In the 2014 – 2015 financial year, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s (ASRC) Rent for Asylum Seekers Program provided 17,394 nights of shelter to 115 members seeking protection from harm. It’s a life-line for people who live in legal limbo in the refugee determination process which can take years. They typically do not have work
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Yesterday’s Food Justice Truck grand opening welcomed a world first initiative which empowers every shopper in Melbourne to assist in providing affordable, healthy groceries to people seeking asylum just by shopping at the Truck. Nowhere else in Australia can people seeking asylum receive a 75% discount on groceries, a subsidy made possible by general public
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Bill Shorten and Richard Marles’ support for turn-backs and ongoing commitment to detention camps on Manus and Nauru will further embed into our immigration system a culture of Government-sanctioned harm to people seeking protection in our region. The plan to increase the number of people we take in to 27,000 over ten years is unacceptable.
Read moreThis July, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Employment Program is celebrating its 11th anniversary; ten years of empowering hundreds of people to realise their aspirations, and to become socially and economically independent. The political debate around asylum seekers has for too long detracted the public from seeing them for who they are. Highly skilled and
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