When the Appathurai family fled the Sri Lankan war in August 2008, they did so with only one suitcase apiece. They drove through the night from their home to the airport, a journey of 350km stretched out across ten tense hours and as many security checkpoints. The war in Sri Lanka had come to their
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Since early 2015, speech pathologist Tracy Littlejohn has been volunteering at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Dandenong, working with members to improve their spoken English. “Most people seeking asylum who I work with don’t have speech impairments, but do have difficulty effectively communicating in English,” Tracy explained. “This can be due to difficulty in
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Lewis arrived in Melbourne from West Papua in 2010 and it took six months to get a permanent visa. It was another three years before his wife and kids could join him. Becoming a member of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre helped Lewis achieve things he didn’t think possible when he first arrived. When Lewis
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Humanity – the missing link on the human rights issue of people seeking asylum When the declaration of Human Rights was laid down this time in 1950, as Australians, we collectively agreed that as good human beings, we should respect basic rights and freedoms, and importantly – the freedom from fear. But this Human Rights
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