Asylum Seeker Myth No 1: 'Boat People Are Queue Jumpers' The role of false beliefs in the community's and the federal government's attitudes toward Australian asylum seekers This aid is offered through the Asylum Seeker Assistance Scheme (ASAS). No work, no income, no Medicare--the Bridging...
By Anonymous A legal aid lawyer who specialises in asylum cases This story is so breathtaking that it sounds like an urban myth - but it isn't. An asylum seeker was appearing before a court recently to argue his case for being allowed to stay in this country. He had spent many hours...
“I thought we were just kind of holding it until someone else took it,” Bolerjack said. “No one’s taken it yet.” King County’s migrant and asylum-seeker crisis has continued to slowly grow over the last year,estimated...
All of the state money has to be spent by the end of June 2025. Many of the organizations contracted to help asylum-seekers already say they hope the state legislature will set aside more aid in next year’s budget. Some of that money has already...
100 Law Firms Milking Legal Aid in Asylum Seeker CasesDaily Mail (London)
When Javed Badyari was 19 years old, the prime minister at the time, Kevin Rudd, announced that no asylum-seeker who tried to reach Australia by boat would ever be allowed to settle in the country. In the years since then, Badyari, now 26, has studied medicine, moved from Sydney down...
Nick Nason, Director, Edgewater Legal I worked withMillaon the case of IEI a disabled asylum seeker who was facing homelessness over the Christmas and New Year Period. We worked over the holiday period as the Secretary of State had failed to comply with court orders to provided IEI with acc...
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The author contends that Britain's Home Office asylum system is corrupt, with applications prejudged and lawyers prevented from representing their clients properly. Many asylum-seeker cases fail because of poor or non-existent legal representation. Cuts in legal aid funding...
In a context where many observers question the weakening of the right to asylum under the weight of the demands of immigration policy, one might ask whether the increase in asylum seekers resorting to social assistance is yet another sign of the normalisation of the place asylum seeker at the ...