Asylum seekers
Alternative labels
Refugee status determination
Asylum seekers policy
Article
Time’s up for this failed experiment
The creation of the Department of Home Affairs broke the rules of good government. Labor should commit to dismantling it, suggests Paddy Gourley.
Fact sheet
Fact Check: Could Richard Di Natale and Bob Brown act as medical advisers on the transfer of refugees under proposed legislation?
As the Government seeks to prevent the passage of the so-called "medevac bill", Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has questioned the influence medical practitioners would have in deciding to transfer sick refugees to Australia for treatment, suggesting t
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People from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds: an open access annotated bibliography
This open access annotated bibliography has been curated by a collective of scholars who share an interest in the impacts of forced migration on people from refugee, asylum seeking and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) migrant backgrounds.
Report
Building bridges to work
The Given the Chance for Asylum Seekers program acted as a ‘bridge’ to employment for asylum seekers, circumventing some of the challenges of constrained visa conditions and barriers in mainstream recruitment. This final report examines the employment trajectories of program participants.
Report
Path to nowhere: women on temporary visas experiencing violence and their children
This report draws from data collected by an online survey which was developed for service providers to submit data on women with worked with or who sought assistance from them during the month of August 2018.