Finding home in white Australia: the O'Keefe deportation case of 1949

Sean Brawley

doi:10.1080/14490854.2014.11668503

Finding home in white Australia: the O'Keefe deportation case of 1949

Sean Brawley

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Abstract

In 1949 the White Australia Policy was put on trial in the High Court of Australia in the matter O’Keefe v Calwell; popularly known as the ‘O’Keefe Deportation Case’. Drawn from archival research, this article examines the legal arguments that both sides brought to the court. The case raised a number of issues that went far beyond narrow legal and technical arguments. Under what circumstances could a foreign-born non-European individual call Australia home? The answer to this question was seen to hold not only the fate of one Indonesian family but the White Australia Policy and also Australia’s entire postwar migration program.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	128-148
Number of pages	21
Journal	History Australia
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2014.11668503
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

White Australia policy
Deportation
Emigration and immigration law
Baby boom generation
Judgments
Emigration and immigration--Government policy

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