Nancy Prasad is an Australian woman of Indo-Fijian descent who as a child was the centre of a deportation drama in Australia.
On August 6, 1965, the five-year-old Prasad was scheduled for deportation to Fiji from Sydney Airport. However, Charles Perkins, an Aboriginal Australian activist, staged a fake "kidnapping" of Prasad, taking her from immigration officials at the airport. Perkins' intent was to highlight what he viewed as the injustice of the country’s "White Australia" immigration policy.[1] Many Australian newspapers covered the event.[2] The next day, Prasad was deported to Fiji.
In March 1973, Prasad was allowed to immigrate into Australia. A Daily Telegraph article in August 2015 described her role in Australian immigration policy history.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Australia: Snatch at Sydney". Time. 13 August 1965. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ "The Age - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Little girl triggered fall of White Australia policy". Daily Telegraph. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2017.