With education comes opportunity and people seeking asylum in our community are living proof of this adage. For Tanya, who was a lawyer in Colombia, training at TAFE for an aged care qualification has made a huge difference to finding her feet in Australia. “The most important thing in my life is that I’m free,”
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Community pressure has forced the Abbott Government to give permanent protection to 12,000 people seeking asylum from the war in Syria, as well as a small humanitarian aid contribution. Australians deserve to be very proud of the way they have come together and demanded the Government show compassion to the people of Syria. It is
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Back in 2013 LUSH Cosmetics launched a campaign via their 25 Australian stores to tell the public that ‘Seeking Asylum is not illegal’. LUSH partnered with the ASRC to bust some common myths surrounding asylum seekers in Australia and supported us via the sales from the Soap of Hope product sold during the campaign. This
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The people who packed into the new Innovation Hub on the night of August 25 heard how the ASRC’s latest humanitarian programs empower people seeking asylum with the rallying call “change begins here”. As the hub’s director Gavin Ackerly said, people seeking asylum “don’t need handouts, but a leg up”. Gavin says the old agency
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