
Confidential Cabinet decision
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Confidential Cabinet decision
[Header and footer in red ink] CONFIDENTIAL
Copy No. 32
CABINET MINUTE
[Underlined:] General Administrative Committee
Melbourne, 12 July 1972
Decision No. 1071 (GA)
Submission No. 713 – Report on Immigration to Australia of Non-Europeans and Persons of Partly Non-European Descent.
The Committee noted the Submission.
2. In discussion, the attention of the Committee was drawn to developing resentment in Perth about the alleged growth in numbers of settlers of non-European origin in that city. It was agreed that developments in this regard should be kept under review.
Certified true copy
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Committee Secretary.
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