By Pamela Curr After 18 December the children in detention are stuck behind the fences and locked gates until next year. Unless Prime Minister Turnbull frees the children. There are only 15 school days left where they get to leave the camp each day for 8 hours of normal life in school. Already the older
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By Pamela Curr One of the most disturbing aspects of Border Force’s takeover of detention camps has been the militarisation and increased use of force against people seeking asylum. Women have been especially targeted by SERCO and Border Force. Next week in the Senate, the Government is seeking even more powers to use against women,
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By empowering herself to speak up Sadi secured a simple but vital right for her son: to experience, learn and grow as his friends do. This is her story. Last month, Sadi was faced with telling her son that, yet again, she could not afford to send him on a school excursion. With the family
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ASRC’s newest graduates from the Social Entrepreneurs program Business Incubator have just launched their businesses to the world. Alopeople Alopeople is your local tourist agency, with a difference. Be immersed in the traditions of another country, in your very own backyard. The local agency, founded by our talented ASRC member, connects you to individuals and families
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After six months of conversations, rehearsals, story-telling, and planning meetings over lunch at the ASRC, the ASRC Theatre Art Group is thrilled to launch its major performance, This is NOT a Protest at the BIG WEST Festival in Footscray, featuring people seeking asylum as co-creators and performers. This is a protest, that is not a protest, where
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