Jenny HainesOctober 22, 2025Uncategorized
| Meeting with Immigration Minister Tony Burke Our L4R National Co-ordinating Committee, managed to secure a meeting with the Immigration Minister which will take place this morning the 15 October. |
| We have prioritised the issues we wish to raise with the Minister and will follow up some of the topics of concern we have conveyed to him through our letters over the past 12 months. The outcome of our meeting will be reported to members at our Zoom meeting next Wednesday evening. Please try to attend.
Increase Australia’s humanitarian intake On the 23 September last, we wrote to the Immigration Minister Tony Burke, in support of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s (ASRC) campaign to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake to 50,000 places within 5 years. Currently, Labor’s National Platform states “Labor aspires to progressively increase Australia’s government funded humanitarian intake to 27,000 places per year”. We believe that there is a critical need for increased intake given the record numbers of displaced people globally. Our reasons for urging this increase, can be read in our letter to the Minister L4RIncreaseRefugeeNos23Sep25 Financial Assistance Sought
Some of those refugees who are being transitioned by the Government from Temporary Protection and Safe Haven Enterprise Visas to permanency, are experiencing financial hardship. There are a number who are not eligible to access Medicare or claim Centrelink benefits for four years after receiving permanent visas so are experiencing poverty and are struggling. We have written to the Immigration Minister, asking him if there is a possibility of short-term access to special benefits for those demonstrating hardship. Our letter follows L4RFinancialHardship1Oct25 We hope you can make it to our meeting next week. |