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    • 22 MAR 23
    ASRC supports the Yes campaign for Voice to Parliament

    ASRC supports the Yes campaign for Voice to Parliament

    The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is proud to publicly announce our support for the YES campaign for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Our vision is that all Australians, First Nations people and those who have come here seeking asylum, can live safely, sustainably, independently and equally. We imagine a future where the cultures, histories

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    • 16 MAR 23
    We are keeping our doors open

    We are keeping our doors open

    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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    • 08 MAR 23
    Labor and Liberals vote together against a Bill that would have evacuated refugees from PNG and Nauru

    Labor and Liberals vote together against a Bill that would have evacuated refugees from PNG and Nauru

    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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    • 07 MAR 23
    Confused Senate Committee Report on Bill to evacuate refugees held offshore tabled

    Confused Senate Committee Report on Bill to evacuate refugees held offshore tabled

    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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    • 04 MAR 23
    Albanese Government must support Bill to evacuate refugees held offshore due to be voted on next week

    Albanese Government must support Bill to evacuate refugees held offshore due to be voted on next week

    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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    • 19 FEB 23
    Joint statement of concern at attempts to take refugees back into detention

    Joint statement of concern at attempts to take refugees back into detention

    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

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