Dear Prime Minister and Minister Burke, We write urging you to take immediate action to provide pathways to permanency for all those failed by the former Coalition government’s ‘Fast Track’ system. As you know, more than 8,400 people failed by Fast Track have been in Australia for over a decade. They have built lives in
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MEDIA RELEASE: ASRC caseworkers can confirm the majority of people held in closed detention on Nauru have recently been moved into the community, with many now struggling to afford three meals a day, clothes, drinking water and basic necessities. People in the community are allocated just $230 per fortnight to survive on, despite drinking water
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MEDIA RELEASE: A delegation of refugees failed by the unfair and flawed Fast Track system arrive in Canberra today to meet with Federal MPs and urge the Government to finally grant them permanent visas after more than 12 years of limbo and uncertainty. Delegates Elnaz, Milad and Sowriya represent Afghanistan, Iranian, and Tamil communities and
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MEDIA RELEASE: ASRC lawyers will give evidence today against legislation that inflicts impossible and rigid application deadlines and exorbitant fees on refugees, people seeking asylum and migrants seeking just outcomes through the new Administrative Review Tribunal (ART). ASRC’s evidence will be heard from 2 pm – 3pm today as part of a Senate inquiry into
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MEDIA RELEASE: Refugees and allies will join in solidarity at a peaceful vigil in Melbourne tonight, marking 60 days of ongoing protests urging the Government to grant permanency to approximately 8,500* people failed by the flawed Fast Track system. The refugee-led movement has built momentum in recent weeks, with 24-hour encampments now running in Melbourne,
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MEDIA RELEASE: Refugee-led protests are building momentum with new sites starting up in Adelaide and Brisbane this week, as people forced to live in limbo for over a decade demand a pathway to permanency from the Albanese Government. This morning at Parliament House in Canberra, Melbourne protest leader Abbas Ghezzy will address Parliamentarians – including members of
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