Media Release 03 August 2021 Human rights lawyers are calling on the Morrison Government to act urgently to ensure the safety of people held in immigration detention centres around Australia, amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. As NSW authorities attempt to manage more than 3,000 active COVID-19 cases, almost 500 people are being detained in a
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Media Release 02 August 2021 Parliament must reject a spate of Bills that will introduce sweeping powers and deny basic rights. Legal experts have released a unified statement (attached below) calling for three migration Bills currently before Parliament to be rejected in their entirety due to the threat they pose to the rule of law,
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Media Release 19 July 2021 Today marks eight years since former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that people seeking asylum in Australia by boat would be processed offshore and prevented from settling in Australia. Since 2013, 3,127 people who came to Australia for protection have been subjected to offshore processing and are still suffering under
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Media Release 19 July 2021 To mark the eight-year anniversary of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s decision to refuse settlement to anyone who seeks asylum in Australia by boat, human rights advocates have come together to support the launch of a new podcast that explores how successive governments have abandoned the duty to protect refugees and
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Media Release 2 July 2021 The Commonwealth Ombudsman Michael Manthorpe has released a report raising numerous concerns about Australia’s immigration detention regime, from the use of force to long wait times for medical care and many more. ASRC is deeply troubled by the findings in the report, which clearly show the abusive and harmful conditions
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