REFUGEE RESPONSE INDEX (RRI) AUSTRALIA REVIEW Pillar 4: Refugees become self-reliant - November 2022

The RRI provides a baseline measure of country performance in support of the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees and the commitments set forth in the 2016 New York Declaration. [...] Component 4.1: Social and cultural inclusion is encouraged There are various legal and policy instruments that protect ethnic and religious diversity in Australia and programs that support the goal of diversity and inclusion more broadly.5 The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 outlaws discrimination on the basis of race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, with the ability to seek legal redress thr. [...] This is because Australia does not have a policy of encampment and the vast majority of refugees live within local communities and are not identifiable as such.23 That said, weaker labour market integration described above has implications in terms of sustainable livelihoods and socio-economic cohesion for refugees and the wider Australian community, with some estimates of lost economic benefit ru. [...] Involvement of local, state/territory and Federal government elected representatives and bureaucracies in the planning and implementation of refugee policy and programs has been an area of ongoing tension.38 In addition, the engagement of the private sector to contribute to the self-reliance of recognised refugees and sustainability and socio-economic cohesion has been patchy insofar as there are. [...] L Does the State create Yes, provisions are in place, they are effective and 5 conditions for local consistently applied authorities to participate in Yes, effective provisions are in place and applied, but 4 the design and gaps exist 2 3 implementation of self- Yes, effective provisions are in place, but not 3 reliance programmes and consistently applied assistance for refugees? 2 Yes, but they a.