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 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 27,000 by 2025-26, increases to the community support program to 10,000, acceptance of refugees in Southeast Asian countries within these increased intakes and a reformed family reunion process
• a parliamentary inquiry into immigration detention both offshore and onshore starting in 2023

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