Asylum Seekers Centre
@ascsyd.bsky.social
The Asylum Seekers Centre provides practical support and advocacy for people seeking asylum in Greater Sydney.
asylumseekerscentre.org.au
asylumseekerscentre.org.au
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we stand with women and girls everywhere, especially those seeking safety from persecution and conflict.
Read more about Rosalie's story: https://loom.ly/V7_K8yI
Read more about Rosalie's story: https://loom.ly/V7_K8yI
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we stand with women and girls everywhere, especially those seeking safety from persecution and conflict.
Read more about Rosalie's story: https://loom.ly/V7_K8yI
Read more about Rosalie's story: https://loom.ly/V7_K8yI
In a system designed to crush people seeking asylum with cruelty, the Asylum Seekers Centre in Sydney pushes back with humanity and compassion.
Join us in rebuilding lives.
🔗 https://loom.ly/vy5fYVc
Join us in rebuilding lives.
🔗 https://loom.ly/vy5fYVc
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
In a system designed to crush people seeking asylum with cruelty, the Asylum Seekers Centre in Sydney pushes back with humanity and compassion.
Join us in rebuilding lives.
🔗 https://loom.ly/vy5fYVc
Join us in rebuilding lives.
🔗 https://loom.ly/vy5fYVc
“It’s not just hardship - it’s the slow breaking of people’s spirits."
So what is the SRSS program? Why has it been gutted? And how has this created a poverty crisis for people seeking asylum.
👀 All the answers in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/srss-the-gutted-lifeline/
So what is the SRSS program? Why has it been gutted? And how has this created a poverty crisis for people seeking asylum.
👀 All the answers in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/srss-the-gutted-lifeline/
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“It’s not just hardship - it’s the slow breaking of people’s spirits."
So what is the SRSS program? Why has it been gutted? And how has this created a poverty crisis for people seeking asylum.
👀 All the answers in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/srss-the-gutted-lifeline/
So what is the SRSS program? Why has it been gutted? And how has this created a poverty crisis for people seeking asylum.
👀 All the answers in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/srss-the-gutted-lifeline/
The first person from the NZYQ cohort has been deported to Nauru under the new anti-fairness laws.
The Asylum Seekers Centre stands against this unjust policy.
Our response must be to protect fairness and justice in Australia - for refugees, people seeking asylum, and on behalf of all.
The Asylum Seekers Centre stands against this unjust policy.
Our response must be to protect fairness and justice in Australia - for refugees, people seeking asylum, and on behalf of all.
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The first person from the NZYQ cohort has been deported to Nauru under the new anti-fairness laws.
The Asylum Seekers Centre stands against this unjust policy.
Our response must be to protect fairness and justice in Australia - for refugees, people seeking asylum, and on behalf of all.
The Asylum Seekers Centre stands against this unjust policy.
Our response must be to protect fairness and justice in Australia - for refugees, people seeking asylum, and on behalf of all.
We’re here in Canberra for two days to call for a safety net for people seeking asylum.
It’s time for fairness 📣 ⚖️
It’s time for fairness 📣 ⚖️
October 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
We’re here in Canberra for two days to call for a safety net for people seeking asylum.
It’s time for fairness 📣 ⚖️
It’s time for fairness 📣 ⚖️
Great to have @davidshoebridge.bsky.social visit the Asylum Seekers Centre this week and chat with our CEO Elijah about the challenges people seeking asylum face, including the broken safety net.
Conversations like this help move things forward to build a fairer system that leaves no one behind.
Conversations like this help move things forward to build a fairer system that leaves no one behind.
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Great to have @davidshoebridge.bsky.social visit the Asylum Seekers Centre this week and chat with our CEO Elijah about the challenges people seeking asylum face, including the broken safety net.
Conversations like this help move things forward to build a fairer system that leaves no one behind.
Conversations like this help move things forward to build a fairer system that leaves no one behind.
This Anti-Poverty Week, we can’t ignore the quiet crisis happening in our own communities.
Our new report, Failure of Fairness, reveals the human cost of the winding back of the limited safety net for people seeking asylum over the past decade.
Read the full report: https://loom.ly/57QzZIw
Our new report, Failure of Fairness, reveals the human cost of the winding back of the limited safety net for people seeking asylum over the past decade.
Read the full report: https://loom.ly/57QzZIw
October 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This Anti-Poverty Week, we can’t ignore the quiet crisis happening in our own communities.
Our new report, Failure of Fairness, reveals the human cost of the winding back of the limited safety net for people seeking asylum over the past decade.
Read the full report: https://loom.ly/57QzZIw
Our new report, Failure of Fairness, reveals the human cost of the winding back of the limited safety net for people seeking asylum over the past decade.
Read the full report: https://loom.ly/57QzZIw
Right now, people seeking asylum are being left behind, cut off from the basic support they need to survive.
This Anti-Poverty Week, let's put fairness into action and restore the safety net.
📢 Visit our campaign page and join the movement: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/fix-the-safety-net/
This Anti-Poverty Week, let's put fairness into action and restore the safety net.
📢 Visit our campaign page and join the movement: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/fix-the-safety-net/
October 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Right now, people seeking asylum are being left behind, cut off from the basic support they need to survive.
This Anti-Poverty Week, let's put fairness into action and restore the safety net.
📢 Visit our campaign page and join the movement: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/fix-the-safety-net/
This Anti-Poverty Week, let's put fairness into action and restore the safety net.
📢 Visit our campaign page and join the movement: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/fix-the-safety-net/
Our CEO Elijah Buol took to the TEDXQUT stage to share a powerful message on hope, resilience, and the human spirit.
His story is a reminder that even in our darkest moments, hope is a force that can lead us forward.
Watch the full talk and be inspired.
https://loom.ly/NPDdC20
His story is a reminder that even in our darkest moments, hope is a force that can lead us forward.
Watch the full talk and be inspired.
https://loom.ly/NPDdC20
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Our CEO Elijah Buol took to the TEDXQUT stage to share a powerful message on hope, resilience, and the human spirit.
His story is a reminder that even in our darkest moments, hope is a force that can lead us forward.
Watch the full talk and be inspired.
https://loom.ly/NPDdC20
His story is a reminder that even in our darkest moments, hope is a force that can lead us forward.
Watch the full talk and be inspired.
https://loom.ly/NPDdC20
On this #InternationalDayofPeace, we share the words of Yusra Mardini.
With demonisation and fear growing, now’s the time to stand up for the dignity, protection, and peace every person seeking asylum deserves.
With demonisation and fear growing, now’s the time to stand up for the dignity, protection, and peace every person seeking asylum deserves.
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
On this #InternationalDayofPeace, we share the words of Yusra Mardini.
With demonisation and fear growing, now’s the time to stand up for the dignity, protection, and peace every person seeking asylum deserves.
With demonisation and fear growing, now’s the time to stand up for the dignity, protection, and peace every person seeking asylum deserves.
Forced to flee for her activism, Rosalie arrived in Australia with nothing.
Today, she’s training, working, and speaking out.
Her story is powerful, necessary, and full of purpose.
👉 Read Rosalie’s story now in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/blog-rosalie/
Today, she’s training, working, and speaking out.
Her story is powerful, necessary, and full of purpose.
👉 Read Rosalie’s story now in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/blog-rosalie/
September 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Forced to flee for her activism, Rosalie arrived in Australia with nothing.
Today, she’s training, working, and speaking out.
Her story is powerful, necessary, and full of purpose.
👉 Read Rosalie’s story now in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/blog-rosalie/
Today, she’s training, working, and speaking out.
Her story is powerful, necessary, and full of purpose.
👉 Read Rosalie’s story now in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/blog-rosalie/
Here at the Asylum Seekers Centre we will make our voices louder and refuse to be sidelined in shaping Australia’s human rights agenda - with you by our side.
Stand with us for people seeking asylum.
👉 asylumseekerscentre.org.au/donate
Stand with us for people seeking asylum.
👉 asylumseekerscentre.org.au/donate
September 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Here at the Asylum Seekers Centre we will make our voices louder and refuse to be sidelined in shaping Australia’s human rights agenda - with you by our side.
Stand with us for people seeking asylum.
👉 asylumseekerscentre.org.au/donate
Stand with us for people seeking asylum.
👉 asylumseekerscentre.org.au/donate
Thank you again @davidshoebridge.bsky.social for representing the serious concerns of the community.
September 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Thank you again @davidshoebridge.bsky.social for representing the serious concerns of the community.
The government tried to shut us out, but grateful to @davidshoebridge.bsky.social for representing the serious concerns of the community.
Read the submission we weren't permitted to submit ourselves: https://loom.ly/sFtqGJ8
Read the submission we weren't permitted to submit ourselves: https://loom.ly/sFtqGJ8
September 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The government tried to shut us out, but grateful to @davidshoebridge.bsky.social for representing the serious concerns of the community.
Read the submission we weren't permitted to submit ourselves: https://loom.ly/sFtqGJ8
Read the submission we weren't permitted to submit ourselves: https://loom.ly/sFtqGJ8
"Australia is made richer by migrants, refugees, and people seeking asylum who have reached for, and reached, its shores.”
On Sunday and every day, this is the Australia we must remember, stand for and, act for."
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On Sunday and every day, this is the Australia we must remember, stand for and, act for."
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August 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"Australia is made richer by migrants, refugees, and people seeking asylum who have reached for, and reached, its shores.”
On Sunday and every day, this is the Australia we must remember, stand for and, act for."
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On Sunday and every day, this is the Australia we must remember, stand for and, act for."
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Great to host our friends Jana and Ogy from @asrc1.bsky.social at the ASC to meet our new CEO Elijah and discuss our joint advocacy for people seeking asylum.
#SectorPartner #RefugeeRights #Collaboration
#SectorPartner #RefugeeRights #Collaboration
August 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Great to host our friends Jana and Ogy from @asrc1.bsky.social at the ASC to meet our new CEO Elijah and discuss our joint advocacy for people seeking asylum.
#SectorPartner #RefugeeRights #Collaboration
#SectorPartner #RefugeeRights #Collaboration
After over a decade of leading with heart, Frances Rush OAM steps down as our CEO.
Frances has been a guiding light— always advocating for welcome, compassion, and justice for people seeking asylum.
Though she’s leaving the role, her legacy lives on in the work we continue every day💙
Frances has been a guiding light— always advocating for welcome, compassion, and justice for people seeking asylum.
Though she’s leaving the role, her legacy lives on in the work we continue every day💙
August 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
After over a decade of leading with heart, Frances Rush OAM steps down as our CEO.
Frances has been a guiding light— always advocating for welcome, compassion, and justice for people seeking asylum.
Though she’s leaving the role, her legacy lives on in the work we continue every day💙
Frances has been a guiding light— always advocating for welcome, compassion, and justice for people seeking asylum.
Though she’s leaving the role, her legacy lives on in the work we continue every day💙
People seeking asylum are disproportionately at risk of homelessness and at risk of being left behind.
This is a growing crisis that can no longer be ignored.
Thank you @jennyleong.bsky.social, our local Newtown MP, for your advocacy and for highlighting this urgent issue in Parliament.
This is a growing crisis that can no longer be ignored.
Thank you @jennyleong.bsky.social, our local Newtown MP, for your advocacy and for highlighting this urgent issue in Parliament.
August 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
People seeking asylum are disproportionately at risk of homelessness and at risk of being left behind.
This is a growing crisis that can no longer be ignored.
Thank you @jennyleong.bsky.social, our local Newtown MP, for your advocacy and for highlighting this urgent issue in Parliament.
This is a growing crisis that can no longer be ignored.
Thank you @jennyleong.bsky.social, our local Newtown MP, for your advocacy and for highlighting this urgent issue in Parliament.
This #HomelessnessWeek2025, we join the call for #HomelessnessActionNow.
1 in 4 people seeking asylum we support in crisis casework are homeless or at risk—shut out of public housing and safety nets.
This is a humanitarian failure.
Support must be based on need, not visa status.
1 in 4 people seeking asylum we support in crisis casework are homeless or at risk—shut out of public housing and safety nets.
This is a humanitarian failure.
Support must be based on need, not visa status.
August 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This #HomelessnessWeek2025, we join the call for #HomelessnessActionNow.
1 in 4 people seeking asylum we support in crisis casework are homeless or at risk—shut out of public housing and safety nets.
This is a humanitarian failure.
Support must be based on need, not visa status.
1 in 4 people seeking asylum we support in crisis casework are homeless or at risk—shut out of public housing and safety nets.
This is a humanitarian failure.
Support must be based on need, not visa status.
30,000+ people seeking safety in Australia are still waiting for a decision.
No answer. No certainty. No peace.
This is a crisis of policy, not numbers. We need urgent reform.
No answer. No certainty. No peace.
This is a crisis of policy, not numbers. We need urgent reform.
August 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
30,000+ people seeking safety in Australia are still waiting for a decision.
No answer. No certainty. No peace.
This is a crisis of policy, not numbers. We need urgent reform.
No answer. No certainty. No peace.
This is a crisis of policy, not numbers. We need urgent reform.
One of our supporters shared this lovely message to our community — and it’s a reminder to stand on the side of welcome.
In a time when anti-immigration rhetoric is getting louder, this kind of solidarity matters more than ever.
In a time when anti-immigration rhetoric is getting louder, this kind of solidarity matters more than ever.
July 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
One of our supporters shared this lovely message to our community — and it’s a reminder to stand on the side of welcome.
In a time when anti-immigration rhetoric is getting louder, this kind of solidarity matters more than ever.
In a time when anti-immigration rhetoric is getting louder, this kind of solidarity matters more than ever.
At the Asylum Seekers Centre, we’re shaping fairer systems — from frontline services to systemic advocacy.
Our newsletter is built for everyone who cares about justice, compassion, and welcome. Insightful, practical, and deeply human.
Subscribe to humanity now:
👉 https://loom.ly/bKflygM
Our newsletter is built for everyone who cares about justice, compassion, and welcome. Insightful, practical, and deeply human.
Subscribe to humanity now:
👉 https://loom.ly/bKflygM
July 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
At the Asylum Seekers Centre, we’re shaping fairer systems — from frontline services to systemic advocacy.
Our newsletter is built for everyone who cares about justice, compassion, and welcome. Insightful, practical, and deeply human.
Subscribe to humanity now:
👉 https://loom.ly/bKflygM
Our newsletter is built for everyone who cares about justice, compassion, and welcome. Insightful, practical, and deeply human.
Subscribe to humanity now:
👉 https://loom.ly/bKflygM
Have you or your loved ones been affected by war or conflict?
You are not alone. Help is just a phone call away.
Call 1800 845 198.
✔️ Free
✔️ Confidential
✔️ In your language
Provided by STARTTS.
More info here:
https://loom.ly/W67VW5E
You are not alone. Help is just a phone call away.
Call 1800 845 198.
✔️ Free
✔️ Confidential
✔️ In your language
Provided by STARTTS.
More info here:
https://loom.ly/W67VW5E
July 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Have you or your loved ones been affected by war or conflict?
You are not alone. Help is just a phone call away.
Call 1800 845 198.
✔️ Free
✔️ Confidential
✔️ In your language
Provided by STARTTS.
More info here:
https://loom.ly/W67VW5E
You are not alone. Help is just a phone call away.
Call 1800 845 198.
✔️ Free
✔️ Confidential
✔️ In your language
Provided by STARTTS.
More info here:
https://loom.ly/W67VW5E
This #RefugeeWeek, and every day, we celebrate the strength that comes from diverse voices and shared humanity.
Thank you to Abang, Charles, and Thouraya for sharing what it means to find freedom through community.
#AsylumSeekersCentre
Thank you to Abang, Charles, and Thouraya for sharing what it means to find freedom through community.
#AsylumSeekersCentre
June 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This #RefugeeWeek, and every day, we celebrate the strength that comes from diverse voices and shared humanity.
Thank you to Abang, Charles, and Thouraya for sharing what it means to find freedom through community.
#AsylumSeekersCentre
Thank you to Abang, Charles, and Thouraya for sharing what it means to find freedom through community.
#AsylumSeekersCentre
Some highlights from Thouraya's social media take over last Monday.💙
Tune in on our Facebook and Instagram stories for more inspiring insights from our #RefugeeWeek participants. Charles is live today. Abang on Friday!
Tune in on our Facebook and Instagram stories for more inspiring insights from our #RefugeeWeek participants. Charles is live today. Abang on Friday!
June 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Some highlights from Thouraya's social media take over last Monday.💙
Tune in on our Facebook and Instagram stories for more inspiring insights from our #RefugeeWeek participants. Charles is live today. Abang on Friday!
Tune in on our Facebook and Instagram stories for more inspiring insights from our #RefugeeWeek participants. Charles is live today. Abang on Friday!