MEDIA RELEASE: Refugees whose lives have been irreversibly damaged by unlawful detention are hopeful that justice may finally be on the horizon with a significant High Court hearing taking place in Canberra today. The High Court will hear two cases, including an intervention by ASRC’s Human Rights Law Program (HRLP), which challenge the constitutional validity
Read moreMEDIA RELEASE: Human rights legal experts and refugee advocates have slammed the Albanese Government for attempting to circumvent the High Court’s ruling yesterday that harmful restrictions on people released from detention are unjustifiable forms of punishment. Instead, the Government has opted to introduce sweeping new legislation that would reimpose invasive curfews and ankle bracelets, give
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MEDIA RELEASE: The situation for former Manus Island detainees abandoned in Papua New Guinea by the Australian Government continues to deteriorate, with more refugees and their families receiving eviction notices in the past fortnight. The threat of homelessness is exacerbating the serious mental and physical health conditions experienced by refugees who were cut off from food, financial
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MEDIA RELEASE: Seventy-five prominent refugee, legal, human rights and faith-based organisations have united in an open letter to the Federal Government, demanding an urgent pathway to permanency for approximately 8,400 people failed by the now defunct Fast Track system. The letter, addressed to PM Anthony Albanese and Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke, coincides with
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Dear Prime Minister and Minister Burke, We write urging you to take immediate action to provide pathways to permanency for all those failed by the former Coalition government’s ‘Fast Track’ system. As you know, more than 8,400 people failed by Fast Track have been in Australia for over a decade. They have built lives in
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MEDIA RELEASE: ASRC caseworkers can confirm the majority of people held in closed detention on Nauru have recently been moved into the community, with many now struggling to afford three meals a day, clothes, drinking water and basic necessities. People in the community are allocated just $230 per fortnight to survive on, despite drinking water
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