In the five years after World War Two, Australia welcomed over 170,000 European refugees.
The Vietnam War also prompted a large-scale response, with 100,000 settlements over 10 years.
Annual intake was expanded to 22,000 in the 1980s, and in the 1990s, a new Special Assistance visa was introduced in reponse to conflicts in former Yugoslavia, East Timor, Lebanon and Sudan, among others.
The focus then shifted to support refugees from the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific, including a special annual intake of 12-thousand Syrian and Iraqi refugees from 2015.
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