THE Royal Women’s Hospital, Monash University, Ambulance Victoria, and The University of New South Wales have appeared on a list of health and education institutions involved in refugee detention supply chains. The list was released recently online by RISE: Refugees, Survivors and…
The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) has written to five State Premiers to warn them to prepare for the Federal Government’s latest move to strip financial assistance from more than 500 refugees and people seeking asylum previously transferred from Papua New Guinea…
New research released last week indicates that excluding refugees and people seeking asylum from financial support could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and exacerbate the nation’s health and homelessness crises.…
Sunday July 19 marked seven years since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that people seeking asylum, arriving by boat, will never be settled in Australia and would be processed offshore. Refugee advocate groups report that, as a result of the offshore detention…