Australia once had ‘immigration amnesties’ to grant legal status to undocumented people. Could we again?
- Written by Sara Dehm, Senior Lecturer, International Migration and Refugee Law, University of Technology Sydney
The year is 1972. The Whitlam Labor government has just been swept into power and major changes to Australia’s immigration system are underway. Many people remember this time for the formal end of the racist White Australia Policy.
A lesser-known legacy of this period was the introduction of Australia’s first immigration amnesty. This...
