Media Release 2 March 2021 The Time for a Home alliance welcomes the release of 25 Medevac refugees yesterday and 25 today from the Kangaroo Point Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) and Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA). We can also confirm four people will be released this afternoon from the Darwin Mercure Hotel APOD,
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Media Release 1 March 2021 The Government has released 22 people from Kangaroo Point Hotel and 3 people from the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA) who are now in the community. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s (ASRC) detention advocacy team have clients inside detention centres and expect more people to be released from Kangaroo Point
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Media Release 25 February 2021 This morning, two refugees recently released from detention in Melbourne and The Time for a Home alliance of 160 organisations and community networks, handed a petition to Labor, Greens and crossbench MPs with 36,923 signatures. The petition calls on the Government to release all people transferred from Offshore Processing from
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Media Release 23 February 2021 Justice Threatened as Migration Court Fee Hike Goes Ahead The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is greatly concerned that Parliament failed to prevent the Morrison Government’s 380% increase in Federal Circuit Court (FCC) fees for migration cases. Today, Centre Alliance Senator Stirling Griff’s disallowance motion, supported by the ALP, Australian
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The ASRC Instagram and Facebook were not affected by today’s Facebook Australian News Ban, unlike other emergency relief and service organisations vital to the community. We stand in solidarity with those impacted and hope their pages will be urgently restored. ASRC supporters and members (people seeking asylum and refugees) can still access our information and
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