The ASRC is calling on the Albanese Government to restore safety nets for people seeking asylum in the #Budget – starting with urgent investment in social support and ensuring people have the rights to work, study and access medical care.

asrc.org.au/2024/05/09/tho…

It's time to # #KillTheBill #RefugeesWelcome Come to the rally on Saturday! # #EnoughIsEnough

Big shoutout to Dean Ball located in Bruny Island, Hobart! Dean has already raised over $4k in 4 years towards the ASRC. Dean regularly turns out at the Lunawanna Makers and Producers Market, after having foraged her garden to make the produce that she sells in support of ASRC.

SNAP ACTION TOMORROW

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“The overall result rubs salt in the wounds of migrant and affected communities who engaged with in the inquiry in the hope their representatives would listen” ⁦UNSW Kaldor Centre⁩

The government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its deportation bill. theconversation.com/the-government…

.Jana Favero 🇮🇹⚽️ from @asrc1 described the Labor senator’s report as a disgrace. “It’s outrageous and undemocratic that the government members of the Senate committee have turned their back on the overwhelming evidence and opposition to this bill”

smh.com.au/politics/feder…

Senate report on controversial migration/depotation bill is out - Greens note basically all submissions were against it

David Shoebridge says govt is 'monumentally out of touch with the public. This is an unprecedented level of rejection' - compares to White Australia policy

#breaking the High Court will deliver judgment in the ASF17 case at 10am on Friday.

Case concerns whether govt must release people from immigration detention who can't be deported even if their non-cooperation is partly to blame.

Could trigger release of 170+ in detention.

Good.
Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) will appeal an anti-discrimination decision that ordered the museum to allow men entry to its women-only Ladies Lounge.

theguardian.com/culture/articl…

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200 women leaders including from business, unions, philanthropy, academia and the community sector have written to Prime Minister urging him to provide economic security for women leaving violence by raising the rate of Jobseeker & Youth Allowance.

.Kon Karapanagiotidis said it shows 'how populist and broken the immigration system is, that it takes something like this for someone to actually get a fair go in process'
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Talking with Labor supporters and we are hearing over and over that they don’t know that the Government is planning to give unprecedented powers to one minister to control the lives of asylum seekers. 🚩