Dear all,

Thank you for participating in our annual consultations in 2015 and 2016. Apologies for the delay, but we have now published a report summarising those two years of consultations, our first ever State of the Nation report attached in this link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0MBFPzHergDQUFHNGpUekVWcmVfNVUyZDI2VFRkb3paTm40/view?usp=sharing   We had hoped to also be in a position to send our submission to the Department’s consultations on the Refugee and Humanitarian Program, but this has been delayed because the Department has not yet published its Discussion Paper and has moved the consultation period to the next two months. Submissions will be open to those interested and we encourage everyone to make a submission. We will share our submission as soon as possible after the release of the Discussion Paper.

Thanks once again to everyone who comes – it is a privilege and an honour to talk to you and learn from you.

Kind regards

Joyce Chia.

Dr Joyce Chia

Senior Policy Officer

Refugee Council of Australia

Level 6, 20 Otter Street Collingwood Vic 3000, Australia

Phone: +61 (03) 9600 3302 Mobile: 0451051346 Fax: (02) 9211 9288

Email: [email protected]

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