Jordan: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has walked the dusty streets of the world's second-biggest refugee camp and the sight of children who have lost their homes through war has reinforced his belief Australia's immigration policy is working as it should. The minister visited Zaatari, a sprawling shanty town on a gravelly plain housing 79,000 refugees from Syria's conflict, in northern Jordan on Monday He later stood within metres of the Syrian border, watching from a military checkpoint as on a nearby hill the Free Syrian Army builds a permanent transfer station for casualties of the regime's indiscriminate barrel bombs. Advertisement But the sight of children, many...
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