Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

Those are matters which we are working through at the present time. Can I say, if the honourable gentleman might have questions about the rest of that 200 and something million dollars in relation to the humanitarian settlement program, in some instances the money will supplement existing services and in some instances we are looking at additional programs. But the aim of this is to deal particularly with some more recent settlers to Australia, particularly those who have come, for example, from parts of Africa where, through no fault of their own, their circumstances are more difficult, if I can put it that way, in terms of settlement in Australia than perhaps earlier arrivals under the humanitarian program. These are people, for example, who have much lower levels of education than many earlier arrivals have. These are people for example who have spent a long period of time in war-torn and conflicted areas, and who have spent years, in some instances from very young ages, in refugee camps. It is a response to what we see as a greater humanitarian need in terms of the settlement program to have provided that additional money, but, as to the actual detail of it and the allocation of it, we are still working through aspects of that. I am quite happy to provide the honourable gentleman with more details about it when we have got all that to hand.

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