Welcome changes lives. Hear from our community member Adrita* about how kindness and support helped her find hope in a new place.
https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/adritas-story-not-everyone-is-as-welcoming-as-you/
On 5 March, we’re turning up the volume on something powerful: welcome 💙
This Giving Day, every donation to the Asylum Seekers Centre will be MATCHED - doubling your impact and doubling your welcome ✨
Choose welcome in action: https://loom.ly/QOEa5O4
*Sweaty* solidarity indeed! Thank you for showing up, rolling up your sleeves, and sending a message of care and welcome 💙
My amazing team showed up (with some smaller ring-ins) together with @jennyleong.bsky.social and all the crew from the ASC. Restoring the mural, cleaning back graffiti and making connections to support friends and neighbours who are here seeking asylum and protection.
Was great to be out this morning at the Asylum Seeker Centre in Newtown cleaning up their beautiful welcoming mural. Lovely community action, sharing care and time together. Sweaty solidarity!
Torture. Ill-treatment. A breach on international obligations.
It’s time to end Australia's cruel detention policies and deliver justice, protection, and dignity for people seeking asylum.
Read more on the findings of the the UN committee against torture via The Guardian: https://loom.ly/9GgdLjA
Poverty is not accidental - it's enforced by policy.
Many people seeking asylum are denied work, support, and certainty.
This is a systemic failure and it must change.
Read our report on this failure of fairness and why we must fix the safety net: https://loom.ly/57QzZIw
ICYMI: This week we marked Human Rights Day.
Australians helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but today our country's treatment of people seeking asylum tells a very different story.
It’s time to course-correct.
Read our Advocacy Lead's latest blog 👉 https://loom.ly/Iw1u8pw
🙌🏼 Stick up for human rights 🙌🏼
Grab your FREE “Seeking asylum is a human right” sticker and stand for humanity, compassion, and justice.
Help spread the message far and wide and be part of the Asylum Seekers Centre community today.
👉 Join now https://loom.ly/SZ2rmmo
👏 FACT: Seeking asylum is a human right 👏
This Human Rights Day, stand for humanity, compassion, and justice.
Join our community and grab your FREE “Seeking asylum is a human right” sticker to help spread the message far and wide.
👉Stick up for human rights now: https://loom.ly/SZ2rmmo
In a cruel system that crushes people seeking asylum, your humanity, compassion, and action can rebuild lives.
Please donate today.
💙 https://loom.ly/q6a6YYs 💙
Today on #InternationalVolunteerDay, we honour our humanity heroes who make the ASC a place of welcome: our volunteers💙
From healthcare to employment, volunteers ease the burdens people seeking asylum are forced to carry and help build a fairer Australia.
Read more: https://loom.ly/tMMvv14
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we stand with women and girls everywhere, especially those seeking safety from persecution and conflict.
Read more about Rosalie's story: https://loom.ly/V7_K8yI
Sudan’s suffering cannot remain unseen.
In her article for Pearls & Irritations, Abang Anade Othow reflects on a lifetime shaped by war, displacement, and resilience.
Read the full piece and stand with Sudan.
https://loom.ly/eNsen1M
In a system designed to crush people seeking asylum with cruelty, the Asylum Seekers Centre in Sydney pushes back with humanity and compassion.
Join us in rebuilding lives.
🔗 https://loom.ly/vy5fYVc
“It’s not just hardship - it’s the slow breaking of people’s spirits."
So what is the SRSS program? Why has it been gutted? And how has this created a poverty crisis for people seeking asylum.
👀 All the answers in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/srss-the-gutted-lifeline/
The first person from the NZYQ cohort has been deported to Nauru under the new anti-fairness laws.
The Asylum Seekers Centre stands against this unjust policy.
Our response must be to protect fairness and justice in Australia - for refugees, people seeking asylum, and on behalf of all.
We’re here in Canberra for two days to call for a safety net for people seeking asylum.
It’s time for fairness 📣 ⚖️
Great to have @davidshoebridge.bsky.social visit the Asylum Seekers Centre this week and chat with our CEO Elijah about the challenges people seeking asylum face, including the broken safety net.
Conversations like this help move things forward to build a fairer system that leaves no one behind.
This Anti-Poverty Week, we can’t ignore the quiet crisis happening in our own communities.
Our new report, Failure of Fairness, reveals the human cost of the winding back of the limited safety net for people seeking asylum over the past decade.
Read the full report: https://loom.ly/57QzZIw
Right now, people seeking asylum are being left behind, cut off from the basic support they need to survive.
This Anti-Poverty Week, let's put fairness into action and restore the safety net.
📢 Visit our campaign page and join the movement: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/fix-the-safety-net/
Our CEO Elijah Buol took to the TEDXQUT stage to share a powerful message on hope, resilience, and the human spirit.
His story is a reminder that even in our darkest moments, hope is a force that can lead us forward.
Watch the full talk and be inspired.
https://loom.ly/NPDdC20
On this #InternationalDayofPeace, we share the words of Yusra Mardini.
With demonisation and fear growing, now’s the time to stand up for the dignity, protection, and peace every person seeking asylum deserves.
It's time for the federal government, states and territories to enact laws that enshrine housing as a human right.
And we must see people seeking asylum included because access to public housing should be based on degree of need, not visa status.
https://loom.ly/a_OukCk
Forced to flee for her activism, Rosalie arrived in Australia with nothing.
Today, she’s training, working, and speaking out.
Her story is powerful, necessary, and full of purpose.
👉 Read Rosalie’s story now in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/blog-rosalie/
Here at the Asylum Seekers Centre we will make our voices louder and refuse to be sidelined in shaping Australia’s human rights agenda - with you by our side.
Stand with us for people seeking asylum.
👉 asylumseekerscentre.org.au/donate
The Albanese government's Anti-Fairness Bill, which will pave the way for mass deportations, has passed the Senate.
We are devastated and in disbelief.
https://loom.ly/2v-GSD8
Thank you again @davidshoebridge.bsky.social for representing the serious concerns of the community.
Mohammad, who has been held on Nauru for over a year, says "our situation here is very, very hard... people are sick, people are distressed because we don't know what our future will be, what will happen to our lives".
This is the human cost of policy.
https://loom.ly/AeOK1go
The government tried to shut us out, but grateful to @davidshoebridge.bsky.social for representing the serious concerns of the community.
Read the submission we weren't permitted to submit ourselves: https://loom.ly/sFtqGJ8
