Asylum Seeker Resource Centre blog

    • 06 JUL 15
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    #BringBackAsha Rally

    Hundreds of people gathered in Melbourne and Sydney in June to loudly raise their voices against the Government sending Australian-born babies to detention on Nauru. Former asylum seeker and detainee Barat Ali Batoor asked at the Melbourne rally: ‘Would policy makers of this country send their own children to Nauru?’ Thanks to everyone who attended the rallies

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    • 06 JUL 15
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    New partnership between the Seed Fund and ASRC Music Group

    The Seed foundation will partner with the ASRC Music Group to provide up to $8,000 in masterclasses and new music equipment. The Seed believes that genuine musical expression is vital to the health of any culture and they are excited by the breadth of new talent this country inherits via the introduction of these new artists.

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    • 29 MAY 15
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    ABBOTT GOVERNMENT COMPLICIT IN ROHINGYAN PERSECUTION

    The Australian Government’s refusal to act over the horrific Rohingyan humanitarian crisis makes them complicit in the mistreatment of the world’s most persecuted people. “Rohingyans in Myanmar are effectively being subjected to ethnic cleansing,” Director of Advocacy Serina McDuff said today. “The fate of Rohingyans who have attempted to flee this persecution is equally horrific.

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    • 22 MAY 15
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    AUSTRALIA MUST PLAY A LEAD ROLE IN RESPONDING TO REFUGEE CRISIS IN OUR REGION

    The potential human tragedy unfolding in our region, with some 8000 refugees stranded on boats off the coasts of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, represents a much larger humanitarian crisis that the Australian Government cannot continue to ignore. Many of the refugees are Rohingyas from Myanmar and Bangladesh, an ethnic group considered to be one of

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