A young woman known to BASP since she arrived in Melbourne has just completed a degree in Biomedical Science. She has academically excelled. She arrived in Australia seeking asylum when she was 15 years old and is now looking for work in a science/medical related...
Australia declared in 2013 that asylum seekers who arrive by boat would never settle here. Hundreds of people’s lives are still on hold to prove that point. Read more
There are fears a more than fourfold increase in the cost of bringing a migration case before the Federal Circuit Court (FCC) will undermine refugees and asylum seekers’ access to justice. The Law Council of Australia (LCA) and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre...
Last month Rana and her family received news from the Department of Home Affairs announcing they were being moved out of community detention and placed onto final departure bridging visas — giving them six months to leave the country. Read more
WITH INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL severely limited, the Department of Home Affairs appears to at last be making some slow progress in processing the application backlog associated with Australia’s fifth and largest ever wave of asylum seekers. Read more
The acting immigration minister, Alan Tudge, has launched an appeal against a federal court judgment that accused him of engaging in criminal conduct by refusing to free an asylum seeker. Tudge was the subject of the scathing ruling after he failed to...
