Others among the homeless are asylum seekers who came to Australia in the hope of finding safety and a new home. After immigration detention, they are given no government supported accommodation while waiting for their claims to be determined, which can take years....
From November 2020 to November 2022, a violent war involving different Ethiopian and Tigrayan groups caused widespread deaths, devastation and destruction in my home region. Some say a million people died; international organisations say 600,000. Many in my family and...
June 20, 2025 Is this how we want our visa processing system to run? Two of the families RAR successfully settled in Australia were the result of extensive political lobbying. A retired government minister who asked RAR to sponsor the sister of one of his former...
As Australian Churches, we believe the Gospel calls us to welcome the stranger. That’s why churches across the country are standing up to say: It’s time to #EndTheWaiting. Starting 1 August 2025, a nationwide witness led by churches and people of faith will see...
LIVES ON HOLD: ‘Muru’ Asylum seekers are spending years in limbo as they wait for their claims to be processed. Muru (not his real name), a Sri Lankan national, was a young man of 25 when he arrived in Australia by boat. He had turned 40 by the time he was finally...
The Australian government has been strong in its position of compassion for vulnerable women and families in Afghanistan. There is a glaring disparity between this rhetoric and visa processing systems which deny humanitarian visas – despite ample evidence of the...
