Nancy Prasad

{{short description|Australian woman of Indo-Fijian descent}}

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Nancy Prasad is an Australian woman of Indo-Fijian descent who as a child was the centre of a deportation drama in Australia.

On August 6, 1965, the five-year-old Prasad was scheduled for deportation to Fiji from Sydney Airport. However, Charles Perkins, an Aboriginal Australian activist, staged a fake "kidnapping" of Prasad, taking her from immigration officials at the airport. Perkins' intent was to highlight what he viewed as the injustice of the country’s "White Australia" immigration policy.{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834193,00.html|title=Australia: Snatch at Sydney|date=1965-08-13|magazine=Time|access-date=2017-03-21|issn=0040-781X}} Many Australian newspapers covered the event.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19650817&id=r4YQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9JQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6373,2722702&hl=en|title = The Age - Google News Archive Search}}

The next day, Prasad was deported to Fiji.

In March 1973, Prasad was allowed to immigrate into Australia. A Daily Telegraph article in August 2015 described her role in Australian immigration policy history.{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/deported-nancy-prasad-was-the-little-girl-who-helped-bring-down-the-white-australia-policy/news-story/001ee3eff23d0cef94d0961e2811396a|title=Little girl triggered fall of White Australia policy|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=2015-08-07|access-date=2017-03-21}}