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MEDIA RELEASE – Refugee Council welcomes MPs’ call to move refugee children from Nauru
October 16, 2018
MEDIA RELEASE 16 October 2018 The Refugee Council of Australia welcomes today’s news that three federal Liberal MPs have publicly urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison to bring all the refugee and asylum seeker children and their families from Nauru…
Wentworth candidates call for evacuation of refugee kids from Nauru
October 15, 2018
MEDIA RELEASE Monday 15 October 2018 Leading Independent and minor party candidates united to call for the evacuation of refugee kids and their families from Nauru at a major by-election forum in Wentworth last night. Four candidates…
Refugee Alternatives: Conference Report 2018
October 9, 2018
The Refugee Council of Australia and Melbourne Social Equity Institute's conference, Refugee Alternatives: Improving policy, practice and public support, was held 13-14 February 2018. The two-day conference, hosted at the University of Melbourne, brought together a broad range of expertise from across the country and globally to cover topics of displacement, protection, cooperation, wellbeing, resilience, education, advocacy, and unity.
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Total number of displaced persons worldwide (25.4 million refugees) 2017
Number of refugees
resettled or recognised
in Australia
2017
Proportion of people seeking asylum
recognised by Australia in 2017
Country hosting the
most refugees: Turkey
2017
