MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC is calling on the Albanese Government to restore safety nets for people seeking asylum in the Federal Budget – starting with urgent investment in social support and ensuring people have the rights to work, study and access medical care. Between 2016-2022, social support for people seeking asylum was cut by a
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MEDIA RELEASE: A Government majority Senate Committee has ignored overwhelming evidence from impacted refugee communities, medical and legal experts, support agencies and academics to give the Albanese Government’s callous Entry Ban and Deportation Bill the go-ahead in a majority report released this afternoon. After attempting to ram the Bill through Parliament in less than 36
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MEDIA RELEASE: Widespread pressure continues to build against Labor’s brutal Entry Ban and Deportation Bill, with the latest criticisms descending from Parliament’s own Human Rights Scrutiny Report released yesterday. The report produced by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, and chaired by ALP MP Josh Burns, confirms Labor’s Bill currently limits several fundamental human rights including the
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MEDIA RELEASE: ASRC will join refugee human rights lawyers giving evidence today in opposition to Labor’s Entry Ban and Deportation Bill at the one-day Senate hearing in Canberra. The Bill, which unfairly punishes refugees, migrant families and people seeking asylum, was road-blocked at the Senate for an inquiry after Labor attempted to ram the Bill
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MEDIA RELEASE: A group of 39 people seeking asylum forced to Nauru after arriving in Beagle Bay (WA) in February have made contact with the ASRC, reporting significant distress, emerging mental health issues and suicidal thoughts as they are confronted with indefinite family separation and Australia’s cruel offshore detention regime. This follows reports a further
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