<P> Before 1 December 1973, migrants to Australia from Commonwealth countries were eligible to apply for Australian citizenship after one year's residence in Australia . In 1973 the residence requirement was extended to three years, then reduced to two years in November 1984 . However, relatively few British migrants--compared to other post-war arrivals, such as Italians, Greeks and Turks--took up Australian citizenship . Consequently, many lost their Australian resident status later on, usually through leaving Australia . </P> <P> The Government of New Zealand initiated a similar immigration scheme in July 1947 . The first immigrants arrived on the RMS Rangitata later that year . The scheme was administered by the Department of Labour under the guidance of Bert Bockett, and was expanded to include the Netherlands in 1950 . The Dutch immigration scheme finished in 1963, with just over 6,000 immigrants to New Zealand; with Bockett receiving the Olivier van Noort medallion from the Dutch government in the following year . The British immigration scheme lasted until 1971, with 76,673 immigrants . From 1957 to 1971, the scheme applied to further European countries, with a total of 1,442 immigrants . </P> <P> Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard migrated with her family from Barry, Glamorgan, Wales in 1966 . Her parents hoped the warmer climate would help cure her lung infection . </P> <P> Another former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, migrated in 1960 under the scheme, although his father had already lived in Australia after arriving at the beginning of the Second World War on a Blue Funnel Liner, and his mother was an Australian expatriate living in Britain at the time of his birth . </P>

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