We have 4 core campaign goals for 2008 based on what we believe are the most important human rights issues facing asylum seekers. 

  

1.       End Temporary Protection Visas 

  

2.       The right to work for all 

  

3.       End Mandatory Detention 

  

4.       Fix the refugee system for a fair go: 

  

a)       Release of all long – term detainees 

b)       Access to health care for the entire refugee determination process 

c)        Overhaul of the way in which DIAC and the RRT determine asylum claims to create a fair, transparent and accountable system 

d)       Review of the section 417 humanitarian process to ensure a fair go 

e)       Close Christmas Island 

f)         End the Privatisation of Detention Centres 

g)       Statutory Independent review of whether a unsuccessful asylum seeker is fit to travel and be removed 

h)       Introduction of a Complimentary Protection Model 

i)         Expedite the processing of offshore family applications for former TPV and THV holders 

j)         Humane repatriation of unsuccessful asylum seekers 

k)        Creation and adherence to gender, credibility and sexuality guidelines in the assessing of refugee claims 

l)         Access to settlement programs and services during the refugee determination process 

m)      No more politicizing and demonizing of asylum seekers in the language used by Government.  

n)       Dealing with the legacy cases of the Howard Government 

o)       Review of judicial review options to provide broader grounds for review 

p)       Adhering to the spirit and intent of the Refugee Convention 

q)       Compensation for asylum seekers mistreated in our detention centers 

r)        Addressing the plight of asylum seekers stranded in Lombok 

s)       No separation of asylum seekers from Australian resident partners/children 

t)        Adhere to our legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture and the Convention on the Rights of the Child