The ASRC has made a submission to the Senate committee inquiring into the Government’s proposed lifetime ban on refugees who sought asylum by sea from ever setting foot in Australia. The ASRC is opposed to the proposed law. The proposed lifetime ban on returning to Australia will tear families apart and result in indefinite separation
Read moreOn 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
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In significant news for people seeking asylum in our community most states and territories have signed up to Safe Haven Enterprise Visa (SHEV) scheme and confirmed which postcodes are specified as regional areas. SHEV holders who work or study in a specified regional area for 3 ½ years may be eligible to have the bar lifted
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Sabihe (Sabi) McDonald didn’t think she had a chance of winning the Refugee Champion Award at this year’s Friends of Refugees and Asylum Seeker Awards, but at the ASRC and throughout Melbourne’s refugee community, many agree she is a deserving winner. As Melbourne’s first Persian interpreter, Sabi quickly recognised her value in not only bridging
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