DIMIA Annual Report 2001-02
HUMANITARIAN ENTRY AND STAY
The government's Humanitarian program seeks to assist refugees and others of humanitarian concern through a range of measures to provide protection from persecution and the durable solution of resettlement for those who need it.
A key challenge in this area in recent years has been an increase in unauthorised boat arrivals, transported to Australia by criminal organisations involved in people smuggling.
Many of these people have bypassed effective protection arrangements in countries closer to their home or are undertaking a secondary movement from their country of first asylum to achieve a migration outcome.
Such movements undermine the orderly application of resettlement as a durable solution for refugees under the international protection framework, and the orderly resettlement programs of countries such as Australia.