Refugee advocates lashed out at the Abbott Government after news emerged that hundreds of thousands of dollars that had been allocated for the country’s peak refugee body over a four-year period had been slashed.

Core funding of $140,000 a year had been allocated for the Refugee Council of Australia in this month’s Federal Budget, but the funds have since been axed by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.

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