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• • 18 APR 24
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  Labor under pressure as Parliamentary Human Rights Committee berates brutal bill

  MEDIA RELEASE: Widespread pressure continues to build against Labor’s brutal Entry Ban and Deportation Bill, with the latest criticisms descending from Parliament’s own Human Rights Scrutiny Report released yesterday. The report produced by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, and chaired by ALP MP Josh Burns, confirms Labor’s Bill currently limits several fundamental human rights including the

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• • 15 APR 24
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  Labor’s Trump-like Bill unfairly punishes families, refugees and people seeking asylum

  MEDIA RELEASE: ASRC will join refugee human rights lawyers giving evidence today in opposition to Labor’s Entry Ban and Deportation Bill at the one-day Senate hearing in Canberra. The Bill, which unfairly punishes refugees, migrant families and people seeking asylum, was road-blocked at the Senate for an inquiry after Labor attempted to ram the Bill

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• • 10 APR 24
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  Isolation and desperation on Nauru: “I miss my family, I want to get out of here”

  MEDIA RELEASE: A group of 39 people seeking asylum forced to Nauru after arriving in Beagle Bay (WA) in February have made contact with the ASRC, reporting significant distress, emerging mental health issues and suicidal thoughts as they are confronted with indefinite family separation and Australia’s cruel offshore detention regime. This follows reports a further

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• • 04 APR 24
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  FAQs on deportation and entry ban Bill

  What is the Bill about? On 26 March 2024, the Government introduced a Bill which provides the Minister for Immigration with new powers to force a person to cooperate with being deported from Australia. The Bill also allows the Minister for Immigration to prevent people from certain countries from entering Australia. The Bill has not

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• • 27 MAR 24
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  Labor’s rushed and ruthless laws delayed at Senate to make way for inquiry

  MEDIA RELEASE: The ASRC welcomes news the Albanese Government has been road-blocked in its attempts to ram new legislation through parliament that would see refugees and people seeking asylum face ruthless new deportation and entry ban laws.  Now delayed for six weeks to make way for an inquiry, refugees, human rights lawyers, advocates and the

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