New Welfare Boss Calls for Better Deal for Refugees

A banner is displayed during a rally on Sept. 6, 2015 in Vancouver organized by the local Kurdish community calling on the federal government to allow more Syrian refugees into the country. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

A Vietnamese refugee will be at the helm of Australia’s peak welfare body.

“There’s a saying, ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’,” Hang Vo told AAP.