MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC welcomes the Australian Government’s long-overdue push to scrap the defected Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and Fast Track process which has failed thousands of people seeking asylum and refugees from accessing fair and just outcomes over decades. While the Government’s legislation proposes changes and a new tribunal to help restore integrity and
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MEDIA RELEASE: The Albanese Government continues to operate Nauru Detention Centre under a cloak of secrecy by providing no public information about the welfare of 39 people seeking asylum who were forced there after arriving in Western Australia over a week ago. The ASRC is deeply concerned by the lack of transparency surrounding the treatment of
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MEDIA RELEASE: A report released yesterday by Home Affairs confirms the Morrison Government put the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum in the hands of dodgy offshore detention operators suspected of bribery, drugs and arms smuggling, money laundering and other criminal activity. Following years of corruption allegations, lack of transparency and oversight, the ASRC
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MEDIA RELEASE: The children of refugees abandoned in Papua New Guinea by the Australian Government are suffering the impacts of deprivation, with many isolated, going hungry, at risk of starvation and facing homelessness. Parents who are scared for their future are pleading with the Albanese Government for urgent evacuation to safety – ahead of the
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The ASRC has received numerous reports from refugees in Papua New Guinea (PNG) who fear for their lives and safety amid 16 deaths and violent unrest in Port Moresby and Lae over the past 48 hours. A 14-day State of Emergency for the country was declared by PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape on Thursday, with
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