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Ian Lindenmayer interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens in the Chief Migration Officers' oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 4607433
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Lindenmayer, Ian, 1942-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 2009 
5 sound files (ca. 417 min.) 
Series

Chief Migration Officers' oral history project.

Summary

Ian Lindenmayer talks about his early life in Queensland; his early work experiences; his scholarships and university studies; his employment in the public service in Queensland while completing an honours degree; accepting an Administrative Traineeship in the Commonwealth Public Service; his training and placements as an Administrative Trainee; Minute Secretary, Public Service Board; Research Officer, Department of Immigration; posting to London (1965), selecting assisted migrants; White Australia policy; Australia's desire for British migrants; introducing automated standard letters; establishing a new office in Bristol; his appointment to San Francisco (1968); to Canberra (1970), as researcher in the Planning Section, initiating a points system of migrant selection; the dismantling of the Department under Labor; ethnic communities' and politicians' responses to introduction of numerical selection standards; studying economics at the ANU (1970); Executive Officer to the Ministerial and Immigration Planning Councils (1972), Australian Population and Immigration Council; dismantling of the Department of Immigration from 1974; Labor's response to the fall of Saigon (1975).

Lindenmayer discusses his appointment to the Consultative Committee on Ethnic Broadcasting; Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1975); Green Paper 'Immigration Policy and Australia's Population', Ministerial Statement; responsibilities as First Assistant Secretary Migration Division (1978); unauthorized boat arrivals, coastal surveillance refugee processing; settlement services; community attitudes towards Indochinese refugees; Galbally Report; Trans-Tasman Travel Agreement; travelling with family (1964-65); transfer to the Department of Finance; joining the Department of Community Service, reforming nursing homes; move to Department of Employment, Education and Training (1989), employment initiatives during recession, contracting out public service employment, educational support funding and youth services; Department of Employment, Education and Training during 1990s recession, comparisons with government response to 2009 recession; Department of Health and Family Services, responsibilities as Deputy Secretary; Australia New Zealand Food Authority/Food Standards Australia New Zealand; retirement (2003); his seven major career achievements.

Notes

Recorded on 18 May 2009 and 2 June 2009 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T.

Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Related Material Portraits of Ian Lindenmayer during an interview by Ann-Mari Jordens at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 18 May 2009; located at; National Library of Australia Picture collection PIC NL40056 LOC nla.int-nl40056 Online access 
Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary (6 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 141 leaves) 
Subjects Lindenmayer, Ian, - 1942- - Interviews.  |  Australia. - Department of Immigration - Officials and employees.  |  Australia - Emigration and immigration - Government policy.  |  Australia - Emigration and immigration - History.
Occupation Public servants.
Other authors/contributors Jordens, Ann-Mari, 1940-, Interviewer
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