Hot Topics

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RAC is currently developing its hot topics, but the Asylum Seeker Resource Council (ASRC) already has a number of information sheets covering hot topics including:

• Timeline of Events. From 2012 until now, a timeline of important policy changes and events

• Children in detention

• Manus Island Detention Centre

• Nauru Offshore Detention Facility

• Fast Track Process

• Australian Human Rights Commission – Asylum seekers, refugees and human rights (snapshot report 2013)

• A summary of the AHRC’s snapshot report on asylum seekers, refugees and human rights.

• Coalition policies on asylum seekers

• Information on Coalition policies as of May 2014.

• Operation Sovereign Borders Policy

• Learn about the Coalition Government’s military-led response to deter and prevent people seeking asylum arriving by boat in Australian waters.

• What are Temporary Protection Visas?

• Hot Potato Factsheet

• Cooling the heat on the asylum debate.

To download information, please visit this webpage from the ASRC.