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4 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY TO CAPP 2022 #Sydney! 🗣️ The ASRC’s Community, Advocacy and Power Program is a 3 month intensive training, designed to equip people with lived experience of seeking asylum with important leadership skills. ✊ Apply by Wed 7 Sept 👉 asrc.org.au/community-advo

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A reminder there's still 210+ refugees detained in PNG & Nauru. Men who've now entered 10th year of despair & detention. We again call on Albanese Gov to evacuate the men to Australia until they can be safely resettled. Act now👉 action.asrc.org.au/evacuate-png-n

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Albanese Government inherited a broken system built on punishing refugees instead of protecting them. Leaving many without work rights was at the heart of dehumanising and erasing them from our view. This government has a burning platform right now to #LetThemWork. #skillssummit

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COVID pandemic drives higher cancer, dementia and diabetes death rates

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Australia recorded above-average numbers of deaths from cancer, dementia and diabetes in the first five months of the year, as widespread coronavirus infections increased fatalities from other causes.

theage.com.au

There were 75,593 deaths across Australia between January and May this year. The figure was 10,757 (or 16.6 per cent) higher than the average over the previous five years.

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Sutton warns COVID isolation ‘critical’ as Perrottet pushes for it to be scrapped

Sep 3

In his written advice to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Professor Brett Sutton warned that COVID-19 “remains a serious risk to health” and counselled against ending the pandemic declaration under which the state can order citizens to isolate

theage.com.au

Victoria’s chief health officer has warned against ending mandatory COVID-19 isolation, but NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet wants it abolished.

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We are overwhelmed right now at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre with 1000s of people seeking asylum in need of food, emergency housing or financial aid. What they all share in common is they have no right to work despite being lawfully here. #LetThemWork #JobsSummit

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Just remembered to limit who can reply to save myself from a day of anti vaxxers who think doctors are trying to harm them by keeping them safe from the leading cause of death in Australia.

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I feel like a broken record, like Australia has moved on and yet years from now the toll of what is happening now will be grieved and we will ask “how did we allow this” (well I hope at least). Today we will pass 14,000 deaths due to COVID, remember when 1 was too many. Mask😷up

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Ohio 5th Graders Annoyed That Friend Forced To Give Birth Only Talks About Baby Stuff Now bit.ly/3KHrFBC

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There’s approximately 80,000 refugees or people seeking asylum on temporary visas in Australia. All excluded from University & Apprenticeships. Thousands denied work rights. During a labor crisis. Asylum seekers allowed to work face barriers with only 6 mth visas. #JobsSummit

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Albanese Government inherited a broken system built on punishing refugees instead of protecting them. Leaving many without work rights was at the heart of dehumanising and erasing them from our view. This government has a burning platform right now to #LetThemWork. #skillssummit

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There’s approximately 80,000 refugees or people seeking asylum on temporary visas in Australia. All excluded from University & Apprenticeships. Thousands denied work rights. During a labor crisis. Asylum seekers allowed to work face barriers with only 6 mth visas. #JobsSummit

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We have a #JobsSummit on to tackle catastrophic skills shortages in our country. Yet there’s thousands of people seeking asylum here now & able right now to help fill these shortages, yet forbidden still from working by ALP Gov & forced to turn to charity instead. #LetThemWork.

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We have a job crisis in Australia. Yet at the #skillsummit there’s been nothing on the facts we have tens of thousands of refugees and people seeking asylum who could help fill these shortages but can’t because we either won’t let them work or go to university to get those skills

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lavender baj

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big day for realising that men on this website have no fucking idea how consent works, huh?

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I know Albanese Gov inherited a broken & cruel refugee system and it will take time to fix it all. However, giving all people seeking asylum the right to work doesn’t take time. It needs no new laws. No budget for it. Just some leadership to show change is happening #JobsSummit

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I’m calling on the Albanese Government to provide work rights to all people seeking asylum for the duration of the refugee application processing time. No cost measure for government✔️ Will fill 1000s of jobs in urgent need of filling ✔️ A net benefit to economy✔️ #JobsSummit

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The economic impact of letting people seeking asylum work: 75% of people we placed into work at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (when allowed to work) were in industries the National Skills Commission identified as having significant vacancies. #JobsSummit #LetThemWork

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Did you know young people we’ve accepted as refugees from places like Afghanistan are doing their year 12 and based on grades could do their dream course, filling critical skills shortages at same time. But NONE will see University. Why? Because of their temp visa. #JobsSummit

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Sydney WorldPride 2023

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Conference Scholarships - Sydney WorldPride 2023

Applications are now open for the Human Rights Conference Scholarships Program! LGBTQIA+ activists in Australia and across the globe are being given the chance to attend the Sydney WorldPride Human Rights Conference for free. Head here to apply:

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Sydney WorldPride Scholarship Program Sydney WorldPride wants to make sure that LGBTQIA+ people from around the world can attend the Sydney WorldPride Human Rights Conference, regardless of their...

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RACS

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Work With Us & Volunteer — RACS | Refugee Advice & Casework Service

RACS is on the lookout for a dedicated solicitor to join our committed legal team. This role will focus on supporting LGBTQIA+ people seeking protection. More information here: loom.ly/IdCPpto #WorkWithUs #LGBTQIA+

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The Albanese Government took to the last election a commitment to grant permanent visas to all these refugees. We again call on them to announce now when this will happen. The refugee community cannot endure another week of uncertainty and a life in limbo.

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Which requires them to pay astronomical overseas student fee rates to go to uni. They are our future. Young people who one day will have to be granted citizenship and right now we are forsaking a whole generation. For what purpose? #LetThemStudy

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Did you know young people we’ve accepted as refugees from places like Afghanistan are doing their year 12 and based on grades could do their dream course, filling critical skills shortages at same time. But NONE will see University. Why? Because of their temp visa. #JobsSummit

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I know Albanese Gov inherited a broken & cruel refugee system and it will take time to fix it all. However, giving all people seeking asylum the right to work doesn’t take time. It needs no new laws. No budget for it. Just some leadership to show change is happening #JobsSummit

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People seeking asylum want to do an honest days work. They want to support their families. They want to pay taxes. They want to give back. They don’t want to rely on charity. Yet Fed Gov policy forces them onto it & then blames them for it. #LetThemWork #JobsSummit

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I’m calling on the Albanese Government to provide work rights to all people seeking asylum for the duration of the refugee application processing time. No cost measure for government✔️ Will fill 1000s of jobs in urgent need of filling ✔️ A net benefit to economy✔️ #JobsSummit

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The economic impact of letting people seeking asylum work: 75% of people we placed into work at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (when allowed to work) were in industries the National Skills Commission identified as having significant vacancies. #JobsSummit #LetThemWork

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We are overwhelmed right now at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre with 1000s of people seeking asylum in need of food, emergency housing or financial aid. What they all share in common is they have no right to work despite being lawfully here. #LetThemWork #JobsSummit

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We have a #JobsSummit on to tackle catastrophic skills shortages in our country. Yet there’s thousands of people seeking asylum here now & able right now to help fill these shortages, yet forbidden still from working by ALP Gov & forced to turn to charity instead. #LetThemWork.

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A reminder there's still 210+ refugees detained in PNG & Nauru. Men who've now entered 10th year of despair & detention. We again call on Albanese Gov to evacuate the men to Australia until they can be safely resettled. Act now👉 action.asrc.org.au/evacuate-png-n

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Dr Monique Ryan MP

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Labor urged to improve work rights for people on bridging visas amid skilled migration push

There are almost 60 000 people in Australia on bridging visas, and another 20 000 on TPVs/SHEVs .. at a time of near-universal workforce shortages, why not take a practical approach and grant them all the ability to work? It’s in all our best interests.

theguardian.com

Call comes as one government MP says jobs summit focus must not detract from dealing with massive backlog of humanitarian visas

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There’s no point where a man “loses control” and has to rape or kill a woman. All there is is some pathetic entitled small man who thinks he has the right to treat women like property so they can feel powerful & in control. It’s a choice abusive men make. A choice.

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Male entitlement and misogyny and a man named Chris #Dawson killed Lynette not some school girl. JFC.

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Al Paton

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does amazing work, chip in to help here asrc.org.au/donate/

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‘Worse than last year’: worker shortages bite again in the agriculture sector

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Nabi Baqiri estimates he could employ another 50 workers at his Goulburn Valley orchards and he desperately hopes they are Afghan refugees, just like himself.

theage.com.au

The agriculture industry employs about 242,000 people, but last week a group of industry bodies, the Food Supply Chain Alliance, reported more than 172,000 extra workers were needed.

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