Refuge Australia: Australia's Humanitarian Record

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University of NSW Press, 2004 - History - 127 pages
Debunks several commonly held assumptions about Australia’s humanitarian record. It demonstrates that Australian responses to various international refugee crises from the 1930s to the early 1970s were informed by self-interest rather than humanitarian concerns. It shows that Australia’s support for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the 1951 Refugees Convention was often at best half-hearted.

About the author (2004)

Klaus Neumann is a historian based at Swinburne University¿s Institute for Social Research. His 2006 book In the Interest of National Security won the John and Patricia Ward History Prize, while his Refuge Australia: Australia¿s Humanitarian Record (2004) won the Australian Human Rights Commission¿s 2004 Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction.