Refugee Council of Australia

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Refugee Council of Australia
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Formation1981
PurposeRefugee support and advocacy
HeadquartersNew South Wales
CEO
Paul Power
Websitehttps://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/

The Refugee Council of Australia is New South Wales based umbrella not for profit NGO that supports and advocates for refugees.

Organization[]

The organization was formed in 1981 and registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission in 2000.[1][2]

The organization is led by CEO Paul Power,[3] Jasmina Bajraktarevic-Hayward was appointed as the board president in 2021.[4]

As of 2017 it had 190 institutional and 1,000 individual members.[5]

Activities[]

The Refugee Council of Australia advocates for refugee rights including criticizing level of support that the Government of Australia provides to job-seeking refugees.[6][7][8]

Its 2010 publication What Works documented refugees' experiences and the challenges they faced while trying to enter the Australian employment market.[9]

In 2021, it was part of international efforts to resettle 152 refugees from immigration detention in Australia to Canada.[10][11][12][13]

The Refugee Council of Australia has made submissions to the Australian Human Rights Commission about children in detention[14] and its papers have also been used and cited by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.[15]

External link[]

References[]

  1. ^ "ABN Lookup". abr.business.gov.au. 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  2. ^ "Who we are - Refugee Council of Australia". www.refugeecouncil.org.au. 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  3. ^ "Coalition slashes costs for sponsoring refugees as new resettlement scheme hailed as 'watershed moment'". the Guardian. 2021-12-17. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  4. ^ Arora, Akash (9 Nov 2021). "For the first time, the Refugee Council of Australia has a president with refugee background". SBS News. Retrieved 2022-01-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Submission to the Joint Standing Committee Inquiry into Transitional Arrangements for the National Disability Insurance Scheme". researchrepository.rmit.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-01-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Doing things differently. Policies to end persistent poverty" (PDF). Brotherhood of St Laurence. April 2005.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Evans, Rachel. "Refugee Council of Australia president reports on murdered Afghan deportees". Green Left Weekly (1026): 9. doi:10.3316/informit.613407230425809.
  8. ^ "Jobactive: refugee community and service provider concerns | VOCEDplus, the international tertiary education and research database". www.voced.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  9. ^ Olliff, Louise (June 2010). "What works: employment strategies for refugee and humanitarian entrants | VOCEDplus, the international tertiary education and research database". www.voced.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-01-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "'A bright new future': how Australians are helping Canada's private sponsors give refugees a fresh start". the Guardian. 2021-12-11. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  11. ^ "More than 100 refugees detained by Australia to resettle in Canada". CBC. 21 May 2021.
  12. ^ "More than 140 refugees in Australian detention set to be resettled in Canada under sponsorship scheme". the Guardian. 2021-05-20. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  13. ^ Hoard, K C (24 Nov 2021). "Meet the Canada-based activists fighting the Australian refugee crisis from abroad". xtramagazine.com. Retrieved 2022-01-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ "Submissions made to the inquiry | Australian Human Rights Commission". humanrights.gov.au. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  15. ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Monitoring Asylum in Australia". UNHCR. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
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