Australia Profile
Quick Facts
Number of Immigration Detention Sites: 9 (2008)
Detention Capacity: 2,380 (2008)
Annual Number of Deportations:
6,768 (2007)
Undocumented Population:
46,500 (as of June 2007)
Number of asylum seekers:
1,516 (end of 2007)
Last updated: December 2008
Australia Country Links
NGOs and Research Institutions
Government Agencies
Australia Bureau of Statistics
Australian Human Rights Commission
Commonwealth Ombudsman
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC)
International Organizations
International Labour Organization: Sub-Regional Office for South-East Asia and the Pacific
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/manila/
International Organization for Migration - Australia - Country Information
http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/pid/511
IOM - Australia
UNHCR - Australia - Country Information
http://www.unhcr.org/country/aus.html
NGOs and Research Institutions
Amnesty International Australia
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
Asylum Seeker Project
Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office
Australia PEN: Writers in Detention Committee
Center for Citizenship and Human Rights
Children Out of Detention (Chilout)
Ecumenical Migration Centre (not EMC website but contains info on coalition work in Australia)
Jesuit Refugee Service Australia
http://www.jrs.org.au/david.holdcroft(at)jrs(dot)net
National Council of Churches of Australia
Refugee Council of Australia
Rural Australians for Refugees
http://www.ruralaustraliansforrefugees.org.au/
Media
The Age
The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.com.au
The Sydney Morning Herald




