"Refugee Regatta" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From refugee + regatta (“boat race”), referring to the fact that the influxes tend to be seasonal, occurring normally during the cooler months.",
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      "form": "Refugee Regattas",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1983, Redgum, Caught In The Act, song, on the album Caught in the Act,\nGet an Esky, fill it full of cans, get your dope, go down to the beach, roll a big spliff about that long sit on the beach at sunset, have a few cans, and watch what they call up in Darwin the Refugee Regatta."
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          "ref": "2011 April 9, Government Shill #2, “A Vietnam veteran phone 2UE today upset”, in aus.politics (Usenet)",
          "text": "We grew up in a household where every Asian was a Gook. Dad served in Vietnam. We went to school with Dagos, boat loads of Slopes arrived in Darwin in the \"Refugee Regatta\", and when I was in Malaysia the locals were known to us as Bongos, or Rock Apes.",
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        "An influx of illegal immigrants or refugees attempting to enter the country by sea; an influx of boat people."
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          "country",
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        "(Australia, Darwin, colloquial, slang, offensive) An influx of illegal immigrants or refugees attempting to enter the country by sea; an influx of boat people."
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      "tags": [
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  "etymology_text": "From refugee + regatta (“boat race”), referring to the fact that the influxes tend to be seasonal, occurring normally during the cooler months.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "1983, Redgum, Caught In The Act, song, on the album Caught in the Act,\nGet an Esky, fill it full of cans, get your dope, go down to the beach, roll a big spliff about that long sit on the beach at sunset, have a few cans, and watch what they call up in Darwin the Refugee Regatta."
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