STRAWS IN THE WIND: Skimming administrative fat / What about Uganda? / 17 years of war*

Skimming administrative fatUnder the headline “Refugee Tribunal members dumped” (The Age, June 26) is a cheering story. Twenty-three members of the Federal Refugee Review Tribunal haven’t had to be reappointed, because of a substantial reduction in the case load.One aggrieved complainant who had no idea why her appointment was not to be renewed, accepted that numbers would be reduced because of “the smaller case load that flowed from the shutting down of the people-smuggling trade from Indonesia…

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