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Make a difference to people seeking asylum by providing one of the most basic human rights – food and essential items such as toiletries. The ASRC Foodbank currently provides free groceries and toiletries to more than 1000 households per month, most of whom have no income and no work rights. You can donate online or in person
Now you can place your ASRC Catering order directly from our website. It’s as easy as 1–2–3:
1. Browse our range of mouth-watering canapés, wraps, sweets, mains and more.
2. Make your selection by clicking ADD TO CART.
3. Proceed to checkout.
We’ll take care of the rest to ensure the food at your next gathering is memorable for all the right reasons.
The Albanese Labor Government is rushing through knee-jerk legislation that criminalises refugees. If this bill gets through the Senate and becomes law, it could lead to refugees being banned entry to Australia or forced to return to countries where they face persecution or even death.
Please urgently email your Senators, and let them know that you don’t support the entry ban and deportation bill.
MEDIA RELEASE: Labor’s new Ministerial Direction 110 is the latest in a string of rushed and senseless decisions that will harm refugees, people seeking asylum, families and communities. The new direction replaces Direction 99 and serves as critical guidance for decision-making authorities who are weighing up whether to refuse or cancel people’s visas.Under pressure from
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MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC welcomes news legislation has finally passed through Parliament which abolishes the defective Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and Fast Track’s notorious Immigration Assessment Authority (IAA) to make way for a new tribunal and renewed focus on integrity. The Government’s proposal for the new Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) came after the AAT lost public confidence
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MEDIA RELEASE: Despite some positives, what was announced in Canberra last night blatantly fails to address the unprecedented demand charities such as ASRC are seeing from people seeking asylum for emergency food support, crisis housing and urgent medical care. Labor’s budget for “every Australian” doesn’t deliver for people seeking asylum Labor has continued the Morrison Government’s legacy
Read moreMEDIA RELEASE: Labor has once again abandoned people seeking asylum in the Federal Budget, continuing the legacy of neglect and inequality that has forced thousands into poverty and destitution. The 2024-2025 Budget maintains the exclusion of thousands of people seeking asylum from work rights and mainstream social support, sending a clear message that an unjust
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Another World Refugee Day Telethon, powered by the ASRC has come to an end. What a special day it was and the rollercoaster of emotions following the tally until the last minute. The ASRC team snapped the last picture holding the cheque and turned off the live stream, thinking we were short just under the
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“I was born in Afghanistan in the first era of Taliban,” Parisa says. “I opened my eyes in a country where being a girl was a crime, where I had no rights.” Parisa’s mother, a highly educated and independent woman, had been forced to abandon her career under the first Taliban regime. When the democratic
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Mursal Sadat is one of the Afghanistan Women’s National Soccer team players who came to Australia during the country’s evacuation in 2021. Raised in Kabul, Mursal was living a “normal life as a young girl in Afghanistan” when she started playing soccer for the nationals in 2017. “The aim of playing soccer was advocacy for
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For 20-year-old Aaliyah*, Australia is the only home she truly knows. Aaliyah’s family sought safety in Australia from Myanmar when she was 10 years old. Now, nearly a decade later, her mother is still without a protection visa, forcing the family to live in a constant state of uncertainty. After fleeing conflict and persecution, Aaliyiah’s
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