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Symposium: ‘The rights of strangers’

Providing a ‘home for the oppressed’? Historical perspectives on Australian responses to refugees

Pages 1-25 | Published online: 30 Oct 2017

References

Australian cases

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  • Teixeira & Ors v Liveris & Anor [1962] HCA (30 April 1962).

International legal material

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