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Service Update: From 4 May 2026, social services at Dandenong will move to our Footscray Centre. Members can continue accessing support at Footscray. Visit the Get Help section to see available services. Foodbank, employment services, and English classes at Dandenong will continue as normal.
This winter, families seeking asylum are being forced to turn off heaters, skip meals and go without essential care.
With no safety net and rising living costs, many are struggling to stay warm and housed.
Your support can provide practical relief, including food, healthcare and warm woollen blankets, so families like Mina’s can get through winter safely and with dignity.
The event catering options from ASRC Catering are heavily influenced by flavours from Africa, the Middle East and Southern Asia and can be packaged to suit your event.
Choose from an array of small and large dishes, from hot and cold canapés to hearty curries and sweet treats.
Let our experienced team design a menu to suit your event and budget.
In the final parliamentary week of 2024, three significant migration amendments were passed, introducing sweeping changes that expand the government’s power over immigration processes. These laws affect the detention, removal, and entry conditions for migrants and refugees. Key impacts include stricter detention measures, broader powers to confiscate personal items, and the potential for entire nations to be designated as banned from entering Australia.
Media Release, Wednesday 24 June 2026 A new United Nations report has confirmed that under international law, Australia cannot avoid legal responsibility for the people it sends offshore by outsourcing its obligations to Nauru, private contractors or international organisations. The report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants states that governments
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Media Release, Wednesday 10 June 2026 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre has welcomed today’s High Court decision in Abdel-Hady v Commonwealth of Australia, saying it is a significant outcome for people who have been unlawfully detained and are still living with the consequences of Australia’s harmful immigration detention regime. The High Court today rejected the
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Amyl and the Sniffers, Clare Bowditch, Paul Dempsey, Lizzy Hoo, Tom Ballard, Leila Gurruwiwi, lehmo, Tarang Chawla, and more come together around countless stories to raise funds for World Refugee Day Telethon, powered by the ASRC Melbourne, AUSTRALIA: This World Refugee Day, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is celebrating “25 years. Countless Stories. One
Read moreMedia Release, Thursday 4 June 2026 Following today’s revelations that people overseeing Nauru deportations have made serious threats of physical violence against migrants and refugees, the Albanese Government must immediately halt all deportations and end its deal with Nauru, which threatens the lives and safety of hundreds. Earlier today, Andrew Wilkie MP read a statement
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On 10 June 2026, the High Court handed down the decision of Abdel-Hady v Commonwealth of Australia [2026] HCA 17. It is an important decision that leaves the Commonwealth open to tort and damages claims from people who have been indefinitely and unlawful detained in onshore immigration detention. Background Abdel-Hady is an unlawful non-citizen who
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Senada Suljagic’s connection to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) stretches back 25 years to the early days of the organisation, when it operated out of a small, hole-in-the-wall shop in Footscray. Senada recently attended a fundraising dinner at the ASRC where it is now, across the road from that little shop, and when she
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Six months ago, Mina arrived in Australia from Iran with her two children, Lila and Omid. She brought almost nothing with her, just one suitcase and the weight of a future she was trying to rebuild. “I still carry the feeling that those goodbyes may not be temporary,” Mina wrote. “We packed one suitcase and
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This National Volunteer Week, we’re celebrating the people who have helped shape the ASRC community over the past 25 years. Volunteers have always been at the heart of the ASRC. Long before the organisation grew into what it is today, volunteers were answering phones, welcoming people through the doors, packing food parcels and helping create
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