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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Media Release 17 October 2021 Reports of refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia’s immigration detention system testing positive for COVID-19 have confirmed the worst fears of medical experts and reaffirm the need to release all refugees from detention immediately. On October 17, refugees in Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) said at least
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Media Release 8 October 2021 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) welcomes the Senate Inquiry into Australia’s engagement in Afghanistan and calls on the Morrison Government to commit to an additional humanitarian intake of at least 20,000 people from Afghanistan as well as provide permanent protection to refugees from Afghanistan and their families. The ASRC
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Media Release 6 October 2021 Today the Minister for Home Affairs Karen Andrews announced that the Morrison Government will be ending offshore processing in Papua New Guinea by the end of the year, following 8 years of policy failure and harmful treatment of people seeking asylum. The Time for a Home coalition of 140 organisations
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