Anger and layoffs as 12,000 Syrian refugees kept in limbo
Refugee organisations have been forced to lay off staff and hand back houses provided for the 12,000 Syrian refugees who the Federal Government promised last September to settle in Australia.
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Julie Power
Julie Power is a reporter for Fairfax Media
Dental scheme cruelled by poor promotion
A federal government program that has provided free dental care to one million children and which Health Minister Ley indicated could be dramatically overhauled, has been judged a success in a review by Ms Ley's own department.
Book your children in before it is too late, warn dentists
Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley is very likely to scrap the $2.7 billion child dental health program in the next budget, warn dentists.
It's no laughing matter: political cartoon exhibition launched
It's no laughing matter but the Refugee Council of Australia's CEO Paul Power admits he still gets a laugh out of the way Australia's top cartoonists depict our brutal immigration policy.