Refugee Update
Jul. 22nd, 2018 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyIt's been five years since offshore detention was revived. An opinion piece in the SMH lauds the resilience of asylum seekers in the face of everything. The Refugee Council of Australia has a snapshot of the current numbers.
Call for doctors to help looming asylum seeker mental health crisis (SMH, 22 July 2018). Up to 7000 asylum seekers living in Australia will lose income support in August. Many are too ill to work. The Cabrini Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub assists people facing serious mental health issues, chronic pain, and homelessness, amongst other issues. Donations are tax-deductible.
The Asylum Seeker Resources Centre is helping asylum seekers denied access to Medicare get up to date on their vaccinations. Donations to the ASRC are tax-deductible too.
1600 asylum claims could be reopened due to poorly drafted regulation (GA, 21 July 2018). The Ashmore Reef was incorrectly excised from Australia's "migration zone" sixteen years ago. That means that asylum seekers who arrived there and were denied the right to apply for refugee status might now be able to do so, as well as suing the government for unlawful detention. Give 'em hell, folks.
In family separation news, a Tamil asylum seeker, Thileepan Gnaneswaran, has been deported back to Sri Lanka, leaving his wife and daughter in Australia. Bureaucratic rules make it unlikely they'll be able to see each other again. Thileepan was arrested on his arrival in Sri Lanka but was subsequently released on bailed. He was charged with illegally leaving the country.
Aussie expats join forces in Ads Up group to help refugees find their feet in the US (ABC, 19 July 2018). I'd like to think this is who we really are.
Call for doctors to help looming asylum seeker mental health crisis (SMH, 22 July 2018). Up to 7000 asylum seekers living in Australia will lose income support in August. Many are too ill to work. The Cabrini Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub assists people facing serious mental health issues, chronic pain, and homelessness, amongst other issues. Donations are tax-deductible.
The Asylum Seeker Resources Centre is helping asylum seekers denied access to Medicare get up to date on their vaccinations. Donations to the ASRC are tax-deductible too.
1600 asylum claims could be reopened due to poorly drafted regulation (GA, 21 July 2018). The Ashmore Reef was incorrectly excised from Australia's "migration zone" sixteen years ago. That means that asylum seekers who arrived there and were denied the right to apply for refugee status might now be able to do so, as well as suing the government for unlawful detention. Give 'em hell, folks.
In family separation news, a Tamil asylum seeker, Thileepan Gnaneswaran, has been deported back to Sri Lanka, leaving his wife and daughter in Australia. Bureaucratic rules make it unlikely they'll be able to see each other again. Thileepan was arrested on his arrival in Sri Lanka but was subsequently released on bailed. He was charged with illegally leaving the country.
Aussie expats join forces in Ads Up group to help refugees find their feet in the US (ABC, 19 July 2018). I'd like to think this is who we really are.
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