single mum with 9 children gets refugee status, page-6

I also saw the report.

The lady in question was not whingeing about the size of the 'handout' as you put it.

She was being evicted from her home ( the real estate agent cited too many children).Now with 9 children to care for that is a very scary prospect.

Her plight is a failure of government policy pure and simple and a bloody disgrace to boot.

If we are going to bring people to this country ( as opposed to those that just lob) it is encumbent on us to ensure that their basic needs are met until they can become self sufficient.

Migrant camps similar to those built in the early large scale immigration days seem to me to be an obvious solution.

There is a severe shortage of public housing let alone private.

That family has the potential to be good citizens given a decent start.

To see them dumped into the private rental market,provided with a social security cheque and then abandoned by all except the charities was very sad to see.