“This has had a direct impact on our ability to provide generous and effective support to refugees. Without this confidence, we would not have been able to increase our intake of refugees – the world’s third-largest permanent resettlement program – by more than 35%. Australia’s current humanitarian intake is 13,750 a year, a figure that will rise to 18,750 in three years’ time. Turnbull said Australia was a nation of migration and its diversity had been “an investment against marginalisation and extremism”. He welcomed the growing global consensus that greater cooperation was needed internationally to deal with mass forced migration flows.

Source: The Guardian September 19, 2016 22:24 UTC