Good morning. It’s “obscene” that 140,000 Australians were “cheated out of welfare support they were entitled to” when they signed up to a student loan scheme in the 1990s, according Kristin O’Connell from the Antipoverty Centre. When the Coalition dumped the program in 2003 it conceded that many recipients would never be able to repay the funds. But the government is still chasing them.
Meanwhile, we meet families kept apart for years by the Australian immigration system, and the race intensifies to get foreign diplomats out of Sudan. And, ahead of today’s long-awaited defence policy review, we have analysis of what we know so far.
