MEDIA RELEASE: A group of 39 people seeking asylum forced to Nauru after arriving in Beagle Bay (WA) in February have made contact with the ASRC, reporting significant distress, emerging mental health issues and suicidal thoughts as they are confronted with indefinite family separation and Australia’s cruel offshore detention regime. This follows reports a further
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MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC welcomes news the Albanese Government has been road-blocked in its attempts to ram new legislation through parliament that would see refugees and people seeking asylum face ruthless new deportation and entry ban laws. Now delayed for six weeks to make way for an inquiry, refugees, human rights lawyers, advocates and the
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MEDIA RELEASE: The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Human Rights Law Centre and Democracy in Colour have denounced the Albanese Government’s rushed law that would further punish people who have been unlawfully held in indefinite immigration detention. The Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024 gives the Minister for Immigration an unprecedented new power to
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MEDIA RELEASE Young refugees failed by the flawed Fast Track system are urging political leaders in Canberra today to finally let them call Australia home after living here for over 10 years in visa limbo. The delegation of eight Tamil, Iranian and Rohingya refugees ages 17 to 27, will address MPs from Labor, Greens and
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MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC welcomes the Australian Government’s long-overdue push to scrap the defected Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and Fast Track process which has failed thousands of people seeking asylum and refugees from accessing fair and just outcomes over decades. While the Government’s legislation proposes changes and a new tribunal to help restore integrity and
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MEDIA RELEASE: The Albanese Government continues to operate Nauru Detention Centre under a cloak of secrecy by providing no public information about the welfare of 39 people seeking asylum who were forced there after arriving in Western Australia over a week ago. The ASRC is deeply concerned by the lack of transparency surrounding the treatment of
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