People - Arrivals

Becoming Citizens

Once the New Australians were here, and I coined that phrase, they were encouraged to become naturalised, and when they become naturalised they cease to be New Australians and are Australians with all the rights and privileges but also with all the obligations and responsibilities of those who’ve been naturalised before them and the natural born Australians

Arthur Calwell, first Minister for Immigration, 1945 to 1949, in 1971
Oral History Collection,
National Library of Australia

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