Media Release 20 January 2021 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) welcomes the release of 26 Medevac refugees today from the Park Hotel in Melbourne. People were taken to the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MiTA) to collect property, and all have now been released into the community on a 6-month bridging visas with work rights
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Media Release 20 January 2021 The Time for a Home alliance of 136 organisations and community networks understands that 26 Medevac refugees are being released today from the Melbourne Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD). Australian Border Force is taking people from the Park Hotel APOD to Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) first to
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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Media Release 3 December 2020 One year since the Morrison Government repealed the Medevac legislation over 200 refugees and people seeking asylum remain in detention, mostly trapped in suburban hotels, and many have not received the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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