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Families seeking asylum are feeling the pressure to keep themselves afloat while trying to rebuild their lives with hope and dignity. This festive season, you can help shine a light of hope for them by donating to provide much-needed wrap-around care. Your support means people can access the ASRC Foodbank, Health Clinic and other essential services, all under one roof.
Just in time for the Festive Season, the ASRC Shop is back with meaningful gifts that do good. All your favourite artist collaborations, gift boxes from ASRC Catering and ASRC Cleaning, and value-statement pieces to show your support of refugees. Shopping from the ASRC Shop this giving season is another way to enable the programs and services that support refugees and people seeking asylum.
More than ten years after our government forced them to brutal overseas detention camps, dozens of people who came here for safety are still trapped in Papua New Guinea.
Tell your MP it’s time to evacuate the refugees abandoned in PNG, so they can rebuild their lives, here or in another safe country.
MEDIA RELEASE 6 December 2023 The Human Rights Law Centre and Asylum Seeker Resource Centre have condemned the Albanese Government’s proposed introduction of a preventive detention regime that would create a parallel legal system allowing migrants and refugees to be imprisoned on the basis of what they might do in the future. The proposed laws
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MEDIA RELEASE 1 December 2023 The ASRC has filed a case with the High Court challenging the legality of the Australian Government’s rushed, extreme new laws for refugees who were unlawfully detained and then released as a result of the recent High Court decision. The ASRC’s client will argue the new law interferes with his
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Media Release 27 November 2023 Behrouz Boochani, who was told he would never step foot in Australia, today launches a campaign for a Royal Commission into Immigration Detention from Parliament House, Canberra. Boochani, who was formerly held on Manus Island, joins a coalition of refugees and people seeking asylum, faith groups, and advocacy organisations calling
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Media Release Tuesday 21 November 2023 The Australian government must act immediately to evacuate dozens of refugees in PNG who will be evicted from housing and denied access to food and all medical assistance from this Thursday. Tensions between Australia and PNG over lack of payment for service provisions have caused a worsening humanitarian crisis
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With the festive season fast approaching, our community of compassion is beginning to wonder how they can be more present for people seeking asylum and refugees in Australia. Our supporter care line is flooded with calls of support every day and questions about how to get involved, so we wanted to make it easy for
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On 22 September, a courageous group of women set out from their homes in Melbourne’s north and west to begin an epic 640 km journey to the nation’s capital – by foot. The Tamil and Iranian women walking to Canberra are seeking a path to permanent residence and citizenship for around 10,000 people failed by
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Saajeda’s voice of strength and advocacy has built volume over the years, amplified through her various lived experiences. And experience she has, being a powerful advocate for her community and the ASRC, not shying away from addressing what must be faced. Like many who come seeking safety, the story begins long before the act of
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At the age when many 14-year-olds were enjoying their youth, Betia and her family sought safety here after fleeing Iran. Arriving here with her mother, father, and brother, Betia’s teen years didn’t offer the same joy and freedom that others experienced. Instead, the family waited for over a decade, held in limbo, before being given
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