With education comes opportunity and people seeking asylum in our community are living proof of this adage. For Tanya, who was a lawyer in Colombia, training at TAFE for an aged care qualification has made a huge difference to finding her feet in Australia. “The most important thing in my life is that I’m free,”
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Community pressure has forced the Abbott Government to give permanent protection to 12,000 people seeking asylum from the war in Syria, as well as a small humanitarian aid contribution. Australians deserve to be very proud of the way they have come together and demanded the Government show compassion to the people of Syria. It is
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The people who packed into the new Innovation Hub on the night of August 25 heard how the ASRC’s latest humanitarian programs empower people seeking asylum with the rallying call “change begins here”. As the hub’s director Gavin Ackerly said, people seeking asylum “don’t need handouts, but a leg up”. Gavin says the old agency
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Yesterday’s Food Justice Truck grand opening welcomed a world first initiative which empowers every shopper in Melbourne to assist in providing affordable, healthy groceries to people seeking asylum just by shopping at the Truck. Nowhere else in Australia can people seeking asylum receive a 75% discount on groceries, a subsidy made possible by general public
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Bill Shorten and Richard Marles’ support for turn-backs and ongoing commitment to detention camps on Manus and Nauru will further embed into our immigration system a culture of Government-sanctioned harm to people seeking protection in our region. The plan to increase the number of people we take in to 27,000 over ten years is unacceptable.
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