Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 27th June 2018 - Refugee organisations are urging the prime minister to put an immediate end to what they are calling a “cruel, inhuman and illogical policy”, as the government begins rolling…
Luke Michael, Monday, 18th June 2018 - Community sector leaders have gathered in Canberra to protest cuts to asylum seeker support payments, as a new report reveals that government policy is driving people seeking asylum…
Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 29th August 2017 -
The social sector has rallied behind refugees and asylum seekers in the wake of the Australian government’s decision to strip up to 400 Australian-based asylum seekers of welfare…
Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 14th June 2017 - The announcement that asylum seekers held on Manus Island will receive $70 million, in what is said to be the largest human rights class action settlement in Australian legal history,…
Lina Caneva, Thursday, 20th April 2017 -
People brought to Australia under the federal government’s refugee resettlement program have the most to lose from planned changes to the citizenship process, according to the…
Ellie Cooper, Friday, 24th February 2017 - Australia excels in resettling refugees but is trailing the world in its approach to asylum seekers, the Refugee Council’s first State of the Nation report has found. The report…
Wendy Williams, Friday, 3rd February 2017 - Human rights organisations across the country have united to call for immediate action on offshore detention and for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to be brought to safety in Australia.…
Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 21st September 2016 - Malcolm Turnbull’s commitments to boost the government’s humanitarian refugee program are “welcome but hardly groundbreaking”, according to Not for Profits.The…
Wendy Williams, Monday, 5th September 2016 - Not for Profits have welcomed the Victorian Government’s announcement to give asylum seekers “a fair go” with $15 million in funding allocated for training opportunities.…
Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 22nd June 2016 - The world’s wealthiest nations, including Australia, have failed to deliver on promises to increase resettlement for the world’s neediest refugees, according to the Refugee…
Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 6th October 2015 -
Moves to make Australia’s offshore Regional Processing Centre on Nauru an “open facility” will not guarantee the safety of asylum seekers and refugees on the…
Xavier Smerdon, Wednesday, 2nd September 2015 -
Asylum seeker advocates have called for the Nauru detention centre to be shut down after a Senate inquiry found that it was not safe and that women and children had been subjected to…
