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Since December 2020, community pressure has helped more than 200 people brought here for medical care from Nauru and PNG win their freedom from detention.
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews can free refugees with a signature. Please call Minister Andrews to demand freedom for all Medevac refugees still detained here in Australia.
Join us in calling on the Government to ACT NOW to provide safe passage to those fleeing the Taliban. Read the open letter to the PM and add your name today.
Join us in calling on the Government to ACT NOW to provide safe passage to those fleeing the Taliban. Read the open letter to the PM and add your name today.
The ASRC is looking for the next generation of leaders with lived experience of seeking asylum to take part in the Community, Advocacy and Power Program 2021. Get equipped with the leadership skills necessary to become a powerful advocate for the refugee community.
We live, learn, work and volunteer together. But the last government’s flawed refugee process means that thousands of men, women and children are still living in fear of being torn from the towns and suburbs they’ve called home for over a decade.
A decade after our government forced them to brutal offshore detention centres, dozens of refugees are still trapped in Papua New Guinea. Tell your MP it’s time to evacuate the last refugees abandoned in PNG, so they can rebuild their lives.
Right now, thousands of people waiting years for an answer on their refugee application are barred from working. But the last government’s cruel cuts have left 98% of people seeking asylum without a safety net to cover the basics.
Now is the time for change.
After extensive consultation with refugees and people seeking asylum, the ASRC has identified four key advocacy priorities for 2022 – 2025, including Fairness, Safety, Freedom and Refugee-led Campaigns.
The ASRC is looking for the next generation of leaders with lived experience of seeking asylum to take part in the the Community, Advocacy & Power Program (CAPP) 2024.
Melbourne applications are now open.
RightTrack is a community-led grassroots movement of people focused on refugee justice. We are having powerful conversations and taking local action to shift community attitudes for people seeking asylum.
Breakthrough Conversations is a groundbreaking project that trains people with research-based messaging principles and proven conversational tools on how to change the hearts and minds of people who are conflicted about asylum policy.
A digital space that puts lived experience front and centre. Articles, art and multimedia produced wholly by people from refugee backgrounds.
Celebrate our voice for freedom!
Paid Internship: Advocacy and Campaigns
The ASRC is looking for the next generation of campaigners, organisers and leaders with lived experience of seeking asylum to take part in the Paid Internship: Advocacy and Campaigns 2021.
The Morrison Government is threatening to target and shut down charities like the ASRC that speak out on behalf of the communities we serve and represent.
Under pressure from the community, the government has released over 200 refugees from detention, but around 30 people transferred to Australia for urgent medical care are still detained without cause.
No matter where we come from or how we got here, everyone needs a safe place to call home. Sign the petition now.
Under pressure from the community, the government has released over 200 refugees from detention, but around 30 people transferred to Australia for urgent medical care are still detained without cause.
No matter where we come from or how we got here, everyone needs a safe place to call home. Sign the petition now.
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