Resources
Powerpoint presentation
A regularly updated Powerpoint presentation is available as a community education tool. We can also provide you with support and training.
Email here for more information.
The costs of current refugee policy
This paper examines the economic costs to Australia of the current incarcerations and restrictions on those refugees and asylum seekers on Temporary Protections Visas (TPVs), Safe Haven Enterprise Visas (SHEVs) and Bridging Visas (BVEs) and Transitory Persons.
It further outlines the way these visa holders can, relatively seamlessly, be transferred to Permanent Visas with particular short-term emphasis on the granting of universal work rights for them and the provision of humanitarian support to facilitate their study and training where needed.
The granting of universal work rights to the legacy caseload and transitory persons at a time of labour shortages in Australia will, in addition to saving costs, go some way to providing ready workers. Most of these people are of working age and many have experience in some key labour shortage categories.
Taking action on the requests of this Grandmothers for Refugees paper would help align Australia’s refugee policy and practices with our international obligations and traditions. Read here
A4 poster
We have produced a poster to be put on noticeboards.
Please upload the A4 file, and print copies at home.
Submissions
>> Grandmothers for Refugees Submission to Senate Committee Inquiry into Migration Act Amendment (Prohibited Items) ie mobile phones.
To track progress, read here
>> Grandmothers for Refugees Submission to Migration Amendment Act (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023.
>> Submissions to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights from Grandmothers for Refugees.
Federal MPs and Senators
Find an address for your local Federal MP and Senators. Read here
Parliamentary Friends of Refugees
Australian Refugee Action Network (ARAN) letter-writing kit
View kit here. Included in this kit is the information you need to create your own letters or use the proformas.
Rights and Conventions
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
About Children’s Rights
The 1951 Refugee Convention