Essay On Refugees In Australia

Australia's current refugee policy dictates that australia has accepted more than 700,000 refugees and people that are in need of a new beginning in a new country. The largest group that came to australia was in 1947 and 1954 when 170,000 refugees came from camps in Europe and majority from poland to the big smoke of Australia. Australia established its first Department of immigration in 1945 when arthur caldwell was minister.It was not until 1977 that a comprohensive policy on refugees was adopted by setting out the objectivies and mechanisms for a long program,The program was developed by Coalition government led by Malcolm Fraser and Michael Mackellar as Minister for Immigration.

According to preliminary estimates, Australia's population passed 22 million people by the end of September 2009. The latest one million people were added to the population in less than 2 and a

The reality is if we are going to go on like this farmers need to produce more food with fewer resources, a poverty decrease, improved access to a healthy diet, better management and access of freshwater resources, increased use of renewable energy, and the protection of climate, ecosystems. The problem won't be just in Australia it will be a global problem to overcome with research shown that earth will be home to over 10 billion people which is 3 billion more than we have today and we will reach 7 billion by the end of 2015 with a rate of 13,750 refugees entering Australia every year.Australia received 24,300 claims for asylum in 2013, making it the eighth largest recipient of asylum seekers in the industrialised world. That figure is about 4% of all applications made globally in