Media Release 5 October 2023 The ASRC welcomes the Government’s announcement of long overdue increases in resourcing to fix the broken visa processing system, which the refugee sector has been calling for as a critical step towards restoring a fair refugee status determination process. The $160 million package will address visa processing delays by investing
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Media Release 28 September 2023 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has today expressed serious concerns about an unfolding crisis in Port Moresby with refugees and people seeking asylum forced to Papua New Guinea a decade ago, as well as their families, now being cut off from critical support services and evicted from accommodation. Refugees
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Media Release 13 September 2023 The Coalition government ignored a 2020 report commissioned by its own high-ranking officials that immigration detention was “failing” and may breach the government’s duty of care. The report by the former Secretary of the Attorney-General’s department, Robert Cornall AO, found that immigration detention causes mental deterioration and that long-term detainees,
Read moreMedia Release 18 August 2023 Important step forward at National Conference as ALP recommits to rights for people seeking asylum The Australian Labor Party (ALP) National Conference passed a series of amendments to the National Platform today, which further commits the Albanese Government to ensure the rights of people seeking asylum and refugees. Following an
Read moreMedia Release 11 August 2023 ASRC welcomes the announcement today from the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles that Australia’s humanitarian intake will increase by just over 2,000 places. At a time when more than 100 million people are forcibly displaced globally this increase in humanitarian intake is critical. Kon Karapanagiotidis CEO
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