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Dr. J.C.A. Dique, commonly known as John, was born of British parents in Mandalay (Burma) in 1915. His family moved to India, and his father then served in Mesopotamia where he earned a mention in dispatches during the First World War (1914-1918). Dique was educated in India, and graduated in Medicine from the Madras Medical College. During the Second World War (1939-1945) and the post-war years he served in various hospitals and other units as a member of the Indian Medical Service. Dr. Dique migrated to Australia after the war; he had left India when the British "handed over" the country to the native administration. He worked in the Brisbane general hospital, and in 1951 the first artificial kidney ever used in Australia was manufactured under his direction, and he had a number of original articles published in medical journals [1].
Dique became interested in political issues after the Australian government (under Liberal Prime Minister Robert Menzies) declared trade sanctions against white Rhodesia in 1965, and more so after the Liberal Government of Harold Holt began allowing more non-white immigration in 1966 [2].
Dique became a member of the League of Rights in 1965, later joining the Immigration Control Association (centred in Sydney), and became the president of its Queensland branch. The Queensland Immigration Control Association spilt from the national Immigration Control Association in 1975. The parent ICA, run by Robert Clark, joined with the National Alliance in May 1981 to form the Progressive Nationalist Party, the ICA later reforming in late 1981, and then finally closed around August 1982. Dique continued as President of the Queensland Immigration Control Association, publishing the newsletter News and Views, Queensland, finally winding up in the 1990s (1994?) [3].
Dr. Dique wrote several books on population issues:
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