Bucking heated politics on immigration, Labor is making a trial program that resettles refugees across Australia permanent Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast After leaving their home in Venezuela, Luisana and Ana spent five years in Peru waiting for their new lives to begin. As refugees in a same-sex relationship and without the protection of citizenship, they feared for their safety. Then the messages from Australia started to arrive.