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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Media Release 29 January 2021 The release of 15 more refugees from the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention centre yesterday is welcome news, particularly following the release of 46 people last week and the 1 man resettled in the U.S this week from the Park Hotel. However, the Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton
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Media Release 28 January 2021 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s (ASRC) confirms that 15 people, including one woman from Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) have been released into accommodation with sector support. ASRC is extremely concerned about the mental health of around 140 people remaining in the network of detention facilities across Australia, including around
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Media Release 21 January 2021 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) welcomes the release of around 20 more Medevac refugees from the Park Hotel in Melbourne Alternative Place of Detention (APOD), following the 26 released yesterday. Australian Border Force took people from the Park Hotel to Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) first to collect their property
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Media Release 20 January 2021 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) welcomes the release of 26 Medevac refugees today from the Park Hotel in Melbourne. People were taken to the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MiTA) to collect property, and all have now been released into the community on a 6-month bridging visas with work rights
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