7 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: Immigrants unable to claim benefits face poverty

From Morning Report, 7:56 am on 7 April 2020

Immigrants say they are facing life on the breadline after losing their jobs and being unable to claim benefits or return home.

An advocacy group says it is hypocritical of the Government to criticise Australia for not paying welfare to unemployed New Zealanders when it is doing the same thing to its foreign workforce.

Gill Bonnett reports.