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May 2014

Budget brings mixed bag for humanitarian and CALD sectors

15 May 20140 comments

People at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder – the unemployed, young people, pensioners and refugees and asylum...

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Will ‘earn or learn’ see young fall through the cracks? (ABC)

15 May 20140 comments

The Government says young people need to ‘earn or learn’ to move away from welfare reliance but youth welfare...

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Migration Act amended to exclude refugees with bad security assessment (The Guardian)

14 May 20140 comments

The Senate has passed a controversial amendment to the Migration Act that would prevent refugees who have received an...

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The Syrian conflict through a writer’s eyes

14 May 20142 comments

World-renown writer Khaled Hosseini says that Syria is on the verge of losing an entire generation of its children....

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