Media Release 1 December 2021 The Morrison Government is trying to revive a Bill, already rejected multiple times by Parliament and legal experts, which would give the Minister for Home Affairs sweeping powers, introduce a two-tier legal system and separate families. The Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test) Bill, if passed, would see refugees and
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Media Release 15 November 2021 Three refugees from the Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) and 1 from the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) join over 175 people seeking asylum released from detention over the last year, in a move welcomed by the Time for a Home alliance, of 140 organisations and community networks.
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Media Release 10 November 2021 A refugee being treated for COVID-19 at a Melbourne hospital has been transferred back to the Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) today. The Time for a Home alliance of 140 organisations condemns the Morrison Government’s decision to continue detaining refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia’s network of
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Media Release 29 October 2021 COVID-19 has now spread to a second site in Australia’s onshore immigration detention network, with a person held at Melbourne Immigration Transit Authority (MITA) testing positive on Tuesday. The case at MITA follows an outbreak at Melbourne’s Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention, where half of the 46 people have
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Media Release 25 October 2021 The Morrison Government has presided over an avoidable catastrophe in Melbourne’s Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) as nearly half of the 46 people in the hotel test positive for COVID-19. Two weeks ago refugees and people seeking asylum in Park Hotel began displaying symptoms of COVID-19, with three
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Media Release 20 October 2021 The Morrison Government’s Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test) Bill 2019 was voted down in the Senate today thanks to opposition against the legislation, which would have introduced punitive new powers and a two-tier legal system. The second reading debate of the Bill was voted down by crossbenchers, Labor and
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