Soviet Jewish immigration to Australia peaks.
Estimated over 7000
Immigration
Estimated total of 35-40,000 Jewish immigrants who had been victims of Hitler arrived 1933-1963.
Melbourne becomes the Diaspora community with the highest percentage of Holocaust survivors.
Arthur Calwell becomes Minister for Immigration in the Chifley government.
Radical changes are implemented in immigration policy to allow for massive post war migration to Australia. Continues under the Menzies governments.
17,768 Jewish refugees enter Australia under auspices of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society (AJWS).
Jewish migrants are excluded from all Australian government sponsored programs. 1947-52
Australian Labor government establishes a sub-committee on immigration.
Recommends that post-war Australia should foster immigration from Britain and the European continent
MV Struma crammed with 750 Jewish refugees refused landing in Palestine, was towed into the Black Sea where it sank, with just one survivor (David Stoliar).
A critical event in Australian Jewish history as British apologists, notably Sir Isaac Isaacs, lost all community credibility.
HMT Dunera arrives in Sydney carrying Jewish refugees from Axis countries.
568 Refugees incarcerated as enemy aliens in camp at Hay.
Isaac Steinberg of the Freeland League visits Australia.
Proposal for settling Jewish refugees in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is a public issue.
Evian Conference on Jewish Refugees.
Australian representative, White says Australia would not undertake “any scheme of large-scale foreign migration”. Sydney Morning Herald editorial condemns White’s speech.