Archive for September, 2006
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Government still dumping asylum seekers at the gate
Last year the ASRC published a report called Dumped At the Gate. Our report highlighted the practice of DIMA dumping long - term detainees in the community with no support. DIMA responded to our report by denying this was in fact happening. Sadly, this year nothing has changed, we continue to see asylum [...]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
ASRC proving pathways to further employment for asylum seekers
This past week we provided yet another free training workshop for asylum seekers around food and hospitality skills, each year we providing through our employment networks tens of thousands of dollars of free training courses building the capacity of asylum seekers.
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
ASRC treats 20 asylum seekers to a day of whale watching!
On Sunday the ASRC took 20 asylum seekers to Warnambool for the day where they had a wondeful time watching whales and having a picnic.
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
ASRC to feature in Fringe Festival!
The ASRC in collaboration with a number of artists will be presenting Material Word an exhibition for 2 weeks in Federation Square (its free), sharing the stories of asylum seekers through art. To find out more go to the home page of our website: www.asrc.org.au and click onto link under EDUCATE [...]
