ASHA AWUR, a Sudanese Muslim mother-of-six, says there are too many laws in Australia and not enough welfare handouts, which means she will have to start stealing to get enough pocket money to give her kids for entertainment, so they won’t join gangs.

She says her Centrelink payments are not enough to raise her 6 children, which means she occasionally has to deprive them of entertainment, which she believes may have led her son to join a gang for which he was imprisoned. She also says it’s hard for her Muslim children to fit in at school in this predominantly Christian nation.