Media Release 11 August 2023 ASRC welcomes the announcement today from the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles that Australia’s humanitarian intake will increase by just over 2,000 places. At a time when more than 100 million people are forcibly displaced globally this increase in humanitarian intake is critical. Kon Karapanagiotidis CEO
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Media Release 19 July 2023 Today the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has released a new report marking ten years since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made the choice to send over 3,000 men, women and children who sought asylum by sea to offshore detention centres and deny them permanent resettlement. The report, entitled ‘Finish this
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Media Release 25 June 2023 The last refugee held on Nauru to be evacuated to Australia after 10 years arrived last night, in a welcome and long overdue move for refugees. However, around 80 people still held in Papua New Guinea need urgent evacuation. This is a testament to a decade of powerful resistance from
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Media Release 15 June 2023 The ASRC [Asylum Seeker Resource Centre] is calling on the community to show their support for refugees and people seeking asylum with a donation to the 8th annual World Refugee Day Telethon, powered by the ASRC, Tuesday 20th June 2023. The World Refugee Day Telethon is a chance for the
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Media Release 10 May 2023 The Albanese Government has introduced some much-needed targeted support in the Federal Budget for people seeking asylum and refugees. But the budget has maintained a deeply unfair, unjust and unequal system that excludes people in the community from accessing their basic rights. After two years, the lack of any rise
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Media Release 27 April 2023 The “Review of the Migration System” report, released today, has overlooked the urgent changes needed to ensure a fair and effective humanitarian visa system for people seeking asylum and refugees. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil’s speech today at the National Press Club on a new migration system for Australia’s future
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