Asylum Seeker Resource Centre blog

    • 12 FEB 19
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    The time for change is now

    The time for change is now

    We did it. After 5 long years of unrelenting community, political and legal pressure, every child seeking asylum has finally been removed from Nauru. But the fight isn’t over. Hundreds of men and woman still detained in offshore processing on Nauru and Manus Island urgently require medical care and must also be brought to Australia

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    • 08 FEB 19
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    Medical data released by the ASRC shows  people offshore are waiting at least two years for medical transfer

    Medical data released by the ASRC shows people offshore are waiting at least two years for medical transfer

    The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre has released a sample of 49 de-identified medical cases of critically sick people held in offshore processing on Manus and Nauru. The data is the product of research into International Health Medical Services (IHMS – funded by the Australian Government) health records which document people’s presentations to medical staff, emergence

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    • 05 FEB 19
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    Refugee advocates, lawyers and human rights groups unite in rejecting Government’s medical panel proposal

    Refugee advocates, lawyers and human rights groups unite in rejecting Government’s medical panel proposal

    A Government proposal to address the medical crisis engulfing critically ill refugees detained offshore has been firmly rejected as window dressing on the existing unconscionable process which has seen 12 people die in offshore detention in the past five years. A coalition of refugee and humanitarian organisations has confirmed its support for a crossbench, Greens

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    • 28 JAN 19
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    Deloitte Impact Day

    Deloitte Impact Day

    On Friday the 16th of November two groups of Deloitte staffers visited the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) to volunteer as part of Deloitte’s Annual Impact Day. Each year Deloitte employees mobilise around the country to provide charities with an extra helping hand. This year the ASRC was fortunate to have teams from Deloitte in

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