This year's submission to the 2022-23 Humanitarian Program focused on rebuilding a principled and strategic program.
Intake submissions
A new opportunity for global leadership: Options for Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program in 2019-20
Consultations for the 2019-2020 Humanitarian Program For more than 25 years, the Refugee Council of Australia has been gathering community views on the Refugee and Humanitarian Program. Every year, we conduct a series...
15 April 2019
We can and should do more: Intake submission 2018-19
The Refugee Council of Australia's submission into the Department of Home Affair's Discussion Paper on the Humanitarian Program 2018-2019 examines priority needs for resettlement, the need for a larger and more...
11 March 2021
Intake submission on Australia’s 2017-2018 refugee and humanitarian program
In April 2017, the Department published a Discussion Paper inviting submissions on the Program. The Refugee Council of Australia provided its submission on 19 May 2017.
25 January 2019
Intake submission on Australia’s 2016-2017 refugee and humanitarian program
The result of the largest consultations we have ever held, this submission came after a dramatic and traumatic period of refugees in 2015. This included the dramatic escalation of those displaced, and in Australia the...
1 February 2019
Intake submission on Australia’s 2015-2016 refugee and humanitarian program
In this submission, we called on the government to increase the size of Australia's Refugee and Humanitarian Program, a review of the Community Proposal Pilot, and a separate family reunion program.
20 January 2019
Intake submission on Australia’s 2014-15 refugee and humanitarian program
In this submission, we make many recommendations about the effects of the new Coalition government's asylum policy, as well as international refugee needs.
9 May 2020
Intake submission on Australia’s 2013-2014 refugee and humanitarian program
This submission was prepared after the release of the Expert Panel on people seeking asylum, and covers the implications of the Panel's report for people seeking asylum.
22 December 2018
Archive of earlier intake submissions on Australia’s refugee and humanitarian program
The submissions for the years 2000 to 2011 are available on this page.
10 October 2020
