over the next three years 50% of the people entering the country under the Refugee Quota Programme will come from the Asia-Pacific region, in an effort to help Australia with its refugee crisis
increase the number of refugee placements from Africa and the Middle East from 14% to 15%
scrap the previous government’s quota for refugees with family already living here
The number of places within the refugee quota for large-scale refugee crisis situations will also increase from July next year, from 100 to 200 a year