Dubbo region could benefit by becoming a refugee resettlement location, review finds

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Updated December 28 2019 - 10:53am, first published December 24 2019 - 11:00am
ECONOMIC SLUMP: An SGS economics and planning report released this month revealed regional NSW was in recession in 2018/19, with the economy shrinking by 0.3 per cent. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE
ECONOMIC SLUMP: An SGS economics and planning report released this month revealed regional NSW was in recession in 2018/19, with the economy shrinking by 0.3 per cent. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

Politicians representing the Dubbo region have declined to say whether or not they would lobby for their communities to become regional refugee settlement locations, despite a report noting the economic and social benefits refugees could offer country towns.

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