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Make a meaningful impact this Winter and join us on Saturday, July 27th for our first Winter Food Drive at the Refugee Resource Hub.
We will be collecting essential food items that will help our community stay warm and nourished this winter.
Collect items as a family, school, workplace or community group and help make a difference to our community in Dandenong.
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: New Zealand journalists have lifted the Australian Government’s cloak of secrecy over the welfare and future of people detained on Nauru, during a Ministerial delegation to the isolated island this week. ASRC’s specialist detention casework team is in contact with 63 people held on Nauru, and can confirm AAP’s reports that mental health issues are escalating as
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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
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This winter, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) invites you to bring hope and warmth to refugee families by participating in our Winter Food Drive on Saturday, July 27th, at the Refugee Resource Hub in Dandenong. This heartwarming event is your chance to make a tangible difference in the lives of refugees and people seeking
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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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