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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Media Release 16 August 2021 The Australian Government must immediately implement a substantial resettlement plan, over and above the current intake cap, to evacuate and grant protection visas for people at risk of violence and death from the Taliban. A plan similar to the one where Australia resettled 12,000 Syrians at the height of the
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Media Release 12 August 2021 Today, the High Court of Australia has decided it will not hear the Special Leave application made in XAD claim lodged by the Muruguppan family from Biloela. The High Court has conducted the matter on the papers with no hearing. The family remains in Perth due to the way the
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Media Release 03 August 2021 Human rights lawyers are calling on the Morrison Government to act urgently to ensure the safety of people held in immigration detention centres around Australia, amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. As NSW authorities attempt to manage more than 3,000 active COVID-19 cases, almost 500 people are being detained in a
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