Our Government’s treatment of people in detention is cruel and inhumane. Locking people up indefinitely is making people sick, keeping families separated and causing further harm and suffering.
But you can be a lifeline to their freedom.
With your support we can help people in detention with basic needs like phones and phone credit as well as provide mental health support and crisis intervention. Working with our sector partners and community advocates your support will also fund our advocacy work to put an end to the detention regime and secure peoples’ freedom.
We won’t stop until they are free.
Our Government’s treatment of people in detention is cruel and inhumane. Locking people up indefinitely is making people sick, keeping families separated and causing further harm and suffering.
But you can be a lifeline to their freedom.
With your support we can help people in detention with basic needs and provide mental health support and demand our Government take responsibility in granting people seeking asylum with their freedom and the chance of a fairer future.
We won’t stop until they are free.
Are you celebrating a special occasion and would like to add a little extra meaning to your day? Why not ask for donations to the ASRC in lieu of gifts by creating a fundraising page that you can share with family and friends.
Donations to the ASRC help to support and empower over 6,000 people seeking asylum each year.
Expanded border force powers desperate distraction from Government’s inhumane immigration detention.
Human rights groups have slammed another attempt by the Government to avoid responsibility and scrutiny for their inhumane policy of mandatory, indefinite detention.
Are you passionate about supporting and empowering refugees and people seeking asylum? Been looking for a way to put your values into action?
We are on the lookout for compassionate people to join the more than 1,200 volunteers already making an impact in the lives of people seeking asylum. 29 new volunteer positions are open across the ASRC!
Media Release 19 November 2020 The Morrison Government has hiked up the Federal Circuit Court fees for migration cases by fourfold, from $690 to $3,330, seriously undermining access to the justice system. Around one-third of appeals made against Immigration Assessment Authority (IAA) decisions on claims by people who arrived by sea before 2013, the so-called
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Media Release 5 November 2020 A coalition of 60 grassroots networks, legal, medical, community and human rights organisations are calling on the Morrison Government to release and resettle people seeking asylum and refugees held in indefinite detention for up to seven years. The Time for a Home campaign launched today, is calling on the Morrison
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Media Release 26 October 2020 An Essential Media poll on attitudes towards detention release and resettlement was commissioned by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and conducted online from 30th September to 5th October 2020 and based on 1,074 respondents. Significantly, poll results show there is wide agreement that indefinite detention is inhumane, and refugees should
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Media Release 12 October 2020 Today, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s (ASRC) lawyers appeared at the public hearing of the House of Representatives Standing Committee Inquiry into Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence. The ASRC’s Human Rights Law Program runs a specialised gender law clinic to provide assistance to women, children and those who identify as
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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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Is friendship the greatest challenge facing some refugees? When Abdul and his wife Lubna first arrived in Australia seeking safety, the pair settled in Dandenong in Melbourne’s South-East, home to Victoria’s largest refugee community. But soon after moving into their new neighbourhood, Lubna became seriously ill and was in desperate need of medical care. Without
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