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IMMIGRANTS TO AUSTRALIA PRIORITY FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS Rec. 11 p.m. CANBERRA. Nov. 28. The Australian total of immigrants this year is expected to reach 13,000 and next year 50,000, according to the Minister of Immigration, Mr A. A. Calwell, in the House of Representatives to-day. He added that he hoped that in the succeeding years the figure would increase at a rate which would ensure a peaceful and prosperous future for all. Australia was willing to take 20,000 displaced persons yearly from Europe instead of 12,000 as already decided
upon. Most of the permanent arrivals this year were coming from Britain. Priority was being given to nominated essential workers with guaranteed accommodation, readily employable and nominated immigrants with guaranteed accommodation, and children for child migration organisations. Shipping shortages were militating against mass migration said the Minister. Negotiations were proceeding for the Asturias to make two more trips in January and March and for the aircraft carrier Victorious to carry Polish ex-servicemen and Maltese. Britain was being asked to make available the Aquitania if Australia paid the operating costs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26631, 29 November 1947, Page 7
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