Media Release 26 October 2020 An Essential Media poll on attitudes towards detention release and resettlement was commissioned by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and conducted online from 30th September to 5th October 2020 and based on 1,074 respondents. Significantly, poll results show there is wide agreement that indefinite detention is inhumane, and refugees should
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Media Release 12 October 2020 Today, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s (ASRC) lawyers appeared at the public hearing of the House of Representatives Standing Committee Inquiry into Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence. The ASRC’s Human Rights Law Program runs a specialised gender law clinic to provide assistance to women, children and those who identify as
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Media Release 7 October 2020 Budget 2020 abandons people seeking asylum and refugees while service organisations cannot contain the humanitarian crisis. The Morrison Government’s Budget expands offshore detention, including its Christmas Island facility while cutting Australia’s humanitarian intake cap by one quarter, and continues exclusions and cuts to safety nets. The Budget is a clear
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Media Release 2 October 2020 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre has welcomed Senator Jacqui Lambie’s commitment to oppose a bill that would prohibit mobile phones from immigration detention centres. By siding with Senator Stirling Griff, Senator Rex Patrick, Labor and the Greens, Senator Lambie has provided the numbers to defeat the government’s Migration Amendment bill
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Media Release 10 September 2020 Around 60 people from refugee and Muslim backgrounds detained at the Kangaroo Point detention centre in Brisbane have not had access to Halal certified food since arriving in Australia, more than a year ago. A small group of people suspected that the food they were being given was not Halal
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