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    • 27 MAR 24
    Labor’s rushed and ruthless laws delayed at Senate to make way for inquiry

    Labor’s rushed and ruthless laws delayed at Senate to make way for inquiry

    MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC welcomes news the Albanese Government has been road-blocked in its attempts to ram new legislation through parliament that would see refugees and people seeking asylum face ruthless new deportation and entry ban laws.  Now delayed for six weeks to make way for an inquiry, refugees, human rights lawyers, advocates and the

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    • 26 MAR 24
    Albanese Government’s punitive proposal will endanger people’s lives

    Albanese Government’s punitive proposal will endanger people’s lives

    MEDIA RELEASE: The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Human Rights Law Centre and Democracy in Colour have denounced the Albanese Government’s rushed law that would further punish people who have been unlawfully held in indefinite immigration detention. The Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024 gives the Minister for Immigration an unprecedented new power to

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    • 26 MAR 24
    Young refugee delegation visits Canberra to end a decade of uncertainty

    Young refugee delegation visits Canberra to end a decade of uncertainty

    MEDIA RELEASE Young refugees failed by the flawed Fast Track system are urging political leaders in Canberra today to finally let them call Australia home after living here for over 10 years in visa limbo. The delegation of eight Tamil, Iranian and Rohingya refugees ages 17 to 27, will address MPs from Labor, Greens and

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    • 12 MAR 24
    New tribunal promises better way forward for protection claims but serious flaws remain

    New tribunal promises better way forward for protection claims but serious flaws remain

    MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC welcomes the Australian Government’s long-overdue push to scrap the defected Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and Fast Track process which has failed thousands of people seeking asylum and refugees from accessing fair and just outcomes over decades. While the Government’s legislation proposes changes and a new tribunal to help restore integrity and

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    • 26 FEB 24
    More questions than answers, Nauru transfers remain cloaked in secrecy

    More questions than answers, Nauru transfers remain cloaked in secrecy

    MEDIA RELEASE: The Albanese Government continues to operate Nauru Detention Centre under a cloak of secrecy by providing no public information about the welfare of 39 people seeking asylum who were forced there after arriving in Western Australia over a week ago. The ASRC is deeply concerned by the lack of transparency surrounding the treatment of

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    • 13 FEB 24
    Richardson Review provides further evidence for Albanese Government to finally end offshore cruelty and corruption

    Richardson Review provides further evidence for Albanese Government to finally end offshore cruelty and corruption

    MEDIA RELEASE: A report released yesterday by Home Affairs confirms the Morrison Government put the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum in the hands of dodgy offshore detention operators suspected of bribery, drugs and arms smuggling, money laundering and other criminal activity. Following years of corruption allegations, lack of transparency and oversight, the ASRC

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