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Line 74: ===Return to civilian use=== In June 1945 ''Tasman'' entered Sydney for refit before being released from SWPA charter and returned to BMWT control in July.{{sfn\|''The West Australian''\|1946a}}{{sfn\|Masterson\|1949\|loc=App. 30 page 5}} By October the ship was caught up in the turmoil of both [[Indonesian National Revolution\|Indonesian independence]] and Australian labor union activities with Indonesian seamen walking off, Australia declaring such [[White Australia policy#~~Launch of post war multi~~Post-~~ethnic~~war immigration\|non-European]] seamen illegal immigrants, labor listing the ship as "black" in sympathy with the Indonesian seamen and refusing any work related to the ship with a "scab crew" with charges and counter charges of "Communism" among labor leaders.{{sfn\|''The West Australian''\|1946b}}{{sfn\|''Advocate''\|1945}}{{sfn\|''The West Australian''\|1946c}}{{sfn\|''The West Australian''\|1946d}} ''Tasman'' was returned to the Dutch Government in December 1945 still under the command of [http://www.maritiemdigitaal.nl/index.cfm?event=search.getdetail&id=201019489 Captain Willem Eleveld], who had commanded the ship from 1941 through the war. He described her as "lucky" as she had never been bombed despite constant operations.{{sfn\|''The West Australian''\|1946a}}

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