Media Release 6 September 2021 Refugees and people seeking asylum held in Australia’s network of immigration detention centres must be immediately released as at least one guard has tested positive for COVID-19. This news comes despite numerous warnings about the inadequacy and danger of the immigration detention regime, especially during a pandemic. Victorian COVID-19 commander
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Media Release 31 August 2021 Community Legal Services across Australia have announced their support for the call made by the Afghan Australian Advocacy Network for the Morrison Government to take immediate steps to protect the Afghan community, particularly those already here in Australia. This latest call comes after the bombing of Kabul Airport last week that took the lives of
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Media Release 27 August 2021 Refugee activist groups welcome an inspection by Comcare, the federal work health and safety regulator, into the alleged neglect of Tharnicaa Murugappan in Australian immigration detention during her illness in late May-early June this year. However, groups say there must also be a full and thorough investigation of the circumstances
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Media Release 26 August 2021 The twentieth anniversary of Tampa is a grim reminder of the arbitrary and abusive immigration regime successive Australian Governments have implemented. Today marks two decades since the Howard Government prevented 433 refugees on the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa from landing in Australia to seek asylum. Despite Prime Minister John Howard’s
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Media Release 24 August 2021 The release of 25 refugees from the Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) in Melbourne and the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (ITA) as well as 8 from the Brisbane ITA, today, is welcomed by the Time for a Home alliance, of 140 organisations and community networks. However, the Morrison
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Media Release 19 August 2021 The Morrison Government’s response to the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan has been woefully inadequate failing to sufficiently increase humanitarian visa intake or guarantee permanent protection to people seeking asylum and refugees from Afghanistan in Australia. Community groups and people from Afghanistan have been calling on the Government to, at the
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