[wisdomdata]

australia's yearly intake until recently for around a decade has been more than that.

[sorenstoutner]

The numbers from this website show much lower (not more than 20,000 in any given year since 1982). Where are you getting your data?

https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/australian-immigration-hum...

Note that there is a distinction between refugees (the third column) and total immigration (the second column). Even total immigration never tops 200,000 per year.

[petre]

Too bad they ship refugees off to Nauru and Papua New Guinea where they live in "processing centres".

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia...

[pinkfoot]

Too bad the refugees didn't apply for asylum in any number of stable countries they passed through first.