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By running a food drive, you can help the ASRC Foodbank in Footscray and Dandenong provide free groceries and toiletries to over 1,300 people every fortnight, most of whom have no income or work rights.
You can host a food drive with your school, community group or business; this is one of the most immediate and tangible ways to give someone a hand up.
Whatever language we speak or the colour our skin, we all have our dreams.
After ten years of fear, division and delay, it’s time we let the 31,000 men, women and children who’ve lived as part of our community for a decade have the safety and stability they need to reach theirs.
All people subjected to Scott Morrison’s unfair “fast track” system need a pathway to permanence now.
Host a Feast For Freedom this March and raise funds to provide food, shelter and health services for over 7,000 people seeking asylum who need support settling into Australia every year.
Register as a Feast for Freedom Host today and you’ll receive a host kit full of recipes gifted by refugees – so you can plan your Feast, and create a meal that makes a difference.
Media Release 27 January 2023 Despite refugees held offshore being in need of urgent medical evacuation, the Albanese Government contracted the US private prison company, Management and Training Corporation (MTC), until September 2025 to hold refugees on Nauru, costing $422 million according to information released on AusTender today. There are currently around 60 refugees held
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Media Release 24 January 2023 The Commonwealth Ombudsman recently released a report on Australia’s immigration detention regime, raising numerous concerns including the need for alternatives to detention, the excessive use of force against people held in detention, inadequate medical care and many more. In July 2018, as part of its obligations under the Optional Protocol
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Media Release 12 January 2023 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s claim of a relationship built on respect and equality with the people of Papua New Guinea, during his visit to Port Moresby today, does not reflect reality while refugees remain held offshore. There are still over 160 refugees held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru after
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Media Release 16 December 2022 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), welcomes Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’ announcement that the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), a system blighted by delays and concerns about impartiality that has denied people seeking asylum an efficient and fair review process, will be abolished. The end of the AAT and the establishment of
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Good food brings people together. It has the power to unite people from diverse backgrounds as one family, one community, and one people. That’s the power of Feast for Freedom. Every year, more than 1,000 people across Australia choose to celebrate what unites us, by hosting a Feast in their home, workplace, school, or community
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With the change of government in May 2022 came a glimpse of hope for people seeking asylum. Two of Labor’s election promises were to provide permanent protection for refugees who are currently subjected to a cruel and protracted temporary visa system, and to create a fairer process for people seeking asylum. But as yet, there
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Here at the ASRC, we’ve faced some pretty tough challenges: from finding ways to keep our doors open through the pandemic, to campaigning hard against this government’s disappointing budget, which puts even more public money into offshore and onshore detention. But now I want to share some news about a challenge that I’m actually looking
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Every year, hundreds of people across Australia join together under the ASRC banner to clock up our Kilometres of Compassion (previously known as Run 4 Refugees), in support of refugees and people seeking asylum. Now – in addition to major running events like Bridge to Brisbane or the Melbourne Marathon Festival – the ASRC is
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