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    • 29 AUG 17
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    Refugees in Australia need your help to #LetThemStay

    Emergency Appeal to #LetThemStay   In past 72 hours, 65 refugees in Australia have been told by our government that they will lose all income support immediately and forced out of their accommodation within three weeks. This is wrong! We must raise our voice to #LetThemStay.     Yesterday, Peter Dutton began issuing a newRead more
    • 15 AUG 17
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    Dreaming in the kitchen

    Anyone who has seen a reality television cooking program will be familiar with the concept of the ‘food dream’. The food dream is the encapsulation of a contestant’s ambition and becomes an official part of his or her story or ‘journey’. But for two amateur cooks working at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s social enterprise,

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    • 27 JUL 17
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    The ‘Before’ and ‘After’ of a New Life

    The ‘Before’ and ‘After’ of a New Life

    For Eugene*, who arrived in Australia from East Africa in late 2015, settling into Australian life occurred in two distinct phases. The first six months were disorienting, challenging and exhausting. The turning point came in July 2016 when he began work with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s social enterprise, ASRC Cleaning. The enterprise provides domestic

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    • 24 JUL 17
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    A timeline to remember

    On July 19 2013, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that ‘any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees’ and would be sent to Papua New Guinea for processing and resettlement. Since the announcement, successive governments have failed in their duty of care

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