Senate debates

Thursday, 7 September 2006

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Migration Act 1958: Section 486O

6:17 pm

Photo of Alan EgglestonAlan Eggleston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, it was Harold Holt, not Menzies. It was Harold Holt who felt that perhaps we should relax our ‘immigration restriction policy’, as it came to be known, to permit a small quota of Asians and coloured people. Of course, that has grown into the non-discriminatory immigration policy that we have today.

Question agreed to.

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