Getting on the #RightTrack in 2017

The ASRC is hosting an event that introduces our #RightTrack campaign in 2017 and ways you can get involved, and help change attitudes about the rights of people seeking asylum. 

Please join us for this important campaign event on Tuesday, 31 January from 6pm– 8pm to hear about our #RightTrack Campaign in 2017.

Event details:
Tuesday January 31^st, 2017
6pm – 8pm
Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne

RSVP: Places are limited, please RSVP here or go to

Event program:

• ASRC CEO, Kon Karapanagiotidis will introduce our Community Action Workshops that are running across Victoria, Brisbane and Sydney throughout 2017
• Refugee rights advocate, Farzana Shariffie will share the  importance of empowering voices of people with lived experience in shifting attitudes about people seeking asylum and refugees
• Author and activist, Mariam Issa will MC the evening 

The #RightTrack campaign

#RightTrack is a grassroots, community-led campaign to achieve sustained attitude change about the rights of people seeking asylum. It’s about having strategic, values-based conversations with family, friends and people of influence in our communities. #RightTrack aims to build a national conversation, one conversation at a time.

Getting on the #RightTrack means creating a process that fairly assesses people’s case for asylum; allows people to live in peace and dignity in our community rather than in detention; and offers permanent protection to refugees and their families.

The #RightTrack story

Last year the ASRC developed a values-based conversation framework integrating the findings of our ground breaking Words That Work messaging research led by communications expert, Anat Shenker- Orsorio . We then got the ball rolling trailing a series of #RightTrack Community Action Workshops across metro and regional communities with our partners and supporters to get valuable feedback about the framework, tools and strategies for having values-based conversations. We’re now scaling up in 2017 and we want you to join us to hear all about it!