Mabel Gwendolyn Freer was a British woman whose exclusion from Australia on morality grounds in 1936 became a cause célèbre and led to a political controversy.
Freer aboard TSS Awatea in Sydney in December 1936, during her second attempt to enter Australia
Customs officials boarding TSS Awatea in connection with Freer's second attempt to enter Australia
Interior minister Thomas Paterson
Daily Telegraph cartoon satirising Paterson's attempts to justify Freer's deportation
The Third Lyons ministry was the 22nd ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 10th Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons. The Third Lyons ministry succeeded the Second Lyons minist
Joseph Lyons Hollywood Studios