Asylum Seeker Resource Centre blog

    • 12 NOV 14
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    Asylum Seeker Privacy Breach Unlawful – Still No Redress for 10,000 Affected

    The Australian Privacy Commissioner has delivered a damning report into the Department of Immigration’s data breach which saw the private details of nearly 10,000 asylum seekers made public on its website. People’s names, gender, citizenship, date of birth, period of immigration detention, location and boat arrival details were displayed on the Department’s website for over

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    • 10 NOV 14
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    ASRC Supporters Fill the Melbourne Town Hall

    ASRC Supporters Fill the Melbourne Town Hall

    The Melbourne Town Hall was packed with wonderful and welcoming people for the latest ASRC Volunteer Information Evening. 1200 were in attendance and over 100 more watching via the live-stream on our YouTube channel to learn how to best help asylum seekers and refugees, and to listen to inspiring speakers including Malcolm Fraser and Nga

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    • 07 NOV 14
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    Latest ASRC Newsletter now available

    Click here to read all the latest news from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. This month’s newsletter addresses: latest happenings in asylum seeker policy: learn about what our politicians are doing and how you can have your say the launch of the ASRC Christmas Appeal for 2014 join the call to #StandUpToProtect human rights and

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    • 22 OCT 14
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    Abbott and Morrison Playing God

    Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison are trying to bring in laws* that deny people access to justice and send people back to danger. Laws that let them play God with people’s lives. These laws attack our Australian values – like helping people in trouble, like giving people a fair go, like keeping a check on

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