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Australia attracts record migrant intake SYDNEY, Monday (AFP) Australia attracted the largest number of immigrants for a decade in the past financial year and is among the top three countries in resettling asylum seekers, despite its tough refugee policies, new data showed Monday. More than 111,000 people arrived and settled in Australia in the financial year to June 2004, a rise of almost 20,000 on the previous year and the largest number for a decade, according to the immigration department data. It showed that by the end of this fiscal year Australia would have granted refugee visas to more than 13,000 people, an eight-year high, surpassed only by the United States and Canada, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said in a statement. Australian immigration authorities granted almost 5,000 refugee visas between July and November 2004, most to asylum seekers from Africa, she said. "The coming years will see Australia maintain its position as one of the leading countries in the world in providing refugee and humanitarian resettlement assistance," she said. |
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