Each year on International Volunteers Day, we pause to honour the extraordinary people who make the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre a place of dignity, hope and welcome. Our volunteers bring compassion to life – greeting people with warmth, serving meals with care, offering specialised skills and showing up, day after day, to stand with refugees
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The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is proud to have been named on Diversity Council Australia (DCA)’s annual list of Inclusive Employers for 2025-2026. The announcement follows ASRC’s participation in the DCA and Diversity Atlas run Inclusive Employer Index, an in-depth workplace survey that measures employee diversity and inclusion experiences against the Australian workforce and
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As part of our End of Year Appeal, we’re sharing how the ASRC’s wrap-around support helps people seeking asylum move from surviving to thriving. Fatima* arrived in Australia on a tourist visa from Iran, with her husband, her three-year-old daughter, and expecting another child. As her husband’s behaviour became increasingly violent and coercive, Fatima made
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On 20 November, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) stands in solidarity with trans and gender-diverse communities to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) – a day to honour the lives lost to anti-trans violence and to reaffirm our shared commitment to justice and safety for all. First observed in 1999, TDoR was founded to
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