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Najeeba's story

Najeeba Wazefadost
“Leaving your country for good is one of the hardest decisions you can be forced to make.”
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Fact 1

Fact 1
It is not illegal to seek asylum in Australia, even if arriving by boat.

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Farida and Hussain's story

Hussain Dad
“My children are safe and we can finally sleep well for the whole night, without fear and bomb blasts.”
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fact 2

Fact 2
In Australia, there is 1.1 refugee for every 1,000 people.

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John's story

John Jegasothy
“I’m really concerned about the misconceptions about refugees coming to this country.”
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Fact 3

Fact 3
In 2010, 6,879 asylum seekers arrived in Australia. That’s only 6.8% of the seats in the MCG.
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Chaman's story

Chaman Shah Nasiri
“After I left, my father was tortured so badly he died in prison… The same would have happened to me.”
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Fact 4

Fact 4
Australian Centrelink benefits for an asylum seeker? $0.

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Ashane's story

Ashane
“We knew the boat would be very dangerous, but there was nothing else. Everything else was hopeless.”
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Fact 5

Fact 5
The number of refugees who have arrived by boat, and who have been terrorists? Zero.
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Dinh Tran’s story

Dinh Tran
“When we left, mum & dad had already accepted that we were all going to die. You risk everything on a boat.”
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Fact 6

Fact 6
In 2009, 8,427 sought asylum in Australia – compared to 45,197 in the United Kingdom.
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Without hope, without reason

14/01/2012

Published by The Sydney Morning Herald

“View the article”: http://www.smh.com.au/national/asio-blocks-child-refugee-on-security-grounds-20120103-1pjk3.html

The story said

Countless refugees, including children, who have been accepted as genuine refugees by the Australian Immigration Department, are being held indefinitely in dentention centres. This is due to an adverse ASIO decision. Ali Abbas, a minor, is a case in point. After being accepted as a legitimate refugee, a security assessment labelled him a security threat. Nonetheless, ASIO refuses to explain or even outline his charges. As a result, Ali Abbas cannot challenge the decision, and faces a lifetime imprisioned, as he cannot be sent home, is denied the right to live in the community, and the chances of being resettled in a third country are incredibly slim, due to ASIO’s negative decision.

Did you know

The Australian office for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has repeatedly questioned ASIO’s assessment methods, and has criticised many of their final decisions as “unwarranted”. According to the office’s own assessment, “refugees don’t reach ‘that serious level of threshold’ that would exclude a person from refugee protection on security grounds under the refugee convention”. Moreover, the UNHCR asserts that the Federal government should be more responsible in terms of overseeing ASIO, which was last independently reviewed in 1977. Several western countries such as Canada and Britian demostrate how to efficiently manage national security and classified information. As such, these countries have thus implemented security assessment reviewing mechanisms, in addition to providing the subject with an explaination of the charges.

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