‘It grows this anger within people’: how Australia treats those fleeing humanitarian disaster depends on where they came from – and when. By Rafqa Touma and Ben Doherty, The Guardian

Over the past three decades, Australia had issued at least 25 different visa types to assist people forced from their homes by humanitarian emergency, according to a policy paper from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.

“When crises threaten lives, the Australian government often steps up – but not always in a predictable, efficient, equitable and effective way, if responses to Afghanistan, Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza are anything to go by,” the policy brief reads.

“For some people escaping these conflicts, travel to Australia has been relatively easy; for others, impossible,” the brief, written by Prof Jane McAdam and Dr Regina Jefferies, says.

‘It grows this anger within people’: how Australia treats those fleeing humanitarian disaster depends on where they came from – and when. By Rafqa Touma and Ben Doherty, The Guardian