NSW town to take 200 humanitarian migrants from Iraq and Syria
The New South Wales regional city of Armidale has volunteered to resettle 200 refugees from Iraq and Syria as part of Australia’s humanitarian migration program next year.
The deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce announced the move would begin from February next year. NSW takes the majority of refugees resettled in Australia, and the bulk of those move to Fairfield City Council in Sydney’s west. Acceding to a report in The Guardian, refugees make up a tiny percentage (0.14%) of population growth in NSW.