Refugees: some facts and figures
Sep. 10th, 2015 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyBetween December 2013 and August 2015, 20 asylum seeker boats attempted to reach Australia, carrying 633 passengers, only to be turned back. That's almost one boat per month.
Fact file: How does Australia's refugee intake compare? (ABC, 8 September)
Fact check: do refugee claims made by Tony Abbott and Peter Dutton stack up? (GA, 8 September)
Fact and fiction with Prime Minister Tony Abbott's refugee intake numbers (SMH, 7 September)
Correcting the record: Australia's response to refugees (RCOA, 24 August)
More asylum seekers have died on Manus Island than have been resettled, report shows (SMH, 16 July)
Ombudsman slams government for long detention rates (SMH, 2 June) | Child in detention for 1113 days, only 25 Rohingya refugees accepted (SMH, 24 July)
Taxpayers spending $1.3m a day to keep asylum seekers in island hellhole [ie Nauru] (Crikey, 23 July)
Fact check: Does Australia spend more on offshore processing than the UN spends on refugee programs in South East Asia? (Yes.) (ABC, 21 July)
Government spent $2.4bn over two years maintaining Nauru and Manus (GA, 26 May) (which includes $29m in visa fees paid to Nauru)
Refugees are Australia's most entrepreneurial migrants, says research: "Humanitarian migrants make twice as much money from their own businesses as people arriving on skilled and family visas, says statistics bureau." (GA, 4 September)
Victorian town gets $41m benefit from resettling Burmese Karen refugees (GA, 23 April)
13 facts about asylum seekers and refugees you should know (Australian Red Cross)
There's no legal queue. And three other facts Australians get wrong about asylum seekers (GA, 15 June)
The facts about 'boat people' – The government and media are lying (AIMN, 17 July 2014)
Asylum seekers fill jobs Australians refuse to do (SBS, 28 August 2014)
Australia's treatment of refugee and asylum seeker children: the views of Australian paediatricians (Medical Journal of Australia, 201(7) October 2014, pp 393-398.)
Fact file: How does Australia's refugee intake compare? (ABC, 8 September)
Fact check: do refugee claims made by Tony Abbott and Peter Dutton stack up? (GA, 8 September)
Fact and fiction with Prime Minister Tony Abbott's refugee intake numbers (SMH, 7 September)
Correcting the record: Australia's response to refugees (RCOA, 24 August)
More asylum seekers have died on Manus Island than have been resettled, report shows (SMH, 16 July)
Ombudsman slams government for long detention rates (SMH, 2 June) | Child in detention for 1113 days, only 25 Rohingya refugees accepted (SMH, 24 July)
Taxpayers spending $1.3m a day to keep asylum seekers in island hellhole [ie Nauru] (Crikey, 23 July)
Fact check: Does Australia spend more on offshore processing than the UN spends on refugee programs in South East Asia? (Yes.) (ABC, 21 July)
Government spent $2.4bn over two years maintaining Nauru and Manus (GA, 26 May) (which includes $29m in visa fees paid to Nauru)
Refugees are Australia's most entrepreneurial migrants, says research: "Humanitarian migrants make twice as much money from their own businesses as people arriving on skilled and family visas, says statistics bureau." (GA, 4 September)
Victorian town gets $41m benefit from resettling Burmese Karen refugees (GA, 23 April)
13 facts about asylum seekers and refugees you should know (Australian Red Cross)
There's no legal queue. And three other facts Australians get wrong about asylum seekers (GA, 15 June)
The facts about 'boat people' – The government and media are lying (AIMN, 17 July 2014)
Asylum seekers fill jobs Australians refuse to do (SBS, 28 August 2014)
Australia's treatment of refugee and asylum seeker children: the views of Australian paediatricians (Medical Journal of Australia, 201(7) October 2014, pp 393-398.)
