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Australia's Immigration Dilemma

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Jun 20, 2011
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In 1949, during the White Australia era, the Minister of Immigration tried to deport an Ambonese mother of eight children, although she was then married to a white Anglo-Australian who had fathered her latest child.

That may be a depressing and dispiriting tale, but it is an indication of how far Australia has come, in the six decades I have lived in A…

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