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We stopped today an asylum seeker being deported back to China to face torture!
We won!! our High Court case this morning and succeeded in getting an injunction. What this means is that the government cannot deport this man until the two court applications we already have on foot are determined. This is significant in not just stopping him from being deported which they had planned to do this weekend back to China where we believed faced torture and imprisonment but also in taking a stand and letting this government know that the law still stands for something and they can’t just deny a person their day in court, a fundamental human right, just because it’s more convenient for them to deport them rather than deal with their legal obligations. 
TWO
We won permanent freedom for an Afghan man after 6 years!
After 6 years spent in detention and on a Temporary Protection Visa in the commuunity we have gained permanent protection for an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, finally he has permanency and some peace.
THREE
We gained freedom for an asylum seeker from Zimbabwe who faced death upon return to his country
We won at the Refugee Review Tribunal asylum for a young man who was a human rights activist in Zimbabwe and faced certain imprisonment and toture for working for democracy.
FOUR
We are reuniting an Iraqi family with their son after 4 and a half years apart!
An iraqi family who we gained permanent protection for but whose son has been stranded in new zealand for the last four and a half years are now to be reunited. The son fearing that he was going to deported back to iraq from Australia had fled to NZ on false documents 4 and a half years ago and we have been fighting to get the Australian government to allow him back in and now ina few weeks time they will be reunited!
FIVE
We have suceeded in helping a mum bring her daughter to Australia!
After gaining asylum for a woman from kyrgyzstan we have been trying for the last year to get a visa for her daughter (whom she has not seen in years) to be able to come from Kurgyzstan to Australia and have just got the news that a visa has been granted!
SIX
We played an important role in getting a Kurdish family the right to apply for asylum again
After 6 years, 5 humanitarian requests to the Minister, a complaint to the United Nations, a complaint to the Asian Human Rights Commission, a Federal Magistrates Court appeal, Federal Court appeal and High Court appeal, after all of this we have just got the news that our Kurdish family that the ASRC has been supporting legally and with their welfare needs along with Hotham Mission for the past 6 years will be allowed to apply for asylum again after the Minister has intervened, thanks to the critical intervention of Paris Aristotle from Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture. Just such a great result!
SEVEN
Making First Aid happen for asylum seekers
We ran our free First Aid training for asylum seekers this week, providing invaluable skills to make people seeking asylum even more employable!
EIGHT
Circus OZ again providing amazing support to the ASRC
For a 5th year running Circus Oz have collected money for us during their melbourne performances and this year raised over $17,300!! what an astonishing achievement.
NINE
We recieved $35,000 from the Bokhara Foundation
The ASRC recieved $35,000 grant today from the Bokhara Foundation to help fund our work which was wonderful news.
TEN
ASRC opened it’s doors to the community to keep raising awareness!
We hosted dozens of international delegates who were here in Melbourne for the Metropolis Immigration Conference.. ..we hosted a World Food Day on Tuesday highlighting poverty facing asylum seekers…we had over 100 people come to our volunteer night last week as well….we also were all over the media from being in today’s Herald Sun and on 3CR radio and 3RRR and The Age newspaper all on raising awareness about asylum seekers.
p.s look out for our weekly election update on what our government is doing each week to asylum seekers during election mode, first weekly diary will be out on monday!

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