MEDIA RELEASE Monday 01 December Experts across the refugee sector urge UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to use its visit to Australia, starting today, to investigate harmful immigration detention policies that breach human rights. A national coalition of legal, academic and advocacy organisations has today called for an urgent reform of Australia’s immigration and
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MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 27 November Refugee and human rights organisations welcome the establishment of a Senate inquiry into Australia’s offshore processing and resettlement arrangements, but warn that a parliamentary inquiry alone does not have the strength to lift the rock and expose the corruption, secrecy and human suffering that have defined this regime for more
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MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 26 November The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is calling for a Royal Commission into offshore processing following explosive revelations in Parliament late last night that prove the Australian Government has known for years about suspected corruption involving senior Nauruan officials. The report shows they knew of the corruption allegations before signing
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MEDIA RELEASE Monday 24 November The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is calling on the Albanese Government to explain why it has been hiding the contents of a newly released English transcript of a February 17 interview with Nauruan President David Adeang, in an extraordinary example of their ongoing secrecy about the billions in taxpayer
Read moreThe Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is demanding answers from the Albanese Government following explosive new whistleblower revelations aired on 60 Minutes tonight, exposing corruption, cover-ups and criminal infiltration at the heart of Australia’s offshore detention regime. A senior Home Affairs official, Dr Derek Elias, has risked jail to speak out about systemic rorting and
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Human rights organisations have condemned the Albanese Government’s first deportation to Nauru under its new secret offshore deal, calling it a shameful breach of Australia’s values of fairness, equality and justice. This is the first known deportation under the Government’s recently expanded Nauru regime – a secretive and multi-billion-dollar arrangement that allows people to be
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