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O'Keefe v Calwell [1] is a High Court of Australia case. Annie O'Keefe was a Dutch subject born in the Netherlands East Indies and one of 15,000 people who were evacuated to Australia from nearby countries during World War II and given sanctuary.
The Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell, was a strong supporter of the White Australia policy, and claimed that the High Court's decision would lead to a "mongrel Australia". [3] The government wished to expel the 800 or so foreign non-whites who had entered Australia during World War II, and formulated a new act to eliminate the loopholes ...
Shortly after coming into force, the Act was put into question by O'Keefe v Calwell (1948), which ruled in favour of Annie O’Keefe, an Indonesian wartime evacuee who had been issued a deportation order. After this defeat, Calwell sought legislation to close the loophole, leading to the War-time Refugees Removal Act 1949. [4]
O'Keefe v Calwell: 1948 77 CLR 261 Latham: 69 Regarding the deportation of war time evacuees Bank of New South Wales v Commonwealth (Bank Nationalisation case) 1948 76 CLR 1 Latham: 679 striking down of an attempt to nationalise the banks, (Later affirmed by the Privy Council in Commonwealth v Bank of New South Wales) Parton v Milk Board (Vic ...
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The Chifley government introduced the Aliens Deportation Act 1948, which had its weaknesses exposed by the High Court case O'Keefe v Calwell, and then passed the War-time Refugees Removal Act 1949 which gave the immigration minister sweeping powers of deportation. [52]