On Sunday 30/10/16 the Australian Government announced that people on Nauru and Manus who have refugee status will be resettled in the United States of America. All the information is not clear, but here is the information we have now. If you arrived in Australia before 19 July 2013, this does not affect you. If
Read moreThey came for him in the middle of the night. In the early hours of Friday morning a man was dragged from his bed in the Broadmeadows MITA, cuffed and flown to Nauru. It is yet another distressing escalation in our Government’s endless attacks on people seeking asylum. “The deportation is the latest depravity to
Read moreThe human cost of Australia’s immigration detention system is revealed in media reports detailing conditions inside the Christmas Island detention centre, where people seeking asylum are languishing with little outside contact, difficult access to legal assistance and inadequate mental healthcare. Refugee advocates Pamela Curr, from ASRC, and Sr Brigid Arthur, from the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project, travelled to Christmas
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Yesterday the ASRC released poll data conducted by ReachTEL and commissioned by The Australian Institute, The poll showed that the majority of voters in the Prime Minister’s electorate believe women, children and families should be removed from detention in Nauru and processed in Australia. The poll was taken in the electorates of Wentworth and North Sydney on 28 November 2015
Read moreChanges to Refugee Law in Australia What it means for asylum seekers and refugees Migration Bill Impact Info Sheet_December 2014 How the laws came about While in Opposition, the now Abbott Government committed to restoring Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs) in order to ‘clear the backlog’ of 30,000 asylum seekers living in the community or in
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