Refugee advocates Pamela Curr, from ASRC, and Sr Brigid Arthur, from the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project, traveled to Christmas Island to visit the men seeking asylum, who are currently held in the detention centre, more than 2600 kilometers from the nearest capital city, Perth. There they found an environment of fear and physical violence where
Read moreWritten by John Kelly, ASRC Campaigns Manager Television presenter Sonia Kruger’s Trump-esque call for a ban on Muslim immigration and the subsequent social media and talkback radio conflagration show how quickly our national discourse can descend into fear and loathing. Yet, while political and media voices calling for discriminatory policies pose a challenge to our
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A new brand for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. When the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) first opened its doors as a tiny shop offering only a few boxes of food, it was hard to imagine that in fifteen years it would become a home of hope to over 3,000 people seeking asylum in 2016.
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Unexpected: Sidra came to the ASRC seeking help for herself and her family. But it was helping others that saved her. Back home in Pakistan, Sidra was accustomed to helping others. So it was worse than a shock to find herself on the receiving end of that aid instead. It threw her into depression. She didn’t really begin to recover
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This ground-breaking report on the rape and assaults on women on Nauru was written by Australian Women in Support of Women on Nauru (AWSWN) on the impacts Australia’s detention policy is having on the lives and bodies of women on Nauru. A breakdown of the findings: The Australian Government should immediately end offshore detention in
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