Media Release 6 May 2021 The Government has suddenly and without warning scheduled to be completed by June around 1,200 first interviews for people seeking asylum, giving lawyers and applicants just 2 weeks’ notice to prepare complex cases. In 2017, the Government implemented the so called “Fast Track” policy, forcing people who arrived by sea
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Media Release 4 May 2021 The Government is reportedly planning to forcibly transfer 8 people seeking asylum from the Adelaide Immigration Transit Accommodation (AITA) to Melbourne by bus tomorrow morning. Caseworkers believe the transfers will involve separation from immediate family members including children, and isolation from other support networks in the community that people in
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Media Release 4 May 2021 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s (ASRC) submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Reference Committee on 30 April, challenges Government policy that deliberately separates people seeking asylum from their family, including children, for years. The Senate Inquiry into the efficacy, fairness, timeliness and costs of the processing and granting
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Media Release Tuesday, 27 April 2021 Today, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) healthcare provider, International Health and Medical Services (IHMS), attended court in Sydney to face criminal charges relating to the death of a person seeking asylum in one of Australia’s detention centres. These charges emerged after Comcare, the federal work health and safety
Read moreMedia Release Tuesday, 19 April 2021 Government flies 17 Medevac refugees from Brisbane to Melbourne, without phones and some in handcuffs The Government has flown 17 people from Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA) to Melbourne this morning. Last week, the 19 people remaining detained at the Kangaroo Point Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) were forcibly
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Media Release Tuesday, 30 March 2021 The Australian Government must immediately provide COVID-19 vaccines and adequate medical support to the people seeking asylum and refugees currently held in detention in Papua New Guinea or consider emergency medical evacuation. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is greatly concerned about the entirely insufficient care and support provided to
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