Public Meeting: ASIO Assessments: Leaving Refugees in Limbo
6.30pm Wed July 11, The Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne 3000. Speakers include Julian Burnside, Niromi de Soyza, Harvey Stern
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Resolution at Victorian ALP State Conference calls for appeal process for asylum seekers with adverse security assessments
Urgency Motion: Rights of Appeal to adverse ASIO security decisions for Refugees & Asylum Seekers in indefinite detention. The lack of appeal rights and merits review of refugees with adverse ASIO assessment decisions means genuine refugees, men, women and children, are caught in a legal black hole. They are effectively facing incarceration for the rest of their lives, simply for seeking protection as refugees in Australia. Independent review and appeal are basic principles of modern justice. ASIO, like all decision…