'Wholly unwaranted penalisation': the International Refugee Organisation and the funding of post-war Jewish immigration to Australia

After World War II, the cost of travel to Australia was substantial. Australian Jewish organisations lacked the capacity to assist at the level required by thousands of Jewish survivors who wished to migrate to Australia. They turned to American Jewish welfare organisations. The International Refugee Organisation stepped into the breach and provided subsidies, but in August 1948 Arthur Calwell stopped this assistance. This article examines the reasons for Calwell's action