refugees - hofreps - 1970

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

Is he able to say how many refugees there are in Laos. [More…]
What assistance has Australia given to these refugees. [More…]
East Pakistan refugees into India, the Secretary-General of the United Nations issued an appeal for international assistance. [More…]
I would suggest that the Australian Government start to give very serious consideration to what action it can take to relieve the situation of the Pakistani refugees and to ensure that the tensions which are developing and growing daily are eased as quickly as possible. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9,000,000 East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some 20,000,000 refugees and dis placed persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation nutrition and child family problems ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way [More…]
Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide$10m for relief purposes In India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over 3 years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
Raise to fi Om Australian aid to refugees now in India from East Pakistan. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: What action does the Government anticipate taking in response to hundreds of letters received by honourable members, including one I have received from a child which asks me to tell the Government that some people in Australia are starving themselves because the Government is not sending enough money to the refugees in Pakistan? [More…]
That the new Australian grant of $1.5m to Pakistan refugees in India is completely inadequate and does not recognise the true value of the situation. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government will immediately grant a further $10m in aid to Pakistan refugees and use all diplomatic channels available to urge the creation of a political climate in East Pakistan which will enable the nine million refugees in India to return to their homeland. [More…]
Raise to $10m Australian aid to refugees now in India from East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least$5m immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
That the Australian Government grant a further $10m immediate aid to the East Pakistani refugees in India. [More…]
Your petitioners also humbly pray that the Australian Government take the initiative in urging the instatement of Sheik Mujibur Rahman as the elected leader of his people and the creating of a political climate which will enable the refugees now in India to make a speedy, safe return to their own country. [More…]
Pakistan: Return of Refugees from India [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the honourable member for Corio moving forthwith the motion of which he gave notice yesterday: That in the opinion of this House the level of Australian aid to Pakistani refugees should be raised to at least the equivalent of SI for each person in Australia. [More…]
Papua New Guinea: Political Refugees from West Irian (Question No. [More…]
What assistance does the Administration of Papua and New Guinea give to political refugees from West Irian to absorb them into the economy. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least 10 million dollars immediately even if this entails reducing spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least 10 million dollars immediately even if this entails reducing spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in in modern history. [More…]
Further, is it correct that one of the refugees was physically restrained from leaving the Soviet Embassy and was involved in a scuffle at the Canberra Airport while trying to board a plane for Sydney? [More…]
That they are deeply concerned about the plight of the East Pakistani refugees in India. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government will immediately increase aid by $10 million to the Pakistani refugees, exclusive of the cost of distribution. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees . [More…]
We recognise the Aid already given to Pakistani refugees now in India by the Australian Government, but due to the magnitude of the disaster, we urge the Government to substantially increase and continue this aid. [More…]
We urge the Australian Government to use its influence with its friends and allies to initiate action which will lead West Pakistani authorities to withdraw its troops from East Bengal and negotiate with the provisional Government of Bangla Desh to bring about a speedy rehabilitation of the refugees in their own country. [More…]
that death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That the petitioners are deeply concerned at the plight of the Pakistani refugees and with what is considered a lack of Government response in its aid giving programmes to relieve the situation in West Bengal. [More…]
The Federal Government will increase its aid to the Pakistani refugees to Ten Million Dollars. [More…]
The Federal Government will endeavour by diplomatic initiatives to seek a just and humane solution to the problem of the refugees. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation nutrition and child family problems ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by farthe greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and further $50m over 3 years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
In view of the hunger, malnutrition and starvation threatening Pakistani refugees, and in view of Australia’s large surplus of egg products, will he consult with the Minister for Primary Industry on the possibility of making free gifts of appropriate egg products to refugees iti Bengal, over and above supplies and moneys already provided? [More…]
The Government’s policy, in providing aid for the refugees in Bengal, is to make the maximum effective use of the funds provided by supplying goods and commodities in accordance with priorities established by the Indian and United Nations authorities who are caring for the refugees. [More…]
If the Indian and United Nations authorities decide thai egg products should be given priority over other forms of aid the cost of supply and shipping the aid will be a charge against the Government’s ntd allocation for the refugees. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned aboutthe desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedentedscale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further$50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representativesin Parliament assembled should: - urge that the Government of Australia cease all aid to the West Pakistan Government, either directly or through SEATO where this may be used for military purposes that such aid be applied for the relief of the refugees. [More…]
That they are deeply concerned about the plight of the East Pakistani refugees in India. [More…]
Immigration: Refugees from Hungary (Question No. [More…]
That the suffering of the Pakistani refugees is such as to warrant immediate relief. [More…]
That as part of the world community, the Austalian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action on behalf of those sulfering and left without home or work through their effective expulsion as refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
Urge that the Australian Government take steps to offer employment at least on a temporary basis, and in order to effect some relief, to academic and qualified persons among the refugees from Bangla Desh. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in Bangla Desh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The Australian Government immediately provide $10,000,000 in direct aid to refugees now in ladia and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in Bangla Desh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on- a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The Australian Government immediately provide $1.0,000,000 in direct aid to refugees now in India and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
press for a just solution to the conflict, so that the refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
press for a just solution to the conflict, so that the refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
so that thi refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). [More…]
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). [More…]
What is the position in relation to these refugees? [More…]
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, done at New York on 31 January 1967. [More…]
As regards refugees, there have been some categories which have been approved. [More…]
-Has the Prime Minister approved categories of persons from South Vietnam to be admitted into Australia as refugees? [More…]
Finally, will the Prime Minister ensure before his departure on Wednesday for overseas that he gives the same expedition to visa applications from approved categories of persons as was granted to persons admitted as refugees from Chile? [More…]
-Will the Prime Minister tell the House what assurances he gave while overseas regarding the admission of refugees to Australia? [More…]
Is it a fact that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has asked that Australia accept Vietnamese refugees? [More…]
Is the Prime Minister yet in a position, or is he still procrastinating on the whole matter, to tell the Australian Parliament just how many and what categories of Vietnamese refugees are to be admitted and when the admissions will start? [More…]
If so, has the Government considered purchasing this egg pulp for distribution to refugees in South Vietnam or other needy countries. [More…]
Practically all of the Vietnamese refugees accepted by the Australian Government came to Australia without cost to themselves for transport. [More…]
Some Vietnamese students, particularly during the first days of the Vietnam refugee situation and before the decision to pay fares of accepted refugees was taken, may have been informed in Australia that the fare to Australia was likely to be about $400 per adult. [More…]
What are the names of Chilean refugees who entered Australia during the last 12 months. [More…]
1 ) What steps have been taken by the health authorities in Darwin to prevent refugees inadvertently introducing human or animal diseases to Australia. [More…]
-The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs would be aware that recently a group of more than 200 refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam arrived at Eastbridge Hostel in Nunawading. [More…]
I refer to the Government’s announcement earlier in the year that it would accept for permanent residence up to 800 Indo-Chinese refugees who had some special relationship with Australia or with Australians. [More…]
Although the 550 people from Thailand were refugees as defined by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, not all of them were from the refugee camps. [More…]
Were the same criteria applied to the entry into Australia of Vietnamese refugees as are being applied to the entry of people from Lebanon. [More…]
What persons are presently eligible to migrate to Australia as refugees. [More…]
They all have, as I am informed, Portugese passports and therefore do not come within the strict definition of ‘refugees’. [More…]
Timorese refugees presently living in Portugal. [More…]
I am advised that the Departments of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Social Security are examining the question of the longitudinal survey of Vietnamese refugees, originally proposed to be undertaken by Dr Martin, in the context of considering a much wider survey of refugees in Australia. [More…]
Has consideration been given to resuming assistance, approved in July 1975 and terminated in February 1976, for Dr Jean Martin, within the aegis of the Academy of Social Sciences, to conduct a longitudinal survey of Vietnamese refugees resettled in Australia. [More…]
to (3) Australia has contributed towards the relief of disasters overseas, both natural and man-made, by direct bilateral grants of cash and commodities and also by regular financial support for the activities of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. [More…]
What is the estimated number of refugees from (a) Vietnam (b) Cambodia (c) Laos (d) East Timor (e) Lebanon (f) Israel (g) Cyprus (h) Malaysia (i) Singapore (j) South Africa and (k) Chile. [More…]
How many refugees from each of these countries have been admitted to Australia. [More…]
How many (a) Chileans (b) Vietnamese and (c) Timorese came to Australia as refugees in (i) 1975 and (ii) 1976. [More…]
1 ) and (2) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has given the following list of contributions and pledges as at 1 October 1 977, to the appeal for refugees from Indo-China in Thailand and other countries in Asia. [More…]
Which countries have contributed to the special appeal by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to assist refugees from Laos, Kampuchea and Vietnam in Thailand and other countries in Asia, including people currently living on boats. [More…]
A Special Appeal by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: South East Asia (Question No. [More…]
I thank the honourable gentleman for his question because it enables me to inform the House of the policies pursued by this Government in relation to Indo-Chinese refugees and to compare them with the sorry record of his Party when it was in government. [More…]
From memory, since 1975 some 6,100 IndoChinese refugees have come to Australia. [More…]
I have been in constant touch with voluntary organisations in relation to the successful integration of refugees, not only Indo-Chinese refugees but all refugees coming to Australia. [More…]
I refer to Press releases from the Minister numbered IEA 94/77, 95/77 and 96/77 concerning Indo-China refugees but, in particular, to statements in those releases about a far reaching and comprehensive refugee policy; of strict screening, medical and quarantine controls and the adoption of a humanitarian and compassionate attitude towards refugees. [More…]
I ask: What is the total number of refugees to come to Australia from Indo-China? [More…]
Has the Minister received reports from any source that among other things charitable organisations cannot satisfy the demands on them from those refugees for furniture, food and clothing; that hospitals in the vicinity of centres accommodating Indo-China refugees are treating some of them for venereal disease, scabies and even leprosy? [More…]
Reports of atrocities in Kampuchea continue to appear in the media and are mainly based on accounts given by refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether on his recent visit to Bangkok he pursued the issue of Vietnamese refugees and, in particular, the issue of the reunion of Vietnamese families in Australia. [More…]
26 Chilean refugees arrived in Australia during 1977. [More…]
2,184 Vietnamese refugees arrived in 1977, of whom 867 arrived on small boats. [More…]
Timorese evacuees are not recognised as refugees. [More…]
How many (a) Chileans, (b) Vietnamese and (c) Timorese came to Australia as refugees in 1977 (Hansard, 2 June 1977, page 2487). [More…]
In view of the reports from Vietnam of further boat loads of refugees being anticipated, can the Minister guarantee that Australian immigration procedures and policies will be sufficient to cope with these boat people as the trickle becomes a flood? [More…]
Secondly, was the matter of these types of refugees taken up with Mr Mondale, the VicePresident of the United States of America, at yesterday ‘s discussions? [More…]
If so, is the United States of America likely to involve itself in the problem of boat refugees from Vietnam? [More…]
1 ) What vessels carrying refugees arrived in Australia with passengers and crew who did not have visas during 1977 and 1978. [More…]
5,95 1 persons as refugees. [More…]
How many of the intake of migrants during 1977-78 came to Australia (a) for family reunion, (b) as refugees, (c) as specially approved cases, showing the general nature of these cases (d) from New Zealand and (e) as skilled workers required to overcome specific skilled worker bottlenecks. [More…]
1 ) How many of the refugees from South East Asian countries who have been granted permanent residence in Australia since 1 July 1977, are in receipt of social security benefits. [More…]
) What categories of social security benefits are paid and how many former refugees are recipients in each category. [More…]
The only category of social security benefit for which separate statistics are maintained in respect of refugees is special benefit, and then only in respect of South Vietnamese, Cambodian or Timorese children for whom special benefits are being paid. [More…]
There were at 3 1 December 1977, 577 migrants in hostels or accommodation centres in receipt of special benefit, but the proportion of that number who were of South East Asian origin, or could be classified as refugees, is not known. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article in the National Times of 12-18 December 1977 in which he was reported to have said at Darwin that boatloads of Vietnamese refugees would be sent back; if so, is there any substance in the report. [More…]
1 ) How many persons have entered Australia as refugees by small boats. [More…]
To what occupational groups did persons entering Australia as refugees belong. [More…]
How many of these refugees came direct from their country of origin. [More…]
5 ) and ( 6 ) Separate records are not kept for refugees who nominate relatives under the family re-union category. [More…]
How many voluntary agencies assisting refugees currently receive funding from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs seen a report alleging that the Government has failed to honour its obligations in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolution in relation to Rhodesia; that it is in fact admitting Rhodesians contrary to that resolution; and that the Government is using its program for the entry of IndoChinese refugees as a means of legitimising entry of Rhodesians? [More…]
The House therefore calls upon the Government to extend even further its humanitarian programs of assistance, to prepare further plans to assist quasi refugees and to indicate to the United Nations a willingness to participate in any properly constituted extended United Nations peace keeping force. [More…]
I refer to the proposal put forward by the Minister when he was recently overseas, and initiated by Australia to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, calling for international consultation on the Indo-Chinese refugee problem. [More…]
Is the Minister able to indicate to the House what success Australia is having in its efforts to internationalise the Indo-Chinese refugee issue and obtain from other governments outside the regionapart from France, Canada and the United States of America- a commitment that they also will assist in alleviating the refugee problem by accepting Indo-Chinese refugees for permanent settlement? [More…]
Vietnamese Refugees and Claiming to be Refugees (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Does the Government keep a record of the movements of Vietnamese refugees and Vietnamese who enter Australia illegally. [More…]
What proportion of the $19.9m will be used to provide English classes for refugees. [More…]
1 ) The amount in the appropriations for my Department for education for adult migrants and refugees is: [More…]
With respect to the celebrated voyage of the S.S. Duneera in 1939-40, bringing Jewish and German refugees and some prisoners of war to Australia, (a) what records (i) have been kept and (ii) are available for public inspection, in the Australian Archives, and (b) what restrictions are there on access to the available records. [More…]
Has he any information or any statements to make to this House so that we could know more about the discussions which he had concerning refugees from Vietnam? [More…]
1 ) Is he able to state whether there is any information available as to the wealth or poverty of Vietnamese refugees; if so, could this be tabulated. [More…]
Is it a fact, as is widely held publicly, that Vietnamese refugees pay the equivalent of $ US 1000 per head to escape Vietnam. [More…]
How many were (a) spouses and dependent children of residents in Australia, (b) refugees with valid entry permits, (c) aged parents who would have qualified for admission if they had applied overseas, (d) private overseas students able to meet the criteria for permanent residence in Australia and (e) others. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that the Queensland branch of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union has closed its books to membership by Vietnamese refugees? [More…]
1 ) Which countries have become parties to the (a) 1 95 1 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and (b) 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and when did they do so. [More…]
Does the United Nations maintain funds, supported by donations from member countries interested in the assistance of victims of apartheid, for the purposes of (a) helping black refugees from South Africa, and giving relief to dependants of black political leaders gaoled there and (b) furthering the United Nations educational and training programme for South Africans. [More…]
This will bring in its turn all the paraphernalia of the Indo-China war - a propped up military regime, a war economy, inflation, corruption, dislocation of social life, thousands of refugees and immeasurable human suffering. [More…]
lt is difficult to give exact figures, but since 1963 more than 700,000 Laotians have been officially recorded by the Royal Laotian Government as refugees in Government-held areas. [More…]
160,000 of those currently receiving assistance became refugees before the recent communist offensives in the Plain of Jars and at Sam Thong. [More…]
The balance of the current total have been declared refugees since the impact of the offensives began to be felt in early February. [More…]
In addition to assistance by private charitable organisations in Australia, the Government is providing $13,200 worth of hand-tools for the refugees in the current year. [More…]
Cuban refugees and American citizens were dissatisfied with life in the United States and the refugees decided to go back home. [More…]
There are actually 40.000 people who are refugees in the classic sense. [More…]
I asked these refugees: ‘What do you want?’ [More…]
These things would make life much more tolerable for the refugees of Laos, and nobody gives a damn. [More…]
A housing project for refugee families was completed in 1969 and financial assistance given to refugees. [More…]
The first would have been concerned with the refugees of Laos, of whom there are about 40,000 and who have nothing with which to fare for themselves. [More…]
We must demand that armies stop crossing frontiers and we can at least do something about the human misery, the refugees, the sick, the wounded and the homeless, not under some great miasma of moralising about what is happening in Vietnam. [More…]
The multilateral aid agreements cover contributions to the International Development Association, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the South Pacific Commission, the Regional Projects for Economic Cooperation in Asia, and the International Red Cross. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills (Mr bryant)raisedapointregardingthelaotlan refugees. [More…]
The honourable member will find that an amount of $2,500 is set aside for the purpose of assisting refugees in this regard. [More…]
From what I know of the cost of items purchased through disposal stores throughout Australia I should think about $200,000 would supply enough blankets, mosquito nets and ground sheets to the refugees of Laos to solve a good many of their personal hardships. [More…]
In the early years we had the problem of the .war .refugees when it was_npt .possible to screen our migrants in the way it is possible to screen them today. [More…]
Many of us remember what the accommodation was like in the days of the refugees when conditions were pretty shocking, although still a lot better than in the concentration camps. [More…]
The other half of the population includes a group of Aboriginal migrants, refugees from a countryside in depression, a large number of pensioners, a whole series of high rise developments which contain a majority of deserted wives and Service wives, women without husbands, and children without fathers. [More…]
It was in 1947 when at the initiative of the then Minister for Immigration, the now Right Honourable Arthur Calwell, agreement was reached between the Commonwealth Government and the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organisation on a scheme for the admission of refugees and displaced persons from Europe that the first action was taken to formulate a migration education programme which involved at that time both the teaching of English and an appreciation of Australian life. [More…]
I understand that another 15,000 or 25,000 people there have become refugees. [More…]
But now we have another 15,000 to 20,000 refugees on our hands and still nothing is done by the Government. [More…]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Social Welfare and Refugees and the Ministry of Health have advised that, generally speaking, the Government of Vietnam does not favour the adoption of Vietnamese children in foreign countries. [More…]
The Pakistan armed forces have established their control in the main centres, but we continue to receive reports of bloodshed and destruction, of the flight of refugees over the borders, and of economic dislocation and hardship. [More…]
India still faces the crippling burden of coping with some 7 million refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
Increasing aid to the refugees. [More…]
We would be told how there were 7 million or 8 million refugees from Communism. [More…]
Now, as more refugees pour in, the pressure in India to go to war increases. [More…]
On 19th July U Thant proposed to both India and Pakistan that representatives of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees be deployed at specific points on both sides of the East Pakistan border to facilitate repatriation of refugees. [More…]
From my own experience there and from seeing many of the refugees in the camps, I have no doubt about the truth of that statement and the fact that the situation cannot but deteriorate. [More…]
But we must bear in mind that if all the aid in the world is given to the refugees, this still leaves another problem, and that concerns the people in West Bengal itself, the people who were there before the refugees arrived. [More…]
This question is causing tremendous political friction between the refugees and the West Bengalis. [More…]
Before the refugees arrived a West Bengali could go and offer his services as a rural labourer for about 2i rupees a day. [More…]
Now, because of the refugees offering their services, wages are approximately 1 rupee per day. [More…]
Another matter is that the refugees are given 1 rupee’s worth of food every day. [More…]
So I think we must bear in mind that however much aid we give, if we give the absolute optimum, if we give everything we have, it still will not solve the basic problem of the friction between the refugees and the people of West Bengal. [More…]
I asked many refugees whether they would ever return to East Pakistan. [More…]
Having looked at the situation, I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion - and this is only a personal opinion - that the refugees will not return in any substantial number until there is an independent State in East Bengal, in other words, an independent Bangla Desh. [More…]
We must remember that for so long as the refugees are there the situation will continue. [More…]
I am very proud to say that the first time I stood on the rostrum of the United Nations was to announce Australia’s contribution to the Special Committee for Refugees, and that contribution more than compared with similar contributions made by many other countries. [More…]
increasing aid to refugees; [More…]
urging United Nations action to keep the peace and assist refugees. [More…]
I think the Government of India has done a remarkable job with the assistance it has been given and with its own resources - principally wilh its own resources - in housing and feeding the people who are there as refugees from genocide in East Pakistan. [More…]
This creates a tremendous problem for India because these refugees are entering an area of India which is in many ways an industrial area. [More…]
None of these refugees from Pakistan can be employed while there are Indians out of work. [More…]
These people are subverting the refugees. [More…]
They are sending out teams to say to the refugees that their present situation is in no small measure brough about by the fact that the Government of India has not recognised Bangla Desh. [More…]
If all of these pressures and persuasions which the world is endeavouring to exert on the Government of Pakistan are unsuccessful the situation could well be that India will be left with the 7 million refugees, which it has at present, or perhaps 10 million or 11 million refugees. [More…]
I believe that so far the Government has done all that is reasonably possible, considering the facts of the case, both in respect of political initiative and in providing supplies to help the refugees. [More…]
Does he know that in Cambodia since May 1970 the US invasion has produced over 1 million refugees and that thousands of ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia have been slaughtered? [More…]
Statistics lacking include those on refugees and civilian casualties in Indo-China, enemy losses, the effects on health of herbicides used in Vietnam, the significant inflationary effect of the war on the United States economy, and the long range costs of Vietnam veterans benefits. [More…]
What about the thousands of refugees whom our committee saw last year. [More…]
We cannot possibly measure human tragedy that way, as it provides little comfort for the millions of refugees who have nothing - absolutely nothing - and with little hope for the future. [More…]
This being so, 1 am afraid that the Government must raise its sights much higher, as the $14 m provided to date, which includes the additional $500,000 announced by the Minister, would not feed the refugees for one day. [More…]
All this, of course, has resulted in more than 7 million refugees crossing the border into West Bengal and Assam. [More…]
The point I make here is that the lack of support forthcoming from foreign governments, including Australia, was a major factor in leading to the unrest and civil war in East Pakistan today, which has caused millions of refugees to flee into the Indian States. [More…]
Without a doubt mortality on an unprecedented scale must inevitably result unless the refugees are quickly dispersed, preferably back to East Pakistan. [More…]
I discussed this matter with Mrs Gandhi, and she is adamant that the refugees must return to East Pakistan. [More…]
However, she has laid down 3 conditions: Firstly, a civil government must be installed in East Pakistan; secondly, law and order must be restored before the refugees can return; and thirdly, a rehabilitation programme will have to be carried out because their towns and villages have been completely destroyed and they have nothing to which to return at the present time. [More…]
All this, of course, will take some time, and in the meantime India is placed in an intolerable position of having to feed and provide for 7 million refugees, which is breaking her economically. [More…]
India initially budgeted for $350m to provide for 3 million refugees in the first 6 months because she thought she would have them for only a few months. [More…]
But now there are 7 million refugees in India and they will be there for at least 12 months. [More…]
I believe that one of the reasons for the small amount of aid channelled into East Pakistan for the cyclone victims, the refugees in India and the displaced persons in East Pakistan is that foreign aid is very low on the list of priorities of the Australian Government. [More…]
The plight of the refugees is one of the greatest human tragedies of this century and noone can possibly imagine the tragedy of it all unless one is part and parcel of it. [More…]
Nevertheless I would hope that even at this stage we might be able to point out to the world and to our own people in particular that it is merely 2 million refugees, among a population of 14 million in Taiwan, who are providing the regime in that country, and that there are 12 million indigenes in that island who have not been given self determination in any way so far as we can ascertain from the information available to us in this country. [More…]
There is a stream of rural refugees to the city and those who remain in some of the rural areas struggle on unemployment benefits which are 20 per cent of the average weekly income. [More…]
It will force 100,000 people into the cities; it will swell the stream of refugees from the rural half of the nation. [More…]
The industry itself has told the Government that the 36c per lb wool subsidy will result in 100,000 people being forced like refugees to the city. [More…]
I believe that the Commonwealth could also take the initiative in offering Australia’s surplus egg powder to the Pakistani refugees in India, of whom there are now Si million. [More…]
I regard that as being an unnecessarily formal and legalistic approach to the needs of the 8J million refugees, many of whom are suffering from a severe protein deficiency and who would therefore benefit from the supply of Australian egg powder. [More…]
I have been assured by medical advisers not only that it would be quite nutritious and acceptable to the refugees in India if it were mixed with normal foods but also that its high protein would in fact be ideal for them. [More…]
I think it is time that the Australian Government adopted a far more serious approach to the problem of providing relief to the refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
The Indian Government is charged with the responsibility of spending $ 1,200m a year to provide food for these refugees. [More…]
It cannot reasonably be expected that the Indian Government can afford to spend this amount of money in order to provide food for refugees from a neighbouring country. [More…]
We are told that the Australian Government has done a magnificent job in giving $1.5m in relief for the refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and concerns the plight of Pakistani refugees. [More…]
Certainly the Government and, I know, the people of Australia share his deep concern at the tragedy of the refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
The problem is so large with over 8 million refugees - more than half the population of this country - that it is clearly one that we cannot cope with alone in any real sense. [More…]
Parenthetically, I make the point that to confine our immigration programme to sponsored cases would effectively preclude Australia from accepting refugees who, with few exceptions, are wholly Government sponsored. [More…]
During the major epidemic of cholera in Bengal, particularly among the refugees from East Pakistan, he spent 3 J weeks in that country rendering a medical service, treating the afflicted and doing everything possible to prevent the spread of this killer disease. [More…]
Also, as it is costing the Indian Government $100m a month to maintain the refugees will the Minister bring this matter before Cabinet with a view to providing an immediate grant of $10m in cash and and material aid to help relieve the suffering and human indignity of some 8 million East Pakistani refugees? [More…]
-I am aware of the considerable concern being expressed in many quarters for the plight of the refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
There are more refugees involved than half the population of Australia. [More…]
While on the subject of the Indian Ocean I would like to make a comment on the subject that was raised today in question time by the honourable member for Holt (Mr Reid) in his persistent effort to get a more generous approach from the Government towards the disaster of the Pakistani refugees. [More…]
India has spent on the refugees 120 crores of rupees. [More…]
One such aircraft was ‘ hired to assist distribution of aid to refugees who came to India from East Pakistan, lt was hired from Pacific Western Airlines Ltd of Vancouver initially to make fifteen flights from Singapore to Katmandu from 14th June to 7th July to carry equipment for an aid development project in Nepal. [More…]
Following a request received from the Indian Government on 10th June for assistance in airfreighting supplies direct to refugees in Assam and Tripura, an additional contract was concluded for the same aircraft to ferry to Agartala some of the relief supplies already consigned to Calcutta. [More…]
Since the appeals for international assistance for Pakistani refugees in India and for East Pakistan were issued by the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 19th May and 16th June respectively, the following pledges have been announced by governments other than Australia: [More…]
We have the situation of family men having to evacuate like refugees moving to the city because of the rural situation created by decisions of this Government. [More…]
The Opposition asks the Government in relation to this scheme: Will these people be retrained to get out of the industry and to evacuate rural areas like refugees, or will it be part of a scheme to ensure the continuing viability not only of the individual but also of the whole community? [More…]
Australia should be doing far more than it is now doing in trying to assuage the troubles in Pakistan and in bringing about a better understanding between the East and the West and in relieving the suffering and the anguish of people “Who have become refugees through the struggle that has taken place there. [More…]
Japan also made a relief grant to the Vietnamese Red Cross for victims of the typhoons of October 1970, and refugees from Cambodia. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems- ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale- the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet to be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
Their aim is to highlight the desperate plight of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees in India and millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, most of whom face famine conditions and ultimate death unless large scale assistance is provided by foreign governments. [More…]
Having listened to his speeches in this House and from discussions I have had with the honourable gentleman I have a recognition of his very sincere concern at the critical position of refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
However, honourable members are aware from statements made in this House that the Government has provided a range of assistance to help to overcome the disastrous circumstances facing East Pakistani refugees both in India and Pakistan. [More…]
5m in food, shelter and medical supplies to help alleviate the plight of the East Pakistani refugees at present in camps in India. [More…]
At the time that this aid to the refugees was announced the Government stated that it would not necessarily be the limit of our assistance to the region. [More…]
The number of refugees in India is reported to be approaching nine million. [More…]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will shortly issue a renewed appeal for more international help. [More…]
Of this additional aid $500,000 worth of rice will be given to India for emergency relief for the refugees. [More…]
I do not know what the current figure is but on the latest figures I saw the Indian Government had spent on refugees 120 crores of rupees. [More…]
Also, donations from outside amounted to 8.2 crores which is one-fifteenth of what the maintenance of refugees had cost the Indian Government. [More…]
I do not belittle the expenditure by Australia of another $1.5m for 9 million refugees. [More…]
However, anybody looking at this contribution could assume that it will not mean that there will be a vast transformation of the position of the refugees. [More…]
In practice it does no such thing, as the many refugees from Britain’s health scheme now living in Australia will attest. [More…]
I was pleased with yesterday’s announcement by the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Sinclair) of the increased foreign aid contribution of $1.5m to assist the East Pakistani refugees in India and the displaced persons in East Pakistan. [More…]
If assistance provided by the Government for the survivors of the tragic cyclone last November, which ravaged the off-shore islands and coastal regions of East Pakistan, is any indication of our concern for these people, as only $425,000 was provided, I am not really surprised that only $3m has been provided to date for the relief of Pakistani war refugees. [More…]
We just sit back and do no more than we have to do, or again we compare what we are doing with what is being done by other countries of comparable size, which, of course, produces very little help for the millions of refugees and displaced persons who are already dyingin their thousands each day. [More…]
One of the reasons for the present high rate of mortality is the lack of protein and the conditions under which so many of the refugees are living in these camps. [More…]
Another reason for the acute shortage of food in East Pakistan is because of genocide in many towns and villages which has resulted in nearly 9 million refugees leaving their farms. [More…]
In order to assist the Government to make a quick decision on this great human problem I shall refer to some statistics from other countries which have channelled funds through the United Nations for the East Pakistan refugees in India. [More…]
Well, never before have so many people in the world needed succour as the 20 million refugees and displaced persons in East and West Bengal. [More…]
Raise to $10m Australian aid to refugees now in India from East Pakistan. [More…]
Raise to $10m Australian aid to refugees now in India from East Pakistan. [More…]
Raise to $10m Australian aid to refugees now in India from East Pakistan. [More…]
Raise to $1Om Australian aid to refugees now in India from East Pakistan. [More…]
I want briefly to enter a plea for the Government to take a more realistic and humane attitude towards helping victims of the civil war in East Pakistan, especially those refugees who have fled from East Pakistan into the surrounding Indian States. [More…]
I think it should be pointed out that not all of this amount will actually reach the refugees and the other war victims because, as was acknowledged in the speech by the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Sinclair) on Tuesday, a lot of the funds that have gone, is actually taken up in freight costs. [More…]
5m that is now being allocated as from this week as aid for the refugees, $250,000 will be taken up in freight costs. [More…]
But I do think that this aid must be continuing until all refugees are repatriated and rehabilitated. [More…]
When I was in West Bengal 2 months ago the Indian Government said that on the assumption the refugees would be there for 6 months - it would be a good thing if they could be repatriated after 6 months - the Indian Government would need $600m worth of aid. [More…]
With great respect to the Indian Government, which is doing a magnificent job considering the enormity of the problem, I think the target could be set a lot higher because, although the Indian Government is doing its very best, the refugees are falling further behind. [More…]
The refugees are probably getting enough in the way of calories, but they are not getting first class protein. [More…]
But even if there were enough medicines, the chronic ill health problem still would not be solved because the refugees are so completely overcrowded that re-infection will occur. [More…]
Even if we give medicines to the refugees, the conditions are propitious for them to become re-infected immediately with hookworm, round worm, amoebic dysentery and other conditions which are liable to occur in the grossly overcrowded areas in which these people have to live. [More…]
The Government should not hang off, waiting to see how much such and such a country gives to the refugees and then say that it will give a proportionate amount on a per capita basis. [More…]
I compare the expenditure of $80m for that purpose with the expenditure of $3m not on trackless wastes of ocean but on the reality of 8 million war refugees from East Pakistan in India. [More…]
Raise to SI Om Australian aid to refugees now in India from East Pakistan. [More…]
Raise to $10m Australian aid to refugees now in India from East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Employment of Refugees from Bangla Desh [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That the Australian Government take steps to offer employment, at least on a temporary basis, and in order to effect some relief, to academic and qualified persons among the refugees from Bangla Desh. [More…]
Employment of Refugees from Bangla Desh Mr McIVOR - I present the following petition: [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease ls occurring among Pakistan’s refugees en a scale unprecendented in modern history. [More…]
That the Australian Government tak* steps te offer employment, at least on a temporary basis, and in order to effect some relief, to academic and qualified persons among the refugees fs am Bangla Desh. [More…]
Monetary Aid for Pakistan’s Refugees Mr GORTON- I present the to Stewing petition: [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees en a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least five million dollars immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least five million dollars immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least five million dollars immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least five million dollars immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
Monetary Aid for Pakistan’s Refugees Mr GARRICK- I present the following petition: [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least five million dollars immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
That in the opinion of this House the level of Australian aid to Pakistani refugees should be raised to at least the equivalent of SI for each person in Australia. [More…]
The Prime Minister will recall that last week the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs announced on behalf of the Government what was said to be additional aid to India to assist the Bengal refugees. [More…]
It is specifically an allocation provided in recognition of the quite disastrous circumstances that prevail with respect to the East Pakistani refugees both in Pakistan and in India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
Consequently, we decided some time ago that we would make a very substantial grant in order to assist the East Pakistani refugees. [More…]
So it is not just a question of proposing to discuss the plight of the refugees in camps but it is also a question of proposing to discuss the need for political solutions in East Pakistan. [More…]
Petitions have also been presented and individual submissions have been made on behalf of these refugees by, as I said, the honourable member for Holt and others. [More…]
The proposed suspension of the Standing Orders is not directly related to the matter of assistance to these refugees, which has been raised in this House on a number of occasions already- The honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) is aware that a private member has an opportunity to raise such a matter under general business. [More…]
Aid to Pakistan refugees was discussed recently in this House when a further gesture of assistance was made by the Government. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least five million dollars immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least five million dollars immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least five million dollars immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least five million dollars immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further$50m over 3 years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
Aid to Refugees in East Pakistan [More…]
That many Australians are concerned about the tragic plight of the refugees from East Pakistan and the rapidly worsening condition of thousands of children who have come as refugees into India from East Pakistan. [More…]
increase Australia’s aid for the refugees in East Pakistanto$ 10m, and [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not evert receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also thay are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
You petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally, concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have closed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by, far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over 3 years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modem history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately, and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10m immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modem history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10m immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and diseaseis occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modem history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary, aid for the refugees in India to at least $10m immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occuring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modem history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least $10m immediately even if this entails reducing spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least 10 million dollars immediately even if this entails reducing spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least 10 million dollars immediately even if this entails reducing spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least $5m immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
that death from mass starvation and disease is occuring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history, [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That donations over $2 be tax deductible when contributed towards the relief of refugees inside and outside East Pakistan. [More…]
That donations over $2 be tax deductible when contributed towards the relief of refugees inside and outside Bast Pakistan. [More…]
That donations over $2 be tax deductible when contributed towards the relief of refugees inside and outside East Pakistan. [More…]
that death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
that death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That the new Australian grant of $l.Sm to Pakistan refugees in India is completely inadequate and does not recognise the true value of the situation. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government will immediately grant a further $10 million in aid to Pakistan refugees and use all diplomatic channels available to urge the creation of a political climate in East Pakistan which will enable the nine million refugees in India to return to their homeland. [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the honourable member for Corio moving forthwith the motion relating to aid for Pakistani refugees of which he gave notice on 12th October 1971. [More…]
Raise to $10m Australian aid to refugees now in India from East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least $5m immediately, even if this entails reduced spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least$10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10m immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least $10m immediately even if this entails reducing spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least $10m immediately even if this entails reducing spending in other areas. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees to at least$10m immediately even if this entails reducing spending in other areas. [More…]
that death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history, [More…]
Honourable members are aware of the problem of refugees from East Pakistan, which has now assumed such enormous proportions. [More…]
On 8th June following an announcement of additional aid by the Prime Minister, the then Minister for Foreign Affars, Mr Bury, referring to this additional grant, said that in these emerging and rapidly changing conditions it was important to keep the priority needs of the refugees constantly under review. [More…]
The position now is that there are some 9 million refugees in need in India and a great deal of suffering and distress also in East Pakistan. [More…]
The Government, in pursuance of its constant review and assessment of the situation and having in mind what it believes to be an international obligation of this country in this unfortunate situation, has now decided to make a grant of additional aid amounting to $2.5m, of which $500,000 will be a direct cash grant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
It is equally important to ensure that these funds are employed in bringing relief effectively to refugees who are most in need. [More…]
The question of providing relief for the refugees has been recognised as an international one. [More…]
However, the Australian Government’s record in providing aid for the refugees has been a good one. [More…]
If we tend to flinch from giving aid in this crisis because we think it may be a continuing development - if there is a continuing situation in East Pakistan that will produce more refugees - still we have to look back with disappointment at the Australian reaction to the disaster which was not man made and which was not continuing in East Pakistan. [More…]
As we have said before - it bears saying again - if the reaction of the outside world to the situation of the refugees is one of indifference, then there will be greater pressure on the Government or elements within the political authorities in India and perhaps in Pakistan to try to solve the refugee problem at the root, and voices are expressing the old illusion that you are going to be able to solve this problem by a war. [More…]
If one is giving very small medical aid, then a very small medical team can see that this gets into a situation of crisis among the refugees. [More…]
Five-year plans and developmental projects of the Indian Government have had to be set aside in facing this unexpected incursion of refugees into an extremely sensitive area of the Indian sub-continent. [More…]
I would be glad to see the Australian Government actively concerned in this situation and looking for some way of providing aid in East Pakistan as well, with the assistance directed to people who are displaced or who are refugees in the fighting. [More…]
If our approach to this matter is that we take every step that we can to support a sane settlement, to bring in the view of the outside world, the searchlight of world public opinion, and to show that we are prepared to pay a price ourselves, I believe that we will be able to play a part in bringing peace to the sub-continent and also meeting the needs of the refugees. [More…]
The number of refugees and the level of support they require almost baffle the imagination. [More…]
I do not see how we can hope to support refugees at a cost of less than $100 per head each year. [More…]
With 10 million refugees this means a commitment by the world of $ 1,000m a year. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable members have been bombarded, as I have been, with letters, telegrams and forms all appealing for increased aid for these refugees. [More…]
All of it is going to the refugees for whom it is intended. [More…]
Private aid to the Pakistani refugees has already amounted to something like $2m. [More…]
The Government, too, should also offer its facilities to see that the flow of private aid reaches the refugees for whom it is intended. [More…]
Even before the refugees arrived, the State Government of West Bengal, which was a Comunist government, has been suspended for a time by the Central Government because of disputes over administration and law and order. [More…]
After the refugees began to arrive, presidential rule from Delhi was again invoked. [More…]
I believe that the administrative task of caring for these 10 million or so refugees is far beyond the Indian Government and it is regrettable that it has refused offers by the United Nations, the Red Cross and other interested bodies to assist with the administration. [More…]
I understand its motives because it involves some sacrifice of pride and sovereignty but, nevertheless, in the interests of the refugees I think that the Indian Government should be prepared to make these sacrificts [More…]
No matter how effective our humanitarian aid to these refugees is, it does not get to the root of the problem. [More…]
We must not let these refugees become institutionalised like the Arab refugees in the Gaza strip or in Jordan. [More…]
The world must attempt to achieve this co-operation for without it the refugees have no future. [More…]
What must be done to make it possible for the refugees to return? [More…]
First, Pakistan will have to offer some reasonable degree of autonomy to East Pakistan and control the operations of the Pakistan Army and, more particularly, their teenage auxiliaries to create an atmosphere of stability and confidence in East Pakistan, ft must guarantee also the return of land belonging to refugees which has been expropriated. [More…]
I think it may also have to offer to have United Nations observers, with its army and support forces, to convince the world and the refugees that this is its policy. [More…]
At present, refugees are still coming out from East Pakistan at the rate of more than 100,000 a week, many of them fleeing because of the operations of the Indian supported liberation army. [More…]
If India is sincere in its desire to minimise the refugee problem and to get the refugees back to their homeland quickly, the Indian Government must withdraw all support from the liberation guerrilla army and discourage its activities so far as this lies within the Government’s power. [More…]
This would facilitate the orderly return of the refugees who wish to go back to their villages. [More…]
I have given what I believe is a true picture and one that reflects little credit on either India or Pakistan who have allowed their mutual hatred to override their compassion for the 10 million refugees. [More…]
I do not know whether it will be possible for anyone to induce Pakistan and India to co-operate, but we should continue to do all we can both directly and through the United Nations to achieve whatever is possible, for our overriding aim must be to achieve conditions so that these refugees can go home. [More…]
So 10 million rushed into India, and India is bearing the great burden today of that onslaught of refugees, the onslaught of suffering humanity of proportions which are unprecedented in the history of the world. [More…]
After all we are thinking only of the refugees at this point of time. [More…]
It is true, as the honourable member has said, that it is not just sufficient to give aid to refugees. [More…]
The Minister will remember that in the answer he gave the figures were listed in 2 columns, one indicating relief for East Pakistan refugees as at August 1971 and the other indicating relief for East Pakistan as at August 1971. [More…]
Canada gave $US3.4m to refugees and in addition gave $US6.9m to East Pakistan. [More…]
8m to the refugees but it also gave S7.2m to East Pakistan. [More…]
Do honourable members know that India is remitting $3m every day for the relief of the refugees in its own country? [More…]
The cost to India of sustaining the refugees is no less than $20m a week. [More…]
If all Australians over the age of 18 years had subscribed $2 each to a fund to help the refugees, where would we have been? [More…]
The Government has promised to keep the matter of aid for Pakistani refugees under review. [More…]
Certainly, it is pitifully inadequate in terms of what is needed, firstly, to keep the refugees alive and, secondly, to avoid the complete collapse of the Indian economy. [More…]
Aid must be completely ongoing until all the refugees have been repatriated and rehabilitated. [More…]
I have with me some figures which were given to a United States Senate subcommittee convened to investigate the problems connected with refugees and escapees. [More…]
These figures show that the total economic cost to India to support the current 6 million refugees for 6 months would range from about $500m to around $820m. [More…]
If we extrapolate that to the present figure of 9 million - that is the figure which the Indian Government has given and I see it is the figure which the Australian Government accepts - the cost would be about S750m to perhaps a high estimate of $1230m to sustain the refugees for 6 months. [More…]
Should we not be doing what the United States Senate sub-committee has done and try to determine what the needs are, precisely what the Indian Government wants and how much it does cost to sustain this enormous number of refugees for 6 months, one year or for however long they will be maintained? [More…]
The other point about this figure of $10m or $12.5m, whatever you like, is that it is not just a question of providing more aid because the problems that are imposed by the influx of refugees are not entirely economic. [More…]
A problem that has been caused by the influx of refugees is that a refugee who is already getting a daily supply of rations can virtually go out and offer his services as a labourer for very much less than the going price. [More…]
The resultant downward pressure on wages has caused and I am sure will continue to cause a great deal of friction between the refugees and the people of West Bengal. [More…]
Another great problem - and this is related to my point that it is not purely a matter of providing funds - is that even before the refugees arrived in West Bengal that area was tremendously overcrowded, very largely due to the large number of refugees that had come from East Pakistan since partition in 1947. [More…]
Between 1947 and the beginning of this year 5,500,000 refugees had come to West Bengal. [More…]
Most of the unsettled land up to the time of partition had been settled by an active programme of the Indian Government to try to settle post-partition refugees. [More…]
So there is practically no land left to give to these refugees. [More…]
These are the great problems facing West Bengal and they were present even before the refugees started to come over the border. [More…]
These problems have been exacerbated by this sudden influx of 9 million refugees. [More…]
In my view there is only one solution and that is the refugees must go back. [More…]
I think that if there is some sort of deal made perhaps between the Awami League and the Government in Islamabad I do not think it would be sufficient to make all the refugees go back. [More…]
Even if we can get the refugees or most of the refugees back into East Pakistan there will still be tremendous problems in resettling them and helping all the war victims, including those people who never went across the border into India in the first place. [More…]
We failed to understand the sermons of restraint by the big powers, particularly the Nixon administration, who are supplying the arms to the military junta in West Pakistan and aiding the refugees also, though Indian public opinion bore a strong resentment against such a double cross policy. [More…]
The plight of the refugees in many of these camps is indescribable, lt is far worse than any picture or story one has seen or read and unless the refugees are quickly dispersed to better camp sites, preferably back to East Pakistan, there will be mortality on an unprecedented scale. [More…]
It still only represents less than 0.5 per cent of the total amount of $ 1,200m that is needed each year to provide for the refugees. [More…]
They urgently need this additional cash now to provide for the refugees and I would like the Minister to give further consideration to sending portion of this additional $2m in cash. [More…]
This provides little comfort for the millions of refugees who have not even the bare necessities required for survival. [More…]
We have heard other honourable members speak about the grave situation there - about the great need for providing for the refugees. [More…]
We must always remember the millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, who are worse off than the refugees in many cases because they are not even getting relief supplies. [More…]
I hope that on this occasion the Government will allow the amendment to be put to a vote so that honourable members may express their opinions in the same way as the Australian people have already expressed their opinion on the level of aid which is being made available by the Australian Government for the East Pakistan refugees. [More…]
The situation of the refugees in India is tragic. [More…]
I suggest that if any group of administrators or any group taken out of any Parliament in the world were given the job of administering West Bengal without the 9 million refugees it would show a complete and total lack of administrative capacity when faced with the problems that exist in that area. [More…]
The amendment, if complied with, would mean that the Australian people would be providing approximately 1 per cent of the annual requirement of aid to maintain alive the refugees in India. [More…]
I do not think with the affluence of the Australian nation and the level of wealth which we enjoy that it would be too much to expect that we could accept responsibility for onehundredth of the cost of maintaining these refugees. [More…]
I am writing to you to ask you to let it be known that many Australians feel that the gift already given by the Government of Australia is paltry indeed when the plight of Pakistan refugees is so desperate. [More…]
The Australian aid represents sufficient funds to maintain the refugees for about 4 hours. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedentedin modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a seals unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position andwealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedentedin modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
that death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
that death from mass starvation and disease is occuring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
A few days ago the House did not have half an hour to spare to discuss the question of refugees in Pakistan. [More…]
The humble petition of citizens of Australia respectfully showeth: 1, It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
2, As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament asembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action on behalf of those suffering and left without home or work through their effective expulsion as refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
Urge that the Australian Government take steps to offer employment at least on a temporary basis, and in order to effect some relief, to academic and qualified persons among the refugees from Bangla Desh. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history; [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately and mak: provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan; [More…]
Raise to $10,000,000 its aid to refugees now in India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $S0m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to’ at least $10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced person are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that In tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over 3 years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies, The involvement of the Australian is evidenced by their willingness to contribute substantial funds to voluntary agencies, to assist their work in these countries. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced person are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and further $50m over 3 years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
Thai donations over $2 be tax deductible when contributed towards the relief of refugees inside and outside East Pakistan. [More…]
That the Australian Government grant a further $10 million immediate Aid to the East Pakistani refugees in India. [More…]
Your petitioners also humbly pray that the Australian Government take the initiative in urging the instatement of Sheik Mujibur Rahman as the elected leader of his people and the creating of a political climate which will enable the refugees now in India to make a speedy, safe return to their own country. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems- ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people .of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death oh an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
Aid to Pakistani Refugees: Taxation Mr WALLIS - I present the following petition: [More…]
occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid .to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful, for a country of Australia’s position arid wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $1.00 per capita immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine In East Pakistan. [More…]
Mr Patrick Shaw, who has been brought back to Australia by the Government to discuss the question of aid to the East Pakistan refugees in India and also this problem arising from the cyclone. [More…]
Despite the disinclination of either India or Pakistan to go to war, the tinder box of Bangla Desh and the economic burden of 10 million expatriate refugees from East Pakistan might be self-combustionable. [More…]
Our promise of aid to the refugees of the order of $5im is not even sufficient to pay the bill for the relief programme for 2 days. [More…]
Only this course can facilitate the return of 10 million refugees to their homeland. [More…]
It goes on to say that Indian defence chiefs say that Mrs Gandhi was not indulging in diplomatic hyperbole when she said in New York that India has reached the limit of her endurance in trying to cope with the influx of refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
But how much more serious, if the Australian Government really believes that communism in Asia is a threat to Australia, is the threat that the democratic government of India could collapse under the weight of the human and economic calamity which is created by the problems of East Pakistan and the flow of refugees from there into India? [More…]
S 1,200m a year for refugees. [More…]
Blankets would be likely to provide some relief to the refugees and some relief from our own built-in economic problems. [More…]
In dealing with the estimates for the Department of Foreign Affairs it is notable that Government speakers are avoiding the problems faced by refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
I take this opportunity on behalf of the thousands of people in my electorate and the people throughout this nation to record their and my own personal condemnation of this Government for its miserable pittance of S5im to help the refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
Official statistics number the refugees at 27th October to be 9J million. [More…]
The average rate of refugees crossing the border each day is 33,000. [More…]
This will force more refugees into India. [More…]
This will generate further refugees. [More…]
The Indian Government estimated that the cost of maintaining 8 million refugees for 6 months is $533m or about $3.2m a day or about 13c in Australian currency for one refugee each day. [More…]
The Aid India Consortium met in Paris on 26th October - the Minister knows this - and it accepted the estimates prepared by the World Bank in co-operation with the Indian Government that $700m was needed to defray the costs incurred by India in maintaining the refugees during the current financial year. [More…]
If even 10,000 refugees arrived in any European country the whole Continent of Europe would be afire. [More…]
The Indian economy was on the point of recovery but the cost of refugees in the financial year 1971- 72 represents, in fact, one-sixth of the normal annual development expenditure. [More…]
Sheik Mujibur Rahman, to seek a political settlement, the resettlement of the refugees and the restoration of democratic government in East Pakistan. [More…]
Thirdly, unless the world community is able quickly to contribute the $700m a year to maintain the refugees, India’s own resources will run out and the situation rapidly will get completely out of control. [More…]
The desperate situation of the Pakistani refugees has undoubtedly touched many hearts throughout the world. [More…]
I believe there is widespread approval of Australia’s action in increasing our aid to these refugees as announced by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) recently and also of the Government’s assurance that it will continue to keep the position under constant review. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide$10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $10,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $1.00 per capita immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
The political party which advocated independence for East Pakistan and which the refugees supported swept the polls at recent elections, capturing 167 seats out of 169. [More…]
Because, in the main, of the maltreatment of the people by the military regime which controls East Pakistan and which will not give them their independence, almost 10 million refugees have fled from East Pakistan to India and the Indian Government has been burdened with a cost of almost $A3m a day to house, feed and provide for these unfortunate people. [More…]
One can sec millions of refugees there. [More…]
How that contrasts starkly with the small, miserable amount of aid that we are extending to the 9) million Pakistani refugees at this time. [More…]
If the Prime Minister wants to talk about pillars of peace let him plant a few pillars of peace among the Pakistanis, the refugees who live in such wretched poverty at this time. [More…]
I am not talking about the great human problem associated with the refugees there. [More…]
Various other speakers referred particularly to the question of aid to the refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
I would like to point out in response to their remarks that Australia is now one of the substantial contributors to the international relief effort for the Pakistani refugees. [More…]
I am most grateful for the continued generous response of the Australian Government to my various appeals for humanitarian assistance for the refugees in India. [More…]
This damage is probably not as great as was at first feared, but it is substantial and has added a very great burden to the Indian authorities who have to cope with the influx of the East Pakistan refugees as well. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine - million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $1Om for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition- and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called, to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
The humble petition of residents of Tasmania respectfully showeth: That they are deeply concerned about the plight of the East Pakistani refugees in India. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least 510,000,000 immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
lt is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are wane ofl than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition .ind child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an official statement by the Indian Foreign Ministry on 20th October 1971 which, as reported in the ‘Canberra Times’ of 22nd October 1971, stated that India was determined that Pakistan should create conditions for the safe return of refugees, and if it did not, the international community was expected to put pressure on Pakistan to reach such conditions but if the international community failed then India would have to think of ways and means and reserved the right to take any action which might be in the national interest. [More…]
Do the problems created by the crisis in East Pakistan and the influx of refugees into India threaten the maintenance of international peace and security in the terms of Article II (2) of the United Nations Charter. [More…]
Will Australia raise this issue in the United Nations General Assembly or support initiatives by other countries to enable concerted international action to reduce the danger of war by encouraging tolerable political conditions for the return of refugees to their homes. [More…]
That the suffering of the Pakistani refugees is such as to warrant immediate relief. [More…]
The humble petition of the Bendigo citizens for Pakistani Refugee Relief Appeal respectfully showeth that the petitioners are deeply concerned at the plight of the Pakistani refugees and with what is considered a lack of Government response in its aid giving programmes to relieve the situation in West Bengal. [More…]
The Federal Government will increase its aid to the Pakistani refugees to ten million dollars. [More…]
The Federal Government will endeavour by diplomatic initiatives to seek a just and humane solution to the problem of the refugees. [More…]
Raise to $10,000,000 its aid to refugees now in India. [More…]
As it is obvious that the refugee position will considerably worsen, has the Government any plans for immediate relief assistance or will it adopt its usual wait and see policy which, of course provides little succour for the refugees? [More…]
It is undoubtedly to be expected that fighting will increase the number of refugees, but in point of fact no figures are available on that aspect of the honourable member’s question. [More…]
As to the last part of the honourable member’s question, he is well aware of the deep concern of the Government for the plight of the refugees and our policy of keeping the problem under continuing review whereby progressively we have increased our aid as the need grew and accordingly, as at my last announcement, the figure has now reached $5.5m. [More…]
Our concern has been to get this aid on to the ground where the refugees needed it, and I think in this respect our aid has been exemplary compared with any other aid that has been given. [More…]
Indeed, recently I had to announce that we were combining with private organisations in Australia and providing 3 charter aircraft from Qantas Airways Ltd to carry blankets which the private organisations have been able to provide so that the blankets could be given to the refugees in that area before the cold snap. [More…]
Has the fighting on the IndiaPakistan border in any way interfered with aid from Australia getting through to the Pakistani refugees? [More…]
So far, the fighting which has taken place has not interfered with the aid which Australia is sending to the refugees who have moved from Pakistan into India. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $1 per capita immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off then the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over 3 years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
press for a just solution to the conflict, so that the refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and dis placed persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutritionand child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to (heir assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide$ 10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees ‘hat have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Alsothey are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worseoff than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
That present Government aid to the refugees in India is meagre and shameful for a. country of Australia’s position and wealth. [More…]
Increase monetary aid for the refugees in India to at least $1.00 per capita immediately and make provision for a further and extra grant for the victims of the famine in East Pakistan. [More…]
The humble petition of the Bendigo Citizens for Pakistani Refugee Relief Appeal respectfully showeth that the petitioners are deeply concerned at the plight of the Pakistani refugees and with what is considered a lack of Government response in its aid giving programmes to relieve the situation in West Bengal. [More…]
The Federal Government will increase its aid to the Pakistani refugees to Ten Million Dollars. [More…]
The Federal Government will endeavour by diplomatic initiatives to seek a just and humane solution to the problem of the refugees. [More…]
That they are deeply concerned with the plight of the Pakistani refugees in India. [More…]
press for a just solution to the conflict, so that the refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in east Pakistan. [More…]
Is the Government preparing for the substantial increase in assistance to refugees which will be necessary as a result of the war? [More…]
To what extent has the Australian Government allocated its grant of aid to the Pakistan refugees? [More…]
So far as the East Pakistani refugees in India are concerned, we did have a Royal Australian Air Force Hercules aircraft taking blankets to that country, ft had left Butterworth at the time when this trouble broke out. [More…]
The blankets -ure at present at Butterworth and we are exploring alternative ways of getting them to the refugees where they are needed. [More…]
Perhaps I should also inform the House that the ‘Harima Maru’, which was carrying rice for the Pakistani refugees in India. [More…]
If it cannot get into Calcutta we may have to off-load at some other port and we will be exploring ways in which we can see that when our materials arrive they will get to their destination, that is, to the refugees. [More…]
To some extent this will depend on our capacity to solve the physical problems, as it has been our experience so far that material aid, arranged in concert with the Indian Government, has been the best type of aid to get to the refugees. [More…]
The actions of the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan have created more refugees in 6 months than the escalation of the war in Vietnam caused in 6 years, and possibly as many deaths. [More…]
Did the Acting Prime Minister receive a telegram on 11th November 1971 requesting the Government to take action immediately to see that Australian aid for refugees in India from East Pakistan is continuous and closely related to need. [More…]
Wasthe Acting Prime Minister also requested to see that the needs of the refugees be studied and reported on so that a complete and adequate programme for continuous aid for the refugees couid be submitted to Cabinet on his return to Australia thus enabling the programme to be put into effect immediately. [More…]
How many refugees from Hungary were admitted to Australia following and as a result of the Hungarian uprising in 1956-57. [More…]
How many refugees were admitted from Czechoslovakia following and as a result of the intervention of Russia in Czechoslavakia in 1968- 69. [More…]
The number of Hungarian refugees arriving in Australia under the Government’s assisted passage programme, between December, 1956 to the time the scheme for Hungarian refugees ceased to operate in 1961 was 14,060. [More…]
The number of Czechoslovakian refugees arriving in Australia from August 1968 to June, 1971 was 5,721. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in Bangla Desh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
direct aid to refugees now in India and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in Bangla Desh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The Australian Government immediately provide $10,000,000 in direct aid to refugees now in India and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in Bangla Desh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The Australian Government immediately provide $10,000,000 in direct aid to refugees now in India and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in Bangla Desh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The Australian Government immediately provide $10,000,000 in direct aid to refugees now in India and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in Bangla Desh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The Australian Government immediately provide $10,000,000 in direct aid to refugees now in India and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in BanglaDesh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The Australian Government immediately provide $10,000,000 in direct aid to refugees now in India and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in Bangla Desh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The Australian Government immediately provide $10,000,000 in direct aid to refugees now in India and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
That the immediate prospect for nearly 70 million Bengalis in Bangla Desh and 9 million refugees in the northeast region of India is of mass starvation on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The Australian Government immediately provide $10,000,000 in direct aid to refugees now in India and commit itself to a continuing aid programme. [More…]
press for a just solution to the conflict, so that the refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
press for a just solution to the conflict, so that the refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
press for a just solution to the conflict, so that the refugees may return to their homes* [More…]
press for a just solution to the conflict, so that the refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Also they are equally concerned about the desperate plight of millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, many of whom are worse off than the refugees, as they are not even receiving relief supplies. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that in tackling these great human problems in Bengal, by far the greatest this century, the House of Representiatves in Parliament assembled, will request that a special meeting of Cabinet be called to provide $10m for relief purposes in India and East Pakistan, and a further $50m over three years to help rehabilitate the refugees in East Pakistan. [More…]
That the suffering of the Pakistani refugees is such as to warrant immediate relief. [More…]
Press for a just solution, primarily through the United Nations, so that the refugees may return to their own homes. [More…]
That death from mass starvation and disease is occurring among Pakistan’s refugees to an extent that we are moved with great compassion and a sense of urgency. [More…]
I want to refer to the section relating to the Department of Foreign Affairs, international development and emergency relief for Pakistan refugees. [More…]
Some 10 million people are refugees on the borders of India and Pakistan. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills was mentioning relief to the refugees and various other factors associated with it, but the honourable member then extended his comment to the political situation and the recognition of Bangla Desh and relating this to the foreign affairs policy of the Government. [More…]
This goes for the people of Pakistan and the suffering refugees who, more than ever, will become the responsibility of the world community. [More…]
The following organisations connected with the United Nations normally operate in East Pakistan: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); World Food Programme (WFP): World Health Organisation (WHO); Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO): United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): International Labour Organisation (ILO); United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Bank Group. [More…]
Does the Government, regard the sustenance of the East Pakistani refugees presently in India as the primary responsibility of the (a) Indian Government, (b) Pakistan Government or (c) international community. [More…]
Can he say what proportion of the current cost of feeding and housing the East Pakistani refugees in India is currently being borne by (a), the Indian Government, (b) the Australian Government, (c) other Governments and (d) international organisations and charities. [More…]
What long-term strategy for the maintenance of the East Pakistani refugees does the Government support. [More…]
.What positive steps has the Government taken to encourage political conditions favourable to the return of the refugees to their homeland. [More…]
In my statement to the House on 27th October, 1 referred lo the fact thai the question of providing relief for the refugees has been recognised as an international one and noted that the Government acknowledges its obligation to make a significant contribution to the international effort. [More…]
The Australian Government’s pledges to the area total $A5.5m of which $4.5m is for the refugees in India. [More…]
In addition, Australian volum try organisations have provided about $A2m for the refugees. [More…]
The Government supports the attainment of a political settlement which would enable the refugees lo return to their homeland. [More…]
Will the Government propose to the United Nations Assembly that the pitiful conditions of the nine million refugees now in West Bengal, and the situation in East Pakistan, pose a threat to peace and international security and that consequently the United Nations Organisation should endeavour to bring about a peaceful settlement that will meet the already democratically expressed wishes of the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Will the Government offer permanent residence to at least 1,000 refugees from East Pakistan who are considered to have suitable qualifications for permanent settlement In Australia. [More…]
Has his attention ben drawn to a report in The Australian Financial Review of 20th October 1971 of a statement by the Chief of Public Affair; of the United Nations High Commissions for Refugees that the Australian Government asked the United Nations to pay for transportation costs incurred in shipping medical and food supplies ti> the refugee disaster area in India. [More…]
Can he say whether any estimates have been made by the Indian Government, the United Nations or other responsible organisations as lo the current monthly food and medical requirements needed to sustain the refugees in India. [More…]
Has the Government communicated with the Indian Government on the nature and extent of the aid which Australia can provide to relieve the suffering of the Pakistani refugees. [More…]
Australia has paid the freight costs of all other supplies provided far the refugees. [More…]
From what countries and In what numbers have (a) national migrants and (b) refugees come to Australia under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
That suffering has occurred among Pakistan’s refugees on a scale unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
The humble petition of certain citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully shows that there are still many refugees in India in urgent need of aid. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government immediately increase Australia’s contribution for refugee relief in Bangla Desh by $10 million and take action so that the refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
The humble petition of certain citizens ef the Commonwealth respectfully shows that there are still many refugees in India in urgent need of aid. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government immediately increase Australia’s contribution for refugee relief in Bangla Desh by $10 million and take action so that the refugees may return to their homes. [More…]
We want to provide the maximum aid we can in terms of direct assistance to the refugees and those people who are unable to look after themselves, either inside or outside Bangla Desh, and that is the reason- [More…]
However, the main factor which brought about its creation was the greatest movement of refugees this century - as some 10 million refugees crossed into the nearby Indian States - from mainly West Bengal, during the 9 months commencing March 25th 1971, up to the end of November. [More…]
It is well known why they came, as the story of the refugees has been constantly told throughout the world per media of the press, radio, television, etc. [More…]
Whilst millions of refugees were able to escape to India, millions more within East Pakistan were refugees within their own country, and some 3 million of these lost their lives in a gruesome way. [More…]
No doubt the determining factor which forced India’s hand was the refugee problem as she could not alone cope with the intolerable position where she had to provide for some 10 million refugees, as it was affecting India’s economy, and this was preventing her from tackling her own enormous problems of poverty, illiteracy, over-population, etc. [More…]
Her great victory quickly brought freedom for the people of Bangla Desh and the refugees in India and this alone warranted India’s action. [More…]
Whilst India did everything possible to provide for the refugees, their plight in the camps was grim and desperate, particularly during the monsoon, which was the worst in 25 years, as thousands continued to arrive each day with a peak of from 70,000 to 100,000 a day from April to June 1971. [More…]
Never before has there been such a large movement of refugees. [More…]
Prior to the war even the most optimistic person believed that a certain percentage of the refugees would be in India for many years. [More…]
The refugees have returned to their new country at the rate of one million a week which was never expected. [More…]
The movement of these unfortunate people in such large numbers makes the Normandy landing and D-Day operations, which were meticulously planned by top military administrators, tiny by comparison as a Dunkirk has taken place each day in the evacuation of the refugees back to Bangla Desh. [More…]
It must also be remembered that the refugees - illiterate farmers, small shopkeepers and so on - were not disciplined like servicemen. [More…]
However, allowing for all these factors, the evacuation of 10 million refugeeswithin a few weeks is truly a miracle. [More…]
Whilst the Press came from around the world to record the plight of the refugees in India, their great evacuation has gone unheralded. [More…]
This resulted in some 10 million refugees fleeing to nearby Indian States, mainly West Bengal. [More…]
In addition to giving further consideration to increasing Australia’s financial contribution to the United Nations for the relief of the 5 to 6 million East Pakistani refugees in India, will he appeal to all Pakistani and Indian doctors; now in Australia, to show some patriotic interest in the sufferings of their fellow countrymen, women and children and return immediately to East Pakistan or India where their medical skills are much more urgently needed than they are in Australia. [More…]
Some of them ure refugees in the cities with their families. [More…]
There was also a drop in the number of migrants from Yugoslavia for the first time since migrants were first encouraged from that country, either directly through our migration office there or under the guise of refugees through the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration from Vienna. [More…]
The total number of refugees or people whose homes and villages have been relocated has been estimated by Senator Edward Kennedy, who heads a United States Senate subcommittee on refugees, as exceeding 6 million. [More…]
The familiar pattern of destruction of the countryside, the generation of refugees and the occurrence of civilian casualties is being repeated each day in these countries. [More…]
Hence millions of refugees are created. [More…]
The streams of refugees are greater than at any time since 1968, but there was no vigil this Easter outside Parliament House. [More…]
Organisation; S2.4m for Commonwealth scholarships to cover a greater number of awards and an increase in university fees; $1.2m for education services in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, mainly for increases in teachers salaries; $0.6m is sought for payment to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account for the acquisition of land off reserves - further funds pursuant to the Prime Minister’s policy statement of 26th January last will be provided in the Budgets for 1972-73 and subsequent years: $1.5m aid for Pakistan refugees before the establishment of the independent state of Bangladesh; $l.Sm rehabilitation, and relief aid for Bangladesh; Si. [More…]
The reaction of the local population brings back memories of refugees fleeing before the Nazi invasion of Europe in the 1940s. [More…]
It is worth remembering that no country which has ever been firmly under communist rule has emerged from that communist rate into freedom, and the 800,000 refugees from North Vietnam who fled to South Vietnam rather than suffer under communist rule are a clear indication of this. [More…]
Refugees are in flight and it surely is significant that they are fleeing to the protection of the Government. [More…]
The request for assistance which I have received relates to shelter for refugees and for ambulances. [More…]
5m to assist the East Pakistan refugees in India last October. [More…]
The balance, that is S2m, arrived several weeks too late to provide any worthwhile assistance whilst the refugees were in West Bengal. [More…]
During this crisis I repeatedly stated that India and the United Nations urgently needed cash, not goods, to provide immediate relief for the refugees. [More…]
I might add that I had good reasons for suggesting a cash donation of Si Om for the refugees, as I had spent some time visiting a number of refugee camps during the monsoon season last year. [More…]
For these reasons we can take little credit from the fact that we are currently spending $2m on assistance to Bangladesh as this $2m is the amount which was not spent while the refugees were in India. [More…]
and genocide in East Pakistan resulted in 10 million refugees fleeing to the nearby Indian States - mainly West Bengal. [More…]
The Government’s contribution to the greatest movement of refugees in modern times was $3. [More…]
Against this requirement Australia has, to date, provided nothing, if one takes into consideration the fact that the $2m currently being spent should have been spent on the refugees. [More…]
The applications were considered in accordance with the normal guidelines and principles of the United Nations Convention on Refugees. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report in the Australian Jewish News of Nth July 1972 in which Dr El-Hafez, President of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Lebanese Parliament, and at that date a guest of his Department, in commenting on accusations that armed men, using Lebanon as a security haven, launch attacks on Israel or areas controlled by Israel, was reported as saying that there are Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon but denying that they, are terrorists, that there is a resistance movement which has a right to fight for Palestine but denying that they receive help from Government of Lebanon and denying also that the Government has any responsibility to police their infiltration into neighbouring ‘occupied Palestine’ which he believes is the responsibility of the Israeli Police. [More…]
There are many problems in the Middle East but none is insoluble, including and especially the great human problem of the Arab refugees. [More…]
Of course, most of the refugees will never be able to return to Israel any more than the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who fled from the Arab nations could realistically return to their former homes. [More…]
But the refugees can and must be settled and rehabilitated and, indeed, this is the only long term and permanent solution to Arab terrorism as well as the overall Middle East crisis. [More…]
In addition to the very substantial aid which Australia gave when the refugees from East Pakistan were in India we have given food and medical supplies, shelter in the form of corrugated iron and 4-wheel drive trucks, to the value of $3m direct to Bangladesh. [More…]
I make a special plea to the Minister and to the Department of Immigration to realise that the Department is dealing with people who are for practical purposes refugees, political or religious refugees. [More…]
The only really helpful move comes from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who has indicated that these 23,000 Asians would qualify lor United Nations assistance. [More…]
There were refugees, floods, and all the rest of it, and we were almost the last country to move in any effective way. [More…]
Had cash been sent I am sure that many of the refugees in the camps could have been saved. [More…]
One of the ways in which we have been antagonising the Soviet Union up until now has been by accepting its political refugees into Australia. [More…]
Having said that - and having established my credentials as a coward - 1 should like to raise the broad question of balancing the proposition of hijacking against the proposition of giving refuge to political refugees in the case of countries from which it is impossible for these people to leave without committing some crime against that country, by the definition in that country’s criminal code or method of enforcing its criminal code. [More…]
As far as I see it, the proposition is a one way affair because there will be no political refugees who will find it necessary to hijack planes to leave countries outside the Iron Curtain to get inside the Iron Curtain, but there will be people who consider that to be a necessary means of getting out from behind the Iron Curtain. [More…]
What sum, to date, has Australia contributed to the aid of Pakistani refugees from: (a) Government sources and (b) non-government sources. [More…]
What proportions of these financial contributions have been utilised in (a) transport charges, (b) administrative costs, and (c) delivering supplies to the refugees. [More…]
(a) Aid to the East Pakistani Refugees [More…]
Altogether $A5.5m was originally allocated for the relief of the East Pakistani refugees in India in a series of 5 pledges made by the Government between 2nd June 1971 and 27th October 1971. [More…]
Of this sum, $A2m was subsequently diverted to Bangladesh after the war and when the refugees began to return. [More…]
The funds used to assist the refugees in India were channelled as follows: [More…]
Examination of this shows that it reflects the lower proportion of refugees in current immigration - that is, refugees tend to stay more than other migrants - the greater ease of travel in recent years, the strong economic attraction of western Europe, and the growing number of skilled and highly qualified persons who, as part of an increasingly mobile international community, often move from Australia after a few years. [More…]
Let me mention by way of example the saturation bombing, the removal of peasants from their traditional homes, the effects of the war on the Vietnamese people themselves, the degradation, the refugees and the children orphaned by the war. [More…]
Here 19,000 refugees were placed in a refugee camp near the border of the 2 countries. [More…]
The Zambian authorities did not want to deal with these unwanted visitors and the Jehovah’s Witnesses refugees were placed under security guards and only a few shipments of much needed food, medical supplies, bedding and so on, were allowed in. [More…]
But worse was to come for the remaining Jehovah’s Witness refugees. [More…]
Zambia authorities told the Witnesses in December, only a few months later, that they had decided to ship the refugees back to Malawi. [More…]
They did not tell the refugees this but they were told they would be taken to another camp in Zambia. [More…]
Well, honourable members can guess what happened when the Jehovah’s Witness refugees were sent back to the country from which they had recently fled. [More…]
The Government’s attitude towards them had not changed and the persecution was even worse when the refugees returned. [More…]
Its actions following the IndiaPakistan War in organising recognition of the new State of Bangladesh, its ready and effective help during the time that the refugees presented such a problem for India and its economy, and the cordial talks which I had with Mrs Ghandi and with the Indian Foreign Minister, Mr Swaran Singh, during my visit as Foreign Minister to New Delhi last year, all contributed to the strength of this relationship. [More…]
I thought that you understood my position and that you were sympathetic with ICEM’s work with refugees. [More…]
It has been given in the forms of emergency aid for refugees, food aid, relief and rehabilitation activities and training. [More…]
Withdrawal from ICEM will not impede Australia’s capacity to provide resettlement opportunities for refugees. [More…]
We have informed the Director of ICEM that following withdrawal Australia will give sympathetic consideration to any request made by ICEM for the resettlement of refugees for which that organisation may be responsible in future, including the provision of assisted passages where appropriate. [More…]
Moreover, Australia will continue to play an active role as a member of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. [More…]
It represents a rejection by the Labor Government of the principle that refugees are a common international responsibility. [More…]
This organisation as an international body moves refugees for resettlement. [More…]
We could ignore the organisation, move the refugees ourselves and pay for them. [More…]
We are only one member contributing towards the resettlement of refugees. [More…]
Since that time Australia and ICEM have co-operated closely in the emigration of nationals and refugees to Australia. [More…]
The positive value of the operational capacity of ICEM has been demonstrated by its assistance of the stateless, the political refugees and the homeless in postwar Europe. [More…]
It was demonstrated last year in the evacuation of Asian refugees from Uganda. [More…]
May I also say that Australia is honouring its international obligations to refugees because we are associated with the United Nations effort, the major effort in this regard. [More…]
But I should like to say that I think the position in Australia reflects great credit on both sides of the Parliament because it was under the previous Administration when permission was given for the issue of some 500 visas to assist in the problem of settling refugees from East Africa. [More…]
Since that time, we have had a request from the High Commissioner for Refugees for an additional 50 visas to assist in the remnants of the resettlement and the Prime Minister in his capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs was happy to agree with my suggestion that they be issued. [More…]
H. Paddick a migrant selection officer, came back from Nairobi where he was instrumental in selecting many of these refugees. [More…]
He was present at the ‘Endeavour’ hostel at a thank-you function to all the people in Australia who had been concerned with the resettlement of these refugees. [More…]
It is my understanding that they have resettled at least 600,000 refugees from various countries in Europe and from Arab nations. [More…]
One specific example of that which has direct relevance to the current state of international affairs concerns aid to Palestinian refugees, of whom there are about one million living in United Nations refugee camps. [More…]
We know that Tibetan refugees, including the most eminent Tibetan refugees - and I have spoken of the Dalai Lama - accuse the Chinese Communists - whether rightly or wrongly we do not know, but the accusation stands - of conducting a systematic assassination of the Tibetan people and of their culture. [More…]
They will argue on the basis that we should look at the problem of the Palestinian refugees. [More…]
Some 300,000 to 400,000 Arab refugees left that area and were deposited in the areas that were known as the Gaza Strip, in parts of Lebanon and what was part of the proposed Arab state and ultimately was absorbed into Jordan. [More…]
It would have been no problem whatsoever for the Arabs to absorb into their own countries those few hundred thousand refugees. [More…]
Good Lord, the Israelis took 3 million people from around the world, but the Arabs could not accept 400,000 refugees. [More…]
You must take these 400,000 refugees’. [More…]
I believe even the problem of the Arab refugees can be solved. [More…]
I believe that there should be a world effort to settle the Palestinian refugees and to see that they have a chance of a life better than that which they now have. [More…]
It was this concern for people that led him, at the end of his parliamentary career, to become a director of the Resettlement of Refugees Department of the World Council of Churches. [More…]
I do call this into question because I believe that the amending sub-section could be used in relation to what we know as political crimes and could be a weapon of terror to be held over a large number of people who have come to Australia as refugees from communist countries and who are very frightened of being sent back. [More…]
Surely the Government does not intend to open loopholes for communist states to abuse or hold in terrorem our new citizens who have come as refugees to Australia believing that they will be safe from the tentacles of communist extradition. [More…]
But there are 3 components in the Government’s attitude on this matter - sovereignty, occupied territories and refugees. [More…]
One expects the Government to have a crack at the Americans, the Brits and so on, but who would have thought that it would have alienated Aborigines, and who would have thought that it would have alienated those refugees who sought refuge after the last World War in Australia where they could find a home safe from the knock on the door in the night, the secret police and the footsteps in the corridor? [More…]
It is for this reason that Australia, together with many other countries in the world, has rejected the constant and persistent pleas of the world organisation to accept some of the Albanian refugees who are in a camp outside of Belgrade. [More…]
Last year the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees requested the comments of the Australian Government on its draft convention on territorial asylum. [More…]
I also refer the questioner to the answers provided by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to Senator Gielzelt’s question on Chilean refugees on 23 July 1974. [More…]
The peace-keeping force mission is continuing and Australia will probably contribute to the relief of refugees through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees’ program which has not yet been fully worked out. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House and the people of Australia to the number of refugees in Cyprus. [More…]
They have divided the needs of the refugees into the various centres- -Kakopetria, Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos. [More…]
Any citizens in Australia who can donate sleeping bags, bed sheets, face towels, children’s wear, knitting wool or any other commodities like these can contact the Cypriot communities in Adelaide, Melbourne or Sydney, who have details of the great needs of the Cypriot refugees. [More…]
I refer most specifically to the way in which we seem to be denying to refugees from the Soviet bloc the asylum to which they are properly entitled here in the Australian community. [More…]
The Government is quite happy to let Chilean refugees come to Australia- and so it should. [More…]
The requirements were impossible for many of them because they were in fact refugees from the Iraqi regime. [More…]
If we are to allow refugees into this country then, almost by definition, many of them will not have valid travel documents. [More…]
Discussions which my officers have had with representatives of the Australian Council of Churches and the Assyrian-Australian Association suggest that some at least may fall within the mandate of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. [More…]
From the same statement Senator Murphy states that assisted passage is also being granted in neighbouring countries where some refugees are in temporary sanctuaries. [More…]
Can the Minister also say what sum each of those countries has contributed to the following United Nations voluntary funds: (a) U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF), (b) U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, (c) U.N. Capital Development Fund, (d) U.N. Development Program, (e) [More…]
Is it because suddenly the world has been struck with a conscience about the Palestinian refugees? [More…]
The Palestinian refugees have been sitting there since 1948. [More…]
That is the reason why interest is suddenly being shown in the Palestinian refugees. [More…]
From then onward the word Palestine almost disappeared from out lexicon for more than twenty years- except as a convenient way of identifying the Arab refugees displaced from the beginning of the hostilities of 1 948. [More…]
1 ) Will the Australian Government be making arrangements to bring Greek-Cypriot female refugees to Australia. [More…]
) If so, how many refugees are involved. [More…]
Who will select the refugees. [More…]
(4) How will the refugees be brought to Australia. [More…]
Where will the refugees be accommodated (a) prior to travel to Australia and (b) when they arrive in Australia. [More…]
What arrangements will be made for schooling and training of the refugees. [More…]
Who will be legally responsible for the welfare of the refugees following arrival in Australia. [More…]
The Government proposes in 1 974/5 to provide $ 1 50.000 to help meet the economic and social needs of people under the care of African national liberation movements and those who have fled as refugees to neighbouring countries such as Tanzania and Zambia. [More…]
This is the Minister who denied assistance to one of the young newly elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly who went to Adelaide to try to help the establishment of the rescue operations and to try to follow the refugees down the track, helping where he could. [More…]
Please accept my warm appreciation and deep admiration for your help to evacuate the many desperate refugees from Da Nang. [More…]
On 2 April I announced a further contribution of $ lm to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ‘ relief work among refugees in all parts of Indo-China, on both sides of the lines of military control. [More…]
Yesterday the Foreign Minister (Senator Willesee) announced a further grant of Sim to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
I think it is quite plain that it is that mission that prompted the Government to take some action in relation to the refugees. [More…]
I think if we look at the different actions of the Government in relation to South Vietnam and Chile we will find that there are marked differences in the treatment of refugees from the 2 countries. [More…]
This House is entitled to ask whether the difference in action in regard to the refugees from the 2 countries depends upon the ideological background and the nature of the refugees concerned. [More…]
One or two million refugees could be involved in Vietnam and a major international effort ought to be aroused and the conscience of the world ought to be stirred. [More…]
This, of course, involves much greater support for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. [More…]
It should plan to take to Australia if necessary some thousands of refugees, adults or children, if consultations with South Vietnam indicate that that is a desirable course. [More…]
It should also plan for continuing civil aid in South Vietnam even in areas overrun by the North but on the condition I mentionedinspection teams from the United Nations or appropriate voluntary agencies who would supervise the use of aid and the support of refugees. [More…]
The aim seems to be to suggest in some sort of way that the Australian Government is responsible for the defeats of the Saigon Government in Vietnam, for the refugees or for the orphans. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), the lap dog of the Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns), who has left the House now with the Treasurer as that Minister has completed his speech, spoke out last week on the matter of refugees. [More…]
Have we made representations to other countries that Australia be a staging post for refugees before they go on to other countries? [More…]
The next morning the South Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Refugees sought to examine the refugee problem. [More…]
The claim that the cause of the Viet Cong was a popular one supported by the mass of the population is utterly falsified by the human flood of refugees seeking at great risk and hardship to escape from their control. [More…]
We have provided $lm to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. [More…]
In a highly commendable article in the ‘National Times’ on 7 April 1975 entitled ‘The Avalanche of Human Misery’, Michael Richardson referred in some detail to his discussions in the past fortnight with dozens of refugees from South Vietnam’s central highlands and its northern provinces. [More…]
That the following words be added to the motion: ‘and calls upon the Government to provide more meaningful aid and assistance to refugees in the Khmer Republic and South Vietnam and at the same time calls upon the Australian Government to seek a cease fire in both the Khmer Republic and South Vietnam and urges that: [More…]
b ) to maximise support for refugees which involves the support of the United Nations High Commission for refugees. [More…]
The Government plan to take into Australia some thousands of refugees, including orphans, if consultations with South Vietnam indicate that this is a desirable course. [More…]
The Government plan for continuing civil aid in South Vietnam even in areas overrun by the Northbut on condition that United Nations inspection teams, or appropriate voluntary agencies, supervise - the use of aid in support of refugees. [More…]
The second matter to which I wish to refer and to which my amendment refers is the subject of the future of” the refugees. [More…]
I want the people of this land and this Parliament to know that it was not until the afternoon of last Friday that a submission went to the Government recommending what criteria should be considered for Vietnamese refugees wishing to come to Australia. [More…]
There is more consternation, worry and tragedy because of the mass evacuation of refugees. [More…]
There are millions of refugees. [More…]
Last November the United Nations Children’s Fund received some $550,000, Red Cross received $100,000 and the refugees received another $500,000. [More…]
In March the Red Cross received a further amount of $200,000 and in April, the refugees received a further $lm. [More…]
The project is of a humanitarian nature and involves provision of schools, health clinics, child care centres, agricultural training units and nutrition units for refugees from Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, Namibia and Angola who have temporarily settled in Zambia. [More…]
North Vietnam’s protest was disclosed by British diplomats here who said their Hanoi embassy had received a similarly worded protest about a frigate being sent to evacuate refugees. [More…]
The 7 CI 30s began relief flying in earnest on 2 April, when about 1400 refugees were flown from Phan Rang on the east coast to Can Tho, south-west of Saigon. [More…]
Will he advise the House why his Government did not direct the Department of Foreign Affairs and other appropriate departments to prepare in advance comprehensive contingency plans for the relief of Vietnamese refugees and war orphans? [More…]
Will he also advise the House why it was not until last Friday that an interdepartmental submission was prepared recommending which classifications of refugees should be allowed entry into Australia? [More…]
How and when will the Government permit, or how does it propose to expedite, the entry of refugees into Australia or elsewhere? [More…]
The situation with regard to refugees is that the South Vietnamese Government has not relaxed its policy on exit permits in any respect other than as regards orphans. [More…]
As regards adult refugees, the Government of South Vietnam has shown no inclination whatever to change the rules which it has applied for very many years. [More…]
I saw Dr Penny Keyes struggling with an untold number of refugees. [More…]
We recently saw the situation in Da Nang where thousands and thousands of orphans and potential refugees were allowed to die while waiting for their allies, as they thought them to be, who failed to go and get them- who let them down in their most desperate hour of need. [More…]
I would like it to have shown the refugees retreating to the north. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister know that no such restriction as he has placed on Vietnamese was applied to refugees from Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Chile? [More…]
-With some sadness I rise to make what will probably be my last comments on the South Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
To do this he was prepared to betray the interests and the wellbeing of hundreds of South Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
He personally delayed action for 3 weeks, despite appeals from colleagues and official advisers, and established guidelines so late in the day and so narrowly drawn that very few refugees would qualify. [More…]
He is shamed and embarrassed by the prospect of some thousands of South Vietnamese refugees making their own way to our shores. [More…]
The fact that the Prime Minister was prepared to support North Vietnam and betray South Vietnamese refugees is, however, incidental to the central charge against him- the charge of deception of this Parliament and the Australian people. [More…]
He has favoured a communist cause, and has sacrificed many hundreds of refugees in the process. [More…]
The editorial continued: … the miserable evidence suggests that our Government has betrayed refugees and dealt in a two-faced way with foreign governments and with the Parliament and the people of Australia. [More…]
There is also the issue of the Prime Minister’s attitude to the Vietnamese refugees and the sense of shame this has caused so many Australians. [More…]
So it is rather sad but not surprising to find that the Opposition is still more intent on making political capital out of the outcome in Vietnam, including the plight of refugees and in quibbling at the margin about the interpretation of certain relatively unimportant documents, than in making an intelligent and objective assessment of the lessons to be learned. [More…]
-Probably nearly 2 weeks ago, certainly the weekend before last, the Government told the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees that it was willing to take part in a program to settle those who had left South Vietnam. [More…]
On 4 May ships and small vessels began arriving in Singapore from South Vietnam, carrying large numbers of refugees. [More…]
On 6 May the Australian Government approached the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations and urged that there should be co-ordinated international action under the direction of the High Commissioner for the placement of refugees from Vietnam in as many countries as possible. [More…]
The UNHCR sent his regional representative in South-East Asia to Singapore to make contact with the refugees. [More…]
It was quite some days before the Singapore authorities allowed the UNHCR ‘s regional representative to make contact with the refugees. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the problem of Vietnamese refugees is a very difficult one and clearly the best solution is an international effort under the co-ordinating direction of the UNHCR. [More…]
Foodstuffs are being supplied to refugees in IndoChina through the joint operations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, which is closely linked with the work done by Red Cross organisations. [More…]
The fact that I am raising the question of refugees from Vietnam in the adjournment debate tonight is brought about only by the shallow device introduced by the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) which prevented the Opposition bringing forward this matter earlier during this sitting of the House. [More…]
There was no reluctance to accept refugees from Chile on humanitarian grounds. [More…]
Firstly, why was there a gap of almost 3 weeks before the Government announced its criteria of entry for South Vietnamese refugees? [More…]
It was patently obvious that it did not want to accept refugees from South Vietnam and yet it persisted with this shallow pretence. [More…]
Why was it that after only a token load of 90 refugees had been evacuated from Saigon the Australian Embassy closed its doors and left so many others behind, 250 of which were qualified to come? [More…]
On the 7th of this month, in another example of the all too familiar policy acrobatics we have come to expect from the present Government, the Prime Minister announced that Australia would accept an ‘unspecified number of Vietnamese refugees who have found their way out of South Vietnam’. [More…]
The question is this: How genuine and how honest have been the Australian Government’s attempts to assist the refugees of South Vietnam? [More…]
Press reports last weekend show that even Mr Morrison’s magnanimous offer to ‘give every possible assistance’ to those refugees who reach the Philippines or Thailand has been ignored. [More…]
Further, what of the report in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald ‘ of 8 May that the head of the United States Interagency Task Force on Refugees told a United States State Department Press conference that Australia would be taking fewer than 100 refugees. [More…]
On 13 May he said that many thousands of South Vietnamese would want to return home- meaning that he would rather they returned home- while only on Monday of this week he claimed that Australians would probably feel resentful towards Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
It is also in direct contradiction of the statement of his Special Adviser on Community Relations who said on 10 May that Australians would welcome 1500 South Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
We have not sought to play politics about refugees. [More…]
We have said that significant numbers of refugees should be allowed to come to Australia and we supported any moves to bring this situation about. [More…]
However, its behaviour over the question of the Vietnamese refugees could only lead even a biased observer such as myself to conclude that the Australian people have been sadly misled in their expectations regarding the policies of this so-called Government of compassion. [More…]
I do not consider that there will be many people seeking refuge from South Vietnam in the case of the formation of a government without Thieu, Ky and Khiem, the only requirements still to be met for an end to the war unless a campaign to influence people to become refugees is conducted. [More…]
It tried to cover up its tracks by saying that no Asian Government was prepared to take Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
-Can the Prime Minister tell me how many people are estimated to be eligible for admission to Australia as refugees under the guidelines published in relation to persons who are in a position to move if they wish to do so? [More…]
) begin to apply humanitarian principles in its dealings with Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
This had resulted in significant quantities of skim milk powder being left on Melbourne wharves waiting for delivery to Phnom Penh while in Phnom Penh many thousands of refugees were waiting to receive the product of the milk reconstitution plant. [More…]
-Does the Prime Minister regard the 66 Vietnamese refugees who entered Australia on 17 May 1975 as the fair share of Indo-Chinese refugees in the terms that he gave an assurance to President Ford on his recent visit to the United States of America? [More…]
Is he prepared to broaden the eligibility criteria of those who are in essence not immigrants but refugees? [More…]
Finally, would he be prepared to receive some members of the deputation of the Welfare Committee for Refugees from Indo-China who I understand are in Canberra today? [More…]
Of course, there is a difference in the criteria for admission of migrants from Vietman which applied before there was a change of government in Vietnam, and the evacuees from Vietnam who are now within American jurisdiction on the one hand and the refugees on the other hand. [More…]
The criteria for the admission of refugees are obviously wider than the criteria for the admission of migrants or evacuees. [More…]
It is well known; I have given answers to questions on notice and the Foreign Minister has given answers to questions on notice concerning the approach that the Australian Government made some 4 weeks ago, I think it was, to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees whose skill and standing in these matters are most desirable in meeting the situation for resettlement in other countries or repatriation to their own countries. [More…]
It might interest honourable gentlemen to be informed of a statement which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recently made. [More…]
1 ) How many Vietnamese refugees have applied to come to Australia since Saigon fell to the Communists. [More…]
What indication have potential applicants been given of Australian willingness to accept some refugees. [More…]
Has the entry of any refugees been approved; if so, how many. [More…]
On territorial asylum, Australia participated in the drafting of, and cosponsored, resolution 32 72 (xxix) establishing a Group of Experts, composed of representatives of twentyseven States, to review the text of a draft Convention on Territorial Asylum submitted to the attention of the General Assembly by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
-Certain South Vietnamese refugees, quite properly, were required to give such an undertaking. [More…]
On 28 November the Acting Foreign Minister announced a gift of 31.5 tonnes of Australian canned beef, worth $50,000 to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ appeal for aid for displaced persons on Cyprus. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister Have some South Vietnamese refugees been required to sign a document undertaking not to take part in any political activity in Australia? [More…]
Have refugees from any other country coming to Australia ever been asked to sign a similar undertaking? [More…]
Was any undertaking required of the Chilean refugees that they should not participate in politics or political discussions in Australia? [More…]
Has any undertaking similar to that required of refugees from South Vietnam been required of any other category of refugees admitted into Australia since the admission of refugees first began? [More…]
There is no requirement of the character that I earlier described for categories of refugees as a whole. [More…]
Hundreds of Vietnamese refugees have come to this country. [More…]
They were in general refugees who were not going to be admitted by any other country in our region. [More…]
The honourable gentleman wants to continue to exploit for his political purposes those refugees who have come to Australia as a result of the disastrous failure of the policies which his Government supported in Vietnam throughout the 1960s. [More…]
They asked whether it was true that the Government had instructed certain Vietnamese refugees to sign statements requiring them not to be involved in Australian political life. [More…]
We have brought into this land political refugees from many lands. [More…]
It is not in our interests nor in the interests of the Vietnamese refugees for us to continually rake over old coals. [More…]
The Prime Minister will be aware of the very real concern felt by honourable members on this side of the House about the position in Portuguese Timor and of the plight of refugees from there. [More…]
The immorality of the Government’s decision to deny the right of free speech and expression to specific Vietnamese refugees in Australia. [More…]
This versatile ship could also be used for civilian emergency tasks such as rescue work and the evacuation of refugees. [More…]
The immorality of the Government’s decision to deny the right of free speech and expression to specific Vietnamese refugees in Australia. [More…]
-I raise this matter of public importance again today- it was gagged last week- because I believe that the special requirement imposed on 9 South Vietnamese refugees seeking entry into Australia carries implications for all Australian citizens and all those who may seek citizenship in the future. [More…]
Before raising this matter I sought from the Prime Minister a copy of the requirement signed by the refugees. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill, Vice Chairman of the Federal Labor Party’s Immigration Committee, said in an address entitled Refugees in the World Today delivered on Thursday of last week, that is, 28 August: … the sympathy, understanding and tolerance with which the Government’s policies are administered apply no less strongly to refugees than to migrants generally. [More…]
It also means that Australia does not discriminate between refugees on grounds of race, nationality, politics - he mentioned it again- creed or sex. [More…]
This Australian Government in the last stages of the Vietnam war provided assistance and, apart from the United States, took more refugees than any other country. [More…]
It provided more than $3.5m for active assistance to the Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
He talks of Papua New Guinea and the imposition upon refugees entering that country from West Irian of an undertaking not to engage in politics. [More…]
This is why those refugees were told not to engage in politics. [More…]
There are hundreds of refugees now scattered throughout the southern cities of Australia. [More…]
For example, there has been a requirement by France which has advised refugees that they are considered to be under a moral obligation not to become involved. [More…]
It was required of 6 senior diplomats and 3 senior military officers out of 600 refugees. [More…]
I have been to see the Vietnamese refugees in their hostel at East Hills in Sydney. [More…]
If honourable members opposite want to stir up strife, to cause misunderstanding and a feeling of insecurity or to attempt to perpetuate hatreds which are inherited, let them talk to some of the refugees from Timor. [More…]
Regretfully, they are pathetic, unfortunate people who are here as refugees. [More…]
As it was further made clear that this proposed convention was seeking to apply the same principles as followed in connection with the rights of territorial asylum and the convention on the rights of refugees, I ask the Prime Minister: Because of the need to at least appear to be truthful to the rest of the world will he withdraw the quite un-Australian shackles that he has placed on a number of Vietnamese refugees which still prevent them from pursuing in this country their full political rights? [More…]
I point out that there are already in Australia over 1000 adult refugees from Vietnam and over 2000 refugees from Portuguese Timor, none of whom could have entered Australia under the racist policies which the Government of the honourable member for Lilley, our predecessors, used to apply. [More…]
In May of this year the Prime Minister, the honourable Gough Whitlam, announced a contribution of $lm for relief work among refugees in Indo-China. [More…]
This money assisted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in relief and rehabilitation projects for refugees in aU parts of Indo-China. [More…]
On 3 April 1975, during a statement to launch the Indo-China-Vietnam appeal, the Prime Minister spoke of the promptness with which our Government had acted to assist in the plight of homeless refugees. [More…]
Australia has brought more refugees out of Vietnam than any other government except the United States. [More…]
On 23 July 1975 the Prime Minister announced that the Australian Government had decided to initiate a special survey of Vietnamese refugees who had settled recently in Australia He announced that the survey would take approximately 5 years, would be conducted by Dr Jean Martin of the Australian National University and would encompass such things as the refugees’ reasons for leaving their own country; their social characteristics; their aspirations in their new homeland; what Australian Government assistance in maintenance and welfare they requested, or needed and received; the problems they thought they might have to face in settling in Australia and how these compared with the problems actually encountered; the problems of culture and language difference that they had to face; what happened to their cultural identity in the process of resettlement; and to what extent, if at all, they suffered from racism. [More…]
With no previous study of refugees living in this country, the task was made more laborious for the Labor Government. [More…]
Australia has worked closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and part of our Government’s commitment to this world service has been to take refugees from Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
Our country selected refugees who were least likely to be selected by other countries, people who did not have recognised skills and who normally would not be eligible for entry to Australia, people who were caught in a morass of social upheaval and degradation, people given the opportunity- to use a good Australian expression- to have a ‘fair go’, which is something the Liberal governments during their 23 years of rule, were loath to give the vast majority of Australians. [More…]
It could well have been a flood- and it may well still turn out to be a flood and not a trickle of refugees. [More…]
-No doubt the Minister for Northern Australia is aware of the dangers of exotic diseases being introduced into the livestock industries of northern Australia through the exodus of refugees from Timor with their personal effects. [More…]
Very strict quarantine measures have been taken with respect to the refugees from Timor. [More…]
All of the refugees are searched very thoroughly in respect of anything that they may be carrying. [More…]
This year particularly UNICEF, the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees have all run into serious deficits and it has been necessary for Australia to make an increase in their allocations -otherwise they would have most disruptive effects on the United Nations Organisation and make it even more impotent than the honourable member for Ryan said it is. [More…]
The point I want to raise tonight is related to refugees who have come into Australia over a number of years and refugees who may possibly be seeking to come into Australia in the future. [More…]
There is no doubt that in these troubled times- in fact, in recent historyrefugees have provided a major humanitarian problem throughout the world. [More…]
Up until fairly recently Australia had a very proud record in relation to its acceptance of and treatment of applications for assistance to refugees who wished to come to this country. [More…]
For instance, from 1945 to December 1973, 426 000 refugees arrived in Australia. [More…]
Between 1945 and 1951, 50000 refugees from Soviet occupied Europe came to Australia. [More…]
It is worth recalling that only the United States of America took more refugees from that area in that time. [More…]
Between the years 1951 and 1961 the Australian Government spent the equivalent of $260,000 for the purpose of resettling refugees in Australia. [More…]
In 1974 we took refugees from Cyprus and Chile. [More…]
More than 2000 refugees have now come from Chile. [More…]
I would like to speak briefly about that aspect of Australia’s refugee program because it appears to me that refugees have become a political question rather than a humanitarian one under the Labor Government. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that we have had a number of refugees seeking to come to Australia from Chile over a number of years. [More…]
They came, as far as I can gather, of their own free will and they were accepted here as refugees from that regime. [More…]
In many cases these people are political refugees straight from the prisons, and, I am informed, people who have not been accepted by other countries. [More…]
I believe that we have an obligation to accept refugees, and political refugees amongst them. [More…]
However, I become very concerned when I see developing in Australia a situation where refugees from the same country, taking 2 completely opposite political sides, are coming here in some numbers within a short period of time. [More…]
And evidence has been put before me of political activities undertaken by these left wing political refugees who have come to Australia from Chile. [More…]
I contrast that situation with the Labor Party’s attitude towards allowing Vietnamese refugees to come to Australia. [More…]
I believe that the attitude of the Government towards the plight of Vietnamese refugees has been nothing short of shameful. [More…]
Whitlam)- we must remember that the Prime Minister’s directive ensured that this policy came about-towards the request of Vietnamese students already in Australia and the request of Vietnamese refugees in many areas of the world to come to Australia has been little short of shameful. [More…]
Is it going to continue to make judgments purely on political grounds as it seems to have done in relation to Chilean refugees in recent times, and particularly the Vietnamese refugees? [More…]
Let me remind honourable members once again that nine of the Vietnamese refugees have been denied basic political rights in Australia and this is something that has never happened before in the history of this country. [More…]
At the present time refugees are coming to Australia from a number of countries. [More…]
The Government’s stand, as reported in the Australian, was that Australia would not allow refugees to settle in this country unless they could meet normal immigration standards. [More…]
I went up to Darwin to assess at first hand the way in which the Government was handling the problem of the East Timorese refugees arriving in Australia. [More…]
It is not unlikely that in the future we could have very large numbers of refugees arriving literally overnight at a great number of points along our northern coastline. [More…]
It seems to me that if the political situation in the countries to our north should degenerate in the future Australia will be in a very different situation, a situation never before experienced in relation to its acceptance of refugees. [More…]
In the past we have been able to decide how many refugees we would take, and what standards we would apply. [More…]
We have been able to go to places away from Australia, select the refugees and bring them to Australia. [More…]
The refugees have not been permitted to arrive on our doorstep of their own free will or under their own transport systems. [More…]
I personally have been concerned about Australia becoming a dumping ground for refugees from countries that become involved in internal turbulence and revolutions. [More…]
I have been prompted to attempt to reply to the honourable member for Warringah because he referred to political refugees following the [More…]
I would be the first to apologise if I were incorrect in interpreting his remarks as being opposed to the acceptance of Chilean refugees because the ones most likely to defect from Chile were the pro-Allende supporters. [More…]
I want to remind honourable members that what concerns me is the type of refugees that the Government which the honourable member for Warringah supported allowed into this country from Hungary following the uprising in that country in 1958, 1 think it was. [More…]
The refugees I was talking about who were allowed into this country by a government formed by the Opposition parties bombed the Soviet Embassy and unfortunately our courts only gave them about 12 months gaol. [More…]
1 ) How many refugees from South Vietnam have been granted permanent resident status in Australia to date. [More…]
223- selected in Singapore at the request of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
103- selected in Malaysia at the request of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
Refugees and other individual cases where very strong compassionate circumstances existed, will, nevertheless, continue to be given special consideration. [More…]
1 ) All refugees arriving in Darwin have been subjected to complete ‘ba’ggage search to prevent entry into Australia of disease carrying material such as live animals, foodstuffs of animal origin and plants. [More…]
All refugees were examined by medical officers on arrival. [More…]
It was arranged that all adult refugees remaining in Darwin would have a chest x-ray. [More…]
Arrangements also were made on the movement of refugees to southern cities, for State tuberculosis authorities to carry out radiological examinations of adults and when considered necessary skin tests of children. [More…]
Restrictions on freedom of speech have been applied to Vietnamese refugees but no restrictions on the freedom of speech have been placed on communist refugees from Chile. [More…]
What is the total number of Vietnamese refugees who have now arrived in Australia. [More…]
What assistance is being provided for these refugees in the area of (a) housing, (b) employment, (c) welfare and (d) language training. [More…]
Have any refugees sought repatriation; if so, how many. [More…]
The assistance being provided for these refugees in the areas of housing, employment, welfare and language training is the same as that provided for other non-English speaking new arrivals. [More…]
No refugees have approached the Australian Government for repatriation. [More…]
I think that this was a very brave thing for him to have done because he represents a Party whose treatment of refugees and illegal migrants has been nothing short of disgraceful. [More…]
His first comment was on what he termed the disgraceful treatment of migrants, refugees and the like by the previous Government. [More…]
Has the Minister deliberately set out to reverse the policy of the previous Government of sympathetic and speedy assistance to Cypriot refugees with links in Australia? [More…]
No, the Government certainly has not sought to impede the ability of legitimate refugees from Cyprus to come to Australia. [More…]
What arrangements are being made now for the funding of child migrant language education, particularly for South East Asian migrant refugees who recently entered Australia? [More…]
The honourable gentleman referred to refugees from Indo-China. [More…]
So the honourable gentleman will see that special attention is being provided not only to child migrant education generally but also to the special needs of refugees from Indo-China. [More…]
Prior to the refugees being accommodated at the hostel the Regional Director of Migration in Victoria made arrangements with the Victorian Department of Education in relation to the school-age children. [More…]
In the circumstances, I am satisfied that arrangements were made prior to the refugees arriving at the hostel, and the information I have is that the situation is under control. [More…]
We are a long way away, even though so many of the Polish refugees from Imperialist communism have come to Australia and are now living among us as Australian citizens. [More…]
The recent accounts of the number of deaths and executions are based on interviews with refugees. [More…]
Australia has already provided humanitarian assistance not only within East Timor itself but also to the Timorese who last year took refuge in Indonesian Timor, as well as of course to refugees who came to [More…]
We have become intellectual refugees taking refuge in formulae instead of doing proper analysis both of society and industry and all that goes with them. [More…]
In other words, 25 per cent of the money previously allocated to help these refugees is to be saved. [More…]
This is an action by a government which was responsible for many of the refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia. [More…]
Does he remember his own past speeches calling on Australia to provide an asylum for Vietnam refugees? [More…]
The leader of the team has bought food which is being prepared for refugees by project personnel. [More…]
Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that many Lebanese refugees who have had their visas approved in Australia have been stranded for months in conditions of extreme economic and emotional hardship in cities all over the world and are unable to have their papers processed by our overseas officials? [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House how many Lebanese refugees have actually arrived in Australia since December 1975? [More…]
I wish to raise a specific matter which is highlighted by the entry of certain Vietnamese refugees into Australia- to which I do not object -and the manner in which that entry was facilitated in the last couple of weeks. [More…]
But more importantly, different standards of treatment are being applied as between persons who in every sense are refugees. [More…]
I point out to the honourable member for Lang that the Government has moved consistently to deal as practically as possible with the escalating problem of quasi refugees from the Lebanon. [More…]
In addition to those who come to Australia as part of the normal migration program, there are significant numbers of refugees. [More…]
Special attention has to be given to facilitating the integration into professions in Australia of those refugees with appropriate qualifications. [More…]
I may have come away from that tragic country angry, but I was also proud of the actions taken in this country by progressive people- progressive Australians partly led by courageous South African refugees- in instituting sporting boycotts. [More…]
He has, as many honourable members will know, been away for the last week and will be away next week investigating this matter of Lebanese refugees. [More…]
He is visiting Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Syria and Turkey as they are countries where from time to time Australian posts have had to process applications by refugees from the Lebanon. [More…]
I believe that in the Lebanese situation we have to face the fact that there are Lebanese refugees not only outside the Lebanon, such as in Cyprus, but also within the Lebanon itself and it is just as difficult and precarious to get from one part of the Lebanon to another pan these days as it is to get from the Lebanon to another country. [More…]
But we cannot be content with just looking at the position of Lebanese refugees in Cyprus. [More…]
We have also to consider the position of Lebanese refugees within the Lebanon and we have to consider the possibility of their going to other points. [More…]
I appreciate the answers which the Minister has given to me in the course of my raising these matters, but I do urge him at least to investigate whether it is now possible to do what he quite rightly was able to announce that he had done on 1 April, that is, to make arrangements for people in the Lebanon who had been nominated to come to Australia to be interviewed in Damascus, which is the most accessible place for anybody who lives in the Lebanon, particularly those who are refugees in other parts of the Lebanon. [More…]
The position of the Lebanese Government- any Lebanese government- is such that it would be reluctant to ask the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to declare refugee status. [More…]
Meantime through no fault of their own, they are refugees not only in Cyprus but also in neighbouring countries and in their own country. [More…]
There will be a very great number of Australian residents not just of 12 months standing but of many years standing who will be disappointed that the refugees in the Lebanon, the people who have lost their houses and their jobs, could not go to the cheapest place, the most accessible place, Damascus, or other neighbouring mainland places to have their applications processed to come to Australia. [More…]
At this stage the Government has expressed its general position regarding refugees. [More…]
Those general attitudes apply irrespective of where those refugees may be applying from. [More…]
During the last 2 years some 2000 Indo-Chinese refugees have been admitted to Australia. [More…]
I am hopeful that in the not too distant future we will be in a position to make a further announcement in relation to additional refugees, particularly from the Indo-China area. [More…]
Most would agree that refugees should be accepted. [More…]
At the end of his speech the honourable member said that because of human problems we must as a policy provide for the admission of refugees into Australia. [More…]
I ask honourable members to cast their minds back to the former Government’s policies on refugees. [More…]
On Tuesday 22 April 1975 the Labor Government issued guidelines for the admission of refugees into Australia. [More…]
That was Michael Richardson commenting on the Labor Government in office and its policy on refugees from the Indo-China war. [More…]
I want to remind the Committee of the former Government’s policy on refugees because when members of the Opposition ask questions in the House and raise issues relating to refugees from other areas of the world I am always reminded of the practical policies that they put into effect. [More…]
If the Government does not move swiftly to amend the policy stated on Tuesday, its paltry, grudging response to the plight of adult Vietnamese refugees stands to figure as one of the darkest most demeaning and miserable episodes in the history of the Whitlam Administration . [More…]
Those are the Press comments of the time on the Labor Government’s policy on refugees. [More…]
Every Asian Australian will be aware of that policy, and I say to members of this Committee and to migrants everywhere that that shows the real concern of the Labor Party for refugees. [More…]
Let us consider the Government’s policy and its actions in relation to refugees. [More…]
In relation to IndoChina, the Minister announced in January of this year that up to about 800 Indo-Chinese refugees would be admitted into Australia. [More…]
Let us consider the East Timor refugees. [More…]
In May 1976 the Minister announced that approximately 2000 Timorese refugees could apply for resident status in Australia. [More…]
Thursday week, 23 September, to the inadequacy of the Government’s efforts to process applications by or for Lebanese refugees to come to Australia. [More…]
In particular, however, Nicosia is ruled out for most Lebanese refugees because they and their sponsors in Australia cannot hope to find the money for their fares to Cyprus and for their accommodation and sustenance there. [More…]
There are not, however, the international agencies- refugee and migration agencieshelping Lebanese family reunion in Australia as there were in helping the earlier migrants or refugees. [More…]
The facts show that in his handling of the grave and tragic plight of refugees from the Lebanon the Minister has been less than candid and less than sincere to the Parliament, to the Lebanese community in Australia and to the refugees themselves. [More…]
At the finish of his contribution the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that we should have concern for family reunions and humane considerations in relation to refugees. [More…]
If so, can the Minister assure the House that the sympathetic treatment extended to Their Royal Highnesses will also be extended to refugees from Thailand whose lives and safety may be endangered by yesterday’s coup d’etat, reported and depicted in all its savagery in today’s Australian newspapers? [More…]
To give the background to the case, the father of the 2 boys was amongst the 550 refugees who were brought from Thai refugee camps earlier this year. [More…]
We took action in relation to refugees and, while it was possible, aid went through the International Red Cross. [More…]
The members of the Opposition are not concerned for people; they are not concerned for refugees. [More…]
The decision to have talks in relation to refugees who want to reunite with their families, whether that reunification is here or elsewhere, was also taken to help the refugees. [More…]
We will make sure that aid gets to those people who need it and the discussions about refugees will continue to take place. [More…]
At the same time it has looked to the reality of the position in relation to refugees so that we could do something to assist them. [More…]
I wish to raise a matter concerning refugees in Thailand from Indo-Chinese countries. [More…]
In it he indicated or at least strongly hinted that the Government was considering bringing in another group of refugees from the refugee camps in Thailand. [More…]
I am hopeful that in the not too distant future we will be in a position to make a further announcement in relation to additional refugees, particularly from the Indo-China area. [More…]
I believe that Australia has a great responsibility to make a special effort to bring out greater numbers of Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]
It has opposed the suggestion of talks with Indonesian officials concerning refugees and family reunion. [More…]
It concerned the Government’s attitude to potential refugees. [More…]
I believe that our approach in assisting refugees has demonstrated quite clearly that we are aware of humanitarian and compassionate situations. [More…]
In answer to my Deputy last night he stated that his Government’s policy was to see that aid gets through to those in need in East Timor by providing aid through the Indonesian Red Cross and by talking with Indonesian officials concerning refugees and family reunion. [More…]
I rise to bring to the attention of the House and the Australian people the tragic plight of many refugees from the unhappy state of Lebanon and the Fraser Government’s shoddy record in relation to these people. [More…]
Long periods of delay during the processing of visas were par for the course, and compared most unfavourably with the operations of the Canadians, who were managing to get visas processed in about 5 to 15 days, a fact on which the Minister should reflect before he makes grandiose statements about his Government doing more than any other government to settle Lebanese refugees. [More…]
If that is the case, where do poor refugees go? [More…]
What has Australia done to meet the plight of Lebanese refugees in Syria, which has by far the largest single pool of refugees and those most in need of international assistance? [More…]
There he toiled around the clock, processing a tiny part of the large number of applications for entry into Australia, while outside the Embassy gates thousands of refugees fought and brawled amongst themselves in an attempt to gain entry. [More…]
Your statement last week in Parliament and to the Media about the easing of the regulations governing entry to Australia for the Lebanese refugees was received by our executive, as well as by the members of our association, with great appreciation. [More…]
I have a telegram from the Australian Egyptian Association which states: we also support your humanitarian arrangements for the Lebanese refugees to come to Australia. [More…]
For both Vietnamese refugees and people from the Lebanon, migrant entry criteria have been varied to permit entry of persons who normally would be ineligible. [More…]
In the case of Vietnamese and other Indo-Chinese refugees, under the special project announcement in January this year, preference was given to close relatives of Australian residents but there was provision for some refugees who were not relatives of Australian residents. [More…]
Timorese refugees from Indonesia’s unprovoked aggression have been refused special consideration for migration to Australia. [More…]
What criteria does the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees use in determining whether a people are to be designated as refugees. [More…]
Does he designate the displaced peoples of (a) Lebanon and (b) Chile as refugees; if not, what criteria does he use in determining whether a people are to be classified as refugees. [More…]
How does the classification of a displaced people as refugees or non-refugees by the United Nations affect the attitude of the Government to applications to migrate to Australia. [More…]
In accordance with Article 1 (2) of the general provisions of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees adopted on 28 July 1951, the term refugee’ applies to any person who ‘owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it ‘ [More…]
Under the Convention, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is charged with the task of supervising international conventions providing for the protection of refugees. [More…]
(2 (a) I understand that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees does not recognise displaced Lebanese as coming within Article 1 (2) of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, [More…]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has accorded refugee status to some Chileans outside Chile, presumably because their situation conforms with the terms of Article 1 (2). [More…]
They came to Lebanon as refugees but have since adopted a disruptive role in Lebanon’s internal affairs. [More…]
Therefore appeals for aid are minimal and people in flight have not been declared refugees by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
The Committee has carefully considered the prospect of helping more Lebanese refugees into Australia and has made a number of recommendations in this regard. [More…]
Australia should welcome refugees but not the importation of their quarrels. [More…]
Many of these require urgent action such as: The sending of medical teams to Lebanon; government support for appeals by the International Red Cross and the World Food and Agricultural Organisations for urgent relief to Lebanon; the efficient and humane handling of applications from genuine refugees; the establishment of a diplomatic post including a migration team in Syria. [More…]
Syria has enhanced its national influence, through its intervention in Lebanon, and has the bulk of Lebanese refugees within its borders and has increased in diplomatic significance. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Fremantle in relation to this and as such I have instructed the Australian Population and Immigration Council to include a chapter on refugees in its Green Paper. [More…]
The Sub-Committee on the Middle East of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has now reported that its Chairman, the honourable member for Fremantle, wrote on 24 August to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to the effect that there are strong humanitarian reasons for the re-establishment of a reasonably sized immigration team in Damascus and that he wrote on 1 October to the Foreign Minister concerning diplomatic representation in Damascus and aid to Lebanese refugees in Syria and Cyprus. [More…]
Has the Government decided to give aid to Lebanese refugees in Syria and Cyprus? [More…]
Can the Minister confirm that, for the purpose of increasing the impact of their terror campaign, the Cambodian communists forbid exit from Cambodia and, as a matter of routine, execute any Cambodian refugees whom they can apprehend? [More…]
Has the Government any details of the recent incident when 26 Cambodian refugees, including children, were returned across the border by the Thai authorities and are said to have been forthwith beheaded by the Khmer Rouge, that is, the Cambodian communists? [More…]
I rise this evening to discuss the plight of Chilean refugees who face deportation at the hands of this Government. [More…]
He has been asked several questions during recent months about the entitlement of Lebanese refugees to come to Australia and the facilities for interviewing them overseas. [More…]
Further, I raise the issue of refugees or quasi-refugees. [More…]
The Government’s policy towards the entry of refugees is governed by its obligations as a party to the United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees and its acknowledgement that as a member of the international community it must accept a share of responsibility in refugee and quasi-refugee situations which often involve personal danger and loss of human dignity, basic rights and means of livelihood. [More…]
In accord with this approach the Government is prepared to do what it can to facilitate the resettlement of those refugees who can be integrated into the Australian community as well as others who though not in a strict sense refugees have been displaced and are the victims of severe privation. [More…]
The extent to which Australia can participate in these types of projects must allow for special arrangements to be made to interview applicants and must take into account the ability of any particular group of refugees or displaced persons to integrate into the community. [More…]
Any proposal to admit refugees must be dealt with on a global basis and does not permit specific groups to be dealt with in isolation to the exclusion of other groups who may be seen as eligible to benefit from Australia’s refugee policy. [More…]
The procedures adopted for the selection and movement of refugees and displaced persons whose entry has been approved in principle ensure that the standard migrant criteria are not imposed as this could effectively deny to the persons concerned the resettlement opportunities which the Government has offered. [More…]
Health and character standards are insisted on but allowance is made for the parlous situation in which the refugees find themselves and their inability to comply strictly with rules related to occupational skills, etc. [More…]
The criteria used to determine eligibility for entry to Australia as refugees allow for the chances of resettlement in the country in which the refugees find themselves, the degree of support which would be forthcoming in that country, alternative opportunities for resettlement elsewhere more readily on the basis of language or closer association and Australia ‘s ability to integrate the refugees at any given dme. [More…]
Deal sympathetically with the hopes and aims of refugees, especially from countries who have been recent Australian allies. [More…]
Where was their Government when the refugees from those countries sought entry to Australia? [More…]
I notice that the Senate committee looking into this matter, which include Labor members, has reported to the other place that there was deliberate delay and deliberate action by the former Labor Government to prevent refugees from that part of the world from coming to Australia, because it sought to cover the shame that it had helped to create. [More…]
-In October 1976 I rose in this House to deplore the plight of Lebanese refugees stranded in Nicosia and other points around the Mediterranean. [More…]
The total needed to sustain Lebanese refugees runs into millions of dollars. [More…]
It is true that many hundreds of category B refugees- brothers and sisters and others who fall into that category of Australian Lebanesecame to Australia in the first heady days of the relaxed entry criteria when this Government was trying to demonstrate that it had the right approach to the refugee problem. [More…]
The price of that bungling is the despair of the refugees and the heavy financial burden on the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]
The Lebanese community here regards this matter as one of extreme urgency, as it would relieve the suffering of the refugees and would lift from their relatives the burden of having to pay the huge cost of supporting them in Cyprus. [More…]
As I have said, the staff have worked diligently and under the most difficult conditions to cope with the situation, which is impossible given the number of distressed refugees. [More…]
Yet from what I can ascertain these committees are very disturbed, on the one hand, at the length of time which refugees have had to languish in places such as Nicosia and, on the other hand, at the current extraordinarily large number of rejections on medical grounds. [More…]
These refugees should not be allowed to languish on Cyprus or anywhere else because Australia is too niggardly to send more immigration officers or more medical officers to Nicosia. [More…]
He insists upon calling them refugees. [More…]
In a very real sense they are, except, if one has to be precise, they do not come within the definition of refugees as accepted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
For purposes of entry to Australia, Australia has treated people disadvantaged by the situation in the Lebanon as quasi-refugees. [More…]
I mention this because we should look at this entire problem of refugees or quasi-refugees not in relation only to one point in the world but in relation to the entire refugee or quasi-refugee situation which exists. [More…]
It is rather interesting that the Opposition has understandably placed great emphasis on the Lebanese situation- a situation which the Government has recognised consistently and has done something about- but not once has the spokesman for the Opposition mentioned the plight of Indo-Chinese refugees who, at this stage, are in parlous circumstances in refugee camps in Thailand and Malaysia. [More…]
Australia has taken into its care a large number of refugees or quasi-refugees- a number that more than favourably compares with the numbers that have gone to other countries. [More…]
What has happened throughout the world is that the Canadians have in the main taken refugees who already had relatives living in Canada. [More…]
It left us with no immigration policy properly referrable to refugees. [More…]
The report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Australian refugee problem which was recently published- the Committee included members of the Austraiian Labor Party- said that the former Government deliberately delayed bringing Vietnamese refugees into Australia in order to minimise the number of refugees with which Australia would have to concern itself. [More…]
If there has been any selectivity in caring for refugees around the world it has been by this Government in its approach towards people whose homes were devastated in the Friuli region of Italy or towards those who were the victims of the tragic events in Cyprus. [More…]
Everybody remembers the shortlived operation at the Netherlands Embassy in Damascus in Syria where facilities were made available for a short time for the processing of applications of Lebanese refugees. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne has been completely irresponsible in trying to blame the Minister for the flood of refugees into Cyprus. [More…]
Reports of mass, indiscriminate killings have now come to Australia from Fretilin, which alleged that the Indonesians were ‘massacring’ the population and from Chinese sources, including from Taiwan, which claimed that the Chinese minority in East Timor bore the brunt of much of the indiscriminate killing in the territory from Timor Democratic Union- UDT- refugees in Portugal, many of whom claim actually to have witnessed atrocities of a disturbing kind. [More…]
Attention should be drawn to the situation in respect of refugees. [More…]
Australia has taken many refugees from the world’s trouble spots. [More…]
I emphasise this because, although the Government has done a great deal to receive refugees, I believe it should do more. [More…]
Since coming to office this Government has taken many initiatives in regard to refugees, exerting pressure for the withdrawal of Indonesian troops, and sending a special representative to Timor to mention a few. [More…]
The Paper also mentions refugees. [More…]
I do not think that in a 1 5 minute speech one has time even to begin to talk about refugees. [More…]
The whole question of refugees has to hinge on the moral question apart from all other questions. [More…]
I am afraid that I must say again that the attitude of the previous Government to refugees who fought beside us in South-East Asia did not hinge on any sort of moral issues at all. [More…]
I believe that political refugees, particularly those from countries such as East Timor or Chile, should be allowed to come here. [More…]
Australia’s obligations, moral and practical, with respect to refugees. [More…]
In dealing with the questions of Indo-Chinese refugees, it says: [More…]
It is good that two Liberal MPs have pressed the Government to accept more Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, but disappointing that Mr MacKellar sounds so unsympathetic. [More…]
As at 3 1 January this year there were 77 825 Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]
At the moment they are in Thailand as temporary refugees. [More…]
We had a deplorable record under the Whitlam Government where, notwithstanding knowledge of the impending fall of Saigon and notwithstanding the knowledge that refugees were going to try to get into this country and that we would need to get them out of Vietnam before Saigon fell, the Whitlam Government’s proud refugee intake was 76 people. [More…]
At this very moment, as I said, there are over 77 000 of these refugees in Thai refugee camps. [More…]
Twenty-six Cambodian refugees were blindfolded and put across the border into Cambodia where they were shot immediately. [More…]
We cannot ignore, and I know that we have a Minister who will not ignore, the plight of those Indo-Chinese refugees and Australia’s moral responsibility for them. [More…]
Like the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil), I deplore the deafening silence of those who were so active during the Vietnam war, those who marched through the streets and who are now silent on the question of Australia’s obligations to those refugees. [More…]
I also propose a regular intake of these refugees and an extension of the system of sponsorship of refugees by church organisations and other groups. [More…]
He was just talking about the Labor Government’s attitude to refugees. [More…]
Caring for refugees from brutality and murder around the world is a major problem for all free nations. [More…]
This is shown by the announcement during the week by the Government of details of the number of refugees who have come to Australia in recent times. [More…]
These facts effectively counter the unfair criticism from some people whose proper concern for the welfare of refugees has led them to the wrong conclusion that Australia is not doing enough. [More…]
The facts show that in the last 2 years the number of refugees or people of similar status arriving in Australia as a result of crises around the world includes about 6000 Lebanese, 2550 Vietnamese, 2580 Timorese, 6500 Cypriots, 1020 Chileans, 600 Laotians, 400 Cambodians and 600 Russian Jews, White Russians and other groups. [More…]
But for refugees the situation is totally different. [More…]
As a result, a major backup service is needed to cater for refugees when they arrive here. [More…]
This is an extraordinary statement from a Party which, when in office, had a deplorable record on refugees. [More…]
The present Government has not only significantly increased the refugee intake but also is improving the nation’s capacity to cope with the special requirements of these refugees. [More…]
This has been helped by the findings of last December’s report by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the plight and circumstances of Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
The Prime Minister noted that another aspect of the human suffering caused by the conflict had been the plight of the refugees - [More…]
The President and the Prime Minister agreed that officials of their two countries would be meeting to resolve the problem of their refugees. [More…]
The surprising aspect is that the communique issued after the visit of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to Indonesia in 1976 referred to these people as refugees. [More…]
There may not seem to be a great deal of difference in the words ‘evacuees’ and ‘refugees’, but there is a difference. [More…]
I know how the Public Service operates and I know the constraints which will be placed on people who are classed as evacuees rather than refugees. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he will apply the same conditions to the families of refugees- and they are refugees- presently in Australia as he applied to the people from wartorn Lebanon. [More…]
We have only to witness the wicked campaign whipped up by Government supporters on aid given via the United Nations to refugees in Africa. [More…]
Indeed it appears in retrospect that the attitude was taken that it was the responsibility of individuals to escape as best they could, and only when they were out of Vietnam would the Australian Government consider assisting refugees . [More…]
In view of the Committee’s belief that the Australian Government had been informed of the gravity and magnitude of the situation in South Vietnam some 3 weeks before the evacuation of the Australian Embassy, we are unable to come to any conclusion other than one of deliberate delay in order to minimise the number of refugees with which Australia would have to concern itself. [More…]
He has been sympathetic to the problem of refugees and he has set the stage for this country to consider this vital topic, for persons to write to him, for submissions to be made and for community attitudes to be developed. [More…]
It is non-committal on the admittance of refugees. [More…]
However, this is another matter and must be taken in context with our moral obligation to accept refugees. [More…]
There is a move to increase the number of refugees entering Australia and details of this are due to be announced shortly in Canberra by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in nearly 2 years 2477 war refugees from Saigon have been admitted to this country, and 4000 refugees have been admitted from Lebanon since the conflict in that country began. [More…]
Most would agree that refugees should be accepted. [More…]
They forget the rising and quite proper expectations and demands of the Third World and our obligations to refugees from this region, particularly our obligation to refugees from Indo China. [More…]
Political refugees also should be given special consideration. [More…]
We should reduce all the difficulties and start to apply a more humane view to the question of refugees. [More…]
In December 1974, the previous Government contributed $ I 50,000 to UNICEF to assist in a UNICEF project in Zambia directed at providing humanitarian and educational aid to refugees there connected with a number of liberation movements, one of which was SWAPO. [More…]
Did he state on 9 December 1976 (Senate Hansard page 2994) that applications for visas to Australia had been received to 25 November 1976 from 1,511 East Timor refugees now in Portugal [More…]
This is evident from official documents on Timorese refugees in Portugal compiled by the Commissariat for Evacuees of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees which state that the number of Timorese who arrived in Portugal on evacuation flights totalled 1,392 persons. [More…]
Every time the question of refugees arises we hide behind the United Nations definition, which can be interpreted in whatever way one wishes. [More…]
By hiding behind that definition we can evade our responsibilities, and apply our policy in respect of refugees in a discriminatory way. [More…]
Many of our citizens were once refugees or displaced persons. [More…]
When we welcomed them, it was hoped that refugees and disabled persons were a temporary post-war phenomenon. [More…]
There still are many people in many parts of the world who can be called refugees. [More…]
Despite the best efforts of people of good will and of the international community, we must expect that there will continue to be refugees. [More…]
To this end: It has ratified the Convention on the Status of Refugees; it is a member of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and contributes to the resettlement funds of the UNHCR; it recognises the need through its immigration policy to fulfil the legal obligations required by the Convention and to develop special humanitarian programs for the resettlement of the displaced and/or the persecuted. [More…]
We do injustice to previous governments if we do not give tribute to Australia’s contribution in resettlement of refugees in the past. [More…]
If we are to seek to act in the interests of refugees themselves and the Australian community, it is necessary to face up to many practical difficulties. [More…]
Many refugees are not simply migrants beset by a few additional problems. [More…]
Those who have in the recent past exhorted the Government to accept greater numbers of refugees must take into account the need to coordinate and develop such Government and community resources as will assist not only in the acceptance, but also in the responsible settlement, of refugees. [More…]
A fact often forgotten is that many refugees do not want to come to Australia or, at least, they prefer to go to another country where, for instance, they have close relatives or their language is spoken. [More…]
Moreover, our own capacity to accept refugees is not unlimited. [More…]
Australia’s present and future capacity to resettle refugees successfully depends on many factors including: The prevailing economic situation; the level of unemployment; the locations within [More…]
Australia to which refugees wish to go; the background of refugees to be accepted- their capacity for early integration or otherwise; the availability of special post arrival services- language instruction, education, training, accommodation, health and welfare; and the numbers of refugees for which voluntary agencies can care. [More…]
The Government’s approach to refugees is based on the following four principles: [More…]
Australia fully recognises its humanitarian commitment and responsibility to admit refugees for resettlement. [More…]
The decision to accept refugees- must always remain with the Government of Australia. [More…]
Special assistance will often need to be provided for the movement of refugees in designated situations or for their resettlement in Australia. [More…]
It may not be in the interest of some refugees to settle in Australia. [More…]
It is the Government’s view that the acceptance and settlement of refugees should be a continuum beginning with a quick and decisive response to international crises and concluding, after what may be a long and difficult path for the refugee, with successful integration into the Australian community. [More…]
We have to recognise, however, that there can be refugees with the sort of background, education and skills enabling them to fit readily into the Australian scene. [More…]
It may be a disservice to them to continue to single them out for special treatment as refugees after they have arrived in Australia. [More…]
There are others who may not wish to be labelled as ‘refugees’ over a period. [More…]
In situations where refugees are under immediate and dire personal threat, acceptance of people who will face settlement difficulties in Australia is justified. [More…]
More generally, we have to keep in mind that it may not be in the interests of refugees not under immediate personal threat to accept them for entry to Australia if they will face major long term settlement problems here. [More…]
Within the range of people who are forced by events to become refugees there will be many variations of circumstances and conditions. [More…]
Some refugees will be capable of meeting normal migrant criteria concerning family reunion or occupational skills. [More…]
Where appropriate, such refugees should be selected and resettled in the normal manner under current migrant policies. [More…]
Other refugees will not fall within the normally acceptable degrees of family relationship or have skills within currently acceptable criteria. [More…]
The interests of those refugees who, it is assessed, would have extreme difficulty in adjusting to the Australian environment may not be best served by migration to Australia but be better served by action by the UNHCR or other agencies to resettle them in a more compatible environment. [More…]
There will also be refugees, some of working age, who will be unable to qualify for selection under these refugee guidelines because of physical, mental or social handicaps. [More…]
Provided that appropriate institutional care is available, Australia will be prepared in principle to accept refugees in this category. [More…]
Through its ratification of the Convention on the Status of Refugees, Australia has accepted certain obligations in relation to people covered by the Convention. [More…]
Situations arise from time to time in which people such as those who enter Australia illegally - for example, deserting seamen- or who become prohibited immigrants- for example, by the expiry of temporary permits- claim to be refugees entitled to the protection of the Convention and in consequence request permission to remain permanently in Australia. [More…]
Where it is decided that the Australian response to a refugee situation should be in the form of contributions to the UNHCR or other agencies to resettle or temporarily maintain refugees outside Australia, the Minister for Foreign Affairs will continue to determine the modalities and amount of assistance. [More…]
A standing inter-departmental committee on refugees comprising a senior officer of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as chairman, and senior officers of the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Finance, Health and Education with other departments and the Public Service Board to be co-opted as necessary, will be established. [More…]
This Committee will advise the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the capacity for accepting refugees; consult annually, and otherwise as necessary, with voluntary agencies regarding the numbers they would accept for resettlement; recommend co-ordination for arrival and immediate resettlement; and regularly review the intake of refugees against the capacity of resources in this country to ensure successful resettlement. [More…]
Early consideration will be given to those refugees who are the subject of adequate sponsorship by appropriate voluntary bodies. [More…]
In this respect there is a continuing flow of refugees in small groups or as individuals brought to attention by the UNHCR and /or by voluntary agencies in Australia. [More…]
Provided satisfactory sponsorship is available, a small number of such refugees could be accepted on a case by case basis by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Some agencies expect they may be able to maintain refugees approved for entry to Australia for 12 months after arrival here. [More…]
There will be a regular intake of Indo-Chinese refugees from Thailand and nearby areas at a level consistent with our capacity as a community to resettle them. [More…]
Australia has played, and is continuing to play, a responsible part in the resettlement of distressed persons and refugees from the Lebanon and Indo-China. [More…]
-The Opposition welcomes the statement on the Government’s policy on refugees, belated though it is and with all the shortcomings it contains. [More…]
At least it outlines some machinery for finding some of the facts for investigation in relation to the problems faced by refugees and displaced persons throughout the world. [More…]
For the most part, this long statement is padded with a deal of rhetoric to embellish it as a dramatic and forward move in dealing with the very serious problems of refugees, quasi-refugees and displaced people. [More…]
However, all the purple prose and sophisticated machinery in the world will not go one iota towards resolving the plight of the refugees and other similarly affected people throughout the world unless the Government applies the spirit of the United Nations convention and the spirit of the report which was presented by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence instead of, as it has done up till now, paying lip service to the principles of the convention and hiding behind the legalisms and the literal interpretation of the United Nations definition of ‘refugee ‘. [More…]
The Government is to establish a standing interdepartmental committee on refugees, as recommended by the Senate Committee; but it totally ignores the proposal to set up an Australian refugee policy council. [More…]
Membership of this body should be drawn from both government and nongovernment sources- On the non-government side, membership should comprise representatives from the major Australian refugee-receiving and overseas-aid agencies, the Australian representative of the UNHCR (in an observer capacity), Red Cross, other organisations having practical experience in settlement work and post-hostel community support for refugees, and representatives from the academic community. [More…]
The Government also has ignored its obligations under the convention relating to the status of refugees. [More…]
As a means of providing refugees (and migrants) with realistic opportunities for obtaining apprenticeships, appropriate employment, admission to tertiary and other educational institutions and opportunities for re-training, the Committee recommends that, irrespective of the current levels of proficiency, financial support be provided to all males and females of working age whilst they attend English language classes. [More…]
So it is hypocrisy to talk about an intake of refugees while paying only lip service to the principles to which I have made reference. [More…]
It says that it has ratified the Convention on the Status of Refugees. [More…]
With regard to the Government’s very sorry record in relation to the Lebanese crisis the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) and myself have raised issues repeatedly in this place concerning the Government’s inaction, its deception of the Lebanese community in Australia and its failure to assist the passage of an adequate number of refugees from this sorry nation to Australia. [More…]
The Opposition feels for those refugees as it does for other refugees. [More…]
I also refer to the situation concerning Vietnamese refugees coming to Australia in boats. [More…]
In relation to people who will be resettled in Australia, we will go through a process of advising the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the capacity for accepting refugees and will regularly review the intake of refugees against the capacity of resources in this country to ensure successful resettlement. [More…]
They have asked for the number of refugees that have landed in this country. [More…]
For many years victims of many different circumstances have been called refugees. [More…]
In 1951 the United Nations adopted a Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. [More…]
Using nationality, rather than country of last residence, as the basis; the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has advised that approximately 2000 Vietnamese, 8000 Cambodians and 10 000 Laotians are registered with them in Thailand. [More…]
The Office of the UNHCR also estimates that there are approximately 1 4 000 Chilean refugees awaiting resettlement. [More…]
As of 1 May, 1977, 2061 Vietnamese, 285 Cambodian, 461 Laotian and 728 Chilean refugees have arrived in Australia. [More…]
In addition, 387 Chileans under political duress have been accepted direct from Chile and other arrivals include some refugees who have been classified for statistical purposes under normal migrant entry categories. [More…]
The Office of the UNHCR has advised that nationals of the other countries listed are not regarded as refugees according to the Convention definition. [More…]
Australia, however, has also regarded Cypriots who were displaced by events in their country as ‘quasi-refugees’ and has accepted some 6500 Cypriot nationals under special arrangements. [More…]
For many years victims of many different circumstances have been called refugees. [More…]
In 1951 the United Nations adopted a Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. [More…]
In addition, 359 evacuees from Vietnam arrived prior to the fall of Saigon in April 1 975 and 240 Cambodian and 326 Laotian refugees arrived in 1976. [More…]
Other Chilean arrivals include some refugees who have been classified for statistical purposes under normal migrant entry categories. [More…]
How many refugees from (a) Cyprus, (b) Lebanon, (c) other non-Asian countries and (d) Indo-China has the Government accommodated since 1 3 December 1975. [More…]
Can he say how many refugees from Indo-China the Governments of (a) the United States of America, (b) France, (c) Canada, (d) Belgium, (e) Austria, (f) Britain, (g) West Germany and (h) Switzerland have accommodated respectively. [More…]
Persons in many different situations have been called refugees. [More…]
In 1951 the United Nations adopted a Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. [More…]
Following are details of refugees who arrived in Australia since 13 December 1975: [More…]
1 ) Can he say how many refugees from South Vietnam were accepted as immigrants by (a) Australia, (b) Canada, (c) the United States of America and (d) any other country since April 1975. [More…]
What has been (a) total value and (b) form of foreign aid to Vietnam from (i) Australia, (ii) Canada, (iii) United States of America and (iv) any other country which has accepted South Vietnamese refugees and given aid since April 1975, and (c) what percentages of their total foreign budgets did their individual contributions to Vietnam represent. [More…]
For each country that has accepted South Vietnamese refugees, what total number and percentages of its emigrants have been from South Vietnam since April 1975. [More…]
Can he say how many refugees from South Vietnam were accepted as immigrants by (a) Australia, (b) Canada, (c) the United States of America, and (d ) any other country. [More…]
and (iv) any other country which has accepted South Vietnamese refugees and given aid since April 1975. [More…]
For each country that has accepted South Vietnamese refugees, what percentage of its immigrants have been from South Vietnam since April 1975. [More…]
(a) In the period 1 April 1975 to 1 June 1977, Australia has accepted 206 1 Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
Definitions of ‘refugees’ may differ from country to country. [More…]
Some countries which have accepted Vietnamese refugees are not included because information is not available: [More…]
1) On what dates, at what places and with what results have Australian and Indonesian officials met to resolve the problems of the East Timorese refugees who came to Australia without their families. [More…]
1) In the Communique issued on 10 October 1976 at the end of the Prime Minister’s visit to Indonesia, President Soeharto and the Prime Minister announced that they had agreed that Australian and Indonesian officials should meet to resolve the problems of the East Timorese refugees who came to Australia without their families. [More…]
We have had special Indo-Chinese refugees projects, special arrangements for the migration of Lebanese, amnesty for illegal migrants, the abolition of re-entry visas, the establishment of an ethnic affairs branch, the establishment of the national accreditation authority for interpreters and translators, migrant resource centres, the establishment of the Australian Population and Immigration Council, the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council and the establishment of a permanent broadcasting authority which provides a special broadcasting service to cater for the rights of ethnic radio. [More…]
There are over a quarter of a million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, a similar number in Gaza and 300 000 on the East Bank of the Jordan and in Syria. [More…]
It utterly lacks the geographic and economic infrastructure to become an adequate home for all the refugees. [More…]
Besides this, for the refugees in [More…]
On the other hand, the Jordanian state which embraces the West Bank and covers an area 1 1 times its size could become an adequate base for the resettlement of refugees, giving them economic opportunities they would not have in a West Bank state. [More…]
On the other hand, the establishment of an independent West Bank state will merely perpetuate the problems of the refugees and cause further instability. [More…]
We must also be even-handed to any refugees who are already here or who might come here in the future. [More…]
But I believe we should do more to assist the assimilation into Australia of refugees or quasi-refugees, including those from Lebanon. [More…]
-Prior to the adjournment of the debate I was discussing the position of Lebanese refugees in Australia. [More…]
In the electorate of St George and no doubt many other electorates there is a number of refugees or quasi-refugees who have arrived recently. [More…]
I do not believe that the Government’s policy sufficiently recognises the importance of the education of young persons who come to this country as refugees or quasi-refugees and who are unable to carry out the ordinary learning processes in the schools. [More…]
United Nations ought to be able to allocate some of those funds to be used in the countries where refugees finally settle to assist those people with their integration problems. [More…]
United Nation’s resolution; and a solution to the question of the enormous numbers of Palestinian refugees who have been forced out of their homes and who want to have fair treatment. [More…]
They preferred to let these poor Arab refugees remain in abominable conditions near our borders, encouraging them in their hatred for Israel and using them as a valuable weapon in the propaganda war. [More…]
I believe that many of the people who come here as refugees from the Lebanon and from other countries do not come here with the idea of remaining permanently. [More…]
1 ) What action was taken by quarantine staff in connection with the Vietnamese refugees who landed recently in north-west Australia. [More…]
What officers, employees or part time quarantine officials were advised of the arrival of the refugees. [More…]
Were the Quarantine Inspector (North West Pons), stationed at Port Hedland, and the Quarantine Assistant, Broome, advised or instructed in relation to the refugees or their boat; if not, why not. [More…]
1 ) The Vietnamese refugees referred to by the honourable member arrived at Broome in two vessels on 15 May 1977. [More…]
The Quarantine Medical Officers at Broome were informed of the impending arrival of the refugees and asked to make a full health assessment of each person on board. [More…]
Australia has also contributed to a World Health Organisation medical program in Vietnam and to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees appeal for wheat for people within Vietnam displaced by war. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that considerable humanitarian assistance has been made available over and above the admission of an increased number of refugees to Australia. [More…]
We are keeping under review the possibility of contributing to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees program for the resettlement within the Lebanon of displaced persons. [More…]
I also ask him to consider the number of refugees who have been streaming out of that country and going to other countries and the great number of refugees who probably have failed to reach the haven of a country that will look after them. [More…]
The settlement sub-section has seven workers within migrant hostels, concentrating almost exclusively on Timorese and IndoChinese refugees. [More…]
Are they suggesting that all unskilled workers, including refugees and nominated immediate family members, should have been refused entry to Australia simply because they were likely to find employment in secondary industries? [More…]
We have announced a far reaching policy for the entry of refugees. [More…]
The Labor Party’s record in relation to refugees, particularly Indo-Chinese refugees, is something of which every member of the Opposition should be absolutely ashamed. [More…]
We are very proud of what we did in relation to refugees. [More…]
The Minister talked about the magnificent record of this Government in relation to refugees. [More…]
Having had refugees from the Lebanon come to this country, the provision of services to them is so deficient. [More…]
Many honourable members here may not have had much contact with refugees from the Lebanon. [More…]
The Minister also grandstanded in the best conservative traditions over the refugees from Vietnam. [More…]
If the Minister is sincere about doing anything about this he can because there are thousands of refugees in Thailand. [More…]
When we had extra persons coming here- we have brought out over 1,000 refugees in the past 12 months- we had troubles with the teachers at the schools. [More…]
Or is he perhaps saying that if we tail down our active immigration policy, which is evidenced in the document we are debating, it is the refugees whom he does not want? [More…]
The Minister has also announced a far-reaching policy in relation to entry of refugees. [More…]
All honourable members realise that refugees have come into this country. [More…]
The Government has to find funds to assist those refugees. [More…]
It is not my wish at this stage to talk about which country should supply refugees or from which country Australia should accept them. [More…]
I hope that we maintain the truly international approach we have had to the acceptance of refugees into this country, irrespective of their political background. [More…]
I do not think there is any argument that political refugees should be permitted to come here. [More…]
It has not been easy because of the high level of unemployment and the refugees coming from Lebanon, Vietnam and other countries. [More…]
It is non-committal on the admission of refugees. [More…]
However, that is another matter and it must be considered in the context of our moral obligation to admit refugees. [More…]
Periodically contingent members escort refugees through the Ledra Checkpoint and medical evacuations are effected from the Turkish area when required. [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 faculty with the English language. [More…]
The funds will be used to maintain the program generally in the face of the increased demand and to provide English language classes for refugees and further accommodation for classes at education centres in migrant hostels. [More…]
People are coming now from the Asian countries as refugees. [More…]
If so, did the report indicate that the quarantine material had been taken from Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
What are the detailed procedures followed at Broome when quarantine material is obtained from the boats of Vietnamese refugees or arrested foreign fishing trawlers. [More…]
During the years after Hitler took power in Germany before the Second World War, I became acutely aware of the reluctance of too many so-called free nations to open their doors to refugees who, unable to escape, were thrown into concentration camps and were exterminated. [More…]
Before I launch into a discussion of the real issues let me say once again that, in calling for migration to be cut to the bone as happened under the Labor Government, we did not discourage family reunion and we did not stop political refugees seeking asylum in this country. [More…]
It is an isolated area and unless we improve surveillance we will experience many problems, not only defence problems but also problems of drugs and refugees coming into the area. [More…]
That was in a period when the migrant intake had increased and the numbers of refugees arriving in Australia had increased quite significantly. [More…]
I have already alluded to the fact that a fair proportion of the recently arrived are refugees. [More…]
One would expect that refugees might have difficulty in settling into a new environment and in finding work within that new environment. [More…]
Here again I believe that the figures show that after a period of time refugees are finding work and are settling well into the Australian community. [More…]
They were refugees when they arrived and had to make their own way in our land. [More…]
In the period following the proroguing of” the 30th Parliament and the election we saw the threat to our security through northern Australia in the form of Taiwanese boats which put refugees into Darwin and areas on the north coast. [More…]
Whilst I had discussions with Thai officials- the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and others- in regard to refugees generally, which is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to discuss when I report to him on those discussions, I also raised with the Vietnamese Vice-Foreign Minister the question of 400 applicants who had been approved for entry to Australia by my colleague but regarding whom there has been little progress achieved by our representations to the Vietnamese. [More…]
I stressed in regard to the 400 refugees that have received approval that we wanted to get matters moving. [More…]
Surely white Rhodesians who have exactly the same type of living oppressions in their homeland as other refugees do, are entitled to be considered for immigration to Australia. [More…]
I wish to make my position crystal clear as regards those whom we term the boat refugees’ from Vietnam. [More…]
What a curious ambiguity there is in our immigration policy when we can allow people in- admittedly they are refugees- without great attention to the procedures they have undergone to get here, yet we refuse to allow into our country a blind girl from England. [More…]
I hope that the problem will be contained and that it will not be necessary to bring refugees to Australia from that portion of Lebanon. [More…]
I congratulate the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) and the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Birney) for the humanity which they are demonstrating to people overseas, to refugees and to the people of Israel. [More…]
I ask those members who are interested in the Timor situation, the refugees from South East Asia and the people of the Middle East to remember that in this country there is a job still to be done. [More…]
As I speak now, there are thousands and thousands of refugees fleeing the south of Lebanon to the north and this will cause another refugee problem in and around Beirut itself. [More…]
I do not know how anyone would make the determination that that was a civilian problem because the people on the boats were refugees or that it was a defence problem because they were terrorists possibly seeking to wreak havoc in Darwin for some obscure or obvious political reason. [More…]
At the same time it must be emphasised that in recent months we have seen an increase in the number of refugees who have arrived off the Australian coast. [More…]
In recent years, dating back to the time of the previous Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, there has been an increasing community interest in drugs which have been dropped off our coast and in refugees who have arrived in small boats. [More…]
He is a man who supports an organisation which believes that the bombing and murder of civilian men, women and children is an acceptable means of settling international disputes and solving many of the long-standing problems in the Middle East, such as the settlement of Palestinian refugees. [More…]
How many of these cases are applicable to refugees from Vietnam. [More…]
Does the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs still stand by his public statements that in allowing Vietnamese refugees to come into Australia, Australia’s health and quarantine standards will be maintained? [More…]
More debates will be held in this Parliament about East Timor and there will be agitation from the refugees and their relatives who are in Australia. [More…]
1 ) Did I initiate on 23 April 1 975 and didhe terminate on 13 February 1976 a five-year study by Dr Jean Martin, a senior research fellow in sociology at the Australian National University, into the settlement experiences of the Vietnamese refugees admitted to Australia during 1975. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister tell me on 26 April 1977 (Hansard, page 1263) that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Social Security were examining the question of the survey in the context of a much wider survey of refugees in Australia. [More…]
The Government recently decided that $ 10,000 would be provided in 1977-78 for a survey of the settlement experience of Indo-Chinese refugees in Australia. [More…]
1 ) What are the present criteria by which Australia selects refugees. [More…]
How do these criteria correlate with those of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
What criteria are used to determine whether potential migrants, who are not dependent members of migrant families already resident in Australia or who are not refugees, are eligible to come to live and work in Australia. [More…]
and (2) In 1951 the United Nations adopted a Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. [More…]
Australia, as a party to this Convention, fully recognises its humanitarian commitment and responsibility to play its part in the resettlement of refugees. [More…]
The Standing Interdepartmental Committee on Refugees advises on the designation by Australia of refugee situations and Australia’s response to them. [More…]
1 ) Does the Government agree with the statement in the Green Paper on Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population that approximately 9 per cent of all immigrants between 1 945 and 1 976 were refugees or people from refugeetype situations. [More…]
Between 1947 and 1976, about 3.3 million settlers arrived in Australia, of whom some 300,000, or approximately 9 per cent were classified as refugees. [More…]
Persons classified as refugees in visas and arriving in Australia in 1 975-76 amounted to 8.3 per cent of the intake. [More…]
It refers to a newspaper report this morning about refugees. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister advise the House whether any request has been made to the Government to allow more refugees from South East Asia to be accepted here? [More…]
I noticed certain newspaper reports over the weekend and this morning concerning Australia’s intake of refugees. [More…]
It should be stated that Australia’s record in relation to the acceptance of refugees and displaced people over the years has been an enormously good one. [More…]
It is not often understood that, for instance, last year alone we took displaced people and refugees from over 40 different countries throughout the world. [More…]
I was very depressed to read a newspaper report which suggested that VicePresident Mondale would somehow place some pressure on Australia in relation to its attitude towards the acceptance of Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]
Do you feel Australia due to its past involvement in IndoChina and its geographic position within Asia has some kind of moral duty to take more refugees? [More…]
Added to this, of course, there are still continuing movements of refugees from Laos and Cambodia. [More…]
The refugees are interviewed in great depth to make absolutely certain that they are what they claim to be, that is, refugees. [More…]
Firstly, we seek to internationalise it by seeking agreement from more countries throughout the world to resettle the refugees in Thailand and Malaysia. [More…]
The United States has announced that it is preparing to accept another 25,000 refugees and a number of those will be people who have come to be known as boat people. [More…]
We are not without compassion in the case of genuine refugees. [More…]
It is unfortunate that the report of the recent meeting of Federal and State Ministers on 2 1 April was not more expansive; but it would seem that at this meeting there was agreement about continuing support for migration, that programs should extend over longer periods rather than that there should be an annual intake approach; that more emphasis should be placed on the English language as a criterion for entry; that there should be greater assistance to enable skilled workers to travel to Australia, and that restrictions should continue to be placed on people entering under the family reunion category, as well as the monitoring of people- whatever that means- of differing ethnic background, and limitation of the inflow of refugees. [More…]
Thirdly, the Australian Government needs to face the problems associated with, on the one hand allowing family reunion policies to operate in a way which allows the consolidation of existing ethnic family structures, and on the other hand allowing a proper response to the humanitarian needs of an increasing number of refugees wishing to come to Australia. [More…]
On Tuesday of this week I raised this problem by way of question to ascertain whether the Government’s policies and procedures are sufficient to cope with the anticipated escalation in the numbers of these refugees coming to this country by boat. [More…]
In July 1977 I warned that the first boat load was only the beginning of a flood of these refugees from Vietnam. [More…]
At that time I suggested that we should toughen our attitudes from the outset, recognise a change in the ground rules and update our procedures to cope with the absolute certainty of an increasing quantity of refugees coming to our shores. [More…]
The communication channel back to South East Asia was established by the first arrival of these boat refugees and by sympathetic and emotional Press comment. [More…]
Singapore and Indonesia do not want them but at the end of the line lies Australia which is known to be favourably disposed towards the refugees. [More…]
An article from Darwin headed ‘More refugees’, which appears in today’s Australian Financial Review, states: [More…]
Vietnamese refugees landed at Melville Island, north of Darwin, yesterday to ask a surprised local policeman the way to Darwin. [More…]
Perhaps the policeman should have directed these boats and future refugees to a port of entry at either Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane. [More…]
All Australians would have genuine sympathy for refugees who are fleeing in the face of spreading communism and the alternative with which many of them must now be faced. [More…]
The Minister assured the House the other day that co-operation to effect delays was being sought by nations and governments which are on the route taken by the refugees. [More…]
This is not the first time that the Australian Government has had to deal with the problem of refugees. [More…]
Many hundreds of Papuan refugees came across the Papua New Guinea border into the West Sepik district and the western district of that country. [More…]
In the West Sepik refugees were immediately interned in a refugee camp where they were held in quarantine and seclusion from the outside world until their application for temporary residential status was either granted or rejected. [More…]
This allowed the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments to screen carefully all entries to ensure that only the desirables were allowed into the country and that exotic diseases were not brought in by the refugees. [More…]
Lack of proper defence and a positive attitude towards these refugees is concerning many northern people. [More…]
Many people who are prevented from bringing to Australia close friends or relatives because of the job aspects of our immigration policy complain bitterly about our open-handed policy towards these Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
The refugees on the base could be processed by officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for acceptance or repatriation, depending on the circumstances of each individual. [More…]
If I could pick up the theme running through both speeches in relation to the arrival of Vietnamese refugees the one thing I would say as Chairman of the Government Parties’ Rural Committee is that if rumours are correct that these vessels are today lined up in Darwin harbour then the Government is probably not doing as much as it should do to achieve safety for the human and livestock populations of Australia by leaving them lined up in that way. [More…]
What financial help has the Government given or offered to other countries accepting refugees and evacuees from Indo-China and East Timor? [More…]
Most countries accepting refugees for permanent settlement from Indo-China and East Timor are developed countries and therefore would not require financial help from Australia. [More…]
Australian bilateral assistance to developing countries who may have accepted refugees from Indo-China and East Timor is not specifically aimed at helping those countries resettle refugees, but is intended to promote their economic and social development. [More…]
Most of Australia’s financial contributions to help with the care and re-settlement of refugees have been channelled through the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) which has a mandate to seek solutions to the problems of refugees. [More…]
Funds are allocated from this source for assisting refugees including those from Indo-China and East Timor. [More…]
More recently, Australia has made substantial contributions to UNCHR’s Special Program for Indo-Chinese refugees in Thailand and other countries in Asia, including the boat people. [More…]
Australia also gave $250,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1975, and $250,000 to the Indonesian Red Cross in 1 976 for the relief of refugees in East Timor and Indonesian Timor. [More…]
Refugees from South East Asia (Question No. [More…]
How many refugees have entered Australia from South East Asian countries since 1 July 1977. [More…]
) Of those refugees entering Australia, how many have been granted permanent residence. [More…]
How many of the refugees (a) were gainfully employed as at 1 April 1978, (b) have been gainfully employed in the past but are not now employed and (c) are in receipt of unemployment benefits. [More…]
Between 1 July 1977 and 30 April 1978, 4322 IndoChinese refugees have entered Australia. [More…]
However, the Government has approved a survey of the settlement experiences of Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say whether the Government of Sri Lanka presently is deporting large numbers of Tamils from Sri Lanka to southern India and whether the number of Tamil refugees exceeds 400,000. [More…]
Is he also able to say whether the Indian Government is attempting to help these refugees; if so, by what means. [More…]
Is the Government prepared to accept any of these refugees in Australia; if not, why not. [More…]
31 March 1978-1 The United Kingdom and Ireland, 2 New Zealand, 3 Malaysia (arrivals included Indo-Chinese refugees), 4 South Africa, 5 Hong Kong. [More…]
31 March 1970-1 The United Kingdom and Ireland, 2 Yugoslavia, 3 Austria (arrivals included Refugees from Czechoslovakia), 4 Greece, 5 Italy. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article in the National Times of 12-18 December 1977, in which it was reported that he had advised the Minister for Transport that Vietnamese refugees would be sent back; if so, is there any substance in the report; if so, when and by what means did he provide that advice. [More…]
Australia will not return genuine refugees to their country of origin. [More…]
Are any of the Vietnamese refugees now being permitted to enter Australia former prostitutes and drug pedlars, some of whom are suffering from a venereal disease which is resistant to all known antibiotics? [More…]
Is it true that there has been an outbreak of a certain strain of non-specific, non.gonoccochal urethritis attributed to contact with Vietnamese refugees, for which there is no known permanent cure? [More…]
I have asked my Department to make sure that proper screenings are undertaken in respect of all intending migrants coming to Australia and, in particular, the refugees who are coming from Indo-China at the present time. [More…]
It noted changes in attitudes to migration and to our responsibilities for international refugees. [More…]
If these people were genuine refugees one would feel sorry for them and would want something to be done to help them. [More…]
But the vast majority of them are not genuine refugees. [More…]
I turn now to the question of disease, leaving aside the fact that these people are not refugees in the true sense. [More…]
Although people will say that there has been evidence in Australia for several years of the disease from Saigon known as Saigon Rose the fact remains that another one is now being brought into the country, allegedly via the so-called refugees. [More…]
The Government ought to put these refugees in quarantine for at least six weeks- it cannot be done any quicker- until it can guarantee that they are not suffering from this incurable venereal disease. [More…]
What are the health screening arrangements for these refugees? [More…]
Refugees who have been admitted could be expected to reflect this situation. [More…]
The refugees arriving in Darwin are all fully clinically examined and X-rays are taken. [More…]
Details of all the refugees arriving in Darwin are sent to the State Directors of Health in the southern capitals. [More…]
So a record is being kept on all the refugees as to their state of health and their risk as tuberculosis carriers. [More…]
If refugees are shown to have a high positive reaction they are placed under treatment for a period of one year. [More…]
It is taking every possible step, through increasing surveillance and the provision of adequate medical officers, to ensure that we keep this disease under control in Australia following the influx of refugees. [More…]
I thank the honourable member for his question, which I know would have been inspired by the dilemma confronting the North Richmond Community Health Centre which has a very high clientele- I think is the term used- of refugees and ethnic groups. [More…]
It is providing a service to refugees. [More…]
The problem of the Vietnamese refugees is just one. [More…]
This body is the standing interdepartmental committee on refugees, comprising senior officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (which chairs the committee), Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Finance, Health and Education, with other departments and the Public Service Board being co-opted as necessary. [More…]
The Senate Committee were concerned to ensure that the policy and co-ordinating bodies consulted and participated with the voluntary and other community groups involved in the reception and resettlement of refugees. [More…]
The present Standing Committee on Refugees meets at least twice yearly with representatives of these bodies and in addition liaises as necessary with other State and Commonwealth Government departments as the occasion requires. [More…]
spouses and dependent children, parents and fiance(e)s of Australian residents and refugees. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that suggestions have been made that the Government is contemplating allowing the Vietnamese refugees known as ‘Boat’ people to become residents in the electorate of Sydney? [More…]
Vietnamese or any IndoChinese refugees coming to Australia will be accommodated in hostels around Australia. [More…]
I have not taken up with any particular Minister the location of refugees in the Glebe estate. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and concerns refugees. [More…]
Will it affect the number of refugees likely to come to Australia? [More…]
Additionally, does the Minister expect the number of Chinese refugees coming to Australia to increase as a result of civil unrest in Vietnam? [More…]
It was pointed out to me that it was not the intention of the vessel to pick up refugees but to assist them on their voyage. [More…]
The Australian Government’s attitude towards refugees is not based on ethnic composition; it is based on the fact or otherwise of refugee status. [More…]
As I have said, the attitude of the Government is not predicated on the ethnic composition of the refugees, it is an humanitarian response to the situation in which these people find themselves. [More…]
I should like to point out that Australia’s record in relation to the acceptance of refugees in the long term, where we have taken well over 300,000 people since the end of the Second World War and successfully resettled them in [More…]
In general terms I would have to say that the Government’s attitude towards refugees stands in marked contrast to the attitude of the previous Administration which was in power in this country between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
The issue of Indo-Chinese refugees has brought all Australians face to face with the reality that no longer are we insulated and isolated from immigration questions of immense significance. [More…]
We have been at one on the principle of accepting refugees though some would put emphasis on one source, some on another. [More…]
Migrant entry has largely been limited to nominated immediate family members, refugees, persons travelling under Australia’s bilateral arrangements with New Zealand, and a very narrowly-defined group of workers with occupational skills in continuing demand in Australia. [More…]
What were the countries of origin of the 300,000 persons admitted into Australia as refugees or from refugee-type situations since 1945. [More…]
There are, of course, relaxed criteria relating to the intakes of refugees whom we accept from countries facing enormous internal upheavals which produce large numbers of stateless people, but those intakes are judged according to Australia’s ability to absorb the people involved. [More…]
For example, we have had Indo-Chinese refugees coming through the Eastbridge hostel in Nunawading and the people from that hostel have spread out into the rest of the community. [More…]
One only has to speak to the staff of the Mitcham high school and the Nunawading South primary school to learn how well the Indo-Chinese refugees have been accepted by the staff and by the other children in the schools. [More…]
One only has to speak to employers to understand how much value they place on the contribution made by refugees to their work force. [More…]
Having been in Darwin on 7 August both I and Senator Kilgariff had taken certain action involving discussions not only with East Timorese refugees but also with the Bishop of Darwin whom we had seen on that day. [More…]
The 1634 boat refugees who have arrived in Darwin without prior authority were issued with temporary entry permits on arrival pending consideration of their applications to remain here. [More…]
Perhaps I had better put it this way: the people become refugees in institutions rather than residents in their own homes. [More…]
These estimates provide an amount of $440,000 to voluntary agencies for assistance to refugees, $8. [More…]
These appropriations show in human terms our preparedness to accept, to educate and to assimilate migrants, wherever they may come from, and also to take our share of responsibilities for refugees, particularly those from South East Asia. [More…]
In Hong Kong there is limited land available- again with a very large population- and the problem is being increased daily by the influx of refugees from adjoining countries. [More…]
Refugees have been described as queue jumpers, and in some ways I agree with that. [More…]
Whilst I agree with our outlay of funds to assist refugees, we must do it on our basis and not necessarily on someone else’s. [More…]
How we accept our 10,000 refugees this year will determine our policy for future years. [More…]
The honourable member for Perth (Mr McLean) has indicated other potential areas from which refugees probably will come. [More…]
The policies we adopt towards Vietnamese refugees will also have to be applied to other nationalities as other nations adjust their affairs, peacefully or otherwise. [More…]
I have not at any time been one to engage in scaremongering, but when recently I was in Vietnam I had discussions with people who were refugees from Kampuchea. [More…]
There is no more obvious condemnation of the regimes in power there than the refugees who are arriving in this country and the many more who are arriving in Thailand, Malaysia, et cetera. [More…]
With a few exceptions the stories which have emerged from Cambodia in the past two years have confirmed the impression, given by the early refugees, of a vast and somber work camp where toil is unending, rewards are nonexistent, families are separated, and murder is a constantly used tool of social discipline. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, the new direct billing arrangements could include persons in the following categories: persons on low income including social security unemployment, sickness or special beneficiaries; newly arrived migrants and some other ethnic groups; refugees who are financially disadvantaged; persons who suffer financial misfortune because of substantial medical expenses caused by prolonged or severe illness. [More…]
The problem is that some of the Lebanese are not able even to get away from the fighting and now many thousands of Lebanese are refugees in their own country. [More…]
How many and what percentage of total net migrant arrivals were admitted to Australia in the following categories during 1977-78: (a) family reunion; (b) refugees; (c) occupationally eligible; (d) New Zealanders; (e) specially approved cases and (0 other. [More…]
The need for the hostel to be used results from the Government’s decision to accept 9,000 IndoChinese refugees in 1978-79 in addition to other assisted passage migrants which will require additional hostel accommodation to that already in use. [More…]
Perhaps it could be said that people who are going to be using this hostel- principally Vietnamese refugees- would not be too fussy. [More…]
In regard to the evacuation procedures, I ask the House to consider this situation: Tn Wiltona in a few days’ time there will be something like 1,000 people, principally Vietnamese refugees, most of whom will not be able to speak English. [More…]
We can see what is happening to the refugees who are coming here from those countries. [More…]
The Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) says that the bulk billing arrangements for disadvantaged persons could include persons in such categories as the unemployed, people receiving sickness benefits, migrants, some ethnic groups, perhaps refugees and people suffering from prolonged or severe illness, but there is no compulsion on the doctor or specialist to agree to bulk billing these categories or any other person for that matter. [More…]
Commonwealth Funding of Voluntary Agencies assisting Refugees (Question No. [More…]
Five voluntary agencies currently receive financial assistance from my Department for providing assistance specifically for refugees. [More…]
Noting that there are 150,000 people of Lebanese origin in Australia, with perhaps 500,000 relatives in Lebanon, and in view of the Government’s concern for refugees elsewhere in the world, will the Minister advise at what stage Lebanese people would be considered by the Government to be refugees? [More…]
The people of Lebanon do not come within the strict definitions laid down by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, but this of course did not stop us from acting in the past when a particular situation confronted us. [More…]
As I witnessed that progress in Taiwan I wondered whether the Australian Government would interest itself in this industry as a means of providing gainful employment for the Vietnamese refugees who have been flowing into northern Australia. [More…]
Before I went overseas the media were emphasising that suitable industries for the employment of refugees should be initiated in the northern part of Australia. [More…]
We know, from experience with refugees from other countries, that the first problem they face is the language problem, but fish farming, the details of which I propose to spell out a little later, would not present language difficulties to these people, who have sought Australia as their future home and have, on humanitarian grounds, been permitted to settle here. [More…]
I believe that the Northern Territory Administration would readily co-operate because I think this could well be the real answer to absorbing the Vietnamese refugees, giving them a feeling of independence and removing them from social services. [More…]
Who is to know that the 200,000 people who have already arrived here- whom the Government has not welcomed although it gave to them a homemight increase to between 300,000 and 500,000 refugees in the years immediately ahead? [More…]
However, in October 1977 the first Indo-Chinese refugees went to the Springvale area. [More…]
Hardly had the situation started to stabilise when steady intakes of migrants and refugees at Eastbridge in Mitcham and Enterprise in Springvale upset the equilibrium. [More…]
Another problem exists with refugees from Indo-China who miss school sometimes for years. [More…]
The Federal Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs does provide language courses for the refugees. [More…]
The Department’s books show that 460 people went through an 8-week course last year but because many of the refugees, both adults and children, were illiterate in their own language they had little hope of learning English in the time provided. [More…]
Solutions to the problems will also have to take notice of the anticipated influx of 9,000 refugees this year. [More…]
We have a problem and while we continue to take migrants and refugees, and for years thereafter, we will continue to have this language problem. [More…]
-For some time now the Government has been taking positive action at international level to find solutions to the tragic problem of Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]
I am grateful to the honourable member for referring to my initiative before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees but, of course, there have been other proposals, and I refer to both the interest of the Opposition and particularly the endeavours made by my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in association on this matter. [More…]
These initiatives resulted from our continued concern that present resettlement programs are proving inadequate to cope with the outflow of refugees. [More…]
I also raised the question of refugees, bearing in mind that there are 150,000 Lebanese in Australia with relatives numbering about half a million in the Lebanon. [More…]
Why was the Embassy not withdrawn to Cyprus, where many of the refugees have gone? [More…]
We find ourselves accepting quite large numbers of Indo-China refugees. [More…]
Refugees and displaced persons also are fed through United Nations agencies. [More…]
For example, this financial year the United Nations Development Program will receive $6,820,000; the United Nations Children’s Fund, $1,800,000; the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, $420,000; and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, $640,000. [More…]
1 ) It would appear that the honourable member is referring to two separate groups (a) refugees processed overseas for migrant entry to Australia and (b) Vietnamese claiming to be refugees who have arrived without prior authority direct at Australia ‘s shores. [More…]
In relation to group (a) following their arrival in Australia these refugees are normally accommodated in migrant hostels situated in five States. [More…]
A survey of the settlement experience of IndoChinese refugees is currently being conducted and will produce information on their employment experience and receipt of social security benefits. [More…]
I recall, when I took the initiative before the United Nations High Commission for Refugees only a couple of weeks ago, receiving a telegram from the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) commending me for my initiative on what is the most critical human problem facing ASEAN countries today as the major first recipients of the human beings who are fleeing. [More…]
I ask the Minister to explain to the House the current status of the Australian Embassy in Lebanon, firstly, in respect of the provision of assistance to Australian citizens and, secondly, in respect of refugees from Lebanon, both within and outside that country? [More…]
One would need to go to Roget to exceed the description of what he said in regard to our Embassy and the situation of refugees in Lebanon the day before yesterday. [More…]
Why was the Embassy not withdrawn to Cyprus, where many of the refugees have gone? [More…]
Money is provided for translator and interpreter services; for establishment costs for the Institute of Multicultural Affairs; for settlement services for refugees coming into Australia; and for the special broadcasting service for our new settlers, a service well known in the communty. [More…]
The Immigration Minister, Mr MacKellar, today attacked the Opposition Leader, Mr Hayden, for ‘party political point scoring’ on refugees. [More…]
Mr Hayden said last week that there was a lucrative racket involving the ferrying of refugees to Australia. [More…]
I have noted the comments Mr Hayden has made and I would hope the subject of resettlement of refugees could be freed from party political point-scoring. ‘ [More…]
So that the record can be put straight, an article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, under the heading: ‘Refugees used for profit: Govt’, states: [More…]
The Federal Government has received its first clear indications that profiteers are taking advantage of Indo-Chinese refugees, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
1 ) How many boats have arrived at Australian ports carrying Indo-Chinese refugees since 1974. [More…]
The obligations of the Commonwealth under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. [More…]
This is what he had to say about the camp at Remexio and the refugees he saw there: [More…]
Thirdly, there is the question of Asian refugees. [More…]
Yet when the problem of Vietnamese refugees becomes a serious one it is the ASEAN nations who have to provide accommodation and food for the refugees and it is Australia which shows great reluctance to take any more than a small number. [More…]
How many of these (a) assisted and (b) unassisted migrants were refugees during the same years. [More…]
Is he also aware of the serious implications this might have for Australia in terms of refugees? [More…]
Leo sits on his plastic lazy-boy, next to a bed of flowers trimmed by a neat concrete edging; a flock of whimbrals those delicate refugees from a Siberian winter, wheel and whirl overhead. [More…]
We have seen cases of fishermen and refugees coming in to the unattended parts of north-west and northern Australia. [More…]
Pamphlets have been produced in major migrant/ refugee languages describing the various services provided by the Department of Social Security and these have been distributed widely through the migrant information network as well as other existing outlets commonly used by migrants and refugees. [More…]
Departmental Social Workers, Welfare Officers and field staff also explain the services available from the Department and how to use these in their contacts with migrants, refugees, ethnic groups and welfare workers employed by other Government Departments and voluntary organisations engaged in migrant/refugee welfare activities. [More…]
At the City Health Clinic she was actually informed that only refugees were disadvantaged and that all students, unemployed and part age pensioners would have to pay. [More…]
1 ) How many refugees have been accepted into Australia (a) in each of the years (i) 1976 and (ii) 1977, and (b) during the period 1 January 1978 to date. [More…]
How many of these refugees are presently registered as unemployed. [More…]
and (2) Departmental statistics are collated on the basis of financial years, and relate to the admission of specific groups of refugees and displaced persons rather than the countries of first asylum from which these people came. [More…]
2627 (Hansard, 16 November 1978, page 3003) how many of the (a) assisted and (b) unassisted (i) migrants and (ii) refugees from Asia came from South East Asia in each of the specified years. [More…]
What were the countries of origin of the unassisted refugees from Asia in (a) 1975-76, (b) 1976-77 and (c) 1977-78. [More…]
Unless we can beg the participants, mighty as they are, to stop this war it could escalate over all of us, not only in direct terms but also in indirect terms with the flight of refugees. [More…]
The member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations, even in the face of the Vietnamese Government’s sponsoring of the flood of refugees with which they had to cope, were positive and forthcoming in their dealings with Vietnam. [More…]
Sixth, the Vietnamese government, for half a decade, has been building and intensifying sentiment against Vietnamese of Chinese origin, hundreds of thousands of whom are, and many more of whom may become, refugees. [More…]
The next point I want to make relates to refugees. [More…]
I was sorry to hear the honourable member for Lalor speak about refugees. [More…]
Along with the Prime Minister of Australia and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), they attacked the Vietnamese Government for what they called ‘profiteering’ from refugees. [More…]
They had visited Kampuchean refugee camps and spoken with those refugees. [More…]
They are refugees from West Irian who were attempting to arouse in the people of West Irian an awareness of their rights. [More…]
Some others have entered under family reunion categories or as refugees. [More…]
I note with dismay and some sense of shame that the Government has not been able to find room in Australia for the leaders of the Irian Jaya Freedom Movement who are refugees from Indonesian oppression. [More…]
If Australia cannot help in such matters why does it not help other people wishing to assist refugees such as Chief Moli Stevens from the New Hebrides who is offering a home to refugees from Vietnam. [More…]
-I have previously dealt with questions on the Organisasi Papua Merdeka and refugees from Irian Jaya. [More…]
I understand that he has been involved in a plan to land Vietnamese refugees in the New Hebrides. [More…]
I am advised that his offer to settle refugees on Maewo Island was made without consultation with the people of Maewo and has been condemned by the local council of chiefs on that island. [More…]
Obviously, any proposal to resettle refugees in the New Hebrides is a matter for the Government of the New Hebrides. [More…]
The Government of National Unity indicated on 1 March that Mr Stevens’s continued attempts to bring Vietnamese refugees to the New Hebrides is against the wishes of the Government and the people of the New Hebrides, particularly those of Maewo Island and Santo Island where he wishes to settle them. [More…]
The Australian Government is considering a plan to accept up to 10,000 Rhodesian refugees if the transitional government collapses. [More…]
Given that the liberation movement in Zimbabwe has stated repeatedly that whites will be welcome to stay in that country and that they have important functions to perform in an independent Zimbabwe if they genuinely accept the principle of majority rule, I ask: On what grounds would the whites considered under the contingency plan be classified as refugees? [More…]
I make the final point that refugees are refugees, irrespective of the colour of their skin, and that is the way Australia has always treated them. [More…]
Canada, like many other nations, and in particular the countries neighbouring that region, has been shocked by the continuing exodus of thousands of refugees who have been forced for a variety of reasons to flee their homelands. [More…]
Australia, which is facing a massive problem in its relations with the countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations with regard to refugees, had a similar interest. [More…]
He said that if we could maintain a diplomatic presence in Chile the refugees would have a tetter chance of coming to Australia. [More…]
One of the main problem areas of the Opposition is the continuing outflow of refugees from Indo-China, and particularly from Vietnam. [More…]
First, the Opposition said they were not refugees. [More…]
Opposition members should go and talk to refugees who have come to Australia and see how many pimps and prostitutes they can find. [More…]
Most importantly, they should grasp the fact that the outflow of refugees from Vietnam and other countries has directly affected Australia, just as it has directly affected other countries in the region. [More…]
How much aid would have been necessary to improve conditions to a stage where refugees would not seek to flee? [More…]
He denies that the Vietnamese Government was involved in sending refugees from Vietnam. [More…]
The Australian Government has taken a leading role in fostering international action to alleviate the problems of Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]
I make the point that the question of resettling refugees throughout the world is one of the greatest problems with which Western nations have to contend. [More…]
If we were to attempt to isolate ourselves from the world, if we were to appear selfish in our attitude to our resources, if we were not to play our part in the succour and resettlement of disadvantaged people such as the Indo-Asian refugees, then there would be an ever-increasing resentment towards us, particularly amongst those countries geographically close to us, and amongst the underdeveloped nations throughout the world. [More…]
Because we obviously have no territorial ambitions, because we have proved ourselves a people who, over the years, have resisted tyranny and oppression, because we are willing to share our resources, because we have shown our practical concern and compassion for homeless refugees, and because we have never been part of the ageold rivalries and historic arrangements concerning our Asian neighbours, we nave the capacity to act as an honest broker in an increasingly troubled area of the world. [More…]
It is about refugees. [More…]
I wanted to point out to the House and the country that Albert Einstein was a refugee and those people who seek to denigrate the problems that refugees face, and who may not accept refugees as perhaps they should, ought to remember that people like Einstein have contributed enormously to the future of individual countries and the world as a whole. [More…]
I ask honourable members to consider the Soviet Jews and the Ugandans who cannot leave and the refugees from many societies that have broken down. [More…]
A total of 104 Vietnamese refugees drowned when their boat capsized as a Malaysian patrol boat towed it out to sea. [More…]
The refugees had just completed a nightmare voyage from Vietnam during which 10 died of thirst. [More…]
In this chamber, we talk of saving whales, forests and buildings, but we hear very little about the possibility of saving refugees. [More…]
Who are these refugees? [More…]
It has been said that up to 50,000 refugees have drowned, starved or died of thirst at sea. [More…]
People seem to forget that refugees are people. [More…]
When I ask these people whether they would prefer refugees to be drowned, shot or starved, they have no answer. [More…]
I bet that the refugees wish they did not have this problem. [More…]
In a number of South East Asian countries, refugees are being resettled faster than new arrivals are replacing them. [More…]
What is so different about the present refugees that allows them to be treated differently. [More…]
Noting, in particular, the fact that a great number of them have become refugees in their own country or are missing; [More…]
Demands the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Republic of Cyprus and the return of all refugees to their homes in freedom and safety; [More…]
An additional $3.3m has been included for the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs for the extension of the Community Youth Support Scheme and $3m for the Department of Foreign Affairs for increased contributions under the United Nations High Commission for refugees program of assistance for Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]
I refer to reports of a dramatic increase in the number of Kampuchean- formerly Cambodian- refugees entering Thailand as a result of fighting between Vietnamese troops and forces loyal to the former Pol Pot regime, and the proposed establishment of a refugee transit centre in Indonesia. [More…]
Are refugees fleeing the fighting in Kampuchea being denied refuge in Thailand? [More…]
Does the Government support the proposed establishment of an island processing centre for refugees in Indonesia? [More…]
Does the Government support the proposed establishment of a permanent island settlement for refugees? [More…]
-There have been a number of recent instances of Kampuchean refugees being denied entry into Thailand. [More…]
It is very important, however, to bear in mind that these developments and the other media reports that have referred to this situation should be seen after all against the background of Thailand’s long and humanitarian record of granting sanctuary to Indo-Chinese refugees, and its close co-operation with the United [More…]
Nations High Commission for Refugees and other international relief agencies. [More…]
The number of refugees in camps supervised by the UNHCR in Thailand alone now exceeds 160,000. [More…]
That takes me to the second part of the honourable member’s question, the proposal in January by the Foreign Ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations for the establishment of a special island processing centre for Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]
Indonesia has offered a site suitable for such a centre with a capacity of 5,000 to 10,000 refugees. [More…]
On the proposition as put forward by the ASEAN Ministers, to which the Government is giving support, we will continue actively to encourage other countries to provide additional resettlement places and financial contributions to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. [More…]
In 1975, his group asked to sponsor 1 1 Vietnamese refugees, all Buddhists, at a commune in North Carolina. [More…]
The refugees spent a month with the group, and then left after complaints about their treatment were made to Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. [More…]
The refugees said that they had been worked hard by day, indoctrinated by night in English they did not understand, and prevented from leaving. [More…]
In addition to the Vietnamese being provided with monetary and technical aid, which enabled them to divert resources to military use, they completely failed to participate in international obligations with regard to refugees. [More…]
They were in fact exporting their problems and exporting refugees. [More…]
They would not join in the international community activities to stem the flow of refugees. [More…]
There are hundreds of thousands of poor, miserable, wretched refugees in camps all round South East Asia because of the direct actions of the Vietnamese Government. [More…]
I shall confine my remarks to the migration of refugees from IndoChina to Australia. [More…]
Most of the refugees who are coming to Australia want to live a peaceful life; they do not want to get involved in politics. [More…]
However, there are political elements among the Vietnamese refugees in this country. [More…]
Vo Dai Ton, a former colonel and Deputy Minister of Information in the Thieu regime was described in your article as having tears in his eyes and calling for a band of Vietnamese refugees to go back and ‘liberate’ Vietnam. [More…]
It is difficult to understand a change of attitude on the part of your paper following the events of Friday 20 April 1979 at which extremist Vietnamese refugees used knives and knuckle dusters to create a riot outside a benefit concert for aid to Vietnam at the Sydney Trades Hall. [More…]
I ask rational people to consider whether this group of extremist refugees is capable of achieving what the American military failed to achieve with the expenditure of $35 billion a year. [More…]
That is important when considering the number of refugees that Australia can take. [More…]
We both expressed the view that further reunification of Timorese refugees should occur. [More…]
The problem of refugees from Indo-China is a human problem of vast proportions which affects all of us. [More…]
Indonesia’s co-operation in the IndoChina refugee problem is of importance in maintaining an orderly intake of refugees into Australia. [More…]
Indonesia’s continuing help in forestalling unheralded arrivals of refugees is very much appreciated, for it is much easier for Australia to take in a significant number of refugees, I believe, when this is done in an orderly way and under proper immigration procedures and not arriving unheralded on our coastline. [More…]
Indonesia’s generous and constructive proposal to establish an island processing centre for refugees was discussed. [More…]
) The United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, as amended by the Protocol, defines a refugee as a person who, ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it. ‘ [More…]
It is estimated that, since the end of the Vietnam war, some 600,000 refugees, mainly of Chinese descent, have fled to neighbouring South East Asian countries. [More…]
It is very difficult to estimate the figure, but somewhere between 100,000 and 250,000 refugees have perished while seeking refuge. [More…]
As at May 1979, Australia had accepted a total of 20,000 refugees out of this 600,000. [More…]
Despite the publicity given to the boat people arriving this year, their total number amounts to no more than one week’s intake of refugees through normal channels as part of the Government’s official refugee program. [More…]
I hope that the Government will continue its present policy which is based on the orderly movement of refugees through established camps under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [More…]
The policy, and I support it, is to provide for a controlled intake of 10,500 refugees per annum up to the end of 1979-80, by which time some 32,000 refugees will have been accepted. [More…]
It is the equivalent of only one month’s outflow of refugees from Vietnam, and I think the public of Australia should view the problem in that perspective. [More…]
The Minister has made it quite clear that there should be no suggestion that more refugees means fewer official immigrants. [More…]
But at present we have a responsibly managed and balanced intake which admits families for reunion with persons already in Australia, refugees, and persons whose skills can make a positive contribution to the economic development of this country. [More…]
Firstly, quite apart from the compelling humanitarian problems, Australia is one of 77 countries which have become parties to an international convention on the status of refugees and has therefore taken on certain obligations to assist refugees. [More…]
For example, in 1938 Australia agreed to accept refugees from Europe, and 7,500 refugees from Germany and Austria arrived in Australia in the 12 months to the middle of 1939. [More…]
From 1939 to 1978 Australia accepted 325,000 refugees, including substantial numbers of Poles, Yugoslavs, Hungarians, citizens of the Baltic States, and people from many other corners of the world. [More…]
It is a global problem requiring a global response, and in the last 12 months or so Australia has accepted refugees from some 60 countries. [More…]
There are about 12 million refugees in the world today- nearly equal to the Australian population- the great bulk of whom are seeking refuge from totalitarian regimes which ostensibly have sought to liberate their citizens. [More…]
At the end of April 1979 the number of refugees in transit camps was approaching 300,000. [More…]
My third point is that these refugees are located in transit camps in countries with a very limited absorptive capacity which can offer them only a precarious existence, and I should like to quote some very recent figures to illustrate that point. [More…]
In Thailand there are 160,000 refugees, including some 14,000 Laotians, 15,000 Kampucheans and 5,000 Vietnamese. [More…]
These are all refugees who have crossed borders, and so island transit camps are not going to relieve the situation in Thailand, which is the major country of first refuge. [More…]
There are also 65,000 refugees in Malaysia and 25,000 in Hong Kong. [More…]
Indonesia has approximately 15,000 refugees, and in recent months the rate of increase there has been quite alarming. [More…]
There are 4,000 refugees in the Philippines, and smaller numbers located elsewhere. [More…]
Even if the outflow were to cease immediately, and there is no sign that that will be the case, we know that it would still take another two years to resettle the refugees already in camps in this area of the world, assuming that existing promises of resettlement were repeated. [More…]
Money is still changing hands, with officials encouraging and organising the departure of large numbers of refugees. [More…]
I hope that we will not, for the purposes of international diplomacy, seek to understate the conditions in these countries, thereby making it more difficult for the public to accept the bona fides of the refugees. [More…]
Most refugees have suffered discrimination or persecution. [More…]
The sixth point I would like to make is that the development of callous public attitudes to the refugee problem may well cause governments to adopt callous official attitudes to the refugees which, in the long term, will have a negative influence on efforts to seek an international solution to the problem. [More…]
Recent events in Malaysia and Vietnam itself indicate that several boatloads of refugees have been allowed to perish as a result of official action or deliberate inaction. [More…]
Although no accurate details are available, it is estimated that as many as 50 per cent of those refugees seeking to leave Vietnam have perished while escaping. [More…]
We must therefore continue to meet our international obligations and, at the same time, continue to seek solutions at an international level by supporting, for example, the concept of an island processing centre provided by Indonesia and administered by the UNHCR; by placing pressure on the source countries of Indo-China to have a more compassionate and understanding approach to this problem and, hopefully, to remove the causes of this mass exodus; and finally, by persuading other governments to make greater efforts in offering refuge and resettlement to refugees. [More…]
The United States, which has already taken 200,000 Indo-Chinese refugees, will be taking another 7,000 per month at least until the end of 1980. [More…]
New Zealand is taking only 900 refugees per annum. [More…]
After all, it was the Labor Government in 1973 which ratified the 1967 protocol relating to the status of refugees. [More…]
This gave official status to its humanitarian obligations to refugees. [More…]
Yet many honourable members opposite are not prepared to stand up and responsibly support the Government’s policy on refugees. [More…]
In my view, if old political divisions remain and continue to dominate public attitudes on this question, it will not only cause further hardship and death to thousands of refugees, but also it will certainly seriously undermine our strategic position in a corner of the world which is of great significance to the future of Australia. [More…]
I think the House ought to understand the tragic situation in Vietnam, the tragic situation with respect to refugees- and there is no one on this side of the House who does not see what has happened in relation to the refugee problem as a tragic outcome. [More…]
The tens of billions of dollars that were expended by the United States in the most inhumane war in modern history has resulted in an extremely tragic situation, not simply for refugees who are leaving Vietnam but also for that country. [More…]
In relation to the Labor Party seeking to achieve a bipartisan position in relation to refugees, I think, on the whole, there has been very little difference. [More…]
I think the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Mr Adermann) who is listening to this debate would say that there is, in fact, very little difference in what the shadow Minister for Immigration has been saying about the way the Australian Government ought to respond to refugees and what the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) himself has been saying. [More…]
The Labor Party is no less lacking in compassion with respect to refugees than is the Government. [More…]
Finally, Mr Deputy Speaker, and for only a few minutes, may I take your mind back to this afternoon when in the debate on this Bill the honourable member for Perth (Mr McLean) made a very significant address on the issue of Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
I merely want to put on record the fact that the Labor Party when in office had the opportunity to face up to the reality of Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
That opportunity arose towards the end of the Vietnam war when the Labor Government was faced with the issue of whether we would allow to come to Australia Vietnamese refugees who, until the end of the war, had in fact worked for the Australian Government. [More…]
We must remember that at that time the Labor Party had an opportunity to deal with the vexed problem of Vietnamese refugees and that its response to allowing those unfortunate people to seek a new life in Australia was completely hostile. [More…]
Has Australia assured Papua New Guinea of Australia’s firm support in the event of dispute with Indonesia over granting of political asylum to refugees from West Irian. [More…]
-The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs will be aware of inquiries from individuals and the community anxious to assist in the support, housing, settlement and adoption of refugees. [More…]
This goodwill is directed towards assisting the resettlement of refugees in this country. [More…]
The agencies give support and material assistance in general welfare activities, hosting and friendship schemes and the movement of the refugees from the hostels to private accommodation. [More…]
This 80 per cent will not include usage in collecting refugees, as announced by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) this week; nor will it include usage for overseas personalities such as British royalty, heads of state from friendly countries and other official guests who come to this country. [More…]
1 ) What social security benefits are given to Vietnamese refugees on entry into Australia. [More…]
At what time(s) are Vietnamese refugees entitled to the full range of social security benefits normally available to Australian citizens. [More…]
What provisions normally applying to Australian citizens are waived with respect to the provision of benefits to Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
Is any positive discrimination practised regarding the eligibility for unemployment benefits of Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
As indicated above, after 4 weeks residence in Australia refugees are required to satisfy the conditions of eligibility which apply to members of the community generally. [More…]
Are Vietnamese refugees treated differently to Australian citizens by the Commonwealth Employment Service with respect to any aspect of job placement, work test or training programs, if so, in what ways does the Service discriminate in favour of Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
The Commonwealth Employment Service does not discriminate between migrants (including refugees) and Australian citizens with respect to any aspect of job placement, work test or training programs. [More…]
1) It would appear that the honourable member is referring to Vietnamese claiming to be refugees who have arrived without prior authority direct at Australian shores. [More…]
Evaluation of resettlement experiences of IndoChinese Refugees to provide data for policy development. [More…]
Does it include Vietnamese refugees? [More…]
It provides initial settlement courses in English language and information about Australia for new arrivals, migrants and refugees, and provides further English language learning opportunities for both recent and earlier arrivals. [More…]
The objectives and targets arising from the Galbally report and accepted by the Government have meant a strengthening and refocusing of the English language education program for adult migrants and refugees as well as a substantial increase in activity. [More…]
Funds for 1981-82 will need to reflect the intakes of migrants and refugees planned for next year and also the outcome of the surveys, which have now commenced, of the English language needs of migrants. [More…]
We recognise that the same special attention should be paid to the problems of immigrants, immigrant workers and refugees. [More…]
Tonight I wish to refer to an aspect of the plight of Vietnamese refugees which came to my attention a few days ago and which is worthy of notice by the House. [More…]
Perhaps I should start bv saying that these remarks may well apply to all refugees coming to Australia and not just to Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
Many refugees are initially housed in hostels and their first two objectives are, of course, to find a house or flat and to find employment. [More…]
Accordingly, they often find themselves in the position of the refugees I came across recently, namely who had jobs but were obliged financially to continue living in the migrant hostel. [More…]
My point is that it should not be beyond the wit of the authorities in charge of the hostels to stagger or extend the hours of the dining room so that refugees who have to travel to and from their jobs during existing meal hours are able to eat their meals at the hostel and sustain themselves. [More…]
The second problem for refugees is finding accommodation. [More…]
In the case of at least some refugees this accommodation is most likely to be a housing commission flat or home. [More…]
The result is that some refugees cannot raise the money for these charges. [More…]
1 ) While a small number of Vietnamese refugees arrive in Australia with significant assets, many are destitute and most have very few assets. [More…]
Although officers of my Department overseas seek information about the assets of prospective settlers, including refugees, this information is not recorded in a way which can be presented in tabulated form. [More…]
Departments are combined it is clear that the present allocation is not keeping pace with the value we put on education for migrant children and refugees when we were in government. [More…]
So in sum total, despite the increase in the number of refugee children we are getting, and presumably can expect to get, given the Government’s agreement to take more refugees- I am quarrelling about that; I am acknowledging it though- it seems a very odd decision to cut down on the number of classrooms available for this purpose. [More…]
Refugees from Third World countries reach our shores. [More…]
It also provides thoughtful, informed and some very trenchant views on the policy options available to Australia on crucial matters: How we should adjust to the rapid economic growth now taking place to our north; how we should conduct our relations with the Association of South East Asian Nations; how far our interests coincide with general Western interests in relation to the Third World; what our posture should be in the United Nations and other international forums; what principles should inform our policies on such matters as aid, human rights, immigration and refugees. [More…]
I refer to our extraordinary, dim witted treatment of the Dunera refugees in 1940 and the extraordinary lengths that we went to with those 2,500 bedraggled Jewish refugees who were given the stern warning that they must under no circumstances conduct political meetings at which they advanced Nazi or fascist propaganda. [More…]
I arranged with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) to see Vietnamese refugees who had recently arrived in camp in Hong Kong. [More…]
I suggest to those honourable members who have significant reservations about allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter this country that they may feel more humanely disposed towards them if they see them when they arrive. [More…]
They assured me that they were real refugees in the sense that we talk about refugees. [More…]
These groups of refugees just go along the Chinese coast until they finally reach Hong Kong. [More…]
Large numbers of refugees are at present in Hong Kong. [More…]
On the day I was there there were some 68,000 Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong in addition to the illegal immigrants from China. [More…]
The Hong Kong Government is very worried about the fact that we are taking relatively few of these refugees. [More…]
In fact, there is a shortage of workers in Hong Kong at the present time, and the refugees are able to mix into the local society. [More…]
I do wish that some of the people in this country, who sling off at the refugees and claim that they are not true refugees but prostitutes and whatever else they are alleged to be, could see these refugees when they arrive in Hong Kong, and see that they are - [More…]
Overall, the labour force survey showed an unemployment rate among overseas-born of 6.2 per cent in July, only marginally above the figure for Australian-born and this in spite of substantial intakes of refugees and the Tasman free-flow movement. [More…]
This sort of nit-picking approach by the Opposition spokesman obscures the fact that we are accepting large numbers of persons on humanitarian grounds such as Indo-Chinese refugees, Soviet Jews, Timorese, Eastern European refugees, and large numbers of persons on compassionate family reunion grounds. [More…]
Ethnic liaison officers working at senior levels within all Commonwealth departments and most statutory bodies continue to raise awareness of the special needs of migrants, refugees, and ethnic groups, thereby influencing the planning of programs and services. [More…]
In establishing this network, we are having to take account of current and likely changes in the migrant intake, especially recognising the proportion of refugees. [More…]
Therefore, ethnic liaison officers have been appointed at senior levels to try to raise an awareness in government departments of the special needs of migrants, refugees and ethnic groups generally. [More…]
Let us not forget that in the last couple of years there has been an enormous increase in the influx of refugees into this country. [More…]
An enormous proportion of this funding is really for the emergency services necessary to cater for these refugees, who will prove to be far more expensive than the usual run of immigrants. [More…]
I suppose that there are 50,000 to 60,000 if refugees are included. [More…]
That problem has arisen from the Government’s humanitarian programs in the past few years under which many refugees or quasi-refugees have been brought into this country. [More…]
The Rockdale and Arncliffe areas have refugees from Cyprus and Chile and a sizable number from Lebanon. [More…]
What is quite clear is that the Australian Government was one of the very first- as it should have been because of our geographical position- to appreciate the fact that we had to take whatever action we could to alleviate the massive human suffering of the people of Kampuchea and, wherever possible, assist the border states such as Thailand which, as we are all aware, in the last two years in particular has been facing the enormous social and economic burden brought upon them by the refugees from all over Indo-China, Laos, Vietnam and now Kampuchea. [More…]
The record which we have demonstrated in the last two years in terms of the problem of refugees from Indo-China speaks for itself. [More…]
Although we are a nation of only 14.5 million people, we are among the foremost of nations of the western world which are absorbing refugees from Indo-China. [More…]
We would say that they are refugees. [More…]
The Thais cannot see that they can cope with any more refugees. [More…]
Obviously the inclination in Thailand would be that refugees who sought to cross into the country would be asked to return to their homeland. [More…]
Thousands of refugees have died in the process. [More…]
That will cause more problems for present refugees and will increase the number of refugees. [More…]
The refugees will be jammed against the border area of Thailand, but will not be able to cross that border. [More…]
There are refugees from Lon Nol in their thousands in Thailand now. [More…]
There is strong evidence in that region, which I left only last Wednesday, that there will again be massive starvation because once the dry season starts in two or three weeks there will be a massive escalation in the number of refugees and virtually the complete loss of the remnants of this tragic country called Kampuchea. [More…]
In reference to the once prosperous coffee district of Ermera, the report states: “in Ermera, the densely populated capital of a coffee producing district where the ‘refugees’ coming back from the mountains were held, the death toll was so high that the people started to use the expression: ‘the more refugees, the more corpses’ “. [More…]
-I refer the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to an explanation he gave on 30 August this year in which he said that migrants coming to Australia fell into four categories- family reunion, refugees, those entering by virtue of the Tasman agreement and persons who were selected because of their occupational skills. [More…]
Insofar as there is now a significant component in the immigration welfare program which is really directed at and for refugees, one could claim that immigrants generally will be paying for their own postarrival welfare and for that of refugees. [More…]
Refugees who are quite stateless are very anxious to take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
It thus appears that the Vietnamese refugees- in the words of the TV ad- are giving Australia all they’ve got [More…]
It is a fact that refugees have demonstrated a very great capacity to succeed in the Australian situation. [More…]
Refugees will take jobs which other people will not take and are keen to put something back into this country for providing them with a piao this ce of resettlement. [More…]
As they said, they knew that he was a man who had been associated with some very dangerous causes, to wit after the war he organised a nationwide collection of old clothing to relieve the hardship of refugees in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. [More…]
The intake of migrants to Australia is made up of four broad categories, namely, refugees, family reunion cases, the free flow from New Zealand and the admission of migrants with skills currently in short supply or with proved entrepreneurial capacity. [More…]
In this year the Government plans to admit about 16,000 refugees of whom about 14,000 will come from the Indo-Chinese area. [More…]
The Labor Party plans to admit more refugees. [More…]
Of course the Numerical Multi-factor Assessment System does not apply to the selection of refugees. [More…]
Therefore, there is no testing of refugees in relation to their work skills or their capacity to find jobs in Australia. [More…]
We all know that until 1 January immigration policy covered these categories: Family reunion, special family reunion, refugees, persons freely granted residence because of the Tasman agreement, and the general eligibility provision wherein independent new migrants were selected mainly by relating their skills to the Australian 1 mainly abour market. [More…]
Apart from people admitted as refugees and for family reunion, migrant entry criteria should be developed on the basis of benefit to the Australian community, and the social, economic and related requirements within Australia. [More…]
I think he should walk from Sydney to Rockhampton and should consult notional refugees on the way. [More…]
What proportion of the cost of maintaining migrant centres, providing food services, temporary accommodation assistance, building and equipment for migrant centres, can be attributed to (a) caring for refugees (b) caring for immigrants in the family reunion category and (c) caring for independent immigrants arriving under the occupational eligibility category. [More…]
For the other three items mentioned, approximately 75 per cent of the costs in the current financial year can be attributed to caring for refugees, and the remaining 25 per cent to caring for sponsored migrants selected under NUMAS. [More…]
Does the Minister recall that in August, when another group of three Hanoi trade union officials visited Australia, they contributed greatly to disharmony among Indo-Chinese refugees by claiming that all refugees who had fled their country were either former prostitutes or former millionaires? [More…]
If the Minister has approved the entry of this further group of so-called union officials, will he assure the Indo-Chinese refugees in Australia that the visit has been organised by Australian communist union officials and their fellow travellers? [More…]
Will he also assure the Australian people that the visit was not organised in any way by the Australian Government and recommend that, despite whatever provocative insults are repeated by these Hanoi apologists, local refugees from communism should ignore them? [More…]
I appeal, as I have in the past, to all refugees who have been granted permanent residence in Australia to realise that it is in their best interests and in the interests of the Australian nation that they do not react to any provocative statements that may be made by visitors who may put forward a point of view which the people in Australia find totally anathema. [More…]
I will be making arrangements for officers of my Department to be in contact with the leaders of Indo-Chinese communities in Australia to ensure that they understand that the invitation was extended by the Building Workers Industrial Union, and not by the Australian Government, and that it would be in the best interests of the refugees themselves and the Australian community in general if no action were undertaken which could lead in any way to any violent demonstrations. [More…]
It refers to the refugees from Kampuchea in Thailand. [More…]
At that time most of the refugees in Thailand were from Laos. [More…]
Since my visit only some weeks ago, there has been an influx of refugees from Kampuchea, so their numbers have swelled considerably. [More…]
I saw the names of countries taking refugees and the number of refugees who had been resettled in those countries. [More…]
Australia had taken from that camp either the third or fourth highest number of refugees. [More…]
Whilst we are not neglecting our responsibility of taking refugees who have gone to Thailand, I believe that there is a need to try to help the boat people who, if they do not get some sort of help at an intermediate stage, might try to make the long trip to Australia. [More…]
We will keep a close eye on the refugee situation in Thailand to which the honourable gentleman referred, but I think we can take some comfort from the fact that we have taken a responsible share of refugees. [More…]
Some time ago a group of people with many years of experience in the field of emergency aid (Biafra, Sahel, Bangladesh, Indo China refugees) were shocked when they were visiting the area. [More…]
All of this has put special demands on neighbouring states in the region of Indo-China and has at last attracted world-wide attention to the plight of the refugees. [More…]
We spoke with many refugees; we spoke with people who had experienced enormous hardship, privation and starvation. [More…]
These camps had received enormous numbers of refugees who had fled by land across the borders. [More…]
We were aware at that stage of the immense pressures building up in Kampuchea for the exodus of an enormous number of refugees. [More…]
The thing that impressed the delegation most of all was the privation and the terrible state of the refugees who had fled in enormous numbers across the Kampuchean border into Thailand. [More…]
We had information and were aware that enormous numbers of refugees would presently be pushed out. [More…]
There is no doubt whatsoever that the Vietnamese Government is trading in refugees. [More…]
It became obvious to the delegation on the whole of the trip that the action taken by the Australian Government in receiving refugees into this country on a permanent basis was enthusiastically received and appreciated. [More…]
Concern was expressed that not enough refugees were being taken into Australia but we were able to point out that on a per capita basis our track record in this area is the best in the world. [More…]
It became apparent to me- I speak only for myself on this matter- that the real problem of refugees in South East Asia, particularly Kampuchea and Vietnam, cannot be solved alone by taking refugees into Australia or any other country. [More…]
I am not talking about 50,000 or 100,000 refugees. [More…]
We are looking at a possible total of one million to two million refugees. [More…]
There is no question that the refugee problem is far bigger than the 37,000 refugees we are prepared to take into Australia under our present aid program. [More…]
A substantial number of refugees who have come into Australia have made it out of those areas by boat. [More…]
Friendly nations are willing to concede 50 per cent of deaths if they say that they will continue to accept refugees if they can make it by boat. [More…]
The withdrawal of sanctions leads to recognition of the Rhodesian passport and virtually to the recognition of the entitlement of refugees, whatever race, coming from that area. [More…]
Australia would be the area to which refugees would come if everything were legitimised and sanctions had been withdrawn. [More…]
We do have a responsibility to the rest of the world, a responsibility we can exercise in many ways by providing the world with food and fibre, providing the world with energy and raw materials, and by responding in a humanitarian way to the plight of the world’s poor and hungry people, to the world’s refugees, especially at the moment in places like Indo-China, and to the people of Timor. [More…]
All Social Security programs, including payments under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act and special benefits for people under maintenance guarantees and for refugees, cover migrants insofar as migrants are members of the Australian community. [More…]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has continued his consultations with governments on thus matter and in his latest report to the General Assembly has stated that in the light of these consultations it would appear that the convening of a future session of the conference may be premature at the present. [More…]
1 ) The intake of refugees to Australia is a part of the total immigration program and the Government accepts that, where possible, programs for the settlement of refugees should be provided within the context of those for migrants generally. [More…]
It should be noted that refugees from Laos and Kampuchea are being resettled in Australia under this program as well as Vietnamese. [More…]
There is a scheme whereby the Commonwealth Government reimburses voluntary agencies for providing needed clothing and other personal requisites to newly-arrived refugees. [More…]
Representations have been received from the Hmong- Australia Cultural Society regarding the resettlement in Australia of Hmong refugees in Thailand. [More…]
How many persons were approved in the categories, (a) immediate family reunion, (b) special family reunion, (c) nances, (d) independent applicants, (e) employment nominees, (f) refugees, (g) patrials, (h) entrepreneurs, (i) self-supporting retirees, and (j) others. [More…]
I regret that the actions of some South Vietnamese soldiers and officials should have compromised the RAAF in its objectives and in the obligations which it is undertaking to international relief organisations such as the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and obligations which it has to the Government of Malaysia whose air base at Butterworth it uses. [More…]