Media Release 30 March 2022 The 2022-2023 Federal Budget was another step backwards for the Morrison Government. While the Budget centres around the challenges faced by the cost of living increases, refugees and people seeking asylum have largely been left behind. Exclusion of refugees on temporary visas from emergency support, maintaining historically low refugee intake
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Media Release 28 March 2022 Senators are being urged to oppose a Morrison Government bill that would see thousands of Australian residents face detention and deportation. Legal experts have slammed the Government’s decision to reintroduce the Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test) Bill, which has repeatedly been rejected, as a political stunt at the cost
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Media Release 24 March 2022 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) welcomes the announcement of an agreement with New Zealand to resettle refugees who were subjected to Australia’s offshore detention regime. However, this agreement is not enough, as hundreds of people seeking asylum will be left behind, including those on PNG. The deal will see
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Media Release 21 March 2022 The Minister for Immigration Alex Hawke MP announced yesterday that Ukrainians fleeing to Australia will have access to Temporary Humanitarian Concern (subclass 786) visas that permit work, study and access to Medicare, amongst other supports. The process for access to these visas and the details of the support offered, including
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Media Release 15 March 2022 Fourteen refugees held in onshore detention have been released over the long weekend, including one person released from the Brisbane Immigration Transit Authority (ITA) yesterday afternoon. Late on Friday night, 13 people who came to Australia from offshore detention for medical treatment were released from detention, 9 from the Park
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