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...
Will ending Melbourne’s lockdown trigger more of the refugee evictions initiated by the federal government? A crisis is hovering behind the scenes of Victoria’s much-anticipated release from pandemic lockdown. In suburbs around Melbourne, the longed-for announcement...
The St Mary’s BASP Trivia Night is on again this year but it’s online of course! The Trivia Night has been a fun community occasion for many years. COVID restrictions mean we can’t gather in the usual way, so this year will be online for the first time. We can still...
