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Melissa Wong, Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW

Around 90% of refugee kids live in poverty in their first year in Australia: report

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Almost a third of people living in Australia were born overseas, and almost half have at least one overseas-born parent. Migrant and refugee communities have been central to the nation’s economic, social and cultural life for generations.

But there has been remarkably little quantitative evidence on the living standards of different groups of migrants once they settle in Australia.

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