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Australia will permanently resettle an additional 12,000 refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict. Reuters/Marko Djurica

September 11, 2015

Where does the magic number for Australia’s refugee intake come from?

Sandy Gifford, Swinburne University of Technology

There is no sound reason why 13,000 should remain the benchmark number for discussions of how many refugees Australia should take.

There is a fairer and more humane way of dealing with asylum seekers. AAP/Department of Defence

August 2, 2012

Saving lives at sea: the asylum seeker expert panel reports

Sharon Pickering, Monash University; Helen Ware, University of New England; Melissa Phillips, The University of Melbourne; Sandy Gifford, Swinburne University of Technology; Savitri Taylor, La Trobe University, and Stephen Castles, University of Sydney

After two weeks of assessing the evidence, discussing policy and reporting on fieldwork, The Conversation’s asylum seeker expert panel has made its findings. Using information from our research repository…

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July 26, 2012

Resettling refugees: the evidence supports increasing our intake

Sandy Gifford, Swinburne University of Technology

Increasing our humanitarian settlement intake would help untangle the policy knot around irregular migration to Australia. Over the past decade, humanitarian visas have been capped at about 13,500 per…

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