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Your donation this festive season helps refugees and people seeking asylum access food, healthcare, housing and legal support when they have nowhere else to turn.
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Help ensure refugees and people seeking asylum don’t go without life’s essentials during this time of celebration and togetherness.
More than 1,200 people rely on the ASRC Foodbank every month. With no income support and no access to safety nets, your donation ensures families and individuals can access nutritious food and basic necessities.
You can donate in person at our festive season drop-off.
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 26 November The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is calling for a Royal Commission into offshore processing following explosive revelations in Parliament late last night that prove the Australian Government has known for years about suspected corruption involving senior Nauruan officials. The report shows they knew of the corruption allegations before signing
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MEDIA RELEASE Monday 24 November The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is calling on the Albanese Government to explain why it has been hiding the contents of a newly released English transcript of a February 17 interview with Nauruan President David Adeang, in an extraordinary example of their ongoing secrecy about the billions in taxpayer
Read moreThe Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is demanding answers from the Albanese Government following explosive new whistleblower revelations aired on 60 Minutes tonight, exposing corruption, cover-ups and criminal infiltration at the heart of Australia’s offshore detention regime. A senior Home Affairs official, Dr Derek Elias, has risked jail to speak out about systemic rorting and
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Human rights organisations have condemned the Albanese Government’s first deportation to Nauru under its new secret offshore deal, calling it a shameful breach of Australia’s values of fairness, equality and justice. This is the first known deportation under the Government’s recently expanded Nauru regime – a secretive and multi-billion-dollar arrangement that allows people to be
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The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is proud to have been named on Diversity Council Australia (DCA)’s annual list of Inclusive Employers for 2025-2026. The announcement follows ASRC’s participation in the DCA and Diversity Atlas run Inclusive Employer Index, an in-depth workplace survey that measures employee diversity and inclusion experiences against the Australian workforce and
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As part of our End of Year Appeal, we’re sharing how the ASRC’s wrap-around support helps people seeking asylum move from surviving to thriving. Fatima* arrived in Australia on a tourist visa from Iran, with her husband, her three-year-old daughter, and expecting another child. As her husband’s behaviour became increasingly violent and coercive, Fatima made
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On 20 November, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) stands in solidarity with trans and gender-diverse communities to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) – a day to honour the lives lost to anti-trans violence and to reaffirm our shared commitment to justice and safety for all. First observed in 1999, TDoR was founded to
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This World Kindness Day, we’re celebrating two ASRC volunteers whose compassion goes the distance – literally. Long-serving volunteers Andrew Trembath and Mike Scheidlinger recently took on an incredible 80km ride from Lilydale to Warburton and back, combining their love of cycling with a shared commitment to kindness, community and giving back. Their ride was held
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