Post-war immigration to Australia

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Arthur Calwell with the Kalnins family - the 50,000th New Australian - August 1949 KalninsFamily&Calwell1949.jpg
Arthur Calwell with the Kalnins family – the 50,000th New Australian – August 1949
In 1954, 50,000 Dutch migrants arrived Dutch Migrant 1954 MariaScholte=50000thToAustraliaPostWW2.jpg
In 1954, 50,000 Dutch migrants arrived

Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia in the decades immediately following World War II, and in particular refers to the predominantly European wave of immigration which occurred between 1945 and the end of the White Australia policy in 1973. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (1945–1949), established the federal Department of Immigration to administer a large-scale immigration program. Chifley commissioned a report on the subject which found that Australia was in urgent need of a larger population for the purposes of defence and development and it recommended a 1% annual increase in population through increased immigration. [1]

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The first Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell, promoted mass immigration with the slogan "populate or perish". [2] It was Billy Hughes, as Minister for Health and Repatriation, who had coined the "populate or perish" slogan in the 1930s. [3] Calwell coined the term "New Australians" in an effort to supplant such terms as Balt, pommy and wog.

The 1% target remained a part of government policy until the Whitlam government (1972–1975), when immigration numbers were substantially cut back, only to be restored by the Fraser government (1975–1982). [1]

Some 4.2 million immigrants arrived between 1945 and 1985, about 40 percent of whom came from Britain and Ireland. [4] [ full citation needed ] 182,159 people were sponsored by the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) from the end of World War II up to the end of 1954 to resettle in Australia from Europe—more than the number of convicts transported to Australia in the first 80 years after European settlement. [5]

"Populate or perish" policy

The Chifley years

British migrants on the deck of the Georgic, Australia, 1949 British migrants 01 Georgic, Australia, 1949.jpg
British migrants on the deck of the Georgic, Australia, 1949

Following the attacks on Darwin and the associated fear of Imperial Japanese invasion in World War II, the Chifley government commissioned a report on the subject which found that Australia was in urgent need of a larger population for the purposes of defence and development and it recommended a 1% annual increase in population through increased immigration. [1] In 1945, the government established the federal Department of Immigration to administer the new immigration program. The first Minister for Immigration was Arthur Calwell. An Assisted Passage Migration Scheme was also established in 1945 to encourage Britons to migrate to Australia. The government's objective was summarised in the slogan "populate or perish". Calwell stated in 1947, to critics of mass immigration from non-British Europe: "We have 25 years at most to populate this country before the yellow races are down on us."

The post-war immigration program of the Chifley government gave them preference to migrants from Great Britain, and initially an ambitious target was set of nine British out of ten immigrants. [1] However, it was soon apparent that even with assisted passage the government target would be impossible to achieve given that Britain's shipping capacity was quite diminished from pre-war levels. As a consequence, the government looked further afield to maintain overall immigration numbers, and this meant relying on the IRO refugees from Eastern Europe, with the US providing the necessary shipping. [1] [6] Many Eastern Europeans were refugees from the Red Army and thus mostly anti-Communist and so politically acceptable. [7]

Menzies years

Australian Government poster displayed between 1949 and 1951 in reception rooms and dining halls at various migrant reception centres in Australia (image courtesy of the NAA) Australia - Land of Tomorrow poster.jpg
Australian Government poster displayed between 1949 and 1951 in reception rooms and dining halls at various migrant reception centres in Australia (image courtesy of the NAA)

The 1% target survived a change of government in 1949, when the Menzies government succeeded Chifley's. The new Minister of Immigration was Harold Holt (1949–56).

The British component remained the largest component of the migrant intake until 1953. [1] Between 1953 and late 1956, migrants from Southern Europe outnumbered the British, and this caused some alarm in the Australian government, causing it to place restrictions on Southern Europeans sponsoring newcomers and to commence the "Bring out a Briton" campaign. With the increase in financial assistance to British settlers provided during the 1960s, the British component was able to return to the top position in the overall number of new settlers. [8]

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Europeans migrated to Australia and over 1,000,000 Britons immigrated with financial assistance. [9] The migration assistance scheme initially targeted citizens of Commonwealth countries; but it was gradually extended to other countries such as the Netherlands and Italy. The qualifications were straightforward: migrants needed to be in sound health and under the age of 45 years. There were initially no skill requirements, although under the White Australia policy, people from mixed-race backgrounds found it very difficult to take advantage of the scheme. [10]

Migration brought large numbers of southern and central Europeans to Australia for the first time. A 1958 government leaflet assured voters that unskilled non-British migrants were needed for "labour on rugged projects ...work which is not generally acceptable to Australians or British workers." [11] [ full citation needed ] The Australian economy stood in sharp contrast to war-ravaged Europe, and newly arrived migrants found employment in a booming manufacturing industry and government assisted programmes such as the Snowy Mountains Scheme. This hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia consisted of sixteen major dams and seven power stations constructed between 1949 and 1974. It remains the largest engineering project undertaken in Australia. Necessitating the employment of 100,000 people from over 30 countries, to many it denotes the birth of multicultural Australia. [12]

In 1955 the one-millionth post-war immigrant arrived in Australia. Australia's population reached 10 million in 1959, up from 7 million in 1945.

End to the White Australia policy

In 1973, Whitlam government (1972–1975) adopted a completely non-discriminatory immigration policy, effectively putting an end to the White Australia policy. However, the change occurred in the context of a substantial reduction in the overall migrant intake. This ended the post-war wave of predominantly European immigration which had started three decades before with the end of the Second World War and would make the beginnings of the contemporary wave of predominantly Asian Immigration to Australia which continues to the present day.

International agreements

Financial assistance was an important element of the post war immigration program and as such there were a number of agreements in place between the Australian government and various governments and international organisations. [13]

Timeline

PeriodEvents
1947Australia's first migrant reception centre opened at Bonegilla, Victoria – the first assisted migrants were received there in 1951. [15]
1948Australia signed Peace treaties with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary and accepted immigrants from these countries. [2]
1949In 1949 assisted arrivals reached more than 118,800, four times the 1948 figure. [2]

In August Australia welcomed its 50,000th "New Australian" — or rather, the 50,000th displaced person sponsored by the IRO and to be resettled in Australia. The child was from Riga, Latvia. [14] [16]

Work began on the Snowy Mountains Scheme – a substantial employer of migrants: 100,000 people were employed from at least 30 different nationalities. Seventy percent of all the workers were migrants. [12]

1950Net Overseas Migration was 153,685, the third highest figure of the twentieth century. [2] [a]
1951The first assisted migrants received at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre. [15] By 1951, the government had established three migrant reception centres for non-English speaking displaced persons from Europe, and twenty holding centres, principally to house non-working dependants, when the pressure of arrival numbers on the reception centres was too great to keep families together. [15]
1952The IRO was abolished and from then most refugees who resettled in Australia during the 1950s were brought here under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM). [14]
1954The 50,000th Dutch migrant arrived. [17]
1955Australia's millionth post-war immigrant arrived. [2] She was a 21-year-old from the United Kingdom and newly married. [18] [19] [20]
1971Migrant camp at Bonegilla, Victoria closed – some 300,000 migrants had spent time there. [15]

Settler arrivals by top 10 countries of birth

BirthplaceJuly 1949 – June 1959 [21] [b] July 1959 – June 1970 [c] July 1970 – June 1980
United Kingdom & Ireland419,946 (33.5%)654,640 (45.3%)342,373 (35.8%)
Italy201,428 (16.1%)150,669 (10.4%)28,800 (3.0%)
New Zealand29,649 (2.4%)30,341 (2.1%)58,163 (6.1%)
Germany162,756 (13.0%)50,452 (3.5%)not in top 10
Greece55,326 (4.4%)124,324 (8.6%)30,907 (3.2%)
Yugoslavia [d] not in top 1094,555 (6.5%)61,283 (6.4%)
Netherlands100,970 (8.1%)36,533 (2.5%)not in top 10
Malta38,113 (3.0%)28,916 (2.0%)not in top 10
US16,982 (1.4%)20,467 (1.4%)27,769 (2.9%)
Spainnot in top 1017,611 (1.2%)not in top 10
Total settler arrivals1,253,0831,445,356956,769

Migrant reception and training centres

Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, 1954 Bonegilla camp 1954.jpg
Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, 1954

On arrival in Australia, many migrants went to migrant reception and training centres where they learned some English while they looked for a job. The Department of Immigration was responsible for the camps and kept records on camp administration and residents. [22] The migrant reception and training centres were also known as Commonwealth Immigration Camps, migrant hostels, immigration dependants' holding centres, migrant accommodation, or migrant workers' hostels. [23] [24]

Australia's first migrant reception centre opened at Bonegilla, Victoria near Wodonga in December 1947. When the camp closed in 1971, some 300,000 migrants had spent time there. [15]

By 1951, the government had established three migrant reception centres for non-English speaking displaced persons from Europe, and twenty holding centres, principally to house non-working dependants, when the pressure of arrival numbers on the reception centres was too great to keep families together. [15] The purpose of reception and training centres was to:

provide for general medical examination and x-ray of migrants, issue of necessary clothing, payment of social service benefits, interview to determine employment potential, instruction in English and the Australian way of life generally. [15]

The centres were located throughout Australia (dates are those of post office opening and closing. [25] )

Queensland

New South Wales (NSW)

Other hostels in New South Wales included Adamstown, Balgownie, Bankstown, Berkeley, Bunnerong, Burwood, Cabramatta, Cronulla, Dundas, East Hills, Ermington, Goulburn, Katoomba, Kingsgrove, Kyeemagh, Leeton, Lithgow, Mascot, Matraville, Mayfield, Meadowbank, Nelson Bay, North Head, Orange, Parkes, Port Stephens, Randwick, St Marys, Scheyville, Schofields, Unanderra, Villawood, Wallerawang and Wallgrove. [24]

Victoria

South Australia

Western Australia

Breakdown of arrivals by decade

In the post-war wave of immigration Australia has experienced average arrivals of around one million per decade. The breakdown by decade is as follows:

The highest number of arrivals during the period was 185,099 in 1969–70 and the lowest was 52,752 in 1975–76.[ citation needed ]

2006 demographics of post-war period non-English speaking immigrant groups

In the 2006 census, birthplace was enumerated as was date of arrival in Australia for those not born in Australia. For the major post-war period non-English speaking immigrant groups enlarged by the arrival of immigrants to Australia after World War II, they are still major demographic groups in Australia:

Ethnic groupPersons born overseas [28] Arrived 1979 or earlier [28] Aged 60 years and over [28]

This compares with 18% of Australian residents
who were aged 60 or over at the time of the census [e]

Australian citizens [28]
Italian Australian 199,124176,536 or 89%63%157,209 or 79%
Greek Australian 109,99094,766 or 86%60%104,950 or 95%
German Australian 106,52474,128 or 79%46%75,623 or 71%
Dutch Australian 78,92462,495 or 79%52%59,502 or 75%
Croatian Australian 50,99635,598 or 70%43%48,271 or 95%

Not all of those enumerated would have arrived as post-war migrants, specific statistics as at 2006 are not available.

Numbers

In September 2022, the Albanese government increased the permanent migration intake from 160,000 to a record 195,000 a year. [30] [31] [32] Net overseas migration is expected to reach 650,000 over 2022–2023, and 2023–2024, the highest in Australian history. [33]

PeriodMigration programme [34] [35]
1998–9968 000
1999–0070 000
2000–0176 000
2001–0285 000
2002–03108,070
2003–2004114,360
2004–2005120,060
2005142,933
2006148,200
2007158,630
2008171,318
2011185,000
2012190,000
2013190,000 [36] [37]
2015-2016190,000 [38]
2016-2017190,000 [39]
2017-2018190,000 [40]
2018-2019190,000 [41]
2023-2024190,000 [42]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1950 = Third highest figure per Department of Immigration timeline: In 1919 Net Overseas Migration was 166,303 when troops returned from World War I and in 1988 it was 172,794.
  2. ↑ Immigration: Federation to Century's End 1901–2000: "Settler arrivals by birthplace data not available prior to 1959. For the period July 1949 to June 1959, Permanent and Long Term Arrivals by Country of Last Residence have been included as a proxy for this data. When interpreting this data for some countries...in the period immediately after World War II, there were large numbers of displaced persons whose country of last residence was not necessarily the same as their birthplace." [21]
  3. ↑ Note this period covers 11 years rather than a decade.
  4. ↑ Yugoslavia recorded until 1994–95 inclusive.
  5. ↑ 3,602,573 Australian residents were aged 60 or over as a proportion of 19,855,288. [29] [ verification needed ]

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