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Nine years after our government forced them to brutal offshore detention centres, 216 refugees and people seeking asylum are still trapped in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

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Stand with us

Join our online community of compassionate supporters to stay informed on breaking news and ways you can take action and support refugees and people seeking asylum.

Join now

Evacuate PNG & Nauru

Nine years after our government forced them to brutal offshore detention centres, 216 refugees and people seeking asylum are still trapped in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

Take Action

Support Independence

To stay independent, we don't accept funding from the Federal Government. Instead, we are funded by you.
Support independence and support the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Donate now

Featured Stories

A Call-out for Food Donations

The ASRC Foodbank currently provides free groceries to around 1,000 people, most of whom have no income and no work rights. We need your urgent support with however you can give – whether it be through food donations, running a food drive or contributing to online gift cards.

Food is one of the most immediate and tangible ways to give someone a hand up.

Gifts that Do Good

Wear your support on your sleeve with ASRC merchandise. All proceeds go towards running our core programs that support and empower people seeking asylum.

Each purchase helps provide food, healthcare, housing and legal support, while our education, empowerment and employment services help people thrive in the community.

Let people seeking safety work, study & rebuild

No matter where we come from, how we got here or what language we speak at home, most of us want a fair go and a chance for a better life.

But right now, people who came in search of safety are being denied the right to support themselves with decent work, locked out of opportunities to study and left out of mainstream social safety nets.

Acknowledging 21 years of hope, dignity and safety

Latest news

- 23 SEP 22
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Albanese Government fails to provide information on permanent protection for refugees as temporary visas enter another year
Media Release 23 September 2022 The Albanese Government must keep their commitment and provide clear information on the transition of people held on temporary visas to permanent protection, with this weekend marking eight years since the cruel Safe Haven Enterprise Visa was announced. The Albanese Government won the 2022 election promising to end Temporary Protection
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- 21 SEP 22
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Refugees held on Nauru in need of urgent evacuation as US for-profit prison company contract is made public
Media Release 21 September 2022 Refugees and human rights advocates are calling on the Albanese Government to immediately evacuate refugees held offshore, after a contract to provide “facilities, garrison and reception services” to refugees held on Nauru was made public Monday. There are currently around 100 refugees held in Nauru in urgent need of evacuation
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- 02 SEP 22
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Job Summit needs to provide people seeking asylum in Australia the right to work, study and rebuild
Media Release 2 September 2022 Providing people seeking asylum in Australia the right to work, study and rebuild their lives is a clear way to address critical labour shortages and many other issues currently being discussed at the Jobs and Skills Summit. Currently, people seeking asylum have to wait years, more often than not half
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- 24 AUG 22
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To Our Community | ASRC Statement
Web update: 24/08/2022 2:30pm Dear Community, I wanted you to hear some news from me directly about some challenges we’re facing at present and at the way forward for our organisation. Transparency and an unvarnished view of things have always been our way, and this will continue. Today, alongside my executive leadership team, we announced
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Stories

- 12 AUG 22
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Jana’s Op-Ed – Hope reigned in Parliament in the first sitting period of the 47th Parliament
“Something very special happened last week and you all were a part of it. Kon and I spent three days in Parliament House for the first sitting period of the 47th Parliament. We headed into each meeting, some with new MPs, some with old-time allies of good refugee policy, with a focus on four key
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- Lynh Nguyen
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- 29 JUL 22
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ASRC is going to Parliament with 3 changes the new government can make for refugees right now
On 21 May, Australians overwhelmingly rejected the politics of fear and division, in the face of the former government’s desperate attempt to divide our community by pointing the finger at refugees. In his victory speech, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledged to “promote unity and not fear … optimism, not fear and division”. Now, with the
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- Lynh Nguyen
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- 19 JUL 22
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July 19 destroyed my life
On July 19, 2013, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that people seeking asylum by sea would be prevented from settling in Australia and detained offshore, creating a cruel system propped up by successive governments. Below, Betelhem Tebubu, human rights activist and survivor of offshore processing on Nauru, writes about what this day means to
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- Lynh Nguyen
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- 27 JUN 22
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From despair to hopefulness: Ahmadi’s Story
Forced to leave a life he loved, Ahmadi* came to Australia one winter. “Back in my home country, I am a psychologist and writer…I was a published writer, writing articles in newspapers and even having many books published. It was because of what I wrote that meant I had to leave my home country.
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- Lynh Nguyen
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