Media Release 2 October 2020 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre has welcomed Senator Jacqui Lambie’s commitment to oppose a bill that would prohibit mobile phones from immigration detention centres. By siding with Senator Stirling Griff, Senator Rex Patrick, Labor and the Greens, Senator Lambie has provided the numbers to defeat the government’s Migration Amendment bill
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Media Release 10 September 2020 Around 60 people from refugee and Muslim backgrounds detained at the Kangaroo Point detention centre in Brisbane have not had access to Halal certified food since arriving in Australia, more than a year ago. A small group of people suspected that the food they were being given was not Halal
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Media Release 3 September 2020 A joint petition against The Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020 has gathered over 154,340 signatures as part of the No Phones No Life campaign. The campaign trended on Twitter several times over the past four days and engaged hundreds of thousands of people on Facebook and
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Media Release 2 September 2020 The Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test) Bill 2019 is once again before Parliament this week and is currently listed for debate in the Senate today. Under the Minister’s proposed new powers, if a person has been convicted of an offence that falls into a category carrying a possible term
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Media Release 1 September 2020 Human rights and legal organisations are today calling on Federal Parliament to reject new laws that would allow the Morrison Government to stifle criticism of immigration detention, reduce transparency and cut off crucial support for the people detained in immigration detention. The Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities)
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Media Release 19 August 2020 – On 10 August 2020, the Federal Court ordered the Federal Government to stop detaining a 68 year old man at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation, due to the health risks of COVID-19. The man, who has close family living in Melbourne, has underlying health conditions including diabetes which put
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