The recent cutting of financial support to asylum seekers will affect between 7,000 and -12,000 people who will be left without funds or shelter. They are destined to be at the bottom of the employment pile.
As a religious congregation with long experience working with refugees and concerned for the future of our country requested the Honourable Prime Minister to reconsider the harsh penalties proposed.
Below is the copy of the formal letter Columban Fr Peter O'Neill, Peace, Ecology and Justice Coordinator, sent to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Related links
- Letter to the Prime Minister
- Read more from the current Columban eBulletin
