New national polling commissioned by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) and conducted by Redbridge sends a clear message to political leaders ahead of the upcoming federal election: voters want fairness and compassion for refugees and people seeking asylum. The findings show that a majority of voters believe that Australia has a responsibility to accept
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Doctors and human rights organisations, including the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) and Amnesty International, have today backed the reintroduction of the Medevac legislation, calling it a vital lifeline for refugees and people seeking asylum abandoned by the Australian Government in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru, where a worsening health crisis requires immediate action.
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The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is proud to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong people, Traditional Owners of the lands where we work across Victoria through our service delivery to people seeking asylum and refugees. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and acknowledge First Nations People’s unceded sovereignty. We recognise and
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The ASRC welcomes the landmark decisions by the UN Human Rights Committee that Australia is responsible for the arbitrary detention of people who sought safety on our shores, yet successive governments banished them to offshore detention in Nauru and PNG. The harm of offshore detention is well documented with over 14 deaths, compensation payouts, child
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The Albanese Government’s new $2.3 billion deal with the US private prison operator, Management and Training Corporation (MTC), to run Australia’s onshore immigration detention network marks a troubling departure from its promise that “detention will occur in a government-run immigration detention centre.” Despite mounting evidence of MTC’s serious failures in the United States, the Australian
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