Written by Claire O’Connor, Adelaide Barrister on 20 April 2022 on Facebook (shared here with her permission) Can candidates not say they support off-shore processing of asylum seekers? Can they be honest and say they support the detention of innocent asylum seekers – indefinitely – in conditions every human rights organisation nationally and international has said are cruel and dehumanising? Can …
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505 People still without lasting settlement option
From the Refugee Council of Australia Press Release from 24 March 2022 “Australians welcome NZ’s generosity to refugees in offshore processing“: “Of the 3,127 people sent to detention in Nauru and Manus Island in 2013 and 2014 under Australia’s offshore processing policy, around 1,384 people remain in Nauru, PNG and Australia. There are around 270 refugees with applications for the …
Volunteers needed to help newly arrived Afghanis settle into Adelaide
The Afghan Emergency Circle was set up to support newly arrived Afghans to settle into Adelaide. There is a lot to learn when moving into a new country, especially when faced with a different language and culture. We offer assistance in a number of ways from helping people make friends and community connections, finding work, learning to drive, balancing a …
Heartfelt thank you to all our donors
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who has responded so quickly and generously to the recent, urgent appeal by the Rapid Response Circle (110) to help meet basic living expenses of individuals and families at risk of homelessness, who were hungry and fearful of services being cut off after long extensions of final payment dates and without a clear path to survival. …
Further urgent funding needed for basic living costs
Circle of Friends is receiving increasing numbers of requests for basic living support for asylum seekers with no access to any form of social security and no employment (or insufficient employment to make ends meet). Circle 121 SOS for Asylum Seekers is now managing these requests and raising the necessary funds to ensure people do not end up homeless and …