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Internet Sources

• Rural Australians for Refugees Facts
• Debunking Asylum Seeker myths - Edmund Rice Centre
• Amnesty Fact Sheets (downloadable)
• Illegal Immigration Information Site Facts & Figures
• US Committe For Refugees report on Australia
  

General Quick Facts

• Refugees are not queue jumpers
  There simply are no queues for people to jump in many countries like Iraq or Afghanistan.
• Asylum seekers are not illegal immigrants
  It is absolutely legal to enter Australia without a visa if you can prove you are a refugee. The majority of people arriving in Australia on boats over the past few years have been granted refugee status by the government.
• Most asylum seekers are genuine refugees
  97% of applicants from Iraq and 93% of applicants from Afghanistan seeking asylum without valid visas in Australia in 1999 were recognised as genuine refugees.
  
• We're not being 'swamped' by refugees
  300 000 refugees arrived in Europe to seek asylum last year. We didn't fill the 12 000 quota set by the government.
  
• We can do more
  Tanzania hosts one refugee for every 76 Tanzanians
  Britain hosts one refugee for every 530 Britons
  Australia hosts one refugee for every 1583 Australians

PLEASE NOTE - THIS SITE IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED

An archive of the site as of 2005 remains online as a resource but links or information may no longer be current