Sidiqa Faqihi waited a decade in limbo in Indonesia before she arrived in Australia three years ago and felt reborn.

The final determination about which 12,000 refugees come to Australia rests with the Australian government. Refugee camps. Refugees from Syria or Iraq who are in Lebanon, ...

Refugees who make the harrowing journey by sea to Australia might want to think twice about that perilous voyage. They won’t be allowed to settle if a new law gets passed. Australian Prime ...

Refugee and humanitarian visas have been steady at around 6-10% of Australia’s overall permanent migration intake for the last decade. Most of Australia’s migrants are not refugees.

Australia, he says, wanted to stop refugees from coming and often dying on dangerous boat journeys. PETER DUTTON: I've spoken to the sailors on our boats, on our vessels who were pulling half ...

At the moment, there are 31,000 refugees living in Australia on various temporary visas that put limits on their lives – whether it is for work, study or family relationships.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The United States and Australia are close to announcing a deal in which the U.S. would resettle hundreds of asylum seekers banished by Australia to Pacific ...

Australia To Accept 12,000 Refugees After Abbott U-Turn. Published Sep 09, 2015 at 3:44 AM EDT Updated May 15, 2017 at 7:16 AM EDT. By . Conor is a staff writer for Newsweek covering Africa, with ...

Australia has accepted a longstanding New Zealand offer to resettle boat refugees it sent to the remote island nation of Nauru.

Refugees like me had to follow the rules to come here — why don’t today’s migrants? By . ... some of whom they’d never met, in places like America, Australia, Canada and so on.

Australia has decided to settle 12,000 refugees in Australia on permanent humanitarian visas – in addition to the current humanitarian program intake of 13,750.