MEDIA RELEASE: Labor has once again abandoned people seeking asylum in the Federal Budget, continuing the legacy of neglect and inequality that has forced thousands into poverty and destitution. The 2024-2025 Budget maintains the exclusion of thousands of people seeking asylum from work rights and mainstream social support, sending a clear message that an unjust
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MEDIA RELEASE: Communities are urging the Albanese Government to listen to the hundreds of submissions against its “shameful and hurried” Entry Ban and Deportation Bill and scrap it before it proceeds through the Senate this week and puts lives, families and communities at risk of unnecessary harm. The Bill, which will be tabled in the
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Today’s High Court ruling is a devastating outcome for ASF17 and for those who remain locked up and facing indefinite detention. ASF17 has been held in detention for over 10 years. He has been failed by the system, along with thousands of other refugees and people seeking asylum who have been through unjust and unfair
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MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC is calling on the Albanese Government to restore safety nets for people seeking asylum in the Federal Budget – starting with urgent investment in social support and ensuring people have the rights to work, study and access medical care. Between 2016-2022, social support for people seeking asylum was cut by a
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MEDIA RELEASE: A Government majority Senate Committee has ignored overwhelming evidence from impacted refugee communities, medical and legal experts, support agencies and academics to give the Albanese Government’s callous Entry Ban and Deportation Bill the go-ahead in a majority report released this afternoon. After attempting to ram the Bill through Parliament in less than 36
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