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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Media Release 02 August 2021 Parliament must reject a spate of Bills that will introduce sweeping powers and deny basic rights. Legal experts have released a unified statement (attached below) calling for three migration Bills currently before Parliament to be rejected in their entirety due to the threat they pose to the rule of law,
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Media Release 19 July 2021 Today marks eight years since former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that people seeking asylum in Australia by boat would be processed offshore and prevented from settling in Australia. Since 2013, 3,127 people who came to Australia for protection have been subjected to offshore processing and are still suffering under
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Media Release 19 July 2021 To mark the eight-year anniversary of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s decision to refuse settlement to anyone who seeks asylum in Australia by boat, human rights advocates have come together to support the launch of a new podcast that explores how successive governments have abandoned the duty to protect refugees and
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