The Albanese Government’s new $2.3 billion deal with the US private prison operator, Management and Training Corporation (MTC), to run Australia’s onshore immigration detention network marks a troubling departure from its promise that “detention will occur in a government-run immigration detention centre.” Despite mounting evidence of MTC’s serious failures in the United States, the Australian
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“The ASRC is profoundly shocked to bear witness to tonight’s outrageous and unbelievably low attack on the people, families, children and communities we serve. It is a racist agenda that is reminiscent of the darkest days of our White Australia policy. “The Albanese Government and the Coalition blatantly colluded in the ultimate betrayal of Australia’s multicultural
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MEDIA RELEASE: Leading refugee and human rights advocates arrive in Canberra this morning to urge the Albanese Government to scrap three Brutal Bills that threaten the lives, rights and safety of over 80,000 refugees, people seeking asylum and migrant communities in Australia, and countless others who would be barred from entering the country. At a
Read moreMEDIA RELEASE: Labor continues its cruel campaign to punish refugees and people seeking asylum, this time pushing forward with a callous new Bill designed to expand its powers to warehouse more people offshore, deport people to harm and overturn protection findings. The Migration Amendment Bill 2024, which was introduced into Parliament this week, has now
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MEDIA RELEASE: Refugees left destitute and starving in Papua New Guinea (PNG) by the Australian Government for over a year will finally have minimal financial support restored – but only if they meet impossible conditions that could see them homeless by Christmas. Refugees have been told by PNG Immigration and Citizenship Services Authority (ICSA) that
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MEDIA RELEASE: Refugees whose lives have been irreversibly damaged by unlawful detention are hopeful that justice may finally be on the horizon with a significant High Court hearing taking place in Canberra today. The High Court will hear two cases, including an intervention by ASRC’s Human Rights Law Program (HRLP), which challenge the constitutional validity
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