MEDIA RELEASE: The situation for former Manus Island detainees abandoned in Papua New Guinea by the Australian Government continues to deteriorate, with more refugees and their families receiving eviction notices in the past fortnight. The threat of homelessness is exacerbating the serious mental and physical health conditions experienced by refugees who were cut off from food, financial
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MEDIA RELEASE: Seventy-five prominent refugee, legal, human rights and faith-based organisations have united in an open letter to the Federal Government, demanding an urgent pathway to permanency for approximately 8,400 people failed by the now defunct Fast Track system. The letter, addressed to PM Anthony Albanese and Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke, coincides with
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Dear Prime Minister and Minister Burke, We write urging you to take immediate action to provide pathways to permanency for all those failed by the former Coalition government’s ‘Fast Track’ system. As you know, more than 8,400 people failed by Fast Track have been in Australia for over a decade. They have built lives in
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MEDIA RELEASE: ASRC caseworkers can confirm the majority of people held in closed detention on Nauru have recently been moved into the community, with many now struggling to afford three meals a day, clothes, drinking water and basic necessities. People in the community are allocated just $230 per fortnight to survive on, despite drinking water
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MEDIA RELEASE: A delegation of refugees failed by the unfair and flawed Fast Track system arrive in Canberra today to meet with Federal MPs and urge the Government to finally grant them permanent visas after more than 12 years of limbo and uncertainty. Delegates Elnaz, Milad and Sowriya represent Afghanistan, Iranian, and Tamil communities and
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