Government Cuts Welfare Payments to Asylum Seekers

Protesters marching in Adelaide in April, demanding the closure of offshore detention centres in PNG and Nauru

Protesters marching in Adelaide in April, demanding the closure of offshore detention centres in PNG and Nauru Source: Getty Images

Around 100 asylum seekers who had been brought to Australia from detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island for medical treatment, will no longer receive their fortnightly payments.


They also have just three weeks to move out of government-supported accommodation and find somewhere else to live.


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