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Join us for this year’s Feast for Freedom. Celebrate the culture, cuisines and stories of this year’s Feast for Freedom cooks Aheda and Niro. Host a Feast in your home or workplace using recipes gifted to you by refugees to raise funds to support people seeking asylum.
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Media Release 29 January 2021 The release of 15 more refugees from the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention centre yesterday is welcome news, particularly following the release of 46 people last week and the 1 man resettled in the U.S this week from the Park Hotel. However, the Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton
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Media Release 28 January 2021 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s (ASRC) confirms that 15 people, including one woman from Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) have been released into accommodation with sector support. ASRC is extremely concerned about the mental health of around 140 people remaining in the network of detention facilities across Australia, including around
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Media Release 21 January 2021 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) welcomes the release of around 20 more Medevac refugees from the Park Hotel in Melbourne Alternative Place of Detention (APOD), following the 26 released yesterday. Australian Border Force took people from the Park Hotel to Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) first to collect their property
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Media Release 20 January 2021 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) welcomes the release of 26 Medevac refugees today from the Park Hotel in Melbourne. People were taken to the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MiTA) to collect property, and all have now been released into the community on a 6-month bridging visas with work rights
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As one of Australia’s largest human rights organisation, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has and always will, stand for an inclusive and just Australia for all. We recognise that for First Nations People, the 26th of January is a day of sorrow, not celebration, as it marks the beginning of the dispossession of Aboriginal
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Australia’s immigration detention shame For more than a decade our Government has chosen to deny refugees a life of dignity and safety, by keeping people locked up indefinitely in immigration detention. Locking people up for years on end in harmful onshore detention and offshore processing facilities, with no plan for their release and resettlement is
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“Don’t lower your dreams to the expectations of others” – Ben’s story “My father has a saying” explains Ben Mousavi, “he says: if in the way of reaching your goal, your eye stops you, take it out.” Like his father, Ben is the type of person who relishes a challenge. Which may explain how he
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My experience could be yours “My experience could be yours, this might happen to anyone. Anyone may find themselves in the same situation.” say’s Hira*, who arrived in Dandenong a few months ago in search of safety (pictured above with her teenage daughter, Ela*). Like many recently arrived people seeking asylum, Hira speaks very little
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