Asylum Seeker Resource Centre blog

    • 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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    • 14 JAN 19
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    The Foodbank shelves (and our hearts) are full

    The Foodbank shelves (and our hearts) are full

    On the 23rd of December with only two days notice, more than 400 families came through the garage doors at our Home of Hope in Footscray to donate more than $50,000 worth of essential food items to our emergency Christmas food drive. Our Foodbank provides groceries to more than 700 people seeking asylum each week

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    • 21 DEC 18
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    The forgotten 200

    The forgotten 200

    Noosheen Mogadam, Senior Lawyer at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, shares her view on the impossible and unfair situation a group of people seeking asylum in Australia are currently facing. Prior to her time at the ASRC, she spent years as part of international humanitarian response operations, most recently focussed on the conflict in Syria

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