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Delivering for Diversity – Cultural Diversity Plan 2016 -2019

  Delivering for Diversity – Cultural Diversity Plan 2016 – 2019  plan provides a framework for the Department of Health and Human Services to embed cultural diversity in all the department’s services,...

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Refuge from our Rhetoric

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC)’s Refuge from our Rhetoric event in late 2015 launched research into the language used in the debate around people seeking asylum. The research, led by...

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Recommendations for comprehensive post-arrival health assessment for people...

  The new Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) and Refugee Health Network of Australia (RHeaNA) Recommendations for comprehensive post-arrival health assessment for people from...

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Barriers to education for people seeking asylum and on temporary visas

This Refugee Council of Australia report articulates the barriers to education faced by people seeking asylum and refugees on temporary visas.  The report also has a list of scholarships that people on...

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Asylum Seeker Health Information Sheet 2: Health plans, summaries, reports,...

Many health professionals prepare and provide written health plans, summaries, reports, letters and referrals (hereon in ‘health information’) for asylum seekers. This information sheet aims to: give...

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Academics for Refugees policy paper: a just and humane approach for refugees

This policy paper recommends that Australia end offshore processing, boat turnbacks and the mandatory detention of people seeking asylum.

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Delivery of health services in onshore immigration detention

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s administration of health services in onshore immigration detention.

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Pathways to protection: A human rights-based response to the flight of asylum...

The Australian Human Rights Commission has identified options for responding to flight by sea which are consistent with Australia’s international human rights obligations.

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Important information for health providers about the changes to Status...

This information sheet aims to provide greater clarity to health service providers about the changes to SRSS and the roles health services may be asked to play in assessing clients’ capacity to work....

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Development and validation of a mental health screening tool for...

This paper outlines a brief, sensitive screening tool with robust psychometric properties that is easy to administer at the agency of first presentation. The STAR-MH has been developed to facilitate...

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