What The US Can Learn From Australia!

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This month marks three years since the Coalition government came to power promising to regain control of, and restore integrity to, our nation’s borders.

Yesterday marked the third anniversary of the implementation of Operation Sovereign Borders to stop the boats.

Critics said it couldn’t be done. That we would not be able to end the uncontrolled flow of people-smugglers’ boats and the tens ofthousands of illegal arrivals they carried toAustralia.

There is no doubt the task was herculean. The mistakes and misjudgments of the precedinghalf decade of Labor rule had unleashed a tsunami of 50,000, often undocumentedpeople, which strained border agencies’ ability to cope. Three years on, we are able to assert,that once again, Australia controls its borders.




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Large-scale migration and resettlement requires a social compact. Citizens must be confident that it is instituted in an orderly and controlled manner and that it is carried out for the betterment of all.

That confidence enabled Australia to resettle almost a million displaced people over decades since the horrors of World War II.


Australia offers not just refuge, we guide and support people into a new life: a safe, healthy and hopefully happy future. We do all we can to help them overcome the traumas and tragedies they have experienced in the past.

Only about 30 countries, a mere handful, offer such a planned program for permanent resettlement.

Australia has long been recognised as one of the leading countries in the world for resettlement of refugees. For the most part, with the US and Canada, we have been at the top.

It is a fine record, one of which we can be proud.