Asylum seekers released into community penniless

By Ann Lawry
Updated April 29 2015 - 11:05am, first published 12:00am

It has been brought to my attention that the Department of Immigration is releasing asylum seekers into the community with no financial support, no medicare and no accommodation. How are these poor people to survive? By living on the street and stealing? This situation is a shameful way to treat people who fled persecution, and came to us seeking protection. What has happened to the land of the "Fair Go"

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