Rivett, Kenneth

Academic, immigration reformer and refugee advocate. Kenneth Deakin Rivett was Associate Professor and Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Economics School of the University of New South Wales. He served as Chairman of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs and the NSW Association for Immigration Reform. He was also a member of the National Population Council and a trustee of the Australian Refugee Foundation. Rivett edited Immigration: control or colour bar? (1962), and Australia and the non-white migrant (1975) for the Immigration Reform Group, and was the author of A refugee policy for today and tomorrow (1980), and Purpose and choice in a donor nation (2004), among other publications. The Refugee Council of Australia, in cooperation with the University of Sydney Law School, inaugurated the Kenneth Rivett Orations in Dr Rivett's honour. Kenneth Rivett was the grandson of Alfred Deakin and brother of Rihan Rivett.