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The term ‘boat people’ entered the Australian vernacular in the 1970s with the arrival of the first wave of boats carrying people seeking asylum from the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The first boat arrived in Darwin in April 1976 carrying five Indochinese men.
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19 boats which involved 953 people arrived to Australia between 1994-1995. This is the frist and small climax between 1976 to 2010.
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3721 people were came to Australia in 1999.This is the second climax that the number of refugee boats came to Australia.
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The number of people that came to Australia was continue increase. 5516 people were involved in these 43 boats.
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No asylum seekers came to Australia in 2002 and only a few of asylum seekers came until 2008.
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134 sylum seeker boats came to Australia in 2010, and it involved 68 thousands of people in these boats. This is the highest refugee immigration group until today.
