By Pamela Curr One child’s life in Melbourne. He repeated the words “Court House” and was puzzled as he looked at the small simple white building in a street of houses in the back streets of Coburg. I explained that long ago this was a Court House but not any longer. He then told me
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When the government this week announced the federal budget for 2013/14, one set of numbers was always going to grab the headlines. Treasury has forecast an increase in spending on detaining and processing asylum seekers to the tune of $3.2 billion over the next four years. This brings the total cost to over $8 billion
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Last week the Coalition announced that under their governance they would scrap the review process introduced by Labor in October 2012 for asylum seekers given adverse ASIO assessments to have them appealed. This move would mean that ASIO would be able to brand refugees a security risk to Australia, they would not have to reveal
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