Speech given to a Conference held at the University of Sydney on 26 October 1984 and published in Frank Stilwell and David Wilmoth, editors, Development Visions for Australia: Strategies, Policies and Projects, Planning Research Centre, Monograph No. 21, University of Sydney, 1986, pp. 15-19.
There are three issues that need to be addressed in the current debate on immigration policy: how many migrants, what guidelines should apply and where they should be settled.
Throughout the debate on immigration, a debate ignited by Professor Blainey’s views, all sides have claimed to represent the average man.
I am sure that most academics would shudder to think that one of their former students – on the strength of a single year’s experience – would purport to explain to such a gathering what he was like as a teacher.