The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) welcomes the Premier’s announcement this morning that reusable and disposable masks will be provided to a range of community organisations, including the ASRC, to help protect the highly vulnerable people they support. With no access to the Federal Government’s COVID-19 safety net and financial support packages, people seeking asylum
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Media Release 17 July 2020 This Sunday, July 19, marks the day in 2013 when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that people seeking asylum, arriving by boat, will never be settled in Australia and would be processed offshore. As a result of the offshore detention regime, 13 people have lost their lives, families have been
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Media Release 13 July 2020 The Federal Government must work with the medical community and human rights organisations to release high-risk people from detention so they can lock down with family or friends and manage their own adherence to local State Government pandemic measures. Two staff members working in Department of Home Affairs managed Alternative
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Media Release 1 July 2020 Thirty human rights and grassroots community organisations, including the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, North Siders with Refugees, Amnesty International, Getup, Rural Australians for Refugees and Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project are holding a Zoom protest rally calling for the release of people seeking asylum from detention on Thursday 2 July, at 6 pm.
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ASRC’s submission to the Senate Committee on the Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020 raises alarm on human rights abuses that will result from extended search, seizure and screening powers without a warrant that the amendment would give authorised officers in immigration detention. The Minister and authorised officers in detention facilities
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