Asylum Seeker Resource Centre blog

    • 22 SEP 14
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    ASRC Music Group Rocks PBS

    Every Wednesday evening at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Footscray, the centre’s music group meets. Members jam, teach, learn and share music from their diverse backgrounds. Each come with different circumstances, but playing music is what brings them together. On Monday 22nd September, PBS 106.7 FM’s Big Mob presented a special on the ASRC Music

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    • 18 SEP 14
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    Morrison’s border protection is a moral, economic and policy failure

    Scott Morrison has finally deigned to provide the Australian community with some detail around his border protection efforts. As it turns out, he hasn’t stopped the boats; he’s simply turned them back. Like all Australians, we are relieved that it has been many months since there has been a death at sea. But that’s where

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    • 14 SEP 14
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    Last week’s High Court decision – what it means

    Last week, the High Court handed down a landmark decision for a stateless refugee held in detention for over two years. The decision sets parameters around when detention is lawful and has rendered the use of Temporary Safe Haven Visas and Temporary Humanitarian Concerns Visas as invalid when they are used as a way to prevent permanent resettlement of a refugee.

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    • 08 SEP 14
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    REFUGEES SHOULD BE GIVEN A FAIR GO TO SETTLE PERMANENTLY

    Cross-bench Senators have the opportunity to deliver a common sense, fair approach to processing the refugee claims of the almost 30,000 asylum seekers living in Australia, by voting against the Government’s plan to reintroduce Temporary Protection Visas. “Offering refugees temporary protection only is unfair and destabilising, because it denies them the opportunity to settle properly

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