Jordan: The sight of children who have lost their homes through war, walking the dusty streets of the world's second biggest refugee camp, has reinforced immigration minister Peter Dutton's belief that Australia's migration policy is working as it should, he says. The minister visited Zaatari in northern Jordan on Monday, a sprawling shanty town on a gravelly plain, currently home to 79,000 refugees from Syria's conflict. 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. But the sight of children, many unschooled, some...
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