Australia creates temporary visas for refugees

Australia’s Senate has passed a law approving new temporary visas for refugees, allowing them to stay and work in the country for up to five years but denying them permanent residency
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DETENTION FACILITIES  (number of detained people as of Oct 31, 2014)

1000km 620 miles

INDONESIA

PACIFIC OCEAN

Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island 227 

Christmas Island 570

INDIAN OCEAN

Manus Island 1,056

Nauru 1,095

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

AUSTRALIA

Wickham Point 204

Yongah Hill 352

Perth 45 16

Adelaide 22

Maribyrnong 110

Brisbane 78

Sydney 50

Villawood 333

Melbourne 225

Housed elsewhere on mainland 852

Detention centres

Residential housing, transit accommodation or alternative places of detention

Offshore processing centres
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TOTAL REFUGEE NUMBERS

People in detention, including offshoreprocessing centres 5,285

Men 3,780

Women 729

Children 726

Living in community, awaiting residence determination 3,107

Living in community, on bridging visas 25,057

Refugees – mainly from Iran, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam – travel to Australia’s Christmas Island by boat from Indonesia
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Source: Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection

Picture: AP

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