hard core data from UNHCR

2008 Stats for Asylum applications lodged are:

• EU rececived 289,000
• USA&Canada received 85,900
• Australia received 4,750 hardly a flood and not numbers that we cannot handle.

Australia still rates so low as a country of asylum that we are off the radar.

On the list of source countries of asylum seekers, Afghans moved from ninth to fourth place — endeavouring to change the violent and unbearable living conditions there, directly because of the trillions spent on shooting, killing and bombing the country.

LINK for Stats Buffs:
http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/49c796572.pdf

Pamela Curr
Campaign coordinator
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre