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Rebuilding a Principled and Strategic Refugee Program

19 Aug 2022

SHP applications are prioritised in the following order, which is based on the visa the proposer holds, whether the proposer is an Australian citizen, and the closeness of the relationship between the applicant and the proposer: 1. [...] The semi-permanence of these situations, the lack of success of securing local integration solutions linked to a lack of resources and capacity in host states (most of which are developing countries) to provide long-term solutions, and the lack of funding and prioritisation given to these protracted situations by industrialised countries over the past decades all contribute to the intractable situ. [...] We believe that the CRISP provides the best model to move forward for an expanded community sponsorship program, and recommend that the CSP be wound up and the CRISP be expanded and made additional to the humanitarian program, in order to best meet the commitments of the new Australian Government. [...] Refugee Council of Australia Humanitarian Program 2022-23 submission -17- As we highlighted more substantially in the review of the CSP, our key concerns about the CSP include: The fact that it is included within the Humanitarian Program, reducing the number of places available to the most vulnerable and undermining the willingness of the community to support the program; The exorbitant costs. [...] Recommendation 18 Separate the onshore and offshore components of the Program The Australian Government should de-link the onshore component of the Humanitarian Program from the offshore component, in line with practice in all other resettlement countries in the world.

Authors

Asher Hirsch

Pages
33
Published in
Australia