Immigration Reports to Date

Abstract

There is a plethora of official literature relating to migration that has been issued over the past century. Critical among these are Parliamentary debates on migration issues that have resulted in relevant legislation. However, it is worthy of note that there have been no Commonwealth Royal Commissions with immigration as their brief, although there have been recent calls and petitions for a Royal Commission into the treatment of asylum-seekers. There have, though, been some state government Royal Commissions that may be relevant. For example: 1904, Western Australian Royal Commission on the Immigration of Non-British Labour (Western Australian Parliamentary Papers, vol. 2, Paper No. A7). 1925, Royal Commission to Investigate the Social and Economic Effect of the Increase in the Number of Aliens in North Queensland, known as the Ferry Report (Queensland Parliamentary Papers, vol. 3).