Federal election 2016: refugee advocates are really NIMBYs, by Nicola Berkovic and Elizabeth Colman.
Greens MPs and refugee advocates who are calling for a huge increase in the humanitarian migrant intake and the end of offshore processing live in affluent inner-city areas that take just a fraction of Australia’s refugees.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale, who is campaigning to more than triple the nation’s humanitarian intake from 13,750 to 50,000 people, lives in the Surf Coast local government area, close to Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. The area settled fewer than five refugees from 2010 to last year.
Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs, who has been critical of the treatment of asylum-seekers, is listed as living in the City of Sydney, which took in just 247 humanitarian migrants, and before that lived in the high-wealth area of Woollahra, in Sydney’s inner east, which settled just 14 refugees over five years.
By contrast, Fairfield in Sydney’s west received 5816 humanitarian migrants over the same five-year period while the Greater Dandenong area in Melbourne’s southeast took 3899, and Brisbane settled 3862, according to the Department of Social Services’ settlement report.
Here is a brilliant graphic.
hat-tip Stephen Neil
