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.Thousands…
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 Council…
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…
Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 23rd June 2015 -
The number of people forcibly displaced by persecution and conflict has increased by 8.3 million in 12 months, growing to its highest level since World War II, according to the the…
Xavier Smerdon, Friday, 24th April 2015 -
More than 100 Australian organisations have called for an immediate moratorium on the transfer of asylum seekers to Nauru and Manus Island until their safety can be guaranteed.
The…
Xavier Smerdon, Thursday, 26th March 2015 -
The Refugee Council of Australia claims the passing of the Migration Amendment Bill 2014 will further stack the odds against vulnerable people seeking Australia’s…
Lina Caneva, Monday, 22nd September 2014 -
A career as a journalist exposed Paul Power to the Not for Profit world and today he is one of the best known CEOs in the sector.
Power has been Chief Executive Officer of the Refugee Council…
Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 26th August 2014 -
A rare class action by a six-year-old asylum seeker has been launched in the Supreme Court against the Federal Government and Immigration Minister Scott Morrison over the treatment…
Staff Reporter, Friday, 15th August 2014 -
The Federal Government’s welfare system reforms must pay more attention to addressing barriers to employment faced by refugees and humanitarian entrants, says the Refugee…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 10th July 2014 -
Child asylum seekers are more likely than their adult counterparts to be held in a locked detention facility than in community alternatives, an analysis of immigration detention…
Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 8th July 2014 -
Peak refugee advocacy Not for Profit, the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA), says it’s greatly encouraged by the High Court injunction to block the Federal Government sending…