People Seeking Asylum in Australia

The Society calls for:

• a safety net for asylum seekers and a fairer process for all affected by the unjust fast track process.
• resettlement of all people still subject to offshore processing and people held in PNG and Nauru immediately moved to Australia while they await resettlement.
• legislation to make immigration detention a last resort, limited to a maximum of 90 days, and improvements to the living conditions of those that must be detained for security reasons.
• increases to the annual humanitarian intake to at least 27,000 places by 2027-28, increases to the community support program to an additional 10,000 places, acceptance of refugees in Southeast Asian countries within these increased intakes and a reformed family reunion process.
• a Royal Commission into immigration detention both offshore and onshore.

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