When we launched the Save the ASRC public appeal on 9 February 2023, we were afraid that the seven weeks we had to turn things around was not going to be long enough to keep our doors open. Not because people had stopped caring, or thought our work was done – just that it’s such
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Media Release March 8, 2023 The Albanese Government along with the Liberal Party opposition and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party voted together against the Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023, which would offer urgent evacuation to the 160 refugees still held offshore in PNG and Nauru, in the Senate today. The Bill was introduced
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Media Release March 7, 2023 The ALP-dominated Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs released a report, today, recommending a vote against the Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023, which would offer urgent evacuation to the 160 refugees still held offshore in PNG and Nauru. The Committee’s report was contradictory and confused, recommending
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Media Release March 4, 2023 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre urges Albanese Government to support legislation, which will compel the transfer of around 160 refugees held offshore in PNG and Nauru to Australia, scheduled to be voted on in the Senate on March 8. The Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023 is currently before
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Media Release February 19, 2023 On Friday 17 February 2023, the Department of Home Affairs sent letters to several people recently released from immigration detention telling them to present themselves to be re-detained. The letters were issued immediately after the passage of the Migration Amendment (Aggregate Sentences) Act 2023 which overruled a recent Federal Court
Read moreMedia Release February 13, 2023 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre welcomes the Albanese Government’s announcement that people subjected to the unfair ‘Fast Track’ process and currently on Temporary Protection visas (TPVs) and Safe Haven Enterprise visas (SHEVs), will have a pathway to permanency, a victory for refugees and people seeking asylum. After almost a decade
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