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Within this site's resource pages you'll find information to help inform you about all the issues facing asylum seekers and the current asylum seeker debate. Our "learn more" section provides a range of valuable resources for the general community, students, concerned citizens, the media, refugee advocates, health professionals and for people seeking asylum. Look around…

Where can I find out more about what is happening recently?  I'd like to find more information about what I am reading in the paper, watching on the TV and hearing on the readio.  Do you have up to date information?

Click here to read our lastest mythbuster on offshore processing.  Or our latest mythbuster on people smuggling.  Click here to read all about our current community processing campaign. Click here to read Chillout's June 2011 report into conditions facing children in detention on Christmas Island and click here to visit our campaign page with updated information on children in detention.
 
Please read our latest mythbuster focusing on the Villawood Detention Centre (PDF 95.8 KB), our latest press release on the inhumanity of mandatory detention or our latest fact sheet on the Temporary Protection Visas proposed by Minister Bowen recently.
Click here to read former prime minister (and ASRC Patron) Malcolm Fraser's Australian Refugee Association Oration, delivered in Adelaide on Friday June 24th outlining how Australia can solve its asylum seeker 'problem'.
 

I've heard that asylum seekers receive centrelink, are illegal & jump queues and I want to know how to respond.  Where can I get this info?

Check our our one page mythbuster.

Check out our Myth Busters Summary Sheet.
 

I want to learn more about asylum seekers. 
Where can I get more info?

Check out our Comprehensive Myth Busters Fact Sheets giving information about asylum seekers and refugees.

Check out the 'Guide to asylum seeker access to health and community services in Victoria' below for a comprehensive overview as to what asylum seekers can access in Victoria.

I'd like to learn more about how I can help asylum seekers in Australia.
 

Keep up to date with our Current Campaigns and regularly read the ASRC blog. You might also like to check out our 10 Things You Can Do page and our statistics page.

How many children are in immigration detention? 
Where can I get the latest statistics?

Visit our statistics page or view the DIAC (Department of Immigration And Citizenship) website.

How can I keep up to date with information regarding asylum seekers?
 

Stay informed by signing up to the ASRC's regular enewsletter or check out what events are coming up.

Additional Resources

Kon Karapanagiotidis in The Zone (SMH)

Kon Karapanagiotidis of the ASRC talks with Michael Short in The Zone

In this interview with Michael Short, Kon talks about Refugee week; why our country has lost its way completely on refugees; why there are votes in being involved in a "race to the bottom"; whether Australia is a racist society; the truth about so-called queue-jumpers; some facts and figures; the fact that neither of the major parties gives a damn about refugees; how Australians have de-humanised refugees and distanced themselves from their plight; how the community needs to mobilise to help refugees; plus a little about Kon himself and some of his personal stories concerning refugees.

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Keeping Things Simple

8-Bit Immigration (HUNGRY BEAST) from Elmo Keep on Vimeo, or here - from youtube.