MEDIA RELEASE: New Zealand journalists have lifted the Australian Government’s cloak of secrecy over the welfare and future of people detained on Nauru, during a Ministerial delegation to the isolated island this week. ASRC’s specialist detention casework team is in contact with 63 people held on Nauru, and can confirm AAP’s reports that mental health issues are escalating as
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MEDIA RELEASE: Labor’s new Ministerial Direction 110 is the latest in a string of rushed and senseless decisions that will harm refugees, people seeking asylum, families and communities. The new direction replaces Direction 99 and serves as critical guidance for decision-making authorities who are weighing up whether to refuse or cancel people’s visas.Under pressure from
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MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC welcomes news legislation has finally passed through Parliament which abolishes the defective Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and Fast Track’s notorious Immigration Assessment Authority (IAA) to make way for a new tribunal and renewed focus on integrity. The Government’s proposal for the new Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) came after the AAT lost public confidence
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MEDIA RELEASE: Despite some positives, what was announced in Canberra last night blatantly fails to address the unprecedented demand charities such as ASRC are seeing from people seeking asylum for emergency food support, crisis housing and urgent medical care. Labor’s budget for “every Australian” doesn’t deliver for people seeking asylum Labor has continued the Morrison Government’s legacy
Read moreMEDIA RELEASE: Labor has once again abandoned people seeking asylum in the Federal Budget, continuing the legacy of neglect and inequality that has forced thousands into poverty and destitution. The 2024-2025 Budget maintains the exclusion of thousands of people seeking asylum from work rights and mainstream social support, sending a clear message that an unjust
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MEDIA RELEASE: Communities are urging the Albanese Government to listen to the hundreds of submissions against its “shameful and hurried” Entry Ban and Deportation Bill and scrap it before it proceeds through the Senate this week and puts lives, families and communities at risk of unnecessary harm. The Bill, which will be tabled in the
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