The ASRC Community Engagement Team is proud to be sharing our groundbreaking #WordsThatWork research and tools with you, our supporters, across Australia this month. We will be working with communities across Victoria to share tools that re-frame the national conversation and shift attitudes about the rights of people seeking asylum. Join us for a day of strategy, collaboration
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Law students from La Trobe University have partnered with the ASRC to launch a ‘Fast Track’ limited assistance clinic to make sure additional legal services are available to people seeking asylum. The students work under supervision of a dedicated lawyer to assist clients prepare a valid application for protection, including relevant Department of Immigration and Border
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Most mornings when Mohammad* wakes up, he looks at his phone just like most other Australians today. But while we all check our email, Facebook or missed calls, he checks his UN mobile app that tells him what bombs have gone off overnight in his home country of Afghanistan. The day I met him,
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In September, the Andrews Labor Government announced $15 million in funding to provide 3,000 placements for VET courses to people seeking asylum on eligible visas in Victoria from July 2016 to June 2018. This has been made possible through an agreement between the Victoria State Government and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) who will directly
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