Output 1.4: Safe haven
Objective
- Provide temporary safe haven in Australia for people displaced by upheaval in their country.
Description
Under this output the department provides temporary safe haven in Australia for people who have been displaced by upheaval in their country and for whom the Australian Government considers the most appropriate help to be temporary safe haven.
In 2005-06, 54 people from East Timor, who had been in particularly vulnerable situations, were granted Humanitarian Stay (Temporary) (subclass 449) visas for a period of three and a half months in late May 2006. In 2006-07, all people voluntarily returned to East Timor.
Another 31 people who had been living in International Organization for Migration (IOM) facilities in Indonesia for the previous five years, were granted Humanitarian Stay (Temporary) (subclass 449) visas and then subsequently granted three year Humanitarian Stay (Temporary) (subclass 786) visas once they arrived in Australia.
Performance
At 30 June 2007, there were no people in Australia holding safe haven visas, a decrease of 54 on the number at 30 June 2006.