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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.
The ASRC imagines a future that is free and equitable for people seeking asylum and refugees. This future is powered by refugee-led organisations, which are both run by and for people seeking asylum.
To achieve this, the ASRC will support refugee leadership and capacity building through funding of projects and foundational activities.
The ASRC’s Community, Advocacy & Power Program (CAPP) is a three-month intensive training program to equip people with lived experience of seeking asylum with the leadership skills necessary to become powerful advocates for the refugee community.
If you’re based in Sydney and interested in the program, apply today.
Media Release 1 August 2022 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), welcomes the introduction of legislation in Parliament today by Independent MP Andrew Wilkie, seconded by Independent MP Kylea Tink, which would see an end to indefinite and arbitrary detention. The Ending Indefinite and Arbitrary Immigration Detention Bill was first introduced by Wilkie in 2021,
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Media Release 19 July 2022 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) calls on the Minister for Home Affairs Clare O’Neil to immediately evacuate all refugees currently held on Nauru and Papua New Guinea to Australia, providing a clear pathway for permanent resettlement to refugees while residing in the community, as a system that denies basic
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Media Release 19 July 2022 On this day nine years ago former 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. For the over 3,000 refugees subjected to offshore detention since 2013, July 19
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Media Release 7 July 2022 Refugees on Nauru are at significant risk unable to access essentials as over one in three people have contracted COVID-19 on the small island nation. Over the past week, Nauru has recorded its first death from COVID-19, with around 4,000 people on the island of 10,800 recorded as having COVID-19.
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“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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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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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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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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