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.
Read moreThis July, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Employment Program is celebrating its 11th anniversary; ten years of empowering hundreds of people to realise their aspirations, and to become socially and economically independent. The political debate around asylum seekers has for too long detracted the public from seeing them for who they are. Highly skilled and
Read moreThanks to the actions of ASRC supporters and other concerned people, the Government failed to get its Use of Force bill through Parliament in June. Thousands of people wrote and phoned Labor and cross-bench Senators urging them not to support the Bill, which would give detention guards virtually unchecked power to use force against asylum seekers, largely without recourse. As
Read moreHundreds of people gathered in Melbourne and Sydney in June to loudly raise their voices against the Government sending Australian-born babies to detention on Nauru. Former asylum seeker and detainee Barat Ali Batoor asked at the Melbourne rally: ‘Would policy makers of this country send their own children to Nauru?’ Thanks to everyone who attended the rallies
Read moreThe Seed foundation will partner with the ASRC Music Group to provide up to $8,000 in masterclasses and new music equipment. The Seed believes that genuine musical expression is vital to the health of any culture and they are excited by the breadth of new talent this country inherits via the introduction of these new artists.
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