A new report from Amnesty International has condemned Australia for turning Nauru into an open-air prison, where refugees and people seeking asylum face a cruel and elaborate system of abuse. The report, Island of Despair: Australia’s ‘processing of refugees’, is a disturbing and comprehensive expose of our government’s deliberate and systematic regime of neglect and cruelty. Based
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In September the ASRC received a donation of stationary from the wonderful students of Our Lady of Mercy College, as part of their Social Justice Program. This gift had a profound impact on one particular member seeking asylum. Cameron Gilbey, our Continuing Care Coordinator shares an open letter of thanks, and how this simple gesture enabled a member
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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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