Media Release 14 December 2020 A coalition of rights groups has called for all the people being held in alternative places of detention (APODs), under Australia’s cruel immigration detention regime, to be immediately released into the community. Following the release last week of musician Farhad Bandesh and four others, Australian Border Force notified detainees in
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Media Release 11 December 2020 The ASRC welcomes the release of every person seeking asylum and refugee from the harmful conditions of indefinite detention. Many have long warned the Government of the abusive conditions and medical neglect in indefinite detention harming people’s mental and physical health, including the Ombudsman, Legal and Medical bodies and community
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Media Release 10 December 2020 World Human Rights Day 2020 is the 7th that the Morrison Government has continued Australia’s internationally condemned policies of offshore processing, indefinite detention and precarious long term temporary visas for people seeking asylum and refugees. Australia’s detention regime is rife with lack of oversight or accountability for medical neglect, use of excessive
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Media Release 3 December 2020 One year since the Morrison Government repealed the Medevac legislation over 200 refugees and people seeking asylum remain in detention, mostly trapped in suburban hotels, and many have not received the critical medical treatment they need. Around 290 people remain in offshore processing, with approximately half in Papua New Guinea
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Media Release 19 November 2020 The Morrison Government has hiked up the Federal Circuit Court fees for migration cases by fourfold, from $690 to $3,330, seriously undermining access to the justice system. Around one-third of appeals made against Immigration Assessment Authority (IAA) decisions on claims by people who arrived by sea before 2013, the so-called
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Media Release 5 November 2020 A coalition of 60 grassroots networks, legal, medical, community and human rights organisations are calling on the Morrison Government to release and resettle people seeking asylum and refugees held in indefinite detention for up to seven years. The Time for a Home campaign launched today, is calling on the Morrison
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