The department was also awarded the 2006 Annual Award for Innovation by the Executive Under the same approach, direct humanitarian Leadership Group Victoria for its role in settlement has also been established in formulating a new model for establishing new Ballarat, Victoria, and Mount Gambier, South regional humanitarian settlement locations Australia, and coordinating the delivery of services to in 2007. Evaluation of settlement in both meet entrants’ needs. these towns will be undertaken in 2008. For a copy of the evaluation, go to: For more information on the department’s www.immi. approach to identifying new regional locations, go to: planning Settlement locations of humanitarian entrants 2006–07* 40 35 30 Metro 25 Regional 20 15 Unknown 10 5 Region NSW ACT QLD TAS WA NT SA VIC N/R Metro 2592 110 1150 189 1246 111 1313 2947 0 9658 Regional 197 0 202 93 19 6 63 261 0 841 Unknown 316 0 34 1 175 1 66 269 737 1599 3105 110 1386 283 1440 118 1442 3477 737 12 098 Source: DIAC Settlement Database * Metropolitan and regional areas as defined for Settlement purposes N/R Not recorded
The department was also awarded the 2006 Annual Award for Innovation by the Executive Leadership Group Victoria for its role in formulating a new model for establishing new regional humanitarian settlement locations and coordinating the delivery of services to meet entrants’ needs. For a copy of the evaluation, go to: www.immi. Under the same approach, direct humanitarian settlement has also been established in Ballarat, Victoria, and Mount Gambier, South Australia, in 2007. Evaluation of settlement in both these towns will be undertaken in 2008. For more information on the department’s approach to identifying new regional locations, go to: planning Settlement locations of humanitarian entrants 2006–07* 40 35 30 Metro 25 Regional 20 15 Unknown 10 5 Region Metro Regional Unknown NSW 2592 197 316 3105 ACT 110 0 0 110 QLD 1150 202 34 1386 TAS 189 93 1 283 WA 1246 19 175 1440 NT 111 6 1 118 SA 1313 63 66 1442 VIC 2947 261 269 3477 N/R 0 0 737 737 9658 841 1599 12 098 Source: DIAC Settlement Database * Metropolitan and regional areas as defined for Settlement purposes N/R Not recorded