Media centre - Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

- 19 APR 18
Home to Bilo – campaign update
As you may know from our last update, the central Queensland community of Biloela is mobilising to get their neighbours Priya, Nades and family back home to Bilo. The family were taken from their community by Australian Border Force in the early hours of the morning, flown to Perth and put on a plane to
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- 29 MAR 18
A Letter from Kamran
Friend, I am worried. I am a person seeking asylum and I am currently awaiting my refugee status from our government. To support me to do things like pay my rent, study and get help finding work, I have been receiving support through the Status Resolution Support Service (SRSS). Right now Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
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- 23 MAR 18
Walid Zazai speaks from Manus
Walid Zazai speaks from Manus to the Palm Sunday Rally 2018 As the clock ticked towards midnight, I felt both dread at another long year and hope for what seems unimaginable to me – freedom. Hello everyone, my name is Walid Zazai. Thank you for asking me to speak again. Much has changed since last
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- 19 MAR 18
Support to rally around Tamil family including two Australian born children, who were forcibly removed from home.
On the morning of 5 March, the quiet Central Queensland town of Bileola (Bilo) woke up at 5am to Australian Border Force detaining and removing their Tamil neighbours of more than four years, Priya, Nades and their two Australian born little girls. They were taken to a Melbourne detention centre, then onto Perth and put
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- 09 MAR 18
Government uses cuts to support services for people seeking asylum studying English to spruik language test
Over the past four to six months, refugee service organisations around the county, including the ASRC have been seeing increasing numbers of people at our doors for assistance to meet basic needs. The Government’s changes to life saving status resolution support services (SRSS) mean that people, including families, seeking asylum waiting for applications to be
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- 02 MAR 18
A letter from Behrouz Boochani – to the ASRC and the refugee movement
Iranian-Kurdish journalist and refugee, Behrouz Boochani, has been detained on Manus for almost five years. The central theme of home in our campaign to Change the Policy, is inspired by Behrouz’s poetic vision of humanity as a shelter and a home for stateless people, and hope for freedom. The ASRC invited Behrouz to be aRead more