditions. [More…]
On some occasions attempts are made to intimidate migrants who function as shop stewards and fight exploitation. [More…]
I thought, he was quite unfair about the role of migrants in trade unions. [More…]
In the course of a reasonably long life I can remember - it is about as far back” as 1 can remember - people who have said that they did not want migrants coming here and taking their jobs. [More…]
Many people were opposed to migrants coming here. [More…]
Sir George Clark was asked whether Australia would be able to provide employment for migrants if they came here. [More…]
That view may have been a little exaggerated, but since 1945 many migrants who came to this country showed sufficient enterprise and ability to establish flourishing businesses which did a great deal of good for the Australian economy and provided employment for a great number of Australians. [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…]
I believe that migrants have created employment. [More…]
If Senator McManus were to examine the figures I think he would find that, contrary to the impression he has gained, the number of migrants from Asian countries in recent years has increased. [More…]
Assisted passages are provided for the purpose of bringing to Australia migrants who would not normally come here without assistance and who are needed to help Australia’s development. [More…]
There is a measure of restriction on the entry into Australia of person of mixed race, even as fare paying migrants. [More…]
I think some of these illegal migrants stay here only because they are afraid of reprisals from the owners of the ships from which they deserted. [More…]
This year (here has been a curtailment of the English speaking classes which are held for migrants. [More…]
This new emphasis on specialised courses ha-; meant having to reduce the amount of money available this financial year for the evening continuation class programme for adult’ migrants, which have been in operation for some 20 years. [More…]
Accelerated instruction is given in morning, afternoon and evening part-time classes which are specially suited to migrants who are on shift work. [More…]
In January there will be special classes for migrants in industry which will have a trial run. [More…]
A few minutes ago he replied to Senator McManus and indicated that the Government bad broadened its outlook in relation to bringing migrants from Asia and that more are coming from Asia today than ever before. [More…]
The situation at the moment is that the Government is bringing in so many migrants that it cannot fina employment for them, it cannot provide education facilities for their children, it cannot provide housing for them and it cannot provide health and hospital services for them. [More…]
Because of that migrants- [More…]
I said that the kind of development that is taking place is such that Queensland is able to absorb migrants and to give them a decent existence. [More…]
I feel that we should have an intensely selective immigration policy so that wc get the best migrants for the country. [More…]
If we took migrants from all countries the same people who were in favour of this policy would be the people complaining. [More…]
I stand here as one who believes that we should have the right to say what migrants should come into this country. [More…]
From my point of view, it could be more intensively applied as far as the quality of migrants that we get from countries which do not have coloured races are concerned. [More…]
The Government felt the winds of change blowing recently and this year it cut down on the number of migrants that it would allow into Australia. [More…]
1 feel that the subject is such an important one that it needs the intense thinking of the Government and of parliamentarians generally, but I think that we want to take a sensible approach to the matter to try to ensure that when we tally the ultimate worth of migrants to this country we will find that they have been a real advantage to this country. [More…]
Those who, under the Government’s policy, have been accepted in Australia as successful migrants would be more successful if they were able to be reunited in Australia with their overseas relatives. [More…]
On the figures that he produced, our Leader pointed out that this policy possibly would mean a smaller intake of Asian migrants because of the small number of Asians in this country, but the assistance we gave to migrants to Australia would not depend upon their race or their nationality. [More…]
We of the Labor movement believe that the best migrants for Australia are other members of families of migrants who have settled here. [More…]
We would never grant or withhold assistance to migrants simply because of race or colour. [More…]
Queensland has one of the lowest retentions rates of migrants in Australia. [More…]
Migrants coming to Australia are frequently warned by the Government supported by the Minister and Senator Wood not to go to Queensland because of its hillbilly Government which makes no provision for jobs, housing, education or health services. [More…]
The committee consisted mainly of members of the House of Representatives who talked about these things, and the thing that they put up time and time again was that in their electorates they were absolutely ashamed of the situation whereby migrants were being brought into Australia and treated as second class citizens. [More…]
There arc far more migrants who come to live in capital cities than Australians who are born in them. [More…]
We believe in a selective immigration policy by which Australia has the right to select its migrants. [More…]
It is very clear from the answer that is recorded in Hansard that it is not the policy of the Government to give assisted passages to other than European migrants. [More…]
Labor will select its migrants according to the requirements of the country. [More…]
The Leader of our Party has the belief that the most urgent need for the country today in accepting migrants is to re-unite families. [More…]
One in 4 migrants is leaving Australia this year. [More…]
This problem will be overcome by reuniting migrants who have been accepted in Australia with relatives from overseas. [More…]
Migrants admitted under the present Government’s policy will be more beneficial to the country if they are re-united here with their families. [More…]
The selection of migrants under a Labor government in the immediate future will be based on the numbers we need, with first preference of selection going to those nominated by Australian citizens. [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…]
Because our policy is acceptable to the Australian public, the acceptance of it can be upset and reversed only by the type of distortion thai the Minister has made great effort lo achieve tonight by saying that our policy is an open door one to admit all migrants and to create the same problems that the United Stales of America and Great Britain face. [More…]
Three of us hammered away on the theme of our future attitude to Asian migrants. [More…]
In Division 330, subdivision 4, item 05, which deals with movements of migrants upon disembarkation, $96,000 was saved. [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…]
However, 2 English classes for migrants were conducted at the Chullora railway workshops from February to September this year when both classes had to be closed because attendances had fallen well below the acceptable level. [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…]
Is the Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications examining the position before it becomes more serious, having regard to the increasing numbers of migrants arriving in Australia from South America? [More…]
There are no Chilean migrants at Villawood Migrant Hostel experiencing employment difficulties because of the non-recognition of their professional qualifications. [More…]
Information about professional qualifications gained in South American countries from which migrants come to Australia is being collected by the Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications in the same way as is being done in regard to qualifications obtained in other migrant source countries. [More…]
Professionally qualified migrants from South American countries may have their qualifications and employment prospects assessed in Australia before they leave their countries. [More…]
How many Irish migrants entered Australia in the quarter ended 30th September 1971, in the categories listed in the answer to Senate Question on Notice No. [More…]
How many applications from prospective Irish migrants were rejected in each of the quarters ended 31st December 1970, 3 1st March 1971, 30th June 1971, and 30th September 1971, and what were the reasons for such rejections. [More…]
The Department of Immigration provides a migrant education service to most migrants travelling to Australia by sea. [More…]
At least one Shipboard Education Officer is assigned to vessels carrying a significant number of non-English speaking migrants to Australia. [More…]
These officers arrange for a programme of English language instruction and citizenship education for migrants during the voyage. [More…]
In general, assessment of the qualifications of British migrants in the metal and electrical trades involves no special problems. [More…]
Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service aware of reports that migrants in the Northern Territory are paying up to $190 for jobs at the Nabalco bauxite mining township on the Gove Peninsula? [More…]
There are also those who are receiving unemployment, sickness or special benefits, newly arrived migrants and so on. [More…]
Those who qualify for special benefits, and will receive the increased rate as soon as this Bill is passed, include some women caring for invalid parents or near relatives, some migrants not residentially qualified for social service pensions and certain unmarried mothers. [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…]
As to the first part of the honourable senator’s question, it is expected that the assisted migrant intake in the current year 1971-72 will be approximately 16.500 fewer than it would have been if the original target of 100,000 assisted migrants for the financial year 1971-72 had been maintained. [More…]
Of those 16,500 assisted migrants, about 7,500 would have been workers and about 9,000 would have been dependants The reductions have been applied in all assisted migration programmes.In the general movements which have been deferred there are those of workers who, if they had come to Australia, would have found themselves in employment difficulties. [More…]
The personally nominated migrants, except where the breadwinner has not been assured of employment or where it is anticipated that he will have employment difficulties, will proceed without interruption. [More…]
I was about to say that I hope the Government will reject the Labor Party’s insistence that we should cut back the flow of new and young migrants- [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…]
The point I am making is that if we of the Labor Party and the trade union movement begin to question the number of migrants coming in it is because we do not want to see any racial bitterness or undue competition between A and B for a particular job. [More…]
Let us have a look at the situation in relation to the intake of non-British or non-European migrants. [More…]
I have deliberately raised both questions of the number of migrants coming into Australia and the type of people coming to Australia. [More…]
I know of at least 5 migrants working on the opal fields - it is pretty hot work there - who have complained of the delay in getting mothers, sisters and wives out here. [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…]
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…]
Whether the entry of 27,000 non-European migrants in each future year would prejudice the jobs of Australians, including Aborigines, is something which one cannot really say in advance. [More…]
It must depend on a number of factors including the demand for workers in different categories at different times, the availability of Australians in those categories at those times, the inflow of other migrants and the qualifications of other migrants both European and non-European. [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…]
Migrants have the same right to freedom of movement within Australia as other citizens and are not subject to control. [More…]
This illustrates the importance of an industry such as this in absorbing those female migrants who come to Australia and who need avenues of employment of this kind. [More…]
As one who has been arguing constantly about the status of migrants coming to Australia, tonight my theme is what I consider to be the dilatoriness of our Government in dealing with the status of Australian nationals in overseas countries. [More…]
Hasthis information been conveyed to the officers responsible for interviewing prospective migrants in Vienna. [More…]
When counselling prospective migrants overseas the rates of pay quoted are the minimum award rate for a normal week’s work. [More…]
Was any consideration given to the existence of Australian money-lending agencies which appear to charge grossly inflated interest rates to migrants who borrow money to bring their dependants to Australia. [More…]
However, the meeting which commenced on 20th January 1972, considered the following subjects - information about Australia furnished to candidates for emigration; assistance given upon arrival to facilitate the settling in of migrants; the availability of adequate accommodation; and English-language instruction. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of reports that migrants in the Northern Territory are paying up to $190 for jobs at the Nabalco bauxite township on the Gove peninsula. [More…]
Migrants who are stateless and who can comply with the requirements of the Citizenship Act in relation to good character as well as other matters may acquire Australian citizenship. [More…]
One of the primary purposes of the review undertaken with the State Education authorities in September 1971 of the continuation class programme (which provides two hours of instruction in classes held twice weekly, generally in the evening) was to ensure a more effective programme by re-grouping classes in centres where graded levels of instruction would be possible and by closing classes where the small number of migrants attending could not justify their being maintained. [More…]
In South Melbourne classes have been held for adult migrants at the Dorcas Street Primary School since 1956. [More…]
Migrants who live in the South Melbourne area are able also to attend classes at the Migrant Education Centre at 200 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, where, in addition to continuation classes, accelerated and full time intensive language courses are available. [More…]
In Prahran, there are in addition to the classes recently closed a number of classes in adjoining districts which are within reasonable access to migrants living in the Prahran area. [More…]
Are any English language classes conducted by the Department, or on its behalf in factories and other places where migrants find employment; if so, how many such classes are there and what is their enrolment. [More…]
This course, when evaluated, will form the basis of English instruction for migrants in industry generally. [More…]
The purpose of the review was to reduce the number of classes at which attendance had fallen below acceptable levels and single classes which were operating uneconomically and to regroup other classes so that more effective instruction could be given in larger centres which were better able to meet the educational needs of migrants whatever their initial standard of English was on enrolment. [More…]
In regard to the pilot scheme involving onthejob English courses for migrants, were New South Wales migrants offered an opportunity of participating in the scheme; if so, what was the response? [More…]
With the co-operation of employers it is proposed to extend the industrial English course into other industries where migrants would benefit from this kind of on-the-job instruction. [More…]
It is headed ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and purports to give a factual account of the activities of Croatian migrants and their organisations in Australia. [More…]
However, all Croatian migrants in this country have been smeared with the fascist tag by this scurrilous journal - an allegation which is thoroughly unfair and unjust. [More…]
As a matter of public importance my plea to the Senate and to the Attorney-General is that all Croatian migrants be not smeared as murdering terrorists by Jurjevic and his political asso ciates of the Australian Labor Party and that those Croatians who want to make their homes here, in peace, whilst retaining their love of homeland, be allowed to do so without the persecution of Tito’s agents or any agents provocateurs. [More…]
Migrants who had been here not long enough to become Australian citizens felt that, being employed in the PostmasterGeneral’s Department and being ready and willing to accept Australian citizenship, they could find themselves in a cleft stick If there happened to be a contraction of the work force. [More…]
My Department, mindful of the problems migrants are having in understanding the subsidised health benefits plan, is currently arranging the production of explanatory pamphlets in 10 different languages. [More…]
The other matter with which I wish to deal concerns the screening of migrants. [More…]
I contrasted the effectiveness of that system with our present activities in such matters in which, I think, we probe too far into the political background of migrants. [More…]
We went to the great trouble of sending people to the United Kingdom to recruit top grade artisans in the field of aircraft production who were told verbally by the recruiters, on behalf of the Department of Supply, that they would have continuity of employment in this country if they chose to leave the aircraft industry in England and come here as migrants and work within the industry in this country. [More…]
Intending migrants from Messina are medically examined by an Australia-based medical officer who is stationed in Messina. [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…]
I return to this theme: I believe that more interpreters should be used as social workers, particularly when migrants are involved. [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…]
Recently I received a communication from the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) dealing with Greek migrants. [More…]
Senator Wright would be aware of the number of occasions when heads of State meet and when Ministers go overseas to countries from where migrants come. [More…]
What has been the intake of migrants from Mauritius for each of the past 5 years. [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…]
Secondly, we wanted to ensure in negotiation the greatest possible reciprocal benefits for migrants from other countries who now live in Australia. [More…]
We are all Australian taxpayers if we are permanently resident here, whether we are Australian born, or whether we came originally from overseas; and all of us, including migrants, have an interest in seeing that the Australian Treasury is not thus pillaged. [More…]
Indeed, this is the principle which migrants themselves have endorsed in their journals: They say very rightly that those who have earned their pension by their contribution to the Australian scene should, by virtue of that contribution, have the right to take their pension home. [More…]
It is hoped and expected that well before the commencement of the next sittings negotiations will be concluded with a large number of these countries, including those which are most important from the viewpoint of our migrants. [More…]
The Bill before the Senate, while not confined to migrants, is the latest of a series of measures introduced by this Government to assist migrants who have need of Australian social security in their widowhood, ill health or old age. [More…]
It should be reiterated that the new provisions apply equally to all migrants, whether naturalised or not, as well as to all Australians whether or not they are migrants. [More…]
This is a Bill which can benefit both naturalborn Australians and the migrants who have come here to settle. [More…]
At the 1959 Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party Mr Clyde Cameron pioneered the idea that migrants who had resided in Australia for 10 years should be eligible for the age pension, subject to all other requirements being met. [More…]
How many migrants of Turkish nationality have been brought to Australia under the Government’s assisted migration scheme. [More…]
A total of 10,975 migrants of Turkish nationality have arrived in Australia under assisted passage schemes up to the end of March 1972. [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…]
Will the Minister take note that at meetings and demonstrations throughout Australia the gravest possible concern is being expressed by migrants to this country from behind the Iron Curtain at a revival, instigated by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, of a system’ of repression, tyranny and deprivation of human rights such as one had hoped would have disappeared to some degree in those countries? [More…]
Last year 132,000 migrants came .to Australia. [More…]
Now, with no real prospect of a decrease in the record number of unemployed the Treasurer tells us that the number1 of migrants to be brought in this year will rise to 140,000. [More…]
I want to make it clear that to increase the number of migrants coming to Australia at a time of high unemployment is economic lunacy. [More…]
Worse, it condemns migrants, who come to Australia with high hopes of life in a new land, to languish for an indefinite period on the dole. [More…]
I believe, and the Australian Labor Party believes, that the first responsibility of the Government is to Australia’s citizens and to the migrants already arrived in Australia. [More…]
The latest available figures show that of those migrants eligible to enter the work force 11 per cent of arrivals during the previous 12 months were unemployed. [More…]
Is this a fair go for these migrants? [More…]
The answer is that the Government is not interested in migrants as people. [More…]
If it believes that the more migrants unemployed the better then let it say so. [More…]
If a disproportionate number of those in the pool are migrants, reasons the Government, so much the better. [More…]
The high unemployment amongst migrants in fact encourages them to vote in the only way open to them. [More…]
At present rates, one in every four migrants arriving in Australia will leave Australia permanently. [More…]
Senator Willesee, observed that the Government is not interested in migrants as people. [More…]
The Government’s immigration programme for 1972-73 provides for 140,000 migrants, the number initially programmed for last year. [More…]
In view of the closure of the migrant hostels at Springfield and Glenelg in South Australia, the reduction in the number of residences for migrants at Finsbury Hostel, South Australia, and the progress on the building of selfcontained migrant flats at Morphetville in that State, what is the possibility of continued employment for the catering staff at present employed at Finsbury? [More…]
The letter was signed by Dr Untaru, who is the President of the United Council of Immigrants. [More…]
I suggest that it is not impossible that there are some Polish migrants who, although not being supporters of the Australian Labor Party and its policies, do want to go back to the land where they were born. [More…]
In view of the apparent concession by the Polish Government that Polish migrants who have acquired United States citizenship need not worry about their citizenship being in jeopardy, I think it is fair to put to the Government that it should, if it has not already done so, seek to obtain the attitude of the Polish Government to this matter. [More…]
Recognising the unique knowledge and experience of Cardinal Mindszenty to report on the postwar tragedy of Hungary, will the Minister seek to obtain the full text of the Cardinal’s address and have it made available to this Parliament, the people of Australia and, particularly, to the thousands of Hungarian and other migrants in Australia who were forced to flee from behind the Iron Curtain, so that this country shall have a further and timely reminder of the tyranny of the communist military machine? [More…]
With regard to making it available to migrants and other sections of the public, I would encourage the greatest possible publicity to be given to this speech, having regard to the trend of it and particularly in the context of the opposite version of the Hungarian revolution which was portrayed last night in the Australian Broadcasting Commission programme ‘Khrushchev Remembers’. [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…]
The need for economic development and growth as a nation during the past quarter century has been met very much by our success in attracting migrants. [More…]
More than half this increase in our population has resulted from migration and the Australian born children of migrants. [More…]
The need to increase the work force - it has increased from 3.4 million to 5.6 million - has been met by migrants, over half this increase being attributable to migrant workers. [More…]
The average age of migrants when they arrive is 24.5 years compared with 31.4 years for the overall Australian population. [More…]
Migrants have played a major role in servicing key industries. [More…]
The latest census figures available show that more than onehalf of the men engaged on electric power works and transmission lines are migrants; that one-third of the men engaged on water supply and sewerage are migrants, and that from one-third to one-half of those engaged in building and building materials industries are migrants. [More…]
Migrants have strongly reinforced our educational facilities, particularly at tertiary levels. [More…]
One third of the university staff is migrants. [More…]
It is a further measure of the contributions of migrants to little publicised but vital areas of our national activity that almost one half of the members of the Australian Academy of Science were born overseas. [More…]
There are other fields where migrants have helped significantly. [More…]
At the same time it has enabled migrants to make an immediate and positive contribution to the national economy. [More…]
further migrants from these countries will be forthcoming for Australia, which is very important as so much iri the field of migrant availability depends on goodwill and trust between governments, countries and people. [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…]
The Government recognises the prime importance to migrants of the need for suitable housing and accommodation on arrival. [More…]
In 1967 a broad plan to improve the standard of transitory accommodation for migrants was introduced. [More…]
As to the methods of screening at the present time, Yugoslav migrants in essence come to Australia from 2 places. [More…]
Complaints by the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia that there are, in Australia bases, training ranges, storage places for weapons and diversionist material for criminal activity against Yugoslavia’, and that the Australian government ‘has tolerated migrants engaged in terrorist activity against Yugoslavia’, and that Australia has not adhered to international law in regard to terrorist activity. [More…]
There is the further allegation that the Australian Government has tolerated migrants engaged in terrorist activity against Yugoslavia. [More…]
I want to make it quite clear that so far as the Australian Labor Party is concerned most of the people who have come here from Yugoslavia - the overwhelming majority of them - have fitted into our community and have been decent migrants. [More…]
We expect migrants who come from Yugoslavia to Australia will leave these hostilities behind them. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party is firmly opposed to terrorism and violence wherever they occur, whether among migrants or in the trade unions. [More…]
Some years ago an investigation carried out by a committee which included representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions reported that among migrants there was, if anything, a little less crime than among Australian born citizens. [More…]
On the very few occasions when it may have been necessary for me to speak to migrants about the possibility of violence, I have always urged them to keep the law, not to resort to violence but to observe the law whatever may have been their feelings towards other groups in the community. [More…]
He told me that it is his impression that a great deal of the trouble has been stirred up by recent arrivals whom he called ‘passport migrants’ - people who had come here with passports since the conclusion of this agreement and who were accepted on the word of the Yugoslav Government. [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…]
We could well remind ourselves that we are debating a motion moved by Senator Murphy which seeks to refer to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence a matter primarily relating to complaints by the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia that there are in Australia bases, training ranges, storage places for weapons and diversionist material for criminal activity against Yugoslavia, and that the Australian Government has tolerated migrants engaged in terrorist activities against Yugoslavia, and so on. [More…]
Equally, let me make this clear: I will have no part in a general blanket attack on migrants in this country, whether Croats, Serbs or others. [More…]
But I think it is of particular importance to deal with the job opportunities for Yugoslav migrants who come to this country. [More…]
I repeat that much of what I have said tonight has been said by many Yugoslavs in this country, both pre-war and post-war migrants, who have looked in vain for the law to be applied equally. [More…]
A total of 861 employees were brought out as assisted migrants to work for the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd in 1971-72, comprising 722 from the United Kingdom and 139 from Europe. [More…]
As for all other employer nominated assisted migrants, approved migrants coming to Australia for employment with the BHP are given assisted passages by the Commonwealth. [More…]
In some instances the Company provides or arranges accommodation for these employees, and when this is not possible, accommodation is provided in migrant hostels close to the place of employment in the same manner as for other assisted migrants, who do not have arranged accommodation on arrival. [More…]
These migrants are then subject to the normal provisions concerning housing, social services, etc., in common with all other assisted migrants. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that a great many Yugoslav migrants in Australia - good citizens of this country - hold the strong belief that secret police activities do exist and live in fear of such alleged activities? [More…]
Is not this belief a main reason for the hostility expressed by many Yugoslav migrants against the Yugoslav Embassy and its consulates and agencies? [More…]
The details of this programme should be placed on record so that the great community of migrants and new settlers who have made such a remarkable contribution to our national well being and growth may have the benefit of this programme. [More…]
I think it will be understood that the major part of this increase results from the decision made by this Government to pay living allowances to migrants attending accelerated courses on a full time basis. [More…]
We have heard talk about migrants, Aboriginals, universities, colleges of advanced education, scholarships and pre-school teachers colleges. [More…]
Supervising office - supervising all organisations and all Croatian migrants in the foreign world. [More…]
Let me make this clear: The Liberal Party Migrant Advisory Council was formed, with other undertakings formed by banks and by community bodies throughout the country, to help migrants to assimilate in this country - for a fine and proper motive. [More…]
It is designed to assimilate migrants. [More…]
Let us have this said because the migrants themselves will be thoroughly interested to know it. [More…]
The interesting fact about the whole situation is that a parallel factor, equally wrong and equally violent, is the allegation that international communism, quite strong as such, is operating here to provoke and to intimidate migrants. [More…]
That allegation has come forward with equal strength, migrants alleging that it is so. [More…]
In Australia there is hardly any organisation of migrants from behind the Iron Curtain which does not have a liberation front. [More…]
He spoke about migrants and their feelings about liberation. [More…]
There is no doubt that some of these migrants feel that the Government has let them down. [More…]
Senator Kane, about 8 members of the Labor Party and a vast number of migrants attended the monster rally at the Paddington Town Hall. [More…]
The migrants said that they felt that the Liberal Party had used them. [More…]
I would not have drawn it to attention but for the fact that Senator Carrick tried to make out that the Labor Party has done nothing for migrants or that the Government has been better than the Labor Party in its treatment of migrants. [More…]
I did it deliberately to refute the idea that we had not done anything in relation to migrants and that our record is shabby. [More…]
The letter added, ‘We consider it highly offensive that achievements of migrants in Australia should be commemorated by the display of a flag of the oppressors of their homeland.’ [More…]
The unsatisfactory situation was highlighted by the recent incident in which the flag was removed and destroyed by angry migrants. [More…]
I draw attention to Senator Douglas McClelland’s statement that he believes that none of the migrants are entitled to work for the freedom of the countries whence they came. [More…]
I have spoken to hundreds of migrants who have told me that they came here to get away from communist tyranny. [More…]
Senator Carrick in all his purity said that the Liberal Party had encouraged migrants to enter into its scheme of things. [More…]
But it did everything possible to influence these migrants to vote for the Liberal Party. [More…]
The minds of these migrants who came within the sphere of influence of the Liberal Party were poisoned against the Labor Party. [More…]
I challenge Senator Carrick to say that on no occasion did he discuss politics with these migrants. [More…]
I say that every political party has endeavoured to assist migrants. [More…]
He said that all migrants who come to Australia were from Iron Curtain countries - from communist countries. [More…]
How many migrants have come to Australia? [More…]
I have spoken to more migrants in Australia in a week than the honourable senator has spoken to in 5 years. [More…]
I know many of the migrants who have come here. [More…]
Senator Hannan can meet me anywhere he likes and I will take him to more migrants who came to Australia voluntarily than he can say came here under duress. [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…]
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…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the AttorneyGeneral, by pointing out that the Victorian Soccer Federation, in a conciliatory gesture, has negotiated for a soccer team known as Croatia to change its name to Batman in an effort to reduce tensions arising out of ethnic differences between former European migrants. [More…]
The Government has this tendency to treat exservicemen as second class citizens in the same way as it treats pensioners, many of the migrants and the Australian Aborigines as second class citizens. [More…]
Unassisted migrants are not asked any questions about their religion. [More…]
In New South Wales in the steel industry, as at today’s total, some 60 per cent of all employees at Port Kembla and at Newcastle are migrants. [More…]
For February 1972 an attempt was made to provide as much information as possible about a number of separate groups of migrants (males, married women, all females and persons) according to country of birth and period of arrival in Australia, but because of the relatively small numbers of unemployed migrants only 20 of the 52 principal estimates provided for in the published table formats could be shown, the remainder being below the 4,000 limit referred to above. [More…]
With a decrease in the total number of unemployed migrants the possibility of a meaningful breakdown into smaller groups was further reduced, and in fact only 13 of the 52 estimates referred to above were publishable, and a number of those were close to the 4,000 level. [More…]
The Commonwealth, through its recruiting officers in various countries, offers a golden handshake to intending migrants and in colourful brochures which sometimes do not contain the facts relating to employment opportunities in Australia invites these people to our country. [More…]
Can the Attorney-General assure the Senate that adequate protection will be given to ordinary non-political Croatian migrants who refuse to bow to threats from Tito’s secret police, its agents or anyone else? [More…]
In Yugoslavia the arrangement is largely based on the carriage of migrants to this country. [More…]
1 wish to support the case that has been put forward to demonstrate the many anomalies, loopholes and shortcomings in the Government’s present policy with regard to the needs of a great number of migrants who have come here. [More…]
I think, illustrates the variety of problems which our migrants who become naturalised citizens experience when they seek to return to their homelands. [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…]
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…]
The survey was directed at seeking information on both interpreting and translating needs from a selected representative sample of organisations and individuals who have dealings with migrants in the course of their day-to-day activity. [More…]
Has a longitudinal study of 10,000 migrants announced by the Minister in July 1970, and intended to be carried out by his Department, been abandoned; if so, when was it abandoned and for what reasons. [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…]
It is looking at our intake of migrants and it has not come up with an answer yet. [More…]
The new nursing home fund benefits are to apply to persons eligible for benefits under the Subsidised Health Benefits Scheme, that is, unemployment and sickness beneficiaries, low-income families and migrants within two months of arrival in Australia. [More…]
Did the last break-down of migrant unemployment figures, by year of arrival, show that of all migrants eligible to enter the workforce who had arrived in the first 8 months of 1971-72, 11 per cent was unemployed. [More…]
Did the Minister say, in relation to the ability of migrants to find employment, that things have been better than normal throughout this period’. [More…]
I have received advice about the number of migrants in migrant hostels and the periods for which they have waited in the hostels before obtaining employment. [More…]
The statement was based on figures relating to migrants sponsored by the Government who are, of course, the only ones to enter Commonwealth hostels. [More…]
The latter include one-parent families, newly - arrived migrants, low-income groups generally and families where one of the parents is sick or incapacitated. [More…]
The growers, many of them soldier settlers from the Invergordon area and migrants from Shepparton properties, are annoyed over offers made by the Commission under the tree pull scheme. [More…]
1 would say that one of the main difficulties with migrants arises when they enter hospitals. [More…]
At naturalisation ceremonies migrants are told that they have become Australian citizens and have the rights and privileges of every other Australian. [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 believe that we have to accept that in far more positive ways we have to bring home to migrants to this country, who may retain dual nationality according to the laws of the country from which they have come, the fact that they may have obligations and be subjected to all types of privation if they go back to those countries. [More…]
Many of the persons not registered are found to be migrants who have arrived in Australia after their agegroup was required to register or are not required to register because they are serving, or have served, in the Permanent Forces. [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…]
Applications for permission to enter Australia as unassisted migrants are considered ontheir individual merits, including any known association with Scientology. [More…]
It should be clear to the Australian public and I think it is a matter of common sense that the great body of migrants who have come from Yugoslavia, including those from Croatia, are law abiding citizens wanting to be assimilated into the Australian community. [More…]
Is any deliberate program of promotion being undertaken to secure suitable migrants? [More…]
However, I suggest to the honourable senator that one of the reasons for the falling off in the number of migrants coming from the United Kingdom to Australia this year compared with last year could be related to the economic circumstances of the United Kingdom as affected by her joining the European Economic Community. [More…]
Mr Menzies went on to say: lt is understandable that some Yugoslav migrants of Croatian origin should continue to hope for the establishment of an independent Croatia and within a democracy like Australia they have a Tight to advocate their views so long as they do so by legitimate means. [More…]
1 have reason to believe that the terrorists are endeavouring to create the impression amongst Yugoslav migrants in Australia that the Croatian extremists have the support of significant sections of Australian society and even the government. [More…]
We should not abandon our democratic principles of tree speech, belief and association but I would hope that migrants are left with no misunderstanding of the disfavour with which the Government would view any activities which might reasonably give rise to objections by the present governments of their countries of origin. [More…]
These documents come out of a background that effectively commences in Australia in 1956, although Croatian organisations commenced in Australia as far back as 1950 with the arrival of the early Croatian migrants from the refugee camps of Europe. [More…]
I have reason to believe that the terrorists are endeavouring to create the impression amongst Yugoslav migrants in Australia that the Croatian extremists have the support of significant sections of Australian society and even the government’. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Foreign Minister, fs he aware that Rhodesia is seeking migrants by advertisement in Australian newspapers? [More…]
Can he inform the Parliament whether prospective migrants are being screened by officials of the Rhodesian Information Centre in Sydney? [More…]
Will the Minister conduct an inquiry to determine which officers interviewed those migrants who, on the basis of Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and Commonwealth Police reports, have been involved in terrorist activities? [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…]
All I can say in short is that Mr Grassby only last week said that he had not been satisfied with the previous Government’s record of checking proposed migrants. [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…]
Local police in the area have reported that no complaints relating to ‘groups of armed migrants’ have ever been received by them. [More…]
Is the Australian community, and particularly migrants from communist regimes in Eastern Europe, or from Nazi Germany or from Fascist Italy, to live in constant fear of a knock on the door in the middle of the night? [More…]
Migrants have been singled out They are said to be different because they are terrorists. [More…]
It is not just Yugoslavs and their children who have been singled out at schools, at work and in other areas: it has applied to all migrants. [More…]
By his actions and statements he has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the doorin the middle of the night and other similar police state methods.’ [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…]
The point I want to make is this: I saw some of the crocodile tears expressed by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) about the rights of migrants and I wondered whether he had referred back to speeches such as those I made in the past 5 years in which I begged the then Government to change the Crimes Act in order to avoid discrimination against people who had acquired Australian citizenship not having been born in Australia. [More…]
I have reason to believe that the terrorists are endeavouring to create the impression amongst Yugoslav migrants in Australia that the Croatian extremists have the support of significant sections of Australian society and even the Government [More…]
I have reason to believe that the terrorists are endeavouring to create the impression amongst Yugoslav migrants in Australia that the Croatian extremists have the support of significant sections of Australian society and even the government. [More…]
We should not abandon our democratic principles of free speech, belief and association but I would hope that migrants are left with no misunderstanding of the disfavour with which the Government would view any activities which might reasonably give rise to objections by the present governments of their countries of origin. [More…]
By his actions and statements be has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the door in the middle of the night and other similar police state methods. [More…]
They forget that all of these things were done to young Australians, not to migrants, who said that they did not want to be conscripted and that they would not go to Vietnam. [More…]
Mr Frank Galbally, a well known Melbourne criminal lawyer, went on record in the Press yesterday as saying that many Melbourne migrants were stood over every pay day for a percentage of their pay packets. [More…]
By his actions and statements he has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the door in the middle of the night and other similar police state methods. [More…]
1 have made my comments about that point, Mr Deputy President, and in my view, from the number of migrants in our community who have spoken to me since last Sunday, there can be no doubt - if they are representative of the migrants of Australia - that there is a very real fear existing amongst those people. [More…]
In many cases, they are migrants who have been victimised in their homeland. [More…]
I have no doubt that the great majority of organisations and societies to which migrants belong come within the category to which I have just been referring. [More…]
He was referring to migrants being integrated into the community. [More…]
Do honourable senators appreciate that, leaving aside the United Kingdom, the greatest number of migrants now coming to our country come from Yugoslavia? [More…]
Page 2 of the report, after dealing with the problems of migrants who had come to Australia and the fact that there is some extremism, states: [More…]
Prevent migrants from travelling in Yugoslav aircraft, and destroy, Yugo-aircraft! [More…]
By his actions and statements he has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the door In the middle of the night and other similar police state methods. [More…]
By his actions and statements he has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the door in the middle of the night and other similar police state methods. [More…]
No longer will a small minority be allowed to besmirch the name of a decent group of migrants. [More…]
Croatians and other migrants will be allowed to assimilate peacefully and they will not be terrorised, intimidated, besmirched and stained by the. [More…]
We have a Government in Australia which is determined to see that not only the migrants but also the rest of the Australian people will be able to live free of this terror and violence. [More…]
At a time of increased unemployment he holds a whip-hand over Yugoslav migrants seeking jobs. [More…]
He has the power to appoint interpreters, arrange jobs for new immigrants and generally supervise the “settlement” of Yugoslav migrants who constitute the third largest non-English speaking group in Australia.’ [More…]
For example, Aborigines, migrants and electors with young children are not uniformly dispersed throughout the various regions. [More…]
This matter or a mutter akin to it was discussed on 11th April 1961 when 1 moved the adjournment of the Senate for the purpose of discussing the question of the increasing threat to the rights of migrants from communist governed states who desired to live their lives in Australia in security under the rule of law. [More…]
We in Australia have to satisfy our own people and our own migrants that nothing will be done which will render them liable for trial under a government in whose democratic principles they do not believe and whose ken they chose to leave and become refugees in this country. [More…]
I look forward in the not far distant future to the time when the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Murphy, will be introducing amendments to the Crimes Act which will meet a situation in which many post-war migrants had reservations about receiving second class citizenship in Australia. [More…]
The United States had a larger population of Yugoslav migrants than Australia has ever had. [More…]
The point I make is that some of the Yugoslav migrants were economic migrants and some were political migrants. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that the salary position of guest workers in major industries in Europe is related to the highest wage applying whereas in Whyalla migrants are being utilised at the lowest rate applicable? [More…]
This would bring Christmas Island into line with Australia, where young migrants may become Australian citizens at 16 years with parents’ consent. [More…]
lt comes in recognition of the special rights and needs of migrants in this country - justice too long denied them. [More…]
For too long migrants have been told by past governments of their valuable contribution to the development of this nation. [More…]
But for equally as long too little has been contributed by those governments towards the special needs of so many migrants especially during their difficult period of adjusting to a new, alien and not always hospitable society. [More…]
The presence of migrants in this country has been valuable to this nation and has given it and its people a far better future than would have been achieved otherwise. [More…]
There is much that should have been done to assist many migrants and we intend remedying this neglect. [More…]
While it will benefit mainly aged, invalid and widowed migrants who wish to return to their former homelands, either permanently or temporarily, it will apply equally to all pensioners. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that these absurd newspaper stories which have been faithfully followed up by the television services of the Australian Broadcasting Commission have caused grave disquiet and unease among those excellent migrants, the Ukrainians? [More…]
The Minister said that this Bill is a recognition of the special rights and needs of migrants in this country and was justice too long denied them. [More…]
The Bill is not limited to making provision for migrants in Australia. [More…]
If the Government is to lake claim for doing things for migrants, such as recognising the special rights and needs of migrants in this country, which it suggests the previous Government denied them for too long, 1 ask the Minister who made this speech, his Cabinet colleagues and his Party to reconsider what they are doing to the migrant community of Australia in other ways. [More…]
It is all very well to take credit for something which is being done but which, after all, is only a continuation of a concept developed by the previous Government, and then to suggest that the previous Government was unmindful of the rights and needs of migrants to this country at a time when the migrant community is more unsettled by the actions of the new Government than it was during the whole 23 years of the preceding Government. [More…]
These countries were covered by reciprocal arrangements, and the migrants from them also were covered. [More…]
As we all have said, and I say it again, the nature of this measure is related closely to the welfare of migrants, lt is true that they are not the only section of the community who will benefit from this measure, but because of the very nature of the case, it is a fact that the migrant community within Australia will stand to benefit considerably from the measure which is before the Senate this afternoon. [More…]
This matter will affect the mobility of migrants. [More…]
But what needs to be said, and said again, is that these same migrants are able to put themselves in a position to do this simply because the social benefits for the migrant community were continually advanced during the years of the previous administration. [More…]
There were not only social benefits and welfare benefits but also educational benefits and all manner of facilities for migrants in this country to enable them to move. [More…]
I draw the Senate’s attention to the 2 reports which related to the departure movements of migrants from Australia. [More…]
It is true that these 2 reports indicated that a percentage of migrants - and naturally it was a higher percentage than any one of us wanted to see - were leaving Australia and returning to their source countries or going elsewhere. [More…]
But if one examines these reports it will be seen that financial circumstances were not the main reason for this movement of migrants. [More…]
Personal reasons, such as homesickness or family circumstances, compelled migrants to return to their source countries. [More…]
So we need to draw attention to the fact that of all the receiving countries of migrants, Australia is retaining a greater proportion of its migrant community. [More…]
Migrants now will have a particular advantage and facility to enable them to engage in mobility which they might not have had in the past. [More…]
On the same issue, the Special Minister of State (Senator Willesee) and a number of back bench senators, including Senator Georges and me, have been agitating with the Greek Government concerning certain Greek migrants and moneys which have been unnecessarily held up. [More…]
The point at issue which Senator Gair would have the Senate deal with is the matter of appointing a select committee to look into the civil liberties of migrants. [More…]
The provisions of the Migration Act relating to the deportation of aliens and persons who are in law regarded as migrants will continue to apply. [More…]
But migrants from Yugoslavia do not come solely from Croatia. [More…]
I am amazed that honourable senators opposite have the temerity to present to this Parliament what could be called a virtual whitewash of a group of lunatic fringe migrants who call themselves the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood. [More…]
As an illustration of the type of activity which is causing me some concern, 1 attach a copy of a recent Note from the Yugoslav Consulate-General complaining of certain alleged deeds by migrants and their associates in Australia. [More…]
I have reason to believe that the terrorists are endeavouring to create the impression amongst Yugoslav migrants in Australia that the Croatian extremists have the support df significant sections of Australian society and even of the Government. [More…]
I had hoped that there would be a continuance of the debate on the proposed appointment of a Senate committee to examine the matter of civil rights of Australian migrants. [More…]
In essence, the committee is to inquire, first into whether the civil rights of a number of Australians, specifically migrants - and, more specifically, people of Croatian origin - are being infringed; secondly, whether there is any intimidation against any such Australians from any source, specifically from agents or officers of the Yugoslav Government, whether those persons be intelligence agents or secret police of that government, or from some other source; thirdly, to inquire into the circumstances of the visit by the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) to the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation in March; and fourthly to look virtually at the problems that now arise of dual citizenship of migrants and the threat to their lives and to their freedom when they travel abroad. [More…]
Complaints by the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia that there are, in Australia, ‘bases, training ranges, storage places for weapons and diversionist material for criminal activity against Yugoslavia’, and that the Australian Government ‘has tolerated migrants engaged in terrorist activity against Yugoslavia’, and that Australia has not adhered to international law in regard to terrorist activity. [More…]
A great many migrants have settled in Australia. [More…]
We know that some migrants may be involved in this matter. [More…]
I have talked to a number of migrants, particularly migrants in north Queensland where many new Australians live. [More…]
I refer, for example, to migrants who are not naturalised citizens, people in new housing areas where there is a large population which would include a considerable number of non-voters, or, by contrast, an area which is described in our language as a settled area in which the majority of the people might be on the electoral roll. [More…]
After this period in Australia substantial numbers of fine migrants have come to know Australia, feel settled here, want to identify themselves as members of our community and are in fact living as such without friction or problems. [More…]
It is also obviously essential that we try our utmost to remove the general misconception on the part of many British migrants already here that by long residence they have automatically become citizens. [More…]
This means that migrants from all the 31 Commonwealth countries will now have the same opportunity as other migrants to take part in citizenship ceremonies suitably marking the important occasion of their becoming citizens. [More…]
By these means, and by ali other possible means, it is the Government’s wish to ensure that our migrants from Commonwealth countries are no longer ignored or left in the mistaken belief that they acquire our citizenship automatically and that the rest of the Australian community attaches no importance to their becoming citizens. [More…]
We intend to demonstrate that beyond any shadow of doubt, and warmly welcome all migrants without distinction. [More…]
Again this seeks to remove a condition of granting citizenship that burdened some of our migrants more than others. [More…]
But - and this is another point which I suggest might arouse some concern in the Government ranks - the reason for this Bill is the Government’s legitimate, wholly justified and, may I say, completely necessary desire to allay the fears of a number of people that they may be deported, lt is entirely proper for the Government to wish to allay these fears for it has been the Australian Labor Party Government which over the past 4 or 5 months has aroused in the minds of a considerable number of the 2 million or more migrants in this country the fear that some of them may be deported. [More…]
In other words, we adverted to the fact that although migrants may obtain Australian citizenship, if they have come from certain countries they still retain the nationality and citizenship of that country. [More…]
I have in mind the continued refusal of the previous government to naturalise certain migrants because of their political activities. [More…]
He extended the debate by expounding on how we have created a climate in which this legislation becomes necessary, but when he and his colleagues were in office they created substantial fears in the migrant communities by refusing naturalisation to certain migrants because of political activity or political thinking contrary to the views of the Government. [More…]
They intimidated the whole of the migrant community because migrants value their rights as citizens of this country. [More…]
Migrants value and seek the privilege of citizenship. [More…]
The previous Government intimidated migrants by creating in them the fear that if they participated in the normal political activities of this country they would be refused naturalisation. [More…]
By this one piece of amending legislation the Government is doing more towards establishing the civil liberties of migrants than the whole of that investigation will do. [More…]
The investigation is to inquire into the civil liberties of migrants. [More…]
This Bill indicates the intentions of this Government in respect of migrants. [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…]
Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDTrue it is that the Government has decided, because of a demand on the part of employers for more labour in the country, to embark upon expanding the migration scheme in order to bring an additional 14,500 migrants to Australia by the end of June. [More…]
In view of the Government’s plans to extend to migrants a wide range of services and education facilities from the date of their arrival, has the Government plans rapidly to increase all these services to the considerable extent required? [More…]
other sponsored migrants; and [More…]
unsponsored migrants in numbers and categories sufficient, together with sponsored migration, to meet national needs. [More…]
At this moment the Labor Party is copying the previous Government by going around the world and bringing in migrants by government selection. [More…]
He said: Tt is not the job of a socialist government, it is not the job of a Labor Government to go around the world selecting migrants for Australia. [More…]
We will have a policy which depends upon existing migrants in Australia sponsoring other migrants’. [More…]
Are we to accept the Aboriginal factor - I think we should - or are we blindly to increase the number of migrants we obtain from Europe? [More…]
Some migrants are preyed upon by smart-aleck cai salesmen and crook hire purchase companies. [More…]
In Western Australia part of the mining community has also been exploiting migrants. [More…]
When we are talking about an obligation to migrants and to the Australian work force I think it should be noted that what we have done since last December is a fitting monument to better industrial relations. [More…]
The clear fact is that the Company is obliged to delay bringing to Whyalla married personnel recruited in Australia when flights of migrants are expected. [More…]
There is also a need for dissemination of more electoral information to migrants. [More…]
It is important to observe that this uniform qualifying period will apply to all migrants. [More…]
Everyone will agree that instead of isolating the migrants in our community we need to help them to settle down, to integrate and to face any problems that may come to them. [More…]
But with migrants and new settlers citizenship is of fundamental importance because these people for one reason or another have left their own countries and settled in Australia. [More…]
If a source country for migrants is what is known as a kingdom or a monarchy then the citizens understand the term ‘subject’ and the swearing of allegiance to a crown or a sovereign. [More…]
New migrants as citizens and persons, as they have been coming to this country for the last quarter of a century, have been a highly successful ingredient in Australia’s growth and development. [More…]
Migrants have also made a very real contribution in helping to meet that demand by supplying a very high proportion of our extra skills and indeed by generating a great deal of our extra capital. [More…]
But migrants are not only members of the work force. [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…]
Amongst other measures provided for in the Budget considerable thought has been given to the subject of an interpreter service for migrants. [More…]
All these recommendations have been implemented over the years by previous administrations in relating to the welfare and the citizenship of migrants. [More…]
The Minister may call them task forces or by any other name, but through the years a great deal has been done by previous administrations for the welfare and citizenship of migrants. [More…]
For migrants from other countries the period has been 5 years, after which they seek citizenship through the processes of naturalisation. [More…]
It is pertinent to observe in this context that under another Act, the Commonwealth Electoral Act, British migrants are compelled to enrol after 6 months residence and continue to remain on the roll. [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…]
This applies to the integration of migrants into the total Australian community. [More…]
In the last 5 years, of the 800,000 migrants who have come to this country, 333,000 have been British - over 41 per cent. [More…]
If this percentage is maintained and British migrants want to embrace Australian citizenship, it should oe pointed out that they will have to go through the steps of naturalisation. [More…]
Since the commencement of the Australian migration program, some 4 million migrants of whom 2i million have been British citizens have come to this country. [More…]
This Bill sets out the manner in which migrants to Australia may become part and parcel of our nation through attaining citizenship. [More…]
In most cases no language barriers arise between British migrants and Australians; people from British countries are able to fit immediately into our society and, if they so desire, after being here 12 months may become Australian citizens. [More…]
The country at large might not have appreciated the necessity of this policy as quickly as would have been advisable in the interests of Australia, lt is still true today that a great number of people from Great Britain would be the ideal migrants for Australia if they were desirous of coming here. [More…]
circumstances in which migrants from European countries in particular and from Great Britain may be just as easy to attract to Australia as they have been in the past. [More…]
I am not suggesting for a moment that that is true of all British migrants. [More…]
In speaking to many Dutch migrants about having virtually to renounce their allegiance to Queen Wilhelmina it would be very insulting to them to equate them with some fiery radical, thereby implying that they were potential Trotskyites. [More…]
I think I may say that I have had as much to do with migrants from Europe as have most senators in this place and I have found these wonderful migrants who have helped to build this nation to be splendid people. [More…]
One only has to think of the Snowy River job and the other construction jobs which would not be finished yet if it had not been for the help of migrants from Europe. [More…]
I have many friends among migrants; they visit my home. [More…]
I think that the word ‘discrimination’ is wrong if it is said that the present system discriminates in favour of British migrants, lt is not suggested that we learn test cricket from Bessarabia. [More…]
Labor supporters talk about the injustice of leaving British migrants in ignorance. [More…]
This Bill is a socialist attempt to downgrade the monarchy in the eyes of all our migrants and to do what that anti-constitutional Commonwealth man Cromwell did some hundreds of years ago. [More…]
This Government, which says that it wants all its migrants to be equal, has a shocking record already in the United Nations. [More…]
If it says that it wants all migrants to be equal- [More…]
Frankly, I find it very difficult to accept the Minister’s statement that all migrants are to be equal and that we have no discrimination when we find this tremendous program of aid going forward to President Amin’s dictatorship in Uganda. [More…]
He suggested that there are areas in the South Pacific to which Australia could well be looking for prospective migrants. [More…]
By having the declaration on our statute books that the Queen is our head of state according to the 5 June 1973 style and title which the Government is proposing, and by including the reference to renunciation, our migrant citizens will be protected and we will guard against situations in which migrants might use their citizenship unscrupulously. [More…]
Some Australians, apparently as a result of a forum of inferiority complex, appear to expect migrants to become super-citizens. [More…]
It shows a gross inferiority complex on our part that we force our migrants to be more loyal than anybody else. [More…]
Again this seeks to remove a condition of granting citizenship that burdened some of our migrants more than others. [More…]
They and their children are able to live their lives in this country as a result of the work done by Arthur Calwell and of his vision of a continent peopled largely by migrants from Europe who would bring the talents, enthusiasm and vigour of new people to join the British who were largely occupying this country. [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that the daily Hansard of the proceedings of the Senate committee investigating the civil rights of migrants and his raids on the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has not been published since the hearing on 19 July? [More…]
The office will give free legal advice on matters of federal law, including the Matrimonial Causes Act, to everyone in need and on matters of both federal and State law to persons for whom the Australian Government has a special responsibility, such as pensioners, Aborigines, exservicemen and migrants. [More…]
The policy was formulated also against the background that migrants coming to Australia these days do not see themselves as industrial fodder but come with high aspirations which touch not only on employment but also on housing, education and public services generally. [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…]
Another very pertinent factor which seems to have been overlooked by many industry spokesmen is the availability of migrants. [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…]
It is far reaching legislation which I am sure will be welcomed by all in this country and especially by the Aborigines and the migrants. [More…]
The Government has also offended the migrants, particularly the East Europeans. [More…]
The manner in which one group of East European migrants, the Croats, has been treated by the Government has been regarded by migrants as an indication of the true feeling of the Labor Party towards them. [More…]
It will be of no use for the Labor Party at the next election to seek the votes of the East European migrants. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite talk about migrants. [More…]
I think it is becoming increasingly clear that the meetings which took place in Perth where 500 migrants congratulated Senator Murphy for his forthright stand against terrorism belie the statements made by some Opposition speakers. [More…]
ASIO was given the role of approving naturalisation applications, the screening of migrants, the issuing of visas and passports and the security vetting of employment in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Citizenship is not only a matter for new citizens or migrants; it is a matter for Australians also and the declaration made in their presence should remind them that they should never take citizenship for granted. [More…]
They have also known the benefit of responsible citizenship which has been assumed by a great number of migrants. [More…]
It can be said, I think, that Dutch migrants to this country have been fairly conservative in their political habits. [More…]
Many migrants have difficulty in seeing this relationship with the Queen of England. [More…]
I believe, notwithstanding that there are some migrant Australians who may object to the fact that they have to renounce an allegiance, that we should insist and continue to insist that migrants accept Australian citizenship and renounce all other citizenships, and that that be the test and measure of becoming an Australian citizen. [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…]
Seventy per cent of Australian born and 70 per cent of post-war non-British migrants were in favour. [More…]
The majority of postwar British migrants, as I have said, also favoured the change. [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…]
I direct Senator Byrne to what I thought was a good address in this place by Senator McManus on the question of the committee, the kangaroo court that we set up to inquire into the rights of migrants in Australia. [More…]
Migrants have the emotional feeling in the renunciation that they are giving away everything of benefit that they derived from their place of origin and they are not prepared to do that. [More…]
We are the only government which has said strongly-this is a very sensible point- that we will not bring into the country migrants who cannot settle down quickly. [More…]
In recent years Australia has taken migrants from areas from which it probably should not have taken them. [More…]
The people concerned include Australians as well as migrants who know the conventions and usages of Australian industry. [More…]
Every delay in every purchase is at the feet of this Government which decided, because it thought the migrants would vote against it, that it would not have a selective migration program. [More…]
I use the term - a surplus of labour’ because it has been a fact particularly in some light industries which employ female migrants. [More…]
I ask for further information concerning the Government’s announcement that it will be possible for the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd to resume its program of recruiting migrants. [More…]
Low income earners, migrants and large families who live in densely populated suburbs where rentals are very high are the ones who are affected most. [More…]
It has been said by those who stand behind the Opposition parties that not enough migrants are coming into the country. [More…]
Since 1 949 many hundreds of thousands of people have come to this country as migrants and are now Australian citizens. [More…]
Why have not we had an announcement of an increase in the intake of migrants? [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…]
Because he sees migrant education as one of the most vital matters affecting migrants, he asked that this area should be given first priority by the Task Forces. [More…]
If prosecutions were to be instituted it would mean prosecuting something like 150,000 people a year and I do not believe it is in the interests of migrants, or the nation, that this draconian action should be taken to secure information which is on file basically anyway. [More…]
I know that a lot of migrants in the nomadic work force who move from job to job are in this area and that there is always a lot of unclaimed money owing to them. [More…]
This applied particularly to migrants who were unable to understand the language in this country or who did not understand it completely. [More…]
Will the Minister ascertain whether details of the personal or medical history of Mr L. Shaw, ex-naval officer, who was a witness before the Senate Select Committee inquiring into civil rights of migrants, were available from his Department to a Government member of that Committee; if so, upon whose authority, in what circumstances, and for what purpose were these details made available? [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…]
Will this number be in addition to the migrants coming from other countries or instead of such people? [More…]
This Bill has a long connection with the well being of migrants in Australia. [More…]
The Act required the registration of migrants and of their general movements. [More…]
It has a strong relationship to the integration of migrants into the Australian community. [More…]
As I said at the beginning of my remarks, the matter of notification by aliens is very much related to the integration, contentment and wellbeing of the migrants within our gates. [More…]
Of course, all of the reasons given have a strong relationship to matters within Australia concerning the integration of migrants into the Australian community and the relationship of migrants to the overall Australian community. [More…]
The Committee’s investigation showed that only rarely do migrants’ departures derive from one single identifiable cause. [More…]
But the Committee came to the firm conclusion that the large proportion of migrants who left Australia left for reasons other than dissatisfaction with Australia. [More…]
A large proportion of migrants claim that, whether or not they become Australian citizens, they will always be thought of as migrants. [More…]
If I remember correctly one relates to the assimilation or integration of migrants within the Australian community. [More…]
The steel industry said: ‘Please get us more migrants. [More…]
For example, Aborigines, migrants and electors with young children are not uniformly dispersed throughout the various regions. [More…]
The Government now takes the view that it is helpful to newly arrived migrants to maintain contact with their various communities as they move into the Australian community. [More…]
These schools are attended by the children of Turkish migrants and others who have real problems. [More…]
If the honourable senator has any details of obstacles encountered by prospective migrants I would be happy to have these cases investigated. [More…]
The intention is not to exclude migrants from assistance but to exclude persons holding temporary entry permits. [More…]
I did not find very helpful the reference to migrants and those who hold temporary visas, as stated by the Minister in his reply to the second reading debate. [More…]
Within the last hour I have spoken to the Secretary of the Australian Workers Union in Western Australia about a paltry claim made by 6 migrants who worked at Dampier for 8 weeks well over 12 months ago. [More…]
The Western Australian Government has blandly said: ‘Look, the Federal Labor Government has brought migrants to this country and it should look after them’. [More…]
On the one hand the Western Australian mining industry has been typical of this new frontier complex in which migrants have been exploited and State authorities cannot or will not give wage justice. [More…]
The Minister, quite rightly has been very concerned in recent times about the departure rate of migrants from this country. [More…]
But I am not at all satisfied that enough is being done for the recruitment of migrants to become citizens in Australia for the development of Australian industry and life. [More…]
In conclusion, I call for a greater intake of migrants and a re-examination of the Government’s recruitment policy because the country needs new citizens more now than it ever has before. [More…]
He records also his objection to the refusal to provide information to the Committee as to the nature and the reasons for the expenditure incurred by the Attorney-General ‘s Department in respect of the hearings of the Senate Committee inquiring into Civil Rights of Migrants. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite know very well that in the inner areas of the big cities, particularly areas in which there are a large number of migrants- and the migrants have big families-out of 100,000 people 40,000 to 45,000 might be adults and 55,000 to 60,000 might be children. [More…]
It is a school at which all of the children are the children of migrants. [More…]
We seek to amend extensively the present National Health Act in order to eliminate the weaknesses in the voluntary scheme and to extend its coverage to the low-income single earner, to those with larger families, to pensioners, to newly arrived migrants and to aborigines. [More…]
The subsidised health benefits scheme was originally introduced to provide cover without cost to people in the very low income groups, arriving migrants and the unemployed. [More…]
Why is it necessary to list in a list of functions which deals specifically with business, engineering, architecture, trade and accommodation, only one item which refers to personnel- in this case migrants? [More…]
A great number of migrants went to that city over a period. [More…]
I acknowledge that the 2 sets of circumstances do not necessarily equate, but I am interested in the fact that the Bill spells out that one of the functions of the Corporation is to facilitate the settlement in the area of immigrants to Australia. [More…]
Is it proposed that, with the establishment of the other functions listed in this clause, migrants coming to Australia will be directed to the Albury-Wodonga area? [More…]
Will the Corporation, in conjunction with the Department of Immigration, direct migrants to move into this area? [More…]
If it is suggested that migrants should be settled in the area, surely there ought to be some reference to the emphasis to be placed on particular education programs for these people and on their social integration into the total community. [More…]
He has also drawn attention to the significant part which the Albury-Wodonga area has played in the absorption of migrants into the Australian community. [More…]
I had the privilege of being brought up in the Albury-Wodonga area, and I know the very great role which the migrants are now playing in the city of Albury. [More…]
Like Senator Davidson, I should like to know whether it is intended to direct- and, of course, the constitutional power of the Commonwealth to direct is somewhat hedged around in matters of this nature- incoming migrants to this Albury-Wodonga area. [More…]
Of course, one area over which the Commonwealth has a special responsibility is that of migrants who come to Australia. [More…]
If we placed some emphasis on trying to get migrants away from the city areas, it would help the situation. [More…]
But the main reason why the Corporation is given power over migrants is that the Commonwealth has power to confer on the Corporation in this area but it does not have power in other areas. [More…]
They wanted to know why we had not taken more migrants. [More…]
We then ascertained why more migrants were not corning to Australia. [More…]
The situation is that migrants coming to Australia come from one or other of the 32 Commonwealth of Nations countries or the more than 30 countries which are outside the Commonwealth of Nations. [More…]
Can the Minister give me some information on the position relating to the United Kingdom and Commonwealth country migrants as far as Australian citizenship is concerned? [More…]
More important for some migrants, the Bill will enable effect to be given to the United Nations Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance. [More…]
For some migrants the requirement therefore represents a barrier to employment in the Public Service. [More…]
1 ) Does the Government intend to limit the control over Australia’s most valuable resource, the national work force, by migrants who hold leading positions as union bosses and who are responsible for the preponderance of constant strikes which are ruining the economy of Australia and aggravating inflationary trends. [More…]
Overseas interests control many companies in Australia; migrants control no unions in Australia. [More…]
Migrants who have come to Australia from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites have asked me to protest at the presence in Australia of Lieutenant-General E. Pitovranov who has admitted that he served for a long period in the Soviet Secret Police (KGB). [More…]
The migrants do not accept the claim that he has retired from the KGB and is here as a trade official for discussions on, among other matters, patents. [More…]
Migrants who have suffered from the KGB insist that the only way to leave the KGB is in a coffin. [More…]
This spy apparatus has, firstly, pressured refugees from the Soviet by threatening reprisals on their relatives; secondly, sought to intimidate Russian Orthodox clergymen to support the Soviet regime, notably at Geelong, Victoria and thirdly, arranged for the Communist organ ‘Homeland’ to be sent to migrants from the Soviet or East Germany. [More…]
A vast number of post-war migrants, now in their 40s, are going overseas to visit their folks. [More…]
I would severely cut back the immigration program, having planned the industries to absorb those migrants. [More…]
About two-thirds of his electorate is made up of migrants. [More…]
He knows that if he can get the referendum proposal through on a population and not number of electors basis he will have a situation where one vote has 2 values because one-third of the people of his electorate are electors and twothirds are migrants. [More…]
The previous Government had evolved in latter days a suitable pattern in which emphasis was being placed on, among other things, the recognition of skills amd migrants’ professional qualifications. [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…]
The migrants came, with their skills and accomplishments, under programs of prearranged employment. [More…]
All of this was geared to a program which brought to Australia an appropriate number of migrants who at that stage would have ahead of them years which would be satisfactory to themselves and certainly of advantage to Australia. [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…]
The best he could do in reply to questions put to him was to talk about the number of departing migrants. [More…]
He said on that occasion that his Government would not recruit migrants. [More…]
I will only read one paragraph of the article under the heading ‘Why Pay for White Migrants?’ [More…]
If there are migrants who are not able to vote, if there are children who are not able to vote and if there are Aborigines who have not yet enrolled, those people will comprise part of the population- the non-voting population- yet they will be the persons who will be counted in determining the equality of electorates. [More…]
One concerned migrants who seemed to me to be at a very great disadvantage in this community; the other concerned women who were as disadvantaged as were migrants, Aborigines or those other people that we traditionally think of as being disadvantaged. [More…]
Many migrants had come out here purely as factory fodder; they were brought out purely as means of production. [More…]
This country started off, in a sense, as a collection of migrants. [More…]
Does this assertion refer to the work undertaken by officers of the Department throughout the world for some 25 years and their thousands of voluntary assistants in Australia who have helped hundreds of thousands of migrants to find a new life and to make a notable contribution to Australia? [More…]
That was considered by the Government to be a good thing as it would ensure that the recruitment of people from overseas and the provision of assisted passages to migrants was related more to employment opportunities in Australia. [More…]
Equity in sharing sacrifices as well as prosperity; and the need to ensure that any deferment of expectations shall not be made at the expense of those for whom deferment could mean a lifetime of deprivation- for example, children at school and migrants. [More…]
I pointed out then that one of the main objectives of the Government was to ensure that migrants dovetail more completely into the work force. [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…]
Another deals with migrants and the Croatian community. [More…]
You have more families and more migrants. [More…]
More than 15 per cent of Australians do not belong to medical benefit schemes because they cannot afford to do so, and a large proportion of that percentage are migrants who have come to Australia in many instances from countries in which a government health scheme is operating. [More…]
Are they the migrants? [More…]
If the Minister does not know the present position, in view of the urgency of providing care for the thousands of children who are left unattended daily and in view of the undertaking in the Governor-General’s speech that the Government will be guided by the need to ensure that any deferment of expectations shall not be made at the expense of those for whom deferment could mean a lifetime of deprivation- for example, children at school and migrants- will the Minister undertake to make urgent inquiries into the matter and provide an early answer to the Senate? [More…]
Were they migrants? [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that I told the story of migrants, living within the area of my practice, who wished not to have insurance cover and wanted freedom to spend their money in the way they desired. [More…]
The introduction of these Bills would take away that right and freedom from the migrants. [More…]
Secondly, there are the poor, some newly arrived migrants, who cannot understand English or the complexities of the health scheme. [More…]
When we remember that approximately 60 per cent of the one million people who are not covered are migrants, I think the problem becomes one of even greater social significance because the majority of those migrants come from countries which have compulsory health insurance schemes. [More…]
That problem is a very grave social one for this country, and I ask Opposition senators whether they really care about that very large group of migrants who are not covered by health insurance. [More…]
I would just like to get back to this question of the needs of migrants. [More…]
The second thing was to provide for migrants and for other persons in a position similar to that of migrants a service pending their establishment. [More…]
Is it a fact that an extensive newspaper advertising and promotion program is currently in operation in Great Britain inviting migrants to come to Australia? [More…]
If so, does the Minister know whether the Department will be able to adhere to the target of British migrants envisaged in the promotional program? [More…]
The people of the city are taxpayers, be they migrants or otherwise, and they are making their contribution to make this country great, yet the Opposition wants to deny them the opportunity to do so. [More…]
There can be no doubt that since coming to office this Government has sought consistently to remove all forms of discrimination from our laws, whether it be discrimination against women, Aborigines, migrants or in the various other forms that it appears in our statutes. [More…]
The people on low incomes, especially migrants, are not receiving the level of medical and hospital care that they really need in the best interests of their health. [More…]
Under the existing health scheme the Liberal-Country Party Government progressively closed the gaps as they were found to exist and it assisted those low income groups, such as migrants and pensioners, to have health care. [More…]
For the first time they realised that migrants and poor people were not covered by this scheme. [More…]
I refer to complaints made by private employment agencies operating in new and growing outer suburbs of Melbourne about the refusal of officers of Commonwealth migrant hostels to facilitate or even to allow such agencies to bring to the notice of migrants avenues for suitable employment and particular known vacancies. [More…]
How many such migrants were granted ‘streamlined’ entry into Australia, and what were their countries of origin. [More…]
It is therefore not possible to provide the honourable senator with details of the Australian overseas missions which have dealt with such cases, or the numbers and nationalities of the migrants involved. [More…]
Successful migrants stay in Australia. [More…]
Because of the involvement of the migrant policy, the Government’s decision has denied its own stated pOliCY of ensuring the happiness, reunion and peace of all migrants to Australia. [More…]
In the meantime, Mr Grassby will act as adviser to the Australian Government on matters of community relations affecting migrants and other ethnic groups in Australia. [More…]
They may be the kind of difficulties that migrants run into. [More…]
A large proportion of the membership of this union are migrants. [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…]
That the Curriculum Development Centre look for means to rectify the shortage of educational materials specifically designed Tor the needs of disadvantaged groups in the community- for example, migrants with language difficulties and slow learners. [More…]
It has migrants, it has all levels of wealth, and it has all the kinds of problems we see in Australian society. [More…]
In addition to that, in the area of assisting migrants coming to Australia, educational talks and films are provided for those areas whence our migrants come. [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 am very concerned because I have had a lot to do with migrants over the years. [More…]
On the second occasion, a few weeks ago, he came on to the platform and said a few words which gave neither encouragement, inspiration or help, or was of interest to the several hundred people who gathered there that day who were concerned with migrants and migration. [More…]
I describe the Minister as being completely careless in relation to the welfare of migrants. [More…]
That is the way in which he is attending to migrants in Australia. [More…]
He has not got time to think about migrants. [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…]
His own actions and the statements that he has made, such as they are, have indicated his complete indifference and carelessness concerning the welfare of migrants, and I protest strongly. [More…]
Senator Davidson said that over a long period he had made representations concerning a second assisted passage for migrants from England. [More…]
I have had cases involving migrants that I have taken up with Mr Cameron. [More…]
He did not try to have prospective migrants assessed from Athens, London or Australia. [More…]
For example, who would say today with the unemployment we have that we should not be very cautious about the sort of migrants that we have, the skills of those migrants and their relationships with people in Australia? [More…]
After all, what government, apart from the Labor Government, has done these great things for migrants? [More…]
It is said that it is a barrier to the employment of some migrants and that it creates problems for those who may have some allegiance to others. [More…]
We know that we have a large migrant population in Australia, and one would think that the elimination of this provision relating to the taking of an oath or affirmation would assist in the assimilation of migrants. [More…]
An argument has been raised with regard to the position of migrants. [More…]
There is a provision in the legislation, to which there has already been reference, under which persons who are not naturalised and who are migrants can become members of the Public Service provided that, in the opinion of the Governor-General, there is no detriment to the national security. [More…]
I will not create difficulties for the migrants who are honoured residents of Queensland. [More…]
What do we do in the case of migrants who are here? [More…]
In its examination of the barriers preventing ready access to technical and further education, the Committee refers to the special problems faced by people in rural areas, by women and girls, and by handicapped persons and migrants. [More…]
All persons entering Australia as migrants have permanent residence; only those who apply after three years residence may be granted Australian citizenship. [More…]
The matter was referred to Film Australia, which conducted some research and eventually found in the southwestern portion of New South Wales a descendant of the early migrants. [More…]
What number of migrants were obtained from each of these countries in the past three years. [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 suppose some people might claim that if we are going to treat every ethnic group separately we should take in all minority ethnic groups, such as migrants who come here. [More…]
These include persons living in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, families, migrants, students, Aboriginals and persons engaged in work for the Australian Government. [More…]
Has the Minister seen Press reports of a survey taken by the Centre for Urban Research and Action amongst Italian migrants living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne? [More…]
The survey alleged that Italian migrants, for a variety of reasons, generally were deprived of the normal community services provided by the Australian and State Governments. [More…]
If they are correct can action be taken to help alleviate the social and economic circumstances in which these migrants find themselves? [More…]
In addition his Department already has commissioned a study related to this sort of circumstance and, in particular, there has been a nationwide survey of some 8000 migrants who arrived in Australia between 1963 and last year. [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…]
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…]
I think he has already acknowledged too that presently, at any rate, the source of migrants would be those areas which are recommended in that report. [More…]
I refer particularly to the health care of migrants in this community who constitute 60 per cent of the admitted possibly one million people in Australia who are not covered by voluntary schemes. [More…]
He was able to use his diplomatic skill not so long ago- it would have been easier had there been amalgamations, as he would agree- to help migrants in the postal services, where permanency depends on Australian citizenship. [More…]
These may include, if the Government so decides, persons living in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, migrants, students, Aboriginals and persons engaged in work for the Australian Government. [More…]
In 1963-64 South Australia took 29 per cent of the migrants who came from Britain to Australia on assisted passages. [More…]
It has particular regard for the needs of women, of country students, of migrants, and of handicapped persons. [More…]
I refer the Minister to recent comments of the Australian Government’s Special Consultant on Community Relations, Mr Al Grassby, in relation to the number of migrants living in the Melbourne metropolitan area. [More…]
I seek further information from the Minister for the Media on today’s announcement by Mr Grassby, the adviser on community affairs, relating to the setting up of ethnic radio stations to communicate with migrants. [More…]
It had been brought to the Government’s attention that there was quite a problem amongst sections of the migrant community because of their inability to speak the English language, the fact that the children of migrants were at school during the day and that the husbands were at work. [More…]
Under section 5 1 and other sections of the Constitution there is a claim that for migrants, for defence Services and for a few other things incidental to the various powers of the Commonwealth we can supply legal aid, but legal aid generally to the ordinary citizenry for State purposes must be channelled, under the Constitution, by section 96. [More…]
The EASY VISA SYSTEM allowed Turks, Lebanese and Egyptians to bypass the normal screening of migrants as Tourists, this flood of undesirables came to Australia through a wide open screen. [More…]
One does not have to talk to many migrants or many Aborigines to appreciate how much they react to the attitude that exists amongst so many of the Australian people, to realise the alienation and confusion felt by the children of migrants in our schools. [More…]
I must confess that in thinking about my association with these bodies in retrospect, I believe that because they were made up mainly of Australians who wanted to help migrants, there was a tendency to help only those who could understand our language. [More…]
The appointment was something of a milestone in this country’s relations with its migrants, who, by and large, have been viewed as not much more than useful industrial fodder, and treated in official circles with an indifference bordering on contempt. [More…]
They are quite entitled to hold those views and I affirm their right to state them, but in so doing I must ask the Senate to look at the effect of that sort of propaganda in a society such as ours where both political parties condemn this sort of thing; in a society such as ours situated in an Asian region, in a society in which the Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that several thousand refugees from Vietnam should be permitted to come into this country when the Government is regularly admitting migrants from South-East Asian countries according to certain guidelines. [More…]
He even made a snide attack on the Good Neighbour Councils which do a remarkably good job for migrants. [More…]
I recall from my days in local government saying to migrants at naturalisation ceremonies that they should learn the language of this country so that they could talk to people. [More…]
Has there been a great swell of feeling, a revulsion, in this country against people who discriminate against migrants, against people of a different colour, or in other ways? [More…]
In that area we have quite a number of Italian and Maltese migrants. [More…]
Naturally people of different nationalities have a tendency to move more with each other, with people from their own countries, but to a very great extent the migrants in the Mackay area mix with the basic Australian community. [More…]
Leprosy is a disease that was imported into Australia mostly by Chinese migrants and it spread throughout the Aboriginal community. [More…]
Priority will also be given to families in economic or other distress, and to groups with particular needs such as Aborigines, migrants, handicapped children and isolated children. [More…]
Many of them will be migrants who are very well qualified to carry out the work of postmen, telegraphists and many different positions. [More…]
We think it is very restrictive and very unfair to many migrants who have not become Australian citizens but who would make admirable employees of these commissions if we applied restrictions on the people to be employed as permanent officers in these very large commissions. [More…]
We have particular regard to migrants from the British Isles who, under this Government’s legislation, must go through all sorts of rigmarole to become Australian citizens. [More…]
Many of these migrants are not prepared to become Australian citizens and have not done so. [More…]
We put the argument on the very broad basis that it is discriminatory against migrants who may be very well qualified and who would be performing work which, by no stretch of the imagination, could be said to be work in relation to which the Government should be relying only on special advice from people who have become Australian citizens. [More…]
I would not know what the arrangements are, but I think it would be terribly important that there be programs of an informational nature to advise ethnic groups of the rights of migrants with regard to legal aid, Medibank and such matters. [More…]
We believe that there may well be many migrants to Australia who have not become Australian citizens but who nevertheless could be highly qualified to work for the Commission, as they may have varieties of qualifications. [More…]
The provision also is extremely restrictive in relation to migrants from the British Isles who, although they are British subjects, have not yet sought to take out and may not really intend to take out Australian citizenship in accordance with the laws that this Government has passed recently in that regard. [More…]
I have never seen strong racism against migrants. [More…]
The 2 main types of people who have come to my city of Mackay as migrants are Maltese and Italians. [More…]
Nevertheless, I feel that we should never lose sight of the fact that, whether we like it or not, we are a nation of migrants. [More…]
We must not forget that about a quarter of the Australian population consists of either post-war migrants or children of migrants and that 50 per cent to 55 per cent of these people have a nonEnglish speaking background. [More…]
Undoubtedly it exists in all kinds of direction with the Aborigines and the Australians, with the Jewish people and other Australians, with the people who come here as migrants and it follows, as Senator Wood said, that if one speaks English, there is no difficulty. [More…]
I say there is discrimination in this country against migrants not only in respect of words but also in respect of jobs. [More…]
We know that the rate of crime among migrants in our community is remarkably low. [More…]
Let me qualify that statement by saying that I have the greatest respect for English migrants and European migrants, but I am sick and tired to death of these shop stewards who cause so much disruption. [More…]
There are lots of people who are greatly concerned about the influx of particular types of migrants who might well in the not too distant future completely change the outlook of this country. [More…]
in other matters- pensioners servicemen, ex-servicemen and their dependants aborigines migrants assisted overseas students persons approved by the AttorneyGeneral or his delegate. [More…]
As I explained in my answer on 5 June 1975 (House of Representatives Hansard page 3403), the criteria for the admission of” refugees from Vietnam to Australia are wider than the criteria which applied to migrants from Vietnam before the change of Government in that country and than those applying to evacuees from Vietnam who are now within American jurisdiction. [More…]
Because we are discussing insurance in such an important way tonight we cannot afford to overlook the discriminatory practices which were perpetrated against migrants who came to Australia from specific areas. [More…]
I am aware that most insurance companies claim that they have excluded the more blatantly discriminatory sections in their existing policies, but I am also conscious that a great number of then would be able to find ways and means to continue the discrimination against those same migrants. [More…]
Until last year most policies carried specific clauses stating that migrants born in countries on the shores of the Mediterranean, with the exception of France, were not eligible for insurance coverage. [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…]
He does not answer to the elderly, the migrants, the isolated and the sick to whom telecommunications and postage are so vital as a source of contact with the outside world. [More…]
The International Social Service organisation is a body whose only crime is that it provides liaison for migrants who require social services. [More…]
Migrants may be going back to Italy or Greece and may need help and that body will arrange for their welfare benefits to be dealt with. [More…]
We do not go out for migrants, women, Aboriginals or 2-headed goats. [More…]
The workers are largely non-English speaking migrants and the majority are members of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister: Did the Australian newspaper of 8 September 1975 report the Prime Minister as having said to a Victorian Labor Party seminar that the Liberal Party discriminated against Jews, Catholics and migrants? [More…]
Will the Department study the many and varied steps now being taken to assist migrants in their communication of English to see whether any of them are applicable to the situation which is so alarming at the Adelaide University? [More…]
It is a government which says that it will draw its electoral boundaries on the basis of population, that is, on the number of non-voting migrants, on the number of babies, on the number of children and not on the number of electors. [More…]
It cites as examples of that certain Aborigines who do not turn up to vote, certain migrants who are not registered yet, prisoners in gaol, children, people who are not on the electoral roll, and I presume people who vote informally. [More…]
Earlier, when the United States of America was involved in ethnic problems with the vast waves of migrants entering the United States of America, it made it quite clear that when a migrant came to the United States of America, applied for citizenship and was granted that citizenship by swearing to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, he had fulfilled the constitutional requirements of the United States of America to become an American citizen. [More…]
I ask the Minister what procedures exist to monitor material transmitted over ethnic radio to protect the interests of all migrants? [More…]
I refer to the final report of the Committee on Community Relations recently delivered to the Minister and published by his Department which relates to the position of migrants in the community and in particular to discriminations against migrants in the work force. [More…]
There is also a reluctance to acknowledge that migrants are a particular group of members within unions with special problems. [More…]
This indifference extends to the ACTU where at its last 3 congresses little mention was made of the specific problems of migrants in industry. [More…]
What is the Minister doing to change this highly undesirable attitude of unions towards migrants and to ensure that migrants are treated as equals in the work force? [More…]
I have read the report to which the honourable senator refers and the passage which he has quoted, and I would agree that the attitude of trade unionists to migrants leaves a lot to be desired. [More…]
So, in answer to the honourable senator’s question, I would say that the trade unions, like the rest of the community, do not accord to migrants the treatment which they deserve. [More…]
They will be employed throughout Australia where their training will be of great assistance to Spanish and Italian speaking migrants. [More…]
The interpreter translator course was one of several begun this year in response to repeatedly voiced and largely ignored calls to pre- 1972 governments to help non-English speaking migrants in factories, unions, hospitals, courts and the community generally to understand what was going on around them and to what documents they might be signing their names. [More…]
We look at the migrants to whom we finally brought dignity, decency and recognition. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate of the steps taken by his department to ensure that migrants have a clear understanding of their social security entitlements? [More…]
In conclusion, I would like, with the permission of the Senate, to include a table in Hansard of the names of 6 Chilean migrants, their file numbers and the names of their sponsors. [More…]
Eligible persons comprise certain low income families, persons in receipt of social security unemployment, sickness and special benefits, and migrants during their first 2 months in Australia. [More…]
On Tuesday I asked a question of the Minister relating to the amnesty for illegal migrants and its effect on visitors who are legally in the country. [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…]
Is the counter staff at Commonwealth Employment Service offices advising migrants of the existence of free English classes which are available to them? [More…]
I hope that migrants are being advised of the availability of English courses wherever any government agency comes into contact with people who are able to take advantage of them. [More…]
As the Minister pointed out in her second reading speech, the people who are eligible for these benefits are low income families, people on unemployment and sickness benefits and other special benefits and migrants during their first 2 months in Australia in the settling down period. [More…]
It was my experience- probably because the migrants were informed about the scheme as soon as they arrived in Australia- that particularly the migrant group seemed to know about this scheme and benefited from this scheme, perhaps in greater proportion than some other groups. [More…]
We ask: Do we really need to burden the migrants, some of the unemployed and sick and some of the people on special benefits with extra costs in economic times such as we are experiencing now? [More…]
We did not say: Right, we will throw the whole thing out and disadvantage that group of people, those new migrants and those people on unemployment benefits, sickness benefits and other special benefits’. [More…]
Because of involvement in the well-being of migrants when will there be some clarity in relation to the operation of ethnic radio? [More…]
It was also a moment of recognition of the fact that Australia is a country of a fair go, a fair go for everyone, regardless of his origin, a country which millions of migrants like myself have adopted as their home and as the home of their children and their children’s children. [More…]
Migrants have brought with them many skills which constituteand I emphasise this point- a costless benefit to the Australian economy. [More…]
The Borrie report stated that a new flow of 100 000 migrants probably would be manageable in terms of both environment and resources. [More…]
However, the greatest relief will be experienced in the major cities, since they have absorbed more than their share of natural increase and most of the post-war immigrants. [More…]
To achieve the growth centre targets -estimated populations of 300 000 for AlburyWodonga and 300 000 for BathurstOrangewould mean even greater cut-backs in the growth of Melbourne and Sydney, since the 2 largest capital cities were expected to supply most of the migrants required. [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…]
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…]
Since Australia rightly rejects the guest worker concept with its debasement of the worker involved, the adherence of permanent migrants imposes a lifetime obligation on governments to strive for full employment. [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…]
If we include the children born to migrants after arrival, some 3.7 million of the total 6.2 million increase in Australia’s population since World War II is due directly to migrants. [More…]
This is a tribute to our massive development potential, the good sense of Australian-born and migrants in avoiding community tensions and the industry of our migrants. [More…]
Whilst it is true that many migrant groups, through their own efforts, have been able to secure for themselves the necessary resources to provide accommodation, it is still apparent that great numbers of migrants are not able to accumulate sufficient funds to provide themselves with private sector accommodation. [More…]
Following the Minister’s offer of amnesty for illegal migrants in Australia to come forward and apply for permanent residence in Australia, I ask the Minister whether the latest figure of some 6590 applicants can be regarded as not being a very good response. [More…]
Is it not a fact that it is estimated that there are still 26 000 prohibited migrants- that is, visitors who had over-stayed at 31 December 1975- who have yet to apply? [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 suggestion with regard to further information being made available to migrants who wish to seek amnesty is one that can be followed up. [More…]
I can assure the Senate that the Government will give migrants whatever assistance is necessary to ensure that as many as possible who wish to avail themselves of this amnesty provision do so and that approvals are given without delay. [More…]
Is it a fact that some migrants, after becoming Australian citizens and qualifying for age pension benefits, return to their country of origin and are subsequently paid these welfare benefits for the rest of their lives? [More…]
The answer to the first part is that migrants do retain their benefits if they return to their country of origin. [More…]
I asked how many migrants had come to Australia from Chile between 1 November 1975 and 31 January 1976. [More…]
How many migrants have entered Australia from Chile since November 1975. [More…]
1 ) 20 1 migrants from Chile arrived in Australia between 1 November 1975 and 31 January 1976. [More…]
In recognition of the importance of being able to speak English for many aspects of life in Australia, the Government provides pre-embarkation English language courses in some source countries as well as a wide range of such courses for migrants after arrival in Australia. [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…]
This action had the effect of increasing the cost of prescription charges to many people who received those benefits, including new migrants in this country, from 75c to $2. [More…]
The State Ministers will have a role in recruiting migrants from the United Kingdom. [More…]
Others, who are entitled to sell their wares, come as British sponsored or unsponsored migrants. [More…]
The point I am getting at is that in the sporting field a parliamentarian on numerous occasions has to be a mediator in relation to United Kingdom or Irish migrants, because at times clubs try to play it a little hard in relation to the conditions of entry. [More…]
The Minister will know that some weeks ago I raised the real, regular bottleneck which occurs, irrespective of whether migrants are recruited by the States or by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
That delay does not apply only to British migrants; it applies to people from Europe as well. [More…]
With the extension of the visa requirements to all British migrants at the beginning of 1975 it became necessary to institute procedures for the receipt and processing of such nominations. [More…]
They are thus well equipped to provide specialist counselling to British migrants. [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 hope that what I have outlined as the procedure for assisted and unassisted British migrants will - [More…]
Where State government is able to provide the service, that service should be available to all the migrants who otherwise would not have had that service given to them. [More…]
I refer to the explanation which the Minister gave during the adjournment debate on the future role of State governments in the intake of United Kingdom migrants. [More…]
Firstly, is the Minister in a position to say whether this procedure will also apply in regard to intending migrants from both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic? [More…]
They are noteworthy organisations: The Australian Council of Social Services, which works with the general range of welfare associations; others, such as an ecumenical centre which works essentially with migrants; and others which have needs of voluntary associations in the work that they do in the community. [More…]
One difficulty in this respect is epitomised by the problems faced by migrants when they seek to adopt children. [More…]
Did the Department do anything about rehousing migrants who were displaced at short notice? [More…]
If Spanish migrants here eulogised a prominent European soccer team, Real Madrid, they could be asked: ‘Well, the Franco Government and its successor is a government of the far right. [More…]
It was transferred to the then Department of Immigration in January 1949 to provide housing for migrants. [More…]
Following the reduced intake of assisted migrants in 1 972-73 Broughton Hostel was under consideration for disposal but was re-activated in July 1974 due to an increase in migrants. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that the results of a six-month research survey into migrants in Australia conducted by the Central Methodist Mission indicated that British migrants are the loneliest and, intitially, the most disgruntled, of all newcomers to Australia. [More…]
Will the Minister delay his recently-announced plans to encourage more British migrants to Australia until the Government has fully inquired into the problem encountered by British migrants in this country. [More…]
1 ) and (2 ) I am aware ofthe press reports concerning the experience ofthe Central Methodist Mission in regard to the settlement of British migrants. [More…]
British migrants have constituted 44 per cent of ail migrant arrivals since the commencement of separate statistical recording of settler arrivals in 1959. [More…]
Surveys with which my Department has been associated indicate that the ability to speak English contributes substantially to the capacity of newly arrived migrants to settle happily and successfully in the Australian community. [More…]
British migrants tend to have less difficulty than those from many other countries in securing recognition in Australia of their professional or trade qualifications and, therefore, tend to have less difficulty in finding employment in this country at a level commensurate with their training and previous employment. [More…]
This indicated that the departure rate of former British migrants was not exceptional. [More…]
Moreover in view of the absence of visa requirements up to January 1975 for United Kingdom citizens wishing to enter Australia it would not have been surprising if there had been a higher rate of departure from Australia by British migrants than by other migrants. [More…]
Under the ALP Government migration from Britain has declined dramatically and I had been informed that there was a belief in Britain that Australia no longer wanted migrants from there, lt is in the interests of Australia and prospective eligible British migrants that this belief be dispelled as quickly as possible. [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 number of migrants who have taken part in the course was 5431 and the number of employer organisations involved (some of which have maintained the course on a continuing basis) was 139, representing a wide range of industry. [More…]
The statistics maintained under the program have not to date differentiated between male and female workers, but it has been estimated that women make up approximately 33 per cent of migrants enrolled in courses in Victoria. [More…]
These include the children of widow and invalid pensioners, of workers close to the minimum wage or in intermittent employment, of self-employed people unable to earn an adequate income, and of many Aborigines, recently arrived migrants and other disadvantaged groups. [More…]
Up to 30 per cent of the people in this country, particularly the migrants and the Aborigines, did not have any cover at all and they died - [More…]
They talk about migrants being industrial fodder. [More…]
Who prevents migrants from becoming skilled tradesmen? [More…]
Who else but the trade unions, the great so called protectors of the migrants? [More…]
Some of them, I must admit, are very favourably inclined to migrants, but many of them hinder any migrant who has no qualifications. [More…]
-The point is that they do not allow migrants with skills brought from their old countries to exercise their trades and they make them industrial fodder. [More…]
The Henderson report showed clearly that migrants are one of the underprivileged classes in Australia. [More…]
If 800 000 children will benefit by the increased family allowances, that means that 200 000 children of migrants will be among them. [More…]
The first is for migrants in general. [More…]
The first function is for migrants. [More…]
Another aspect should be directed to long-established migrants in this country. [More…]
Migrants like to listen to the traditions and cultures of their former countries. [More…]
It must be an objective of ethnic radio to enlighten migrants about the facilities which I have mentioned previously. [More…]
He forgets that it was an Australian Labor government which offered the hospitality of this country and of its people to the migrants from the European countries and other areas. [More…]
How can the Government justify bringing 70 000 migrants to this country when we have the highest rate of unemployment for many years, when we have a cutdown in all the services which migrants need and when we have a drastic cutdown in housing? [More…]
Although I agree with a lot of the things Senator Lajovic said about the difficulties faced by migrants in this country, those difficulties are being faced because migrants were brought here with inadequate assistance in matters such as English language, housing and social assimilation, and they were exploited by employers as cheap factory fodder. [More…]
I cannot understand- and I would be most grateful for any elucidation of this policy by members of the Government- why at this particularly drastic time we are bringing migrants into the country when we cannot provide them with the services to which they are entitled. [More…]
He said that what ethnic radio should do- I agree with him- is that it should provide companionship for migrants who are lonely. [More…]
It should provide education for migrants who want education. [More…]
I have in mind a couple of girls- Chilean migrants, who were dispossessed in a factory and have taken up this course. [More…]
There is a letter from their Italian employers, D. and C. Dileo, concrete contractors, which states that after the arrival in Australia of the 2 migrants D. and C. Dileo would undertake to employ them as bricklayers. [More…]
Those reports indicate that a number of Chilean migrants probably are to be deported from Australia. [More…]
Before any deportation orders are signed in respect of Chilean migrants, will the Acting Minister ensure, firstly, that interpreter services are made available to the people concerned and, secondly, that steps are taken to ensure that they have every opportunity to explain whether they class themselves as political refugees from Chile? [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…]
Has the Minister’s attention also been drawn to a report in the Adelaide Advertiser of 23 March 1976 headed Alarm at migrants dropa Farce’, by Mr J. [More…]
Will the Minister release details of the policy guidelines laid down by the present Government relating to the admission of British migrants into Australia. [More…]
It should be noted that in the statement reported there, I mentioned that an effort would be made to attract more British migrants ‘as soon as the economic situation allowed’. [More…]
It is to be hoped that economic recovery will occur quickly and to a sufficient extent to enable approval to be given for the entry of intending migrants like the Farmers. [More…]
This means that any refugees who are the spouses, dependent children or parents of Austraiian residents would be approved as migrants provided they met the normal health and character requirements for migrants. [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…]
The administration of the system of criminalband civil justice in so far as it affects the poor and other vulnerable groups such as migrants and children appearing in Children’s Courts. [More…]
The report gives particular attention to the situation of migrants and Aborigines. [More…]
For instance, in Adelaide there has been a growth in the use of the Italian language by migrants. [More…]
This is not surprising when we know of the proportion of migrants of Italian origin who are in that city. [More…]
The extent to which conservatives will go to create increased unemployment is given witness by their decision to bring in an increasing number of migrants when there are no houses, no medical facilities, no schools and, worst of all, no jobs for those persons. [More…]
Unfortunately I have to say here tonight that the present Government no longer puts intending Chilean migrants in the category of those who are politically persecuted. [More…]
I am able to tell the Senate that the program as recommended by the Schools Commission for child migrants in the document which was tabled yesterday, I think envisages some $2 1.6m as a recommendation. [More…]
Normally, the migrants to this country constitute the factory fodder, but in this case, they are bolstering the gathering group of unemployed who will provide additional factory fodder. [More…]
It is significant that at the same time there are some sections of migrants who are being brought in under this category. [More…]
I hope to speak at greater length during the Budget debate about migrants who have been discriminated against. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably aborigines, the unemployed and migrants; and [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
It suggests that those most vulnerableAborigines, the unemployed and migrants- will be victimised by reductions in services. [More…]
As usual, migrants come last. [More…]
-The Australian Labor Party always talks about migrants when it wants their votes. [More…]
Now let us turn to migrants. [More…]
Much was said about the cuts to the migrant education program and to problems which we migrants have, but the fact is that the Commonwealth has a migrant education program which will be maintained in 1976-77 at the same level of activity as in 1975- 76. [More…]
Further amounts to be spent on full-time intensive English language courses for migrants, pre-embarkation and shipboard language instruction and other items will raise the level of departmental expenditure to $ 10.6m in 1976-77. [More…]
This is a clear indication of the concern of the Government for migrants. [More…]
I support the call which he made to condemn the Budget on the grounds that (a) it pursues a policy of unemployment as a weapon to reduce real wages and salaries; (b) it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants; and (c) it fails to institute selective stimulatory expenditure to reduce unemployment. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably aborigines, the unemployed and migrants; and [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants; and [More…]
The incidence of unemployment is even greater among some disadvantaged groups, such as young females, young people generally in nonmetropolitan areas, Aborigines and young migrants. [More…]
In future it could well be that we will find it increasingly more difficult to draw migrants from those countries, mainly in the European sphere, which have assisted Australia over the years. [More…]
Some people were trying to claim that migrants were involved in Communist activities. [More…]
Somebody spoke earlier about migrants. [More…]
You, Madam Acting Deputy President, would know something of what female migrants have to put up with in some of our clothing factories. [More…]
He must include the children of migrants. [More…]
The most critical areas of unemployment are amongst the young, the Aborigines, migrants and women. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants; and [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
Those people were migrants, low income earners or people with a number of children. [More…]
Perhaps it is new migrants and those people who live in extreme poverty because of drought or other condition who should be excluded from the levy. [More…]
That the recent budgetary allocations endanger the quality of Australian education, especially for disadvantaged groups and in particular for migrants, Aboriginals and tertiary students from poor backgrounds. [More…]
Being mindful of the number of refugees from various countries who have come to Australia for safety and who would like to remain, and taking into consideration also many migrants who have permanent resident status and many Australian citizens who are unemployed and unable to gain employment and who are consistently being called dole bludgers by supporters of the Government, I ask: What action will be taken against Miss Santangelo, who was refused migration to Australia on the basis that she does not have a skilled trade? [More…]
It is important that delays in processing potential Lebanese migrants from Cyprus be kept to a minimum. [More…]
In the current circumstances of high levels of unemployment in Australia there may be employment difficulties for Lebanese migrants, many of whom are unskilled or semi-skilled. [More…]
I think that the statement, which we have all perused, bears out Professor Borrie ‘s contention that Australia and New Zealand will find in the immediate and, I suppose, the distant future every time there is a brush fire war in some part of the world we will be the main recipients of migrants and we will have to meet that responsibility. [More…]
The lack of adequate medical facilities and the complete absence of Health Education and paramedical services is a tragedy for the St Albans population which is comprised of about eighty per cent (80 per cent) migrants arrived within the last five years and with an overall majority of mothers and young children for whom the proposed Community Health Centre would provide an essential service in this underprivileged area. [More…]
One can read in the Bulletin an interview with Mr MacKellar about migrants coming to this country and about job opportunities. [More…]
It is true that the Department did a fairly good job with migrants. [More…]
Let us look at what has happened in the areas which are particularly involved with women, with juveniles, with migrants, with the handicapped and with the Aborigines in particular. [More…]
I will certainly study the report to see whether there is substance in the claim that migrants and under-privileged children are being disadvantaged. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that the recent budgetary allocations endanger the quality of Australian education, especially for disadvantaged groups, and, in particular, for migrants, Aboriginals and tertiary students from poor backgrounds. [More…]
I refer to the report of the Western General Hospital in Melbourne that a survey showed that migrants from Lebanon, Turkey and Yugoslavia accounted for about half the industrial hand injuries. [More…]
I think the report referred to by the honourable senator stated that many of these migrants are unaccustomed to sophisticated and technical machinery and that their previous experience had not led them to be aware of the necessity for safety measures. [More…]
In the past there has always been a sizable intake of semi-skilled migrants each year who have filled such jobs as are referred to in the Press article. [More…]
The Scott report states that of Rhodesia’s 278 000 white residents some 206 000 live in urban areas, that is 75 per cent, an urban concentrated population that is comparable to Australia ‘s and of course no evidence is presented to qualify or quantify the alleged skills of these potential migrants. [More…]
If we do not want to import racist prejudices, then one would think that there would be many areas of the world more satisfactory than Rhodesia for the purpose of recruiting migrants. [More…]
I am astounded that Sir Charles Court should fall upon Rhodesian or would-be Rhodesian immigrants to the degree that he has. [More…]
Many were involved in the carriage of migrants to this land. [More…]
That whereas an amnesty was announced for all illegal migrants and that whereas Mr Ignazio Salemi, an applicant for amnesty, has been denied amnesty. [More…]
That the recent Budgetary allocations endanger the quality of Australian education, especially for disadvantaged groups and in particular for migrants, Aboriginals and tertiary students from poor backgrounds. [More…]
The present Senate voting system discriminates against migrants and poorly educated people- and this should concern all of us. [More…]
This practice, if followed, would particularly assist migrants. [More…]
Whatever the faults of Commonwealth Hostels Ltd may be, I know the difficulties it faced in dealing with a large influx of migrants. [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 think the Minister would know that at present in the major groups of immigrantsthe Greeks, the Yugoslavs and the Italiansthere are probably more than 70 000 people who have not sought Australian citizenship. [More…]
It is proposed that the major portion of that sum be expended in areas of interest to ethnic groups, in a campaign related to the telephone interpreter service and advertising in the ethnic Press to inform migrants about social security. [More…]
In most respects, however, the existing English language broadcasting facilities cater adequately for English speaking migrants. [More…]
I refer to the new telephone service which has been established by the Department of Social Security for migrants with language difficulties. [More…]
I commend the Department on this new initiative to help migrants. [More…]
But in view of an alleged statement by a departmental spokesman that ‘the Department would be delighted if migrants with language difficulties used this service more often’, I ask the Minister: First, how will migrants who do not speak or read English find out about this new service; second, will the Minister therefore arrange for the new service to be widely and continually publicised through the ethnic Press, ethnic radio and in all Federal, State and local government offices such as Commonwealth Employment Service offices and post offices? [More…]
The Department of Social Security understands that the telephone interpreter service is of great benefit to migrants. [More…]
There are also references to migrants and multicultural education and education for the handicapped. [More…]
Migrants form a very large proportion of the people who enter the technical and further education field. [More…]
Senator Melzer mentioned the difficulty of young migrants entering apprenticeships. [More…]
Young migrants- they may be 14 or 1 5 years of age- are quite often prevented from learning a trade for more than one reason. [More…]
It certainly does not help the migrants. [More…]
Rather than illegal migrants being sent to North Head, they are now sent to Villawood. [More…]
Sometime ago Senator Guilfoyle gave me statistics concerning the intake of Chilean migrants. [More…]
When I use the term ‘migrants’, in some cases I should use the term ‘political refugees’ or, more correctly people under political duress’. [More…]
The figures showed that up to 1973-74 there were over 100 migrants and that in 1974-75 there was 476. [More…]
Then, in 1975-76 there were another 200 or 300 migrants whose applications were in the pipeline. [More…]
It is critical of departments for the lack of understanding and appreciation of the problem of refugees as distinct from migrants. [More…]
It believes that refugees, who in some senses may have the same problems as many migrants, come here in most dramatic circumstances, confused and separated from their families with little or no possessions. [More…]
Quite obviously he has done a deal of interesting research on the history of wrecks and the great number of people who have lost their lives at sea especially in the last century when so many migrants came to this country. [More…]
We have no idea how migrants, the Aborigines and the aged will enter that experiment especially in view of the minimum housing standards. [More…]
Recognising that this will be a major step in breaking down discrimination against migrants and recognising the considerable interest in this particular subject in South Australia, can the Minister indicate how soon the authority will be established? [More…]
Some of the groups who broadcast on SUV are migrants who broadcast in languages other than English. [More…]
It is the intention of the Government to assist ethnic and migrant groups to conduct centres where they are able to have close contact with migrants and to deliver some of the services that have formerly been delivered by government. [More…]
The limitations of the present scheme- that applicants must be married or widowed or divorced with dependent children and under the age of 36; that migrants must have lived in Australia for 3 years; and that the value of the home must not exceed $22,500- have all been discarded. [More…]
The requirement under the present scheme that migrants live in Australia for 3 years before they qualify for a grant is removed, and the minimum savings period will be reduced to 12 months. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Social Security: Has the staff utilisation review recommended that the Migrant Community Services Branch, which numbers over 40 officers working on post-arrival services for migrants, be disbanded and absorbed into a new structure not recognising a specifically migrant oriented branch? [More…]
Does the Minister agree with me that to disband the only branch of the whole Commonwealth service identifiable with migrant community services is hardly in the spirit of the original idea of giving migrants specific services? [More…]
But I am able to assure the honourable senator that I agree with him with regard to the necessity to have an identifiable Migrant Community Services Branch and the need to give migrants the best services that we are able to give them, whether in matters of social security or in a more general way to assist them in their settlement in this country. [More…]
I can assure the honourable senator and others interested in this matter that the needs of migrants in our communities are of paramount importance to us. [More…]
It is to give services to migrants particularly in matters of social welfare and social security, that we review these matters from time to time. [More…]
Many of us know of situations in which teenage illegal migrants have passed a technical college examination of a far higher standard than exists in Australia. [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…]
The report refers to the women who voluntarily visit migrants’ homes. [More…]
I can only say that in the migrant services section of my Department we wish to give as much service to migrants and community organisations as possible. [More…]
Persons from East Timor still residing in hostels are provided with full board and lodging by Commonwealth Hostels Ltd at the subsidised rates which apply to assisted migrants. [More…]
That whereas an amnesty was announced for all illegal migrants and that whereas Mr Ignazio Salemi an applicant for amnesty had been denied amnesty. [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…]
Is the Minister aware of a great deal of unrest amongst the unemployed migrants at the Graylands hostel in Western Australia, a great number of whom feel that they were conned into migrating virtually under false pretences by over anxious recruiters in the United Kingdom? [More…]
Will the Minister explain how it is intended to place any new migrants - [More…]
Will the Minister explain how it is intended to place any new migrants who may apply in response to the latest advertisement into the work force in Australia, being mindful of the skilled worker job vacancies and applicants at the end of December 1976 according to the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations? [More…]
With regard to the placement of migrants in the work force, my colleague representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations may wish to add something in regard to that matter. [More…]
The cases which were drawn to the attention of the Minister with regard to advertising for migrants, which it was claimed was misleading, are being investigated. [More…]
Those that refer to personal documents of migrants concerned would need a more detailed investigation and go beyond the answer that I am able to give at the present time. [More…]
I refer to the report Immigrants and Mental Health issued by the Australian Council of Social Service on 24 January 1977, which outlined the deficiencies in mental health services available to migrants. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the report’s claim that migrants suffer a higher incidence of psychiatric disorders compared to the rest of the community, being attributable to difficulties experienced in the migration and settlement process as well as to the current high unemployment rate among migrants? [More…]
I recall the matter relating to the psychiatric disorders of migrants as referred to in the report of the Australian Council of Social Service. [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…]
Continually programs are being undertaken that are of assistance to migrants. [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…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to an article which appeared in the Age on 8 February 1977 titled ‘The Missing Migrants’? [More…]
Is the Government treating them as migrants or refugees for the purpose of visa applications? [More…]
The report also contains a range of other recommendations relating to specific programs including for example, pathology laboratories, rehabilitation centres and the immediate postarrival welfare of migrants. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that the recent budgetary allocations endanger the quality of Australian education, especially for disadvantaged groups, and, in particular, for migrants, Aboriginals and ternary students from poor backgrounds. [More…]
A working party on interpreters and translators has been making a detailed investigation into the provision of services for non-English speaking migrants in this country. [More…]
As I understand it, its recommendations related also to the need for officers of the Commonwealth Public Service to be bi-lingual and to a great range of matters that would enable this necessary service to be given to migrants. [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…]
If such agreements are in fact being promoted between Australia and Italy, will the Minister consider making similar arrangements with other comparable countries from which migrants come? [More…]
As it has been claimed that some of these illegal migrants are in receipt of unemployment benefits, will the Government inquire into this matter as soon as possible in order to prevent a situation in which the traffic reaches serious proportions? [More…]
In fact if one looks at electorates such as Grayndler and Sydney, and at the socioeconomic problems of those areas, one sees that they have large groups of migrants and large groups of people who are not voters who have to be looked after. [More…]
The intake of migrants has also to a large degree even considering the bipartisan approach to political refugees. [More…]
The number of informal votes indicates that the situation at the moment certainly discriminates against migrants and poorly educated people. [More…]
That is electors and not people because, as honourable senators would know, in a large number of electorates there are unnaturalised migrants and people who have not yet attained the voting age. [More…]
Some have in the main only electors; others have not only electors but also a large population of unnaturalised migrants. [More…]
Many of the people involved were post war migrants. [More…]
How many former migrants to Australia are now residing overseas and receiving an age pension and what is the total cost to the Australian Government. [More…]
This amount includes payments to Australians who are not former migrants and wives’ pensions paid to wives of age pensioners abroad, for whom separate figures for number of recipients and expenditure are not available. [More…]
Senator Harradine refers to a deputation which I received from representatives of the Polish community, which was supported by the Returned Services League and introduced by Senator Harradine and Mr Hodgman, requesting that consideration be given to an extension of the Service pension to certain Polish migrants to Australia who fought in the Polish Army and in particular, as Senator Harradine said, those who fought under British command. [More…]
Voluntary organisations and governments work together in many areas including aged persons homes, services for the mentally and physically handicapped, special services for migrants and youth, crisis centres, such as Lifeline, pregnancy support, women’s shelters and drug contact centres. [More…]
Those principles related in that part of Her Majesty’s Speech are extremely appropriate and applicable to the problems and needs of migrants in the Australian community. [More…]
Since the end of World War II, more than 3 million migrants have come to settle in Australia. [More…]
Indeed, migrants have accounted for more than 60 per cent of the population increase and over 50 per cent of the increase in the Australian work force since 1 947. [More…]
Migrants were invited here to help to develop Australia, to supplement the work force and thus to share in the prosperity and high standard of living that this would provide. [More…]
However, in entering the work force, migrants are faced with severe problems. [More…]
The Jackson Committee which was set up to advise on policies for manufacturing industry studied the problems of migrants in the work force. [More…]
Some of the larger industries which employ a high percentage of migrants were wise enough to employ multilingual industrial officers. [More…]
Industries which provided such a service to migrants found that problems associated with absenteeism, safety and accidents diminished tremendously because of the ability of migrants to discuss their problems with those industrial officers. [More…]
This explains why skilled and professional migrants received no recognition here of their qualifications for many years. [More…]
While these have been valuable steps in remedying this situation there are still many subprofessional or para-professional groups not catered for, and unfortunately this is the largest group amongst migrants in industry in Australia at this time. [More…]
Many of these problems are accentuated by the fact that on the whole migrants enter the work force on the bottom of the industrial ladder, being in the main semi-skilled or unskilled workers. [More…]
In manufacturing, migrants undertake the least skilled, most menial tasks, both for economic reasons and because they lack personal alternatives. [More…]
In enumerating the problems migrants incur in entering and participating in the Australian work force I neglected to state the seventh area. [More…]
There is also a reluctance to acknowledge that migrants are a particular group of members within unions with special problems. [More…]
A question often asked is: How many migrants participate in unions not only as fee-paying members but as members of the hierarchy? [More…]
Of those 300 officials, only nine were migrants. [More…]
If we look at the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress we find that only five of the delegates were non-British migrants. [More…]
But is this leadership really interested to have migrants in executive positions, the leading positions? [More…]
I am afraid that the union rank and file and leadership feel that migrants could hardly represent their interests. [More…]
This general attitude of trade union leaders endorses the apprehension which many migrants feel towards unions. [More…]
Many migrants have no fundamental understanding ofthe Australian union and of the arbitration system. [More…]
This is how migrants feel about unions today. [More…]
It is up to the union leaders if migrants are to be included in positions of decision making and authority. [More…]
If migrants do not participate as leaders then I ask whether the present leaders effectively represent their interests. [More…]
As one writer notes, often when one talks about special migrant needs on wages, housing, social services and language communication some in the trade union movement interpret this as seeking to put migrants into a different and more privileged position than that of the rest of the workers. [More…]
Representation depends on the initiatives of both the union leadership and of the migrants themselves. [More…]
Union leaderships could be forced to encourage migrants to participate and fundamentally to assist them with organisational problems and so on. [More…]
The problems of migrants in the work force need much attention. [More…]
They were jobs that migrants wanted to do. [More…]
Senator Lajovic ought to take note of the fact that migrants have difficulties at all levels throughout Australia and not only in trade union elections. [More…]
He cited tonight the percentage of migrants who are elected in union elections. [More…]
I would be surprised if that figure were any lower than the percentage of migrants who are elected to public life right throughout Australia. [More…]
There are now some people, especially migrants or people who are working in factories where a decision was taken that everybody should switch to another scheme, who still have their Medibank cards. [More…]
As the Green Paper points out, in the past 10 years Australia lost a total of over 330 000 persons quite apart from the losses of former migrants who left Australia to take up permanent residence overseas. [More…]
Of equal importance are issues such as the criteria upon which the intake is chosen, the distribution of migrants throughout Australia, their qualifications and other characteristics as well as the countries from which they are drawn. [More…]
As we all know, many migrants have come to Australia since the war. [More…]
Unfortunately, there is still a large majority of migrants who came to Australia and immediately moved into what are normally regarded as being the lower socio-economic groups. [More…]
While many migrants were assimilated, many of them were not. [More…]
We are often told that a means of combating the present situation is not to bring in any more migrants. [More…]
Even now in a time of high unemployment the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) produced a list on 3 March 1977 containing over 120 occupations for which immigrants may enter Australia and obtain employment. [More…]
Immigrants must have a firm job offer before they can come to Australia, but there are over 120 classifications for which migration is possible. [More…]
We also must remember in the present employment situation that since 1970 376 109 migrants have come to Australia. [More…]
Out of these migrants, over 100 000 people have been placed in the Australian work force. [More…]
Particular stress will be placed on meeting the needs of the disadvantaged, including the handicapped, the isolated, migrants and Aboriginal children. [More…]
After all, Australia and Canada have done more than their share with migrants from other countries. [More…]
Whether or not Britain is cold- I notice our learned colleague from the other place laughing about it- the fact of the matter is that we can take only so many migrants from particular continents. [More…]
If we are talking about refugees as distinct from migrants, I think we have to have another look at the question of medical and occuptional grounds. [More…]
It treats refugees as normal migrants and, again proving the Government’s attitude, it chooses the most highly qualified- the leaders- and leaves the rest, a type of brain drain situation, rather than taking refugees en masse as any other country with a refugee policy would do. [More…]
As pan of the responsibility of the Department of Social Security for the settlement of migrants, special programs have been developed to facilitate the resettlement of refugees. [More…]
It should be stressed at the outset that unlike migrants who are selected to meet particular criteria including the demand for their special skills, refugees, as a result of the crisis they have recently experienced need special assistance with their settlement. [More…]
The Settlement Officers have had long experience and close involvement with the settlement problems faced by migrants and refugees and in providing advice and assistance to overcome these difficulties. [More…]
Cultural background papers on refugee type groups such as Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians and Lebanese (as well as for migrants such as Turks, Finns and Italians) have been prepared by the Department of Social Security and have been widely distributed by the State Offices. [More…]
Has the Minister been made aware of the hardship of many aged migrants who do not qualify for a pension because of the 10-year residence requirement that is set down in the Social Services Act? [More…]
-Undoubtedly there would be numbers of aged migrants who do not qualify for pension benefits because of residence requirements. [More…]
I have been looking at arrangements for reciprocity of pensions with overseas countries from which these migrants may have come. [More…]
As for the need for migrant interpreter services and other services for migrants, we regard these as having a very high priority in the work of my department. [More…]
An article in the Sydney Sun dated 28 March of this year alleges that government departments are currently engaged in investigating apparent fraud involving mainly migrants in the receiving of pension cheques. [More…]
The New South Wales adult education program for migrants has not been geared to meet an accelerated intake. [More…]
We all know that Senator Mulvihill has many worthwhile things to contribute on the subject of migrants in Australia but by trying to squash the worthwhile comments that he had to make on migrant education into a false framework he did not do himself justice. [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 hope we will see migrants appointed to the$e commissions. [More…]
It is said by some people, and particularly by members of the Opposition, that over the past few years migrants have been nothing more than factory fodder. [More…]
We regard the service as essential and very useful for migrants who have difficulty with language. [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…]
Many refugees are not simply migrants beset by a few additional problems. [More…]
In the first instance, it does not refer to our capacity to take political refugees and whether they will affect our overall annual intake of migrants in a given year. [More…]
First, I should like to know at an early date how we relate the ratio of political refugees to our overall total of migrants on an annual basis. [More…]
For the year 1976-77 what are the projected numbers of migrants sought to be obtained from India, Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, Greece, France, Chile, Malta, Argentina, South Africa, Lebanon, Brazil, United States of America, New Zealand and Indonesia. [More…]
How many migrants have arrived to date under the abovementioned program for the countries referred to above. [More…]
Another aspect of the paper relates to the question of migrants and the economy. [More…]
The second assertion is the effect of the age and replacement of capital equipment in industry when migrants join and thus inflate the size of the workforce. [More…]
In the long term, the paper states that this should be countered by the expansion of production induced by the demand of migrants. [More…]
The next question with which the paper deals concerns migrants in the workforce. [More…]
Recruitment of migrants for this purpose can be controlled and directed to obtaining workers possessing necessary skills. [More…]
A lot has been said about the high level of unemployment of migrants in Australia. [More…]
Migrants now have the highest unemployment in the Australian workforce. [More…]
It states that, if anything, the evidence points to a very ready entry into earning activities by migrants. [More…]
These considerations will have to be qualified by two constants: Firstly, the statistics on total departures from Australia, in which we have found that in the past 10 years 339 000 Australian bom citizens left this country; and, secondly, the availability of suitable migrants, which should not be taken for granted, especially if we are giving priority to skilled categories. [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…]
The Prime Minister recalled that in his policy speech on 29 April he had given an undertaking that the Government would, if returned, appoint a judicial inquiry into the structure of the Australian security services and into methods of reviewing decisions adversely affecting citizens or migrants. [More…]
His inquiries will extend to the projection which should be afforded not only to citizens but also to migrants and visitors. [More…]
To make recommendations as to the procedures which should be introduced to permit review of administrative decisions affecting citizens, migrants and visitors which were or may have been based on, or influenced by, reports or information of an adverse kind furnished by the security intelligence services of the Australian Government. [More…]
We can bring in another 100 000 migrants and we can supply them with the most difficult jobs in this nation- jobs on the assembly lines. [More…]
The Government will try to develop a growth factor in the community by introducing another 100 000 or perhaps 150 000 migrants a year. [More…]
(3) The Children’s Services Program and some services relating to the settlement of migrants are provided in the Australian Capital Territory directly through the Central Administration of the Department. [More…]
How many migrants entered Australia for the 12 months ending 31 March 1977 from the (a) United Kingdom: (b) Ulster: and (c) the Republic of Ireland. [More…]
Apart from special programs such as that for disadvantaged special migrants, the main program for primary and secondary schools is by way of general recurrent or capital grants. [More…]
I could take Senator Lajovic to Darwin and show him some of the migrants, with whom we are both acquainted who work 6 days a week for $150 take home money when their true rate should be $250 a week. [More…]
1 ) How many adult migrants are attending Adult Migrant Education Service English classes in New South Wales in 1977. [More…]
If migrants are illiterate in their own languages, what provision is made for special courses to make them literate in English. [More…]
1 ) It is estimated that some 31 650 adult migrants will attend the Adult Migrant Education Service English classes in New South Wales during the financial year 1976-77. [More…]
The New South Wales Adult Migrant Education Service is developing in conjunction with the New South Wales Ministry of Education’s adult literacy program, a special literacy program for migrants. [More…]
What criteria is used to award assisted passage to migrants. [More…]
For the years 1975-76 and 1976-77, how many assisted passages were granted to migrants from the United States of America, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Cyprus, Malta, the United Kingdom, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. [More…]
What percentage of the total number of migrants arriving from the abovementioned countries received Australian Government assisted passages. [More…]
These include the children of widow and invalid pensioners, of workers close to the minimum wage or in intermittent employment, of self-employed people unable to earn an adequate income, and of many Aborigines, recently-arrived migrants and other disadvantaged groups. [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…]
We do not take a lot of people from Peru, but I mention it in developing this recurring theme about an endless stream of political 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…]
With the best intentions in the world, Australians and even members of the ethnic communities sponsor migrants, but the difficulty is that within 18 months or two years the linchpin of a family might find himself in a totally different situation. [More…]
There are of course many different ways of looking at the whole question of the way in which migrants are brought into this country. [More…]
I tum to one or two points which I think may have been misconceptions in the minds of some people and which perhaps have grown up over the years about the ways in which migrants have or have not contributed or may or may not contribute to the community as a whole. [More…]
I believe there has been some criticism recently of the fact that a degree of money has left this country because migrants have tended to remit money to their home country. [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…]
Another one that has been thrown around from time to time- I think Senator Mulvihill was hinting at this today- is the question of whether migration does in fact contribute to unemployment and whether there are difficulties arising within the community because of the many unemployed migrants. [More…]
It has been bruited around that migrants, generally speaking, are finding it extremely difficult to obtain work upon arrival in Australia because of the current economic climate. [More…]
I think it has been said that migrants are tending to remain out of work for periods of up to 12 months. [More…]
I believe it is natural that people arriving in this country will find it difficult to find a job in the immediate sense in terms of one week or two weeks but it seems from the statistics that are available that there has been a fall in the period of time that migrants have spent looking for work after their arrival in this country and that, in fact, this trend is continuing despite the present difficult times. [More…]
From these numbers, how many in each of the four divisions are (a) women, (b) Aborigines, (c) migrants, and (d) physically or mentally handicapped persons. [More…]
Comprehensive statistics relating specifically to the employment of migrants and handicapped persons in the Public Service have not been collected by the Public Service Board and are consequently not available. [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…]
The fact remains that in the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) last night the appropriation for migrants in the 1975-76 Budget appears as $2 1.4m. [More…]
We hope to introduce the service speedily into Wollongong, where such a large percentage of the population is represented by migrants. [More…]
But in any other section of the communitywhether they be British migrants or whoever they are- there is always a small percentage, 5 per cent or less, who cause trouble. [More…]
The miners, the steel workers, the migrants and the pensioners were constantly on his doorstep seeking his advice, guidance and assistance. [More…]
What I think is of concern is that it was stated that the position of elderly migrants was being endangered and that they were being abandoned by their children in this country. [More…]
The principal thing to say is that matters that are raised in this way in a country overseas that reflect on the treatment of migrants to this country should be put into perspective. [More…]
This has to be taken in conjunction with the loss of former migrants who left Australia to take up permanent residence overseas. [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…]
fostering the understanding of migrant cultures and developing and maintaining harmonious relationships covering migrants within the community. [More…]
The work of the centres falls into two broad categories: the provision of information and advice to migrants and to act as a referral service; community development, involving liaison with ethnic communities, local institutions and Government departments at the Federal, State and local level. [More…]
The Depanment of Social Security administers special programs which relate specifically to the settlement and integration of migrants. [More…]
The Depanment provides a direct welfare service to assist migrants with information, advice and counselling concerning individual problems and referrals to relevant authorities and agencies for relief or treatment. [More…]
As a special measure to help overcome communication barriers which might significantly affect migrants’ welfare, the Department operates the Telephone Interpreter Service which provides an interpreting service over the telephone to assist nonEnglish speaking migrants and those having dealings with them who might require assistance to communicate. [More…]
These Councils are devoted to generating and co-ordinating community effort towards the successful integration of migrants into the Australian community. [More…]
The Department is responsible also for a grantinaid scheme for migrant welfare activities, the purpose of which is the provision of grants to non-government social welfare agencies for the purpose of undertaking social welfare work to benefit migrants. [More…]
The Department also maintains contact with national group organisations for the purpose of facilitating the settlement of migrants. [More…]
Distribution of information materials of interest to migrants and ethnic communities at approximately bi-monthly intervals, including material in non-English languages; [More…]
The Commonwealth Employment Service gives particular consideration to meeting the needs of nonEnglish speaking clients, especially in areas where large concentrations of migrants occur. [More…]
Moreover, a substantial proportion of experienced staff in the large migrantoriented offices of the Commonwealth Employment Service are either from migrant backgrounds or are migrants themselves. [More…]
The Adult Migrant Education Program provides a range of English language learning opportunities including full-time courses, courses for migrants in industry, part-time courses and continuation courses, correspondence and radio lessons, classes for migrant women and home tutoring. [More…]
There is an increase in expenditure in the Telephone Interpreter Service, which is important to migrants in Australia. [More…]
Cox, ‘The Role of Ethnic Groups in Migrant Welfare’; J. I. Martin, ‘The Economic Condition of Migrants’: in Welfare of Migrants ( AGPS, Canberra, 1975). [More…]
Jakubowicz and B. Buckley, Migrants and the Legal System (AGPS, Canberra, 1975). [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate of any measures that the two departments have taken to facilitate the settlement of and to ease the hardships of those Lebanese migrants who came to Australia to escape the civil war in the Lebanon and who are still in Australia? [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…]
They are migrants from India who came to Australia with their two daughters. [More…]
They are now on record in the Hansard in the hope that the Government will know of the anguish that is being suffered by migrants we have permitted to come into Australia. [More…]
This man’s son who was here from 1971, 1 think, to 1973 worked all the time he was here although he did not have the trade skills which Australia requires migrants to have to enter Australia. [More…]
Apart from an earlier inquiry at the Embassy regarding social security entitlements for migrants, no further matters have been raised with the Embassy. [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…]
Is the Minister aware of the scurrilous attack by Mr E. G. Whitlam on the Government’s lack of concern for the plight of recently arrived migrants in this country? [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…]
I believe that some of the matters that were raised by Mr Whitlam in his statement were with regard to unemployment amongst migrants. [More…]
As far as the general statement that was issued by the Leader of the Opposition is concerned, I believe that migrant groups and migrants themselves in this country are aware of the Government’s attempts through the Department and in other ways to assist them in settling. [More…]
To the extent that there is a growing and an increased demand by migrants for instruction in English, of course the article points to some new characteristics, particularly the influx of migrants from various countries and a real demand indeed. [More…]
I shall read the figures for adult migrants: In 1973-74 the figure was $1.1 5m; in 1974-75 $ 1.88m; in 1975-76 $2.62m; and in 1976-77 $2.7m. [More…]
A similar situation is reflected in child migrants. [More…]
One of the bases for error in assessing this situation, as I have pointed out before in the Senate, is that a year ago a new basis for funding of child migrants occurred whereby child migrant education was taken over and funded under the Schools Commission. [More…]
In a sense the question follows the Dorothy Dix question posed by Senator Martin regarding education for migrants and the unsatisfactory answer given by Senator Carrick. [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…]
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…]
Migrants who have become Australian citizens are not liable to deportation and it is not intended to introduce legislation to change this situation. [More…]
British migrants may be deported only as a consequence of events which occur within five years of their entering Australia. [More…]
Of the people living in the Territory a total of 46,034 are migrants, that is, persons not born in Australia. [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…]
As at May 1977, 14.6 per cent of the recipients of unemployment benefit are migrants from non-British countries. [More…]
We can spend $2m for people in Mr Fraser ‘s electorate who want better television reception but we cannot do anything for people who are migrants, who are women, who are unemployed, who are educationally handicapped and so on. [More…]
We see not only that but also particular problems of those such as migrants, under educated, unachievers in one way or another, and who have particular social problems which relate to this. [More…]
This was the first comprehensive study of migrants’ experiences in Australia and covered such areas as employment, accommodation, language and recognition of qualifications. [More…]
In addition to listing the major problems experienced by migrants in Australia, the report also identified the migrant groups most seriously affected by problems in these areas. [More…]
For female migrants there is a 7.3 per cent unemployment rate, compared with a male rate of 4.5 per cent. [More…]
In many cases known to me in the Austraiian Capital Territory, let alone cases known to other honourable senators who have a higher proportion of working class migrants in their electorates, these people are reduced to circumstances in which they lose their home, they cannot maintain the mortgage payments and they cannot maintain their hire purchase commitments. [More…]
Indeed, the honourable senator should know if he has read his Budget Papers that we have also proposed to increase the living allowance for adult migrants as from November. [More…]
It is very conscious of the need for the English language to be brought to such migrants, and I have the program under close review. [More…]
It is true that because the Wran Government set about a series of programs of a wider nature and because there are now emerging some special problems with migrants such as Vietnamese, Lebanese and Timorese, giving us some particular difficulties, I was able to seek amongst moneys and to detach an extra amount of $150,000 for New South Wales because I believe that the problem is an important one and deserves help. [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…]
Taking just that one example, which relates to an area in which gloomy ideas were spread before the Budget, we find that the Budget has in fact moved forward and the Government has moved on in practical terms to assist migrants. [More…]
I also said that, sadly, the growing unemployment which emerged from 1974 onwards had caused migrants to seek to find a way of entering this course. [More…]
The backlag of migrants entering courses is no new phenomenon at all. [More…]
The numbers of migrants seeking to learn the English language through this course have always exceeded the capacity to accommodate them. [More…]
I think that as a result of the question which he has asked, Senator Mulvihill has done a lot of migrants in Australia a great service in alerting them to their electoral rights. [More…]
They are the early school leavers, migrants, Aboriginals, young people in rural areas and in inner city areas- the people who one might say are at risk. [More…]
child care and other family care programs; health care services- including Medibank, community health centres, womens’ refuges and domiciliary care services; housing- in particular housing for aged and invalid people; programs and allowances for the handicapped; pensions and benefits (and proposed transfers of responsibility for these); the Legal Aid Commission Bill: Aboriginal Affairs; Australian Government Printing Services; and grant-in-aid services for migrants and interpreter services. [More…]
I hope that a program of this kind has the support of the Opposition in believing that migrants who do not nave at their disposal the same information as other Australians from pamphlets and other publications will now have extra assistance under this new program. [More…]
The Government is considering how it can, in conjunction with the States, expand facilities for migrants generally. [More…]
I have not heard him refute the statements made by Mr Sinclair who talked about these British migrants. [More…]
Of course those migrants, particularly those 1 1,290 people who reside in that electorate and who Senator Hall said were born in the United Kingdom and Ireland, will not believe that Senator Hall has any interest in their welfare until such time as he comes out in public and denies his support for the statements Mr Sinclair has made everywhere. [More…]
Thirdly, I understand that Senator McLaren said that in my remarks in relation to the electorate of Hawker, for which I am a candidate, I was using British migrants, or at least I was bashing them. [More…]
He made a derogatory remark about the attention I gave last night in this debate to British migrants. [More…]
As far as migrants are concerned, Senator Hall misrepresented me when he said that I said in my remarks today that he was derogatory of migrants in the electorate of Hawker. [More…]
I say againand it is not directed at the great majority of migrants, British or otherwise, who come to this country- that there is a British disease. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that I have said here from time to time that a substantially increased demand for adult migrant education is emerging for a variety of reasons, including the nature of refugees, the nature of migrants, the emergence of women in the field and, to some degree, unemployment. [More…]
In particular, some of the factors which have influenced today’s decision include the increasing number of refugees entering Australia, the Government’s desire to improve access to language classes for migrant women, a general increase in demand for English language classes for migrants, and the commendable way in which some employers are encouraging their employees to develop facility with the English language. [More…]
We also recognise the possibility that migrants who currently do not have full-time employment may wish to take advantage of the opportunity to attend English language classes. [More…]
The funds will also allow the development of a number of new projects and increased living allowances for migrants taking full-time English courses. [More…]
New projects to benefit adult migrants will include full-time English language courses in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth during the Christmas holiday period. [More…]
Closed-curcuit television will be used on a trial basis to help teach English language to migrants living in a suitable high-rise housing complex. [More…]
The increased funds will also allow an increase in the number of English courses available to migrants in the manufacturing sector. [More…]
The Government looks forward to the participation of migrants in the detailed planning and management of the Christmas holiday courses and the establishment of committees in each State to help establish the courses in industry. [More…]
I point out in passing that these proposals reflect some of the preliminary suggestions of the group reviewing the post-arrival programs and services to migrants under the chairmanship of Mr F. E. Galbally, C.B.E. [More…]
The current decision demonstrates the Government’s recognition of the importance of English language instruction in the successful integration of non English-speaking migrants. [More…]
I want to say at the outset that the Labor Party, by its record in government, proved itself beyond doubt to be very much concerned with and interested in the problems of migrant education in Australia and the problems of migrants in general. [More…]
It will be seen that under the heading of ‘Special Groups’ the actual expenditure for migrants in 1975-76, the last year of the Whitlam Labor Government, was $2 1.4m. [More…]
It is proposed in the Budget that $ 10.4m will be spent on migrants for educational purposes. [More…]
Indeed, the honourable senator should know if he has read his Budget Papers that we have also proposed to increase the living allowance for adult migrants as from November. [More…]
It is very conscious of the need for the English l anguage to be brought to such migrants, and I have the program under close review. [More…]
Papers made the error of combining the amounts for adult migrants and child migrants to get a total of the order of $22m. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that half a million migrants remain outside the electoral process because they have little information or access to information about citizenship and enrolment procedures? [More…]
Does the Minister believe that the increase in the number of migrants who are disadvantaged in this way necessitates the reintroduction of mobile vans to distribute multilingual information on these matters in areas with particularly large concentrations of recently arrived immigrants. [More…]
I am aware that the need for information on all Government services and the rights of individuals is sometimes lacking as far as migrants are concerned. [More…]
I am not aware of the actions that have been taken with regard to advising migrants of their electoral responsibilites. [More…]
Is the Commissioner concerned about the fact that such insulting and degrading terms have been used in relation to our indigenous people and our migrants? [More…]
In regard to additional funding, the honourable senator will know that in recent months a growing demand has emerged, for a variety of reasons including the specialised needs of refugee migrants, because of women seeking more education, and becuse of the desirabilitywhich the Government fully supports- of upgrading the ability to speak English of those seeking jobs. [More…]
In addition, there will be new on-arrival English language programs for refugees, which will involve an expenditure of $820,000 on adult migrants and $ 144,000 on child migrants. [More…]
The Government is immensely keen to do all it can to help nonEnglish speaking migrants to overcome their disabilities. [More…]
We, the undersigned citizens and/or taxpayers of Australia, speaking for ourselves and on behalf of the many who cannot become citizens because of their inability to speak English, request the Senate to give immediate attention to the totally inadequate provision of English classes for migrants by the Australian Government. [More…]
What policy is the Government following in the Commonwealth Public Service and statutory corporations as regards the employment eligibility, all other qualifications being equal, of migrants who have resident status but have not qualified for Australian citizenship? [More…]
I think also we should be looking at means of informing migrants and Aboriginals of their voting rights and at means of getting the socially disadvantaged groups on the electoral rolls. [More…]
In regard to those who are disadvantaged, as Senator Sibraa will know, as a result of some prodding from his colleague Senator Mulvihill, the Australian Electoral Office is gearing up to do quite a deal of work amongst migrants. [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…]
Senator Button also mentioned how the Special Broadcasting Service shows the patronising attitude of the Liberal and National Country Parties towards migrants and ethnic communities. [More…]
I am fascinated by that and would like to find out how many migrants are in top executive positions in trade unions, how many of them represent the tremendous power - [More…]
I am talking about continental migrants, non-English speaking migrants. [More…]
If the Opposition wants authorities to be representative of the community, I would like to find out whether there are migrants in executive positions in the socialist camp. [More…]
Therefore, those points of view are heard daily on the ethnic radio stations in Sydney and Melbourne and they are damaging the process of integration of many migrants into Australian society. [More…]
Once and for all we should discontinue that beautiful Australian Broadcasting Commission program called ‘Teaching English to Migrants’ which is broadcast at 6 a.m. [More…]
It would be of tremendous importance to teachers and all those educators who are in daily contact with the sons and daughters of migrants who have recently arrived in this country. [More…]
He then went on to talk about the fact that there were not enough Continental migrants either in the unions or in the Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]
Perhaps Senator Lajovic should move into the trade union movement and see how many migrants of continental origin are involved in that movement. [More…]
It could continue the wonderful experiment that Labor set up and extend it into the communities further to places like Darwin which has the greatest ratio of non-English migrants- or as Senator Lajovic termed them, continental migrants- in Australia. [More…]
The ratio between people of European origin and other people was very much against post-war European migrants. [More…]
What actions have been taken by the Department of Social Security to facilitate the settlement of Lebanese migrants who have come to Australia to escape the civil war in Lebanon. [More…]
Will the Minister give a breakdown of assistance showing: (a) how may of these migrants have received financial aid; (b) how many are still receiving government assistance; and (c) how much money has been spent so far by the Department of Social Security in assisting these people. [More…]
The majority of recent arrivals of Lebanese migrants have been sponsored for migration to Australia, mostly by relatives already resident here. [More…]
The following assistance is being provided for Lebanese by my Department in addition to the welfare and supportive counselling services provided for migrants generally: [More…]
It is unfortunate that a few have seen fit to abuse what seems to be a well established and understood tradition of assisting migrants in their citizenship following the ceremony. [More…]
The Government recently announced an extra allocation of funds for adult migrant education, a matter which is important to Western Australia, as my State absorbs a higher proportion of migrants than does any other. [More…]
Western Australia ‘s migrants will also, of course, be sharing in the increased living allowances which are now, basically, at the level of the unemployment benefit. [More…]
How many Lebanese have been accepted as migrants to Australia since the commencement of the war in Lebanon. [More…]
What action is being taken by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to facilitate the settlement of these migrants in Australia. [More…]
Undoubtedly unemployment amongst migrants is higher than unemployment amongst other sections of the population, and that is a matter of considerable concern. [More…]
Mindful as I am of Miss Mohaded ‘s difficult circumstances, you will appreciate that I cannot responsibly authorise the issue of such an undertaking without being given the opportunity to assess Miss Mohaded ‘s ability to satisfy even the basic migrant entry requirements, which all intending migrants are expected to comply with. [More…]
That the Act include married pensioners eligible for supplementary assistance and migrants as specified by the Seaman Report and that particular consideration be paid to the special needs and requirements of the prospective tenants in the location and design of such dwellings. [More…]
The people who cannot cope with the system or have difficulty coping with it- migrants, the illiterate or the relatively illiterate, some of the inexperienced school leavers and people who for all sorts of reasons have great difficulty in coping with our system of social security- are in danger in such an investigation. [More…]
Finally, does the Government believe, as does the Retail Traders’ Association, that we could bring in 200,000 migrants a year? [More…]
We received a lot of complaints from British migrants. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, although claiming to be the champion of the migrants, automatically considers anyone who speaks with an accent and comes from Europe as a fascist. [More…]
The statement of Dr Cass clearly shows Labor’s discrimination against migrants and exemplifies the Labor Party’s position on that subject, which can only be compared with that of Hitler’s Germany. [More…]
The Labor Party is saying: ‘Who but the migrants are the cause of all our problems. [More…]
Therefore, sack the migrants and prevent them from coming here. ‘ [More…]
Dr Cass also stated that the intake of migrants this year will be 80,000 persons. [More…]
When it is discounted for the migrants who will never enter the work force the threat to the unemployed is really small. [More…]
There are three main categories under which migrants are admitted to this country today. [More…]
Sociologists could provide similar evidence but Dr Cass has chosen to quote from only one such paper and has disregarded endless evidence by the economists demonstrating the economic benefits this country has derived from the migrants. [More…]
>rn people and some British migrants, and a . [More…]
There has been a lot of talk about the acceptance of migrants, and in this case one of the men involved is from one ethnic community and another is from another ethnic community. [More…]
We have to look after the people who are involved, many of whom are migrants. [More…]
That the Act include married pensioners eligible for supplementary assistance and migrants as specified by the Seaman Report and that particular consideration be paid to the special needs and requirements of the prospective tenants in the location and design of such dwellings. [More…]
On some occasions illegal migrants may come to see a member of parliament. [More…]
I also ask: How many interpreters in the Greek language has the Department in Sydney, and is there any difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of interpreters in this language to assist the migrants concerned? [More…]
It is accepted that the Aboriginal people of this country were dispossessed of their land with the arrival of European migrants in 1788. [More…]
The Act also fails to make clear to people the fact that the Federal Government has made special laws and provided special treatment to many groups within our community, particularly disadvantaged groups such as migrants and women, in an attempt to develop greater equality within the Australian community. [More…]
We are giving to people who are not true Aboriginals or full Aboriginals concessions that are not being given to our own Australian white people or to migrants. [More…]
The matters I have mentioned in respect of housing loans, business loans and minerals indicate that racial discrimination against white people, migrants and any other people in this country is apartheid. [More…]
That the Act include married pensioners eligible for supplementary assistance and migrants as specified by the Seaman Report and that particular consideration be paid to the special needs and requirements of the prospective tenants in the location and design of such dwellings. [More…]
The second point I wish to raise, which also concerns the community involved, deals with the question of justice for those migrants who in future may surfer from such disorders, or in fact from any disorders that may entitle them to sickness or invalid pensions. [More…]
It is not difficult to imagine that migrants from countries such as those, migrants whom we attracted as a matter of deliberate government policy, who have a poor grasp of the language and little or no knowledge of our customs or our bureaucracy, believe that the same sort of situation applies here. [More…]
Such migrants can be misled and caught up in a situation they do not understand. [More…]
Our provision of foreign language speaking welfare workers, interpreters and welfare rights officers has been notoriously inadequate in the past in relation to dealing with migrants, especially when compared with the situation in some overseas countries. [More…]
Migrants have considerable difficulty in assimilating and adjusting to conditions in this country. [More…]
Unfortunately some of these people have been preyed upon by those who take advantage of their difficulties, and sometimes it is by their fellow migrants. [More…]
We also need reassurance that the full ramifications of the case involving possibly innocent migrants are understood by the Government and by those dealing with the people involved, and that where necessary help will be provided to them by way of interpreters and legal aid. [More…]
It was said that we need to ensure that the members of the Greek community are assisted, as are all migrants and in particular the nonEnglish speaking migrants, to be aware of the systems and services that are available in Australia. [More…]
All of these steps have been taken as part of our efforts to make sure that non-English speaking migrants in particular are aware of the programs that may be of assistance to them. [More…]
One of the major problems in providing special concessional fares for groups such as students is that other groups- for example, pensioners and migrants- could justifiably claim discrimination if they were not assisted similarly. [More…]
But migrant education is not only confined to those people who come here as migrants in the accepted term. [More…]
The Minister, in the same answer, said that this would involve an expenditure of $820,000 on adult migrants and some $144,000 on child migrants. [More…]
The reasons for the decline in enrolment probably lie in the fact that tertiary institutions in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide are now offering courses in Italian and, since these cities have major concentrations of Italian migrants and since the Government has been assisting people to enrol in these courses by offering them the facilities of the National Employment and Training scheme, prospective students have naturally tended to enrol in their own capital cities. [More…]
That the Act include married pensioners eligible for supplementary assistance and migrants as specified by the Seaman Report and that particular consideration be paid to the special needs and requirements of the prospective tenants in the location and design of such dwellings. [More…]
That the Act include married pensioners eligible for supplementary assistance and migrants as specified by the Seaman Report and that particular consideration be paid to the special needs and requirements of the prospective tenants in the location and design of such dwellings. [More…]
These concerns should have been answered by now by more than general statements about the worthiness of the Greek community and platitudes about our desire to help migrants. [More…]
All the time that this case has been going on there have been no statements of support from the Government, apart from the statement by Mr MacKellar and a couple of assurances that the Government cares about migrants. [More…]
Whilst not naming people as ‘Greeks’ the articles went on to say that the doctor was alleged to have given hundreds of fraudulent medical certificates to migrants who had used them to secure social welfare benefits. [More…]
On each occasion Assistant Commissioner J. D. Davies attended the briefing of the police members engaged in the exercises and suitably instructed them as to the need for courtesy and understanding of the problems of migrants. [More…]
Also, for many migrants, the land of their birth offers much more extensive social security and health insurance systems than are offered in this country. [More…]
This is not the first time that it has singled out a certain national group, not the first time that migrants have been classified as being members of a particular national group. [More…]
But when I read the terms of this matter of public importance today, I felt that he was using migrants, as such, only for the purpose of political gain. [More…]
The Australian Press is still discriminating blatantly against migrants. [More…]
I hope that the socialists on the other side of the chamber will realise that by pandering to one national group which it thinks will vote for it, it will not get those votes because the majority of migrants in Australia, those who really want to settle down, realise that the socialists are only using them as a political football. [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…]
What effect, if any, is the increasing number of refugeees having on the normal intake of migrants to Australia? [More…]
In other words, as the number of refugees increases, is the Government cutting down in any way the number of migrants admitted to Australia from other countries? [More…]
The final report on the evaluation is not yet available but an interim report from Professor King shows that 49 per cent of the sample of migrants interviewed in Sydney, Wollongong, Melbourne and Shepparton watch the program and that 25.4 per cent said they were regular viewers. [More…]
Both the evaluation study referred to above and the present Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services to Migrants have also provided opportunities for consultations with ethnic communities about the broader aspects of the Migrant Education Television Program. [More…]
In addition, the CES has the added responsibility of providing specialised advice and assistance to the particular groups in the labour market, such as Aboriginals, handicapped persons, migrants et cetera and more general occupational information and guidance. [More…]
The CES will, of course, continue to carry out its important and traditional function of assisting jobseekers to obtain employment, placing particular emphasis on those in need of special assistance such as Aboriginals, migrants, handicapped and young people. [More…]
In assessing whether it is ‘fair and sensible’ to allow income tax relief for the maintenance of overseas dependants, it should be noted that often dependants are overseas temporarily or are waiting to follow the claimant taxpayer as migrants to Australia. [More…]
The Government has consistently said it expects migrants from all sources not to import into Australia those differences and divisions which may have marked their life overseas. [More…]
We have many migrants. [More…]
Many migrants who are naturalised Australians, or in some cases their children who are natural-born Australians, may be regarded by their country of birth, or their parents ‘ birth, still to be citizens of those countries. [More…]
I ask: In view of the Government’s decision to prohibit the entry into Australia of any migrants of the Ananda Marga sect for reasons which I understand involve acts of violence or alleged acts of violence on the part of that organisation, can the Minister indicate why the Government is prepared to continue to assist the financing of this organisation through its educational institutions? [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the review of post-arrival programs and services for migrants. [More…]
It is singularly appropriate that a report directed specifically at programs and services for migrants should be the first to be available in ethnic languages. [More…]
I hope that this will set a pattern which will be followed in future where reports are of such direct interest to migrants. [More…]
We established it in the light of our concern to ensure that the changing needs of migrants are being met as effectively as possible. [More…]
We asked the Review to have regard to our Federalism policy and our objective of supporting the enterprise and dedication of community groups who provide programs and services to migrants. [More…]
As I said then, the Government is conscious of the special language, housing, employment and other difficulties faced by migrants during the transition from one society to another. [More…]
We saw the need to provide an opportunity for migrants themselves to participate in identifying their problems and difficulties. [More…]
Migrants and their children now make up about one-third of the total population of Australiathey have come from many different ethnic origins. [More…]
Few Australians face the difficulties many migrants, particularly in the early years after their arrival, are confronted with. [More…]
Generally Australians have given a great deal of understanding and generous help to migrants. [More…]
The Review has taken full account of all the problems migrants face. [More…]
It has noted that notwithstanding these problems, migrants have struggled to maintain their cultural heritage and preserve their sense of cultural identity. [More…]
Notwithstanding these efforts we recognise the special needs which migrants, particularly the non-English speaking and the more recently arrived, have in settling here, lt was for this reason we established the Review. [More…]
It agrees there is a need to change the direction of its services to migrants and that further steps to encourage multiculturalism are needed. [More…]
needs of migrants should, in general, be met by programs and services available to the whole community, but special services and programs are necessary at present to ensure equality of access for migrants; [More…]
services and programs should be designed and operated in full consultation with clients, and self-help should be encouraged as much as possible with a view to helping migrants to become self-reliant quickly. [More…]
It concluded that the migrants who arrive with little or no understanding of English have the greatest difficulties and often remain at a disadvantage because of that. [More…]
Difficulties were judged to be greatest immediately after arrival, particularly for migrants who come from countries without a long established tradition of migration to Australia. [More…]
This group includes large numbers of those who are isolated at home (especially women), elderly migrants (whose numbers are expected to increase dramatically in the course of the next decade), those from smaller ethnic groups (whose own support services are limited), migrant women at work and the children of migrants. [More…]
It points out that, since about 20 per cent of our community are currently ‘ migrants ‘, a similar proportion of the Commonwealth’s general expenditure on education, health, social security and welfare and other areas should be for the benefit of migrants. [More…]
It endorsed the view that services to migrants should as far as possible be through general programs, and consistent with its terms of reference, the Review has not sought to assess the effectiveness of these general programs as such. [More…]
Rather, it has concentrated on establishing whether migrants are placed at any disadvantage through ignorance of available services or through ignorance of available services or through difficulties with access, communication and so on. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware of the current Commonwealth programs and services directed specifically to migrants, covering migrant education, migrant welfare, interpreting and translation and other programs and services. [More…]
The Review found that many of the problems encountered by migrants arise from inadequate arrangements for their initial settlement. [More…]
The program will be available to all migrants either in residential hostels or by attendance at new community centres. [More…]
Because migrants’ knowledge of the English language was found to be a critical factor in enabling successful settlement in Australia, special attention has been given to the teaching of English both to children and to adults. [More…]
We will also be seeking the co-operation of the States in setting up arrangements for better planning and assessment of English teaching to migrants. [More…]
But there will also be a continuing need for special programs for certain groups and for the ‘backlog’ of migrants in the community whose English is not adequate. [More…]
There will also be provision for better education for teachers of adult migrants, additional funds for training such teachers and for the provision of teaching materials. [More…]
In spite of this increasing emphasis on the teaching of English to migrants, there will always be a substantial number in the community who do not understand English, and who therefore face difficulties in communication. [More…]
We will establish intensive English courses for migrants with overseas professional and sub-professional qualifications to help their work here. [More…]
The Review found that migrants are often placed at a disadvantage by their ignorance of their rights, entitlements and obligations in Australian society. [More…]
There will be an extensive survey of migrants ‘ needs in information and its dissemination. [More…]
In accordance with the recommendations of the Review, steps will be taken to improve the ways in which migrants get information in areas of special need, including information relevant to employment, health, consumer protection, bail procedures, the Commonwealth Ombudsman and legal aid. [More…]
The Review gave careful consideration to the best means of providing support for self-help activities by ethnic groups, and the place of voluntary agencies and the Good Neighbour Councils in delivering services to migrants. [More…]
It concluded that the ethnic communities themselves and the voluntary agencies can meet the welfare needs of migrants more effectively than government agencies. [More…]
However, the Review concluded that because the needs of migrants have changed since the councils were established, and because it is not possible to revise the councils’ functions so that they do not duplicate or inhibit the role of the ethnic communities, there is no justification for continued Commonwealth Government funding of the councils. [More…]
The Government will be taking action in the area of the law to protect migrants’ rights in criminal investigations and in voting, and to improve information on such aspects as the legal system generally and family law. [More…]
On income security, we will be giving high priority to resolving anomalies affecting migrants, in the light of the problems outlined by the Review. [More…]
Also, in accordance with the recommendation of the Review, trade unions will be eligible for special project grants to improve migrants’ knowledge of and participation in union affairs. [More…]
It will also assist with development of more appropriate community child-care and pre-school services for migrants. [More…]
Action will be taken to follow up the Review’s observation about handicapped migrants experiencing problems of access to rehabilitation services, and that there should be greater use of ethnic workers in rehabilitation centres. [More…]
For older migrants, we will follow up the suggestion that greater support be given to those willing to care for their elderly relatives at home, and that institutions accommodating old people should specialise more in providing an environment acceptable to ethnic groups. [More…]
As well as extending the ethnic radio service of the Special Broadcasting Service to all States, we will upgrade the Sydney and Melbourne services, and will provide funds to the National Ethnic Broadcasting Advisory Council to carry out research on migrants’ views and expectations of ethnic radio. [More…]
At the Commonwealth level there will be greater co-ordination of the work of advisory bodies and a strengthening of policy planning and monitoring capability for all Commonwealth programs and services insofar as they are used by migrants. [More…]
The Review has pointed to increasing emphasis in State Government programs on meeting the needs of migrants, and to the growing awareness of cultural differences which has led to the development of State ethnic affairs units. [More…]
I mention in particular the Chairman, Mr Frank Galbally, for his personal commitment in preparing a report which is both sensitive to the needs and feelings of migrants and practical in its recommendations. [More…]
Good Neighbour movement has provided thousands of tutors to instruct migrants in Englishmainly women who have been isolated in the home by a language barrier. [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…]
In 1970 the Commonwealth took over a number of responsibilities concerning special English teaching for child migrants in schools, one of which was the provision of suitable learning and teaching materials. [More…]
The Centre had the misfortune to have a Croatian priest and the only people he would serve were Croatians but not Catholic Slovenes, Poles or other migrants of the same religious belief. [More…]
I speak of the subject of assistance to migrants. [More…]
In the mining towns, particularly in place like Nhulunbuy, there are many migrants and many of these are nonEnglish speaking migrants, people who have come to Australia with little or no English. [More…]
I think we would find that in the Northern Territory there are more new migrants per head of population than in other areas. [More…]
I draw attention to the assistance that has been given to migrants to settle in by the Northern Territory Good Neighbour Council. [More…]
They have given valuable service to the migrants in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But the particular point I draw attention to is the fact that this couple of salaried staff members have been supported by volunteers- 200 volunteers in Darwin, 50 volunteers in Nhulunbuy- and all the major centres in the Northern Territory have regional representatives or small groups operating to assist the migrants in those areas. [More…]
These people assist the migrants to settle in, with all that that means. [More…]
it appeared to be more attuned to the immediate needs of migrants. [More…]
Australia, no less than the thousands of individually assisted migrants, is indebted to the succession of dedicated Council members and tireless workers who breathed humanity into official procedures. [More…]
The centres we envisage should be locally based, in areas where large numbers of migrants live, and multicultural. [More…]
I think it will be accepted from what I said earlier that in the mining camps and the mining towns there are many non-English speaking migrants who would need assistance. [More…]
I ask them just how effective these classes have been to the migrants who have come out here. [More…]
The classes that are provided, both pre-embarkation and shipboard, are in the English language- that is essential- but they also look at the Australian way of life and try to introduce the migrants to the mores and social customs of Australian people. [More…]
I am sure that migrants will all testify to the value of the work that has been done. [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…]
It met those needs and it was able to provide assistance to the migrants. [More…]
It would be a great pity if this wonderful resource were to be taken away from the migrants in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is also the intention of the Government that ethnic radio progamming will be extended over the next three years to cover all capital cities and provincial centres with large numbers of migrants. [More…]
Trade testing in European and other countries is carried out continuously irrespective of whether funds are available to bring migrants to Australia. [More…]
Australia, which are not available in the Australian work force and for which qualified migrants then become acceptable to come to Australia. [More…]
Similarly, the situation for migrants has grown worse. [More…]
For all migrants the unemployment rate currently is 9. [More…]
The Minister did mention that there are categories of persons who need special services, including the handicapped, Aboriginal people and migrants. [More…]
Special emphasis will be placed on those in need, such as Aboriginals, migrants, the handicapped and the young. [More…]
I know my colleague Senator Gietzelt will agree with me tht it is in areas such as the western suburbs of Sydney, where there is a large mixture of school leavers and migrants, that there are many difficulties. [More…]
Some of the Uruguayan members of the union involved asked Firestone whether they could nominate as migrants brothers who were tyre builders in Uruguay because Firestone, being a multinational, operates there. [More…]
But I believe that under the current system not enough detailed information is given as to how we balance out the number of jobs against the number of migrants we bring into our work force. [More…]
The recently announced target of 70,000 migrants should add to the demand for housing. [More…]
For example, the recently announced target of 70,000 migrants coming to Australia should provide a significant boost to demand. [More…]
We are told by one of our colleagues on the other side that the Government’s plan to increase the intake of migrants will help to swell demand and so stimulate the building industry. [More…]
It is very easy to say: We are going to bring out more migrants and supply more needs’, but people need to have money in their hands to buy houses- and they have not that money. [More…]
I think that in this issue Mr Street’s Department won, notwithstanding the fact that Firestone had received applications from a number of migrants. [More…]
The program is not static; its components are adjusted and adapted to cater for changes in the needs of migrants and refugees as these vary from group to group and vary over time. [More…]
The recent Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services for Migrants under the chairmanship of Mr F. E. Galbally, CBE, examined and reported on the Adult Migrant Education Program. [More…]
Review of English Language Instruction for Migrants, 1 969 [More…]
Survey of Participation of Migrants in ABC English Language Instruction Programs, 1 970 [More…]
Evaluation of Intensive English Courses for Migrants. [More…]
As part of its overall assessment the Galbally Review Group consulted extensively with migrants and ethnic groups during the course of its work. [More…]
The influx of postwar migrants has made it impossible to perpetuate the myth of one language, one cultural heritage, and one set of shared beliefs and customs in Australia. [More…]
Now migrants genuinely maintaining parents back home are to be denied the claim for them. [More…]
Concern for the welfare of migrant groups led the Government to commission the Review of Post-arrival Programs and Services to Migrants under the chairmanship of Mr Frank Galbally. [More…]
The Commonwealth erected on this area of land an inferior type of accommodation in response to an urgent need to house a large number of migrants. [More…]
It was right and proper that that sort of building be constructed as a matter of urgency to accommodate the large number of migrants who were then flooding into Australia. [More…]
What happened was that in about 1 96 1 a large number of people throughout Australia started to complain about the type of accommodation that migrants were being forced to use. [More…]
No doubt, the media quite rightly were involved in pointing out the type of accommodation in which migrants were being forced to live. [More…]
Sympathy was coming forward for migrants to Australia. [More…]
I pay respect to the Mayor of Williamstown, who gave evidence that one would have to acknowledge now that in those days there was a desire to get the migrants out of the local area. [More…]
Some people did not want the migrants living near them. [More…]
We could get rid of the migrants. [More…]
Is it true that the building situated at 105 Annandale Street, Annandale was built by the New South Wales Government to house migrants with money made available by the Commonwealth and that the building has not been occupied for two years? [More…]
-The block of migrant flats at 105 Annandale Street, Annandale was erected for use by State nominated migrants and has never been under the control of the Commonwealth. [More…]
As a result of the downturn in State nominated migration, an arrangement was made early in 1977 for the small number of State nominated migrants then arriving to enter Commonwealth hostels. [More…]
Will this be extended to further groups of people, such as migrants and Aboriginal children? [More…]
For example, Aborigines will get a total of $2 8.1m, representing an increase of 1 1 per cent, and migrants will get a total of $27.8m, representing a substantial increase. [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…]
I will outline a couple of ideas that I have on the subject which arise partly from my own thoughts and partly from the points of view put to me by a large number of people who are very interested in what happens in education in Australia today and specifically in the education of migrants. [More…]
I want to make it quite clear that when I talk about multi-cultural education I am not talking just about migrants. [More…]
The proposals for multi-cultural education are an attempt to try to bring to the attention of Australians who have been a little complacent on the subject the role that migrants play in our community today. [More…]
Nevertheless, we welcome more and more people coming into the Parliament who are migrants or who are the children of people who have migrated to this country within its recent history. [More…]
Our history in Australia has been so brief, certainly in terms of post-European settlement, that we do not have many lessons to learn from our history compared with those that many of the migrants coming here can teach us. [More…]
It is a pity that the children of our migrants go into our schools and use and learn about only English. [More…]
Much, or nearly all, of the discussion on multicultural education has turned on the subject of the children of migrants and of migrants themselves. [More…]
In conclusion on this issue, I make the point that when we recognise, as we should, the enormous contribution that our migrants and the children of our migrants have made to our country by paying the attention we should pay to their culture and by recognising the fact that their culture is now part of ours we should recognise also that the original Australians had a culture about which we need to know, one which can most effectively be brought into our society and a knowledge of which should be spread throughout our schools. [More…]
The needs of migrants in our schools are very keen indeed. [More…]
There is an urgent need for extended facilities for the migrants in our country. [More…]
It is a challenge to our awareness of the value that migrants have given our country. [More…]
Certainly, by coming here migrants have achieved benefits for themselves, but this country has gained very big benefits also. [More…]
I understand that both men have been sentenced to two months imprisonment as illegal immigrants. [More…]
I have also been informed that an Australian citizen, Mr Eiserman, who was occupying the house in which the OPM members were arrested, has also been taken into custody and will be charged with harbouring illegal migrants. [More…]
Assistance will be provided to both government and non-government school authorities for teaching materials, salaries and administration in respect of child migrants and adult migrants, and extending to refugees. [More…]
The program also includes provision for English language tuition for adult migrants and refugees. [More…]
I would like to speak of the services to migrants, the disadvantaged, adult education and technical and further education but I do not have time to do so in this debate. [More…]
Instead, Mr Fraser has chosen to increase uncertainty, hardship and worry amongst many recently arrived migrants. [More…]
Migrants could be de-naturalised: journalists declared undesirable for having written columns like this one. [More…]
It is a matter about which I doubt migrants have been sufficiently alerted. [More…]
Many migrants claim tax rebates in respect or dependent spouses, parents, parents-in-law and invalid relatives living overseas. [More…]
It has taken tax deductibility away from Australian migrants. [More…]
Earlier this year, the Government adopted the recommendations of the Galbally Committee report on post-arrival services to migrants. [More…]
Newly arrived migrants and some other ethnic groups; [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…]
I have some philosophical difficulties about a country such as Australia that actively encourages migrants, has them working and paying taxes and then, because one of their children happens to be living out of the country, deprives them of benefits. [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…]
It probably includes new migrants and a few others. [More…]
2) 1978, the bulk billing arrangements for disadvantaged persons could include people who are in the following categories: Persons who are on a low income, including social security unemployment, sickness or special beneficiaries; newly arrived migrants and some other ethnic groups; refugees who are financially disadvantaged; and persons who suffer financial misfortune because of substantial medical expenses caused by prolonged or severe illness. [More…]
Persons who are on low incomes, including social security unemployment, sickness or special beneficiaries would be expected to be included in this bulk billing arrangement, as would newly-arrived migrants, some ethnic groups, refugees and people who suffer financial misfortune. [More…]
That is all very well if we have groups of disadvantaged people, groups of unemployed, groups of low income earnershowever they can be detected- and groups of new refugees and migrants, but what about the poor individual, not a great group, who is disadvantaged in an area and is ignored- [More…]
We now have a considerable number of migrants who have particular problems in this regard. [More…]
Early in that discussion, Senator Tate bore down very closely on the extent to which Mr Street’s Ministry becomes involved with Mr MacKellar’s Ministry in relation to the intake of migrants. [More…]
Voters in polling places have also received personal assistance because the Australian Electoral Office has endeavoured to ensure that Poll Clerks fluent in one or more languages have been employed at those booths where large numbers of former migrants are expected to record their votes. [More…]
He referred to the 400,000 migrants who are eligible to seek citizenship but have not. [More…]
In the light of the assertion in the Hellenic Herald, have we sufficient staff to carry out Saturday morning interviews which would encourage the 400,000 migrants eligible to take Australian citizenship to do so? [More…]
The Minister for Productivity, Mr Macphee, might accept the idea because it would mean less time off by migrants in the work force to attend citizenship interviews from Monday to Friday. [More…]
They insisted that a minority of travel agents are preying on migrants. [More…]
I raise a hypothetical case which may arise in future in relation to Chilean migrants and the assessment we apply to them. [More…]
In these circumstances Mr Chowdary does not come within the restricted categories of people eligible for entry to Australia as migrants and I have decided that he should not be granted authority to remain in Australia for residence. [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…]
Not only the people of Latvia and the many excellent citizens of Australia who derive from that country, but also all migrants and all Australians will be considering with concern the sequence of history that Senator Lewis has accurately stated. [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…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate what steps are taken by the Government to inform migrants of this right of appeal and of other matters related to gaining citizenship? [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…]
The substance of the matter is this: On Monday, the New South Wales branch office of the Australian Workers Union raised with me the role of this travel agency in regard to Latin American migrants. [More…]
I am trying to get the point across to Mr MacKellar that if the special reports branch of his Department examines the position of Latin American migrants, particularly Chileans and Uruguayans, in the central western suburbs of Sydney the branch should have a good hard look at the operations of Five Dock Travel Agency and the dual role of Mr Maniaci as an employer of migrant labour and a travel agent. [More…]
It could be said that the 18-year- olds, 20-year-olds and 25-year-olds in the Corporation who are the sons and daughters of postwar migrants could claim to have some linguistic skill. [More…]
I refer to the serious criticisms made by Mr Bruce Brown, a stipendiary magistrate, on 31 January 1979 at the committal hearings in Sydney relating to 179 migrants who were charged with conspiring to defraud the Commonwealth. [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…]
The entry requirements for Seychellois wishing to migrate to Australia are identical with those applying to prospective migrants from all other countries. [More…]
Lena Gustin (New South Wales)- Italian migrated 1956: radio announcer (manager of the Italian program on Radio 2KY); President, NSW Branch of National Association of Families of Migrants; honorary member, Apia Club; President, Sorella Radio Welfare Fund; member, Australian Institute of Welfare Officers, State Ethnic Broadcasting Committee, N.S.W. [More…]
Will the Minister also inquire as to whether it is true that the Commonwealth Police Force officer who led the raids was formerly a member of the New South Wales Police Force who left that force because of a scandal involving pay-offs in relation to migrants and pensions and whether it is true that these raids were carried out under directives not from [More…]
They are the sons and daughters of post-war migrants, largely of Italian stock, and they are Australian citizens. [More…]
I know that most ofthe children under 30 years of age of post-war migrants believe that this is something that should happen. [More…]
These charges are being made against people who, by and large, with the exception of a few professional men, are migrants to this country; who, I repeat, do not understand our system in general, do not understand our language well and do not understand our legal system. [More…]
Finally, and most importantly , we found some fascinating results which demonstrate to us that migrants in Australia use the mass media in order to become socialised into Australian culture . [More…]
even three years from now, we find migrants see that they will then be more like Ralph and Potsie - [More…]
I know that it is sometimes very difficult with Middle East migrants to get police security reports, even when we might have some doubts about a particular person. [More…]
Galbally report in providing an information service to migrants. [More…]
The then Prime Minister recalled that in his policy speech of 29 April 1974 he had given an undertaking that the Government would, if returned, appoint a judicial inquiry into the structure of the Australian security services, and the methods of reviewing decisions adversely affecting citizens or migrants and he said that the commission given to Mr Justice Hope would fulfil both parts of his election promise. [More…]
Every year thousands of migrants to this country decide to adopt Australian citizenship. [More…]
Although Australia has been a recipient of migrants over the years dating back to the early 1920’s the fact is that it was only when Attorney-General Lionel Murphy took action to take out the iniquitous clause in our Crimes Act that people did not have to go through all the pangs of being accepted for Australian citizenship or being deported on a double penalty. [More…]
There was a time at the beginning of the drive against narcotics when it was suggested to a number of Portuguese migrants, who did not have Australian citizenship but who were permanent residents, that they had better leave the country because of their involvement in narcotics. [More…]
But we were able to tell them just what this Government, in a different context, has told other such migrants. [More…]
-Did the Minister for Social Security see the report in Neos Kosmos which alleged that Commonwealth Police had sent 1 ,000 letters to Sydney Greek people seeking confidential information which would implicate Greek migrants in the alleged pension fraud? [More…]
Tasmania: There are no special child care arrangements in conjunction with English language courses for migrants. [More…]
Will the Minister: (a) make available an analysis of the 1976 census data which relates to the non-English speaking migrant population of the Australian Capital Territory; and (b) instruct his Department to prepare a detailed report on existing community services as they relate to migrants in the Australian Capital Territory and make it available to the public. [More…]
1 ) The Galbally Implementation Task Force met with ACT migrant groups, voluntary organisations providing services to migrants, and ACT government officials on 24 [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…]
The Department’s Migrant Welfare Service has for some years produced a basic directory of services to migrants in the ACT. [More…]
The Department is reviewing the adequacy of information available about services in the ACT which migrants may use. [More…]
The investigations are into the problems associated with unemployment amongst disadvantaged people, especially migrants. [More…]
Mr Oliver would agree with me when I say that the Australian Workers Union had a policy under which very few migrants went underground. [More…]
In view of the reports that the new points system for selecting migrants is designed to favour applicants from Rhodesia, South Africa and the British Isles over migrants from countries such as Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon, and in view of further reports that since the points scheme was introduced over 200 South African migrants have been accepted while one Greek migrant has been admitted, will the Minister supply the Senate with the actual numbers of migrants admitted to Australia from South Africa, Rhodesia, the British Isles, Turkey, Greece, and Lebanon for each of the months since the system was introduced? [More…]
However, I am sure that if the question were placed on notice the categories of migrants, the countries and the period required could be covered in an answer by the Minister. [More…]
Recommendation 40 of the Galbally Report, the Report of the Review of Post-Arrival Programs and Services to Migrants, states: [More…]
However, to assist in the development of services among disadvantaged groups, grants are made available to bodies to work among migrants, or with, for example, trade unions and employers to assist in the development of applications. [More…]
It is quite clear that the Government, for its own reasons, prefers scurrying around the world seeking skilled migrants to giving job training opportunities to Australian youths who are currently unemployed in such scandalous and tragic numbers. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill made a request relating to the recruitment of migrants for inspectors. [More…]
When these people come to me to plead for their relations in Uruguay, Peru and other Latin American countries where people are being mutilated, I for one would never say to them that they may fail because the number of Latin American migrants has to be many less than those from other areas. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill has shown some evidence of selectiveness against Chilean migrants because they flee not from a communist regime but from a fascist regime. [More…]
In particular he mentioned illegal migrants or those who had overstayed their visas. [More…]
I take this opportunity to speak on the different approach that is taken with illegal migrants and refugees. [More…]
On the other hand, chefs and applicants in other occupational categories applying in Hong Kong are required to meet the basic criteria applicable to prospective migrants generally throughout the world. [More…]
Over the last 25 years migrants have been bringing their children to this country. [More…]
I remind the Senate that the Government withdrew support from those excellent schemes that were operating overseas and on board ship, for migrants. [More…]
There is certainly a need for migrants to be given some assistance, and the point has been made many times- I have done so myself in this place- that the guidance, instruction and education could be given, or could at least start, in the originating countries and on board ship. [More…]
We praise the Government for the continuation for the second year of the Galbally Review of Post-arrival Programs and Services to Migrants. [More…]
In the Committee’s view the use of the refugee’s native language for both oral and written communication is of fundamental importance if practical application is to be given to the basic principle that refugees (and migrants) be assured of full access to statutory services and forms of support and assistance to which they arc entitled. [More…]
It is not a simple question to Aboriginal people to whom English is not their native tongue, nor would it be a simple question to a number of non Anglo-Saxon European migrants. [More…]
We are aware, of course, that these groups do not speak on behalf of that community; that in fact the overwhelming majority of Croatians and Yugoslav migrants who have come to Australia have settled and have proved themselves to be good citizens willing to accept the democratic and open way in which Australian community life develops. [More…]
To the present time that country has provided us with over 700,000 migrants. [More…]
Apart from Great Britain, it is perhaps the country which has provided the most migrants who have come here and become naturalised Australians. [More…]
But of course that situation does not involve only Tel Aviv now because the whole of the Middle East area is providing an increasing number of migrants who are coming to Australia and making their homes here. [More…]
A number of migrants want to go back home to Lebanon, Damascus and other places in the Middle East. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that there are many professional migrants whose skills are being denied to the Australian community because of a lack of training in English language at senior levels? [More…]
Can arrangements be made for various language centres and other institutions to provide more opportunities for migrants to acquire English language skills at a level suitable for the professions? [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…]
It quotes questionnaire answers from ‘at least pockets of Australian children with highly aggressive attitudes towards migrants’. [More…]
However, with migrant children comprising the larger part of the group in the low SES and with low IQ scores, migrants of low SES overall gained much poorer results than did other students of low SES. [More…]
In 1958 Australia was strongly seeking migrants. [More…]
Earlier policies based on an intake of migrants predominantly British had been abandoned but British migration was still seen as the dominant element in the migrant intake. [More…]
While the volume of intake of migrants for settlement is at a relatively low level, the level of people entering as tourist or business visitors, to undertake approved temporary employment and in other non-migrant categories has increased enormously, rising at the rate of about 5 per cent per year. [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…]
I maintain that this Government picks and chooses between the races and countries from which it chooses those migrants. [More…]
Certainly Mr MacKellar has said that we now have migrants from more than 100 countries, but I would like to know what the proportions are because, from my observation, they are far from equal. [More…]
He has gloated about the fact that we now take a large number of migrants from Asia and says that this represents 22 per cent of the total migrant intake. [More…]
Of the migrants who come to live in Australia, 13 per cent are from Asia, and amongst them are a substantial number of professional and technical workers. [More…]
Mr MacKellar also says that in recent years numbers of Japanese migrants have come to Australia. [More…]
The Government is not making quite such a large splash about the fact that during the last financial year South Africa was the third largest source of migrants for Australia. [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…]
Of course, these days we take migrants from all areas, including areas to which this Government would never before have looked for migrants. [More…]
The fiancee of a South American migrant who has been detained awaiting deportation alleged that he was being removed from Australia to avoid any investigations into a racket defrauding migrants, but no attempt was made by this Government to look into that matter. [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 doctors do not come into Australia in proportion to the areas from which Australia brings migrants. [More…]
All the figures on where Australia’s migrants have come from over the last few years show an extraordinary pattern. [More…]
A report in the Sunday Mail stated that British people top the list of illegal migrants in Australia. [More…]
A total of 58,883 illegal immigrants is now at large in Australia. [More…]
The Greeks are nowhere near the top of the list of those who make up the greatest number of illegal immigrants. [More…]
The greatest number of illegal immigrants come from Britain and America. [More…]
There are many migrants in this country who would like to send Australian wines to their friends but they cannot. [More…]
Compared with other countries which have taken large numbers of migrants, particularly North America, we in this country have neglected considerably the training of adult migrants, particularly in the English language and in the customs and history of our country. [More…]
In a multi-cultural society such as we are developing, it is important that migrants are able to learn English and the customs and laws of our land, whilst retaining their own culture. [More…]
The United States, Canada and Australia have been the recipients of the greatest number of migrants. [More…]
A number of those people are post-war migrants. [More…]
If that number is substracted from our possible net gain of 70,000 migrants, two questions arise. [More…]
Vietnamese refugees, like other migrants and locally bom citizens, are competing equally on the labour market. [More…]
There is no reason to believe that South American migrants or refugees are not equally well motivated. [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 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 is a country of immigrants and both major political groupings in their policy statements have expressed the view that it is through mutual understanding and tolerance that we can best achieve a socially cohesive society where there is scope for cultural diversity. [More…]
The Government is constantly saying that Australia needs more skilled manpower, while some Ministers say that more skilled manpower can be brought here as migrants, or that there should be more training in Australia for skilled manpower. [More…]
If one were to look at the statistics for migrants for the first six months of this year or, better still, at the report of the Committee on the Determination of Refugee Status- the DORS committee- one would find that 400 people had their tourist visas converted to permit permanent residence in this country. [More…]
More than 60 per cent of migrants who came to Australia between the end of World War II and 1972, a period of over 25 years, settled in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
For a very long period in Australia that was a ground for refusal which operated to the detriment of many migrants in this country. [More…]
What surveys have been done of the probable numbers of 1 8-20 year olds, migrants and Aboriginals who are eligible to vote but are not enrolled. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that one of the other reasons that the Federated Storemen and Packers Union in Queensland will not enrol Vietnamese migrants into the union is that when the Vietnamese get a job they work? [More…]
Briefly, I indicated at that time that many migrants who are naturalised Australians, or in some cases their children who are natural born Australians, may be regarded by their countries of birth, or of the parents’ birth, still to be citizens of those countries. [More…]
I would be the last person to argue about how the employment position can get out of focus with our intake of migrants. [More…]
Mr Groom’s speech in the other place dealt with the role of migrants in our work force. [More…]
We have some Australians, including post-war migrants, who are in what we call a reconstructed industry. [More…]
In the case of the rubber industry, if we exclude from importation another one million tyres from Taiwan and South Korea, we may save the jobs of the 700 people at Auburn in New South Wales to whom I referred earlier, as well as those of many post-war migrants or their sons. [More…]
In the speech of the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives a figure of 57,000 illegal migrants was given. [More…]
If we go back again to the history which the second reading speech took some time to explain, we see that 20 years ago Australia was seeking migrants very strongly. [More…]
Whether they were social needs or economic needs, all members of that Council devoted themselves to the needs of the people who came in- the migrants. [More…]
The worst thing for migrants and for this country would be if the people coming here so completely identified themselves with the Australian community and with the Australian way of life that they lost all distinguishing characteristics and became so totally absorbed into the community that they were not distinguishable in any way from the people already here. [More…]
The figure of some 5 7,000 is an indication of the likely number of illegal migrants. [More…]
As I said in speaking to the Migration Amendment Bill 1979, Australia, the United States and Canada have been aware of the fact that expansion called for an intake of migrants. [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…]
The first purpose of the Bill is to apply charges mainly in overseas countries, to intending migrants. [More…]
Will people who have been here for many many years, particularly British migrants, have to pay the $20 or $30, no matter what the circumstances, even if they may have gone overseas because of a bereavement or illness of a relative? [More…]
Is this not again discriminatory against non-English-speaking potential migrants, as the Numerical Multi-Factor Assessment System already is? [More…]
Why should we be putting on a charge for this purpose, particularly in view of the fact, as I will mention later, that overseas we are still spending money on advertising for migrants? [More…]
I believe that this is a nonsense argument which has just been puthis is a t into the second reading speech to try to give some sort of justification for imposing these charges on intending migrants. [More…]
The thrust of this legislation is discrimination against intending migrants, particularly poor and nonEnglishspeaking migrants. [More…]
That may not be the explicit intention of the Government, but this legislation will certainly have the effect of deterring poor non-English-speaking migrants from proceeding with applications to come to this country and to stay in this country because they will find financial obstacles in their way in this regard. [More…]
We have had reports from the Government that there is a desire in Australia generally to pursue a policy of non-discrimination in the admission of migrants, but this sort of legislation containing these sorts of charges discriminates on the grounds of the ability to speak English and, of necessity, on the grounds of race. [More…]
It puts out the welcome mat for comfortably-ofT Englishspeaking migrants, who are well ahead under the NUMAS scheme, and it puts nonEnglishspeaking migrants further behind the eight ball by making it more difficult for them to come to this country. [More…]
Many of us were assisting migrants to bring out their relatives. [More…]
If these charges are inflexible and if the Minister or the Department does not have the ability not to apply the charges, we will have discrimination against the not so well educated and nonEnglishspeaking migrants, whether they come from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America or anywhere else. [More…]
I suggest that that is a discriminatory and patronising act which certainly shows an ambivalent approach to our oft stated policy of attracting migrants to this country on an equal basis. [More…]
Are people who make inquiries on behalf of ill or distressed migrants to be charged $15 a time for trying to serve the members of their community? [More…]
On making inquiries the Opposition could not find out which countries, particularly countries from which we receive migrants, make such charges, particularly charges for extensions of visitors’ visas and re-entry visas. [More…]
I would like to know from the Department how many countries charge for visas and particularly whether they are countries from which we are trying to attract migrants. [More…]
I repeat that the English language test and the provisions of extra points for people who can speak English already put non-English-speaking migrants at a disadvantage; and the migrant community frequently points that out. [More…]
Who overseas will be making decisions on the language tests which are to be given to intending migrants? [More…]
We are just adding new problems for intending migrants. [More…]
The recommendations contained in the report of the Galbally Review of Post-arrival Programs and Services to Migrants were for the spending of some $50m in three years to assist post-arrival services for migrants in this country- about $16m a year. [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…]
Senator Grimes made the general point that the charges will discriminate against poor migrants. [More…]
I respond by saying that the extension of a temporary entry permit, the application for a change of status and the testing of English language capability overseas will relate to nonmigrants. [More…]
The major charge falling on migrants will be the charge for re-entry endorsement. [More…]
The Government has given its commitment to the development in policy programs of the recommendations of the Galbally Review of Postarrival Programs and Services to Migrants. [More…]
) Has the Bureau made any studies of employer conduct towards post-war migrants who seek re-employment with their previous firm upon their return from overseas, only to find themselves locked out of employment. [More…]
I am advised that the Bureau has not been made aware of any particular problem relating to the reemployment of migrants in the circumstances mentioned. [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…]
There are also some specific programs and services designed for migrants. [More…]
Perhaps the matter is further complicated by our reluctance to do anything detrimental to migrants who already benefit or who stand in expectation of benefiting from the portability provisions that presently exist in Australia. [More…]
It is equally easy to see how, in the process, the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Al Grassby, will be stripped of all those powers and responsibilities which have made him, over the last few years, such an effective voice for blacks and migrants in this country. [More…]
-In relation to the proceedings in a Sydney Court against some Greek migrants over alleged social security frauds, has the Minister for Social Security noticed the report in today’s Australian referring to Chief Inspector Don Thomas from the Australian Federal Police Force being warned by the magistrate that he did not have to answer questions if they might incriminate him? [More…]
The Western Australian electoral Act changes will make it very difficult for Aborigines and migrants to cast valid votes. [More…]
There is no question that social tensions are created as a result of the downturn in the economy and the feeling that migrants displace Australians in jobs. [More…]
Many migrants do menial tasks which Australians will not accept, such as work required by the public authorities, the water boards and railways. [More…]
The attitude of the Government will not only sadden many migrants but also will deprive the Commission of the experience, capabilities and sincerity of a great Commissioner for Co-m munity Relations. [More…]
We suggest that publicity material be distributed to all international travellers and intending migrants. [More…]
We are treating them as migrants. [More…]
It was asked by my very diligent South Australian colleague, Senator Elstob, and referred to a list of grants given to ethnic organisations as part of the review of post-arrival programs and services for migrants in Australia. [More…]
What projects have been approved for funding for migrant communities as a consequence of the Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services to Migrants. [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…]
5 ) So now I really had trouble, or a lot of hard work, but if I have to do this humilition WHY NOT ALL MIGRANTS . [More…]
Does this mean that NUMAS will not be used in selecting migrants wishing to come to Australia? [More…]
One has only to deal with any affair involving difficult situations for migrants in this country to find this strange current of xenophobia which exists under the surface. [More…]
Those of us who have been involved in cases like the current affair in Sydney or involved in making comments on the refugee situation soon find that we receive- I am sure that Senator Mulvihill also receives- rather unkind letters from these strange people in this country who do not wish us to be a multicultural society, who do not wish us to have migrants at all. [More…]
Multiculturalism in the work force, simply because so many of our post-war and recent migrants are propelled into the work force and it is a major focus of their lives, will remain an important issue because it affects so much of a migrant’s place in society. [More…]
Mr Frank Stevens, in his paper Migrants and the Trade Union Movement’, says: [More…]
Of the male migrants, 62 per cent of the Greek migrants, 59 per cent of the Italian migrants and 40 per cent of the Yuoslav migrants have had five years or less schooling. [More…]
Of the female migrants, 72 per cent of the Greek migrants, 65 per cent of the Italian migrants and 50 per cent of the Yugoslav migrants have had five years or less schooling. [More…]
There should be research on the backlog in education, that is, those migrants who have not learnt English despite many years of residence in Australia. [More…]
We need statistics- we are very short of them in the welfare’ field particularly- on migrants who have never done an English course, on those who have had only minimal tuition, and on the personal work and psychological problems that result from this. [More…]
We still need major research into the areas of migrant disadvantage in regard to health, the law, industrial safety, workers compensation and the cost effectiveness of providing one-year’s full time tuition, say, in English to all English-speaking migrants on arrival and providing them with an acceptable living allowance, as was suggested by the Adult Migrant Education Service in New South Wales. [More…]
The first is the continuing sorry situation of our Aboriginal people who were, after all, the first Australian migrants. [More…]
The second is the personal plight and the community reaction to the last of our Australian migrants, the Indo-Chinese refugees and in particular the boat people. [More…]
An Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs should be more concerned with research that recognises those disadvantages which are shared jointly by Aboriginals and post-war nonEnglish speaking migrants. [More…]
We should regard the East Timorese people as refugees, not as ordinary migrants. [More…]
Has the Government as yet finalised consideration and arrived at a decision as to whether Maltese migrants - who are in fact British subjects - are entitled to all social service benefits under the laws of the Commonwealth from the date of their arrival in this country? [More…]