Media Release 19 July 2022 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) calls on the Minister for Home Affairs Clare O’Neil to immediately evacuate all refugees currently held on Nauru and Papua New Guinea to Australia, providing a clear pathway for permanent resettlement to refugees while residing in the community, as a system that denies basic
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Media Release 19 July 2022 On this day nine years ago former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that people seeking asylum by sea would be prevented from settling in Australia and detained offshore, creating a cruel system propped up by successive governments. For the over 3,000 refugees subjected to offshore detention since 2013, July 19
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Media Release 7 July 2022 Refugees on Nauru are at significant risk unable to access essentials as over one in three people have contracted COVID-19 on the small island nation. Over the past week, Nauru has recorded its first death from COVID-19, with around 4,000 people on the island of 10,800 recorded as having COVID-19.
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Media Release 29 June 2022 Protests at the Yongah Hill detention centre broke out Sunday night, following the tragic death of a person held at the centre earlier in the month. The demonstrations are a product of a broken and dangerous immigration detention system in urgent need of reform. Australia is an international outlier, keeping
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Media Release 27 May 2022 The strength of the Nadesalingam family, the tireless work of the local community, Carina Ford Lawyers and #HometoBilo campaign will see Nades and Priya, and their daughters Kopika and Tharnicaa return to their home in Biloela, Queensland. However, the Nadesalingam family have not received permanent protection and have instead been
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Media Release 22 May 2022 Refugees and people seeking asylum have been subjected to unimaginably cruel and arbitrary policies over the last nine years. The results from the 2022 election have strongly rejected this politics of fear and division and clearly shown that Australians want a more humane and compassionate country for refugees. The Australian
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