Everyone deserves to feel safe. But the Australian Government’s ‘Fast Track’ policy introduced in December 2015 drastically changes the refugee determination process. This includes re-introducing temporary protection visas, removing a fair review process and very short time frames for lodging applications. The government also cut 85% of funding for legal services to assist people with their application
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Ahmer* is used to coffee laced with condensed milk. He worked for seven years making coffee that way. Ahmer is a Burmese Muslim. After he was persecuted in his homeland, he fled for Malaysia. The cloying brew was popular in his new home. But, after again being persecuted because of his ethnicity, he fled to
Read moreIn the last six months, the Community Engagement team have rolled out community action workshops and conversation projects across regional Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne to support and work alongside people to have a values-based conversation around people seeking asylum. These projects are key to realising the Right Track campaign and the Advocacy and Campaigns’ stream vision to
Read moreThis information is for people seeking asylum who are being processed under the Fast Track system – this means people who arrived by boat in between 13 August 2012 and 31 December 2013, who have never been taken to Manus Island or Nauru. All people in this group have now been sent a letter inviting
Read moreThe Turnbull Government is heightening fear and confusion among people seeking asylum living in our community, sending out hundreds of letters threatening to cancel bridging visas, deny the right to lodge asylum claims, and cut people off critical support payments. The letters, sent by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in recent weeks, warn
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